The council on Foreign Relations hold a discussion on u. S. Defense priorities around the world and the role of military forces including the army, space force, marine corps and air force. They focused on u. S. Preparedness and Nuclear Strategy. The Panel Discussion runs one hour and 15 minutes. Good evening, everybody and welcome. Im president of the council on Foreign Relations and its a great honor and privilege to be here for the robert mccue in and out of serious on military strategy and leadership with the u. S. Service chiefs. We have in addition to this room over 350 members and this Series Features prominent individuals from the military intelligence communities and generous gifts from robert mcewen, founder and president starting in 2008 and the series continues every year. Other friends and family are joining us on zoom so thank you very much to the family. We are really honored tonight to have general randy george chief of staff of the Army Commandant of the marine corps of
You said we comment. So whats the last regulation that you commented on . Guest i actually commented on a Financial Crimes Enforcement Network regulation about antimoney laundering in residential real estate. I just thought it sounded interesting and it was a good way to practice using the bipartisan tools of regulatory analysis to assess these regulations and provide some feedback to the agency that they might not have considered. Host does the agency generally pull back a proposed rule after comments and make changes based on what people say . Or how often do they just say, thanks for the comments, and were going to go ahead with our rule anyway . Guest agencies are required to consider all of the comments that they receive and incorporate them into the final rules so youll see in the preamble of a regulation theres a long beginning of a regulation and it just talks about what the agencys trying to do and in final rules theyll explain the comments they received and what they did to r
Benefits of tax cuts of bonuses, higher wages, more hiring in more investment. Its the great corporate pass through. More announcements are likely. Tax cuts showing positive economic results. Democrats are still making some very dubious claims. For example, nancy pelosi says raises taxes on 86 million middleclass families. That is factually wrong. It is dishonest political spin. The left plans a yearlong allout attack like about when you just saw. Investors clearly approve however the tax cuts and what theyll do for economy for wages jobs and investments. Stocks going up this morning. We dont know how the market closes this afternoon, the president and his top economic adviser both talking up the market today. It will open high gear. Later this morning, Congress Holds a tax plan signing ceremony and you will see it. Varney company is about to begin. We will start with this. A white suv plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in melbourne, australia. We want to know who did it and are the au
The new Atlanta Press club. Today it is the secondlargest press club in the usa, second only to the national is club and it is the number one press club and america. This is a joint meeting of the leaders. , myself ands ago another thought it would be a good idea to have dinner with the Atlantic Community to bring them into this and have speakers that would tell the message we thought was important to this community as well as the nation. Weve had speakers like general generals like petraeus. Absolutely nobody on the stuff in 1965. No political connections. Not a part of the president ial family even though my last name it is johnson. [laughter] mr. Johnson the agent in charge of president johnsons protection at the time was a man named Rufus Youngblood from my hometown. We became good friends. It was rufus who hurled president johnson to the floor board of a limousine and dallas and placed his own body on top of lbj after the shots, including the fatal shots were kennedy onsident that
Service operations. This is just under one hour. Secretary good afternoon. Is tom johnson. I am proud to say that i am a cofounder of what we think is the new Atlanta Press club. Today it is the secondlargest press club in the usa, second only to the national is club and it is the number one press club and america. This is a joint meeting of the leaders. , myself ands ago another thought it would be a good idea to have dinner with the Atlantic Community to bring them into this and have speakers that would tell the message we thought was important to this community as well as the nation. Weve had speakers like general generals like petraeus. Absolutely nobody on the stuff in 1965. No political connections. Not a part of the president ial family even though my last name it is johnson. [laughter] mr. Johnson the agent in charge of president johnsons protection at the time was a man named Rufus Youngblood from my hometown. We became good friends. It was rufus who hurled president johnson t