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I am not a smart political operative. Smart political operatives would not share his real views about a cabinet secretary. But there were many cabinet secretaries in the Bush Administration and i am seated next to the very best one. Elaine chao. Thank you. Ive got evidence of it. I actually worked for secretary chao at the Labor Department and on my very first day she gave me the single best Mission Statement the cabinet secretary has ever given. Dan, i want you to scour the country, find the most effective conservatives who can fight and win. Youve got six months to recruit them and bring them to the department. Her first assignment to me was to get gene scalia confirmed as the solicitor at the Labor Department. Or at least appointed. He at that time was considered the finest labor lawyer in the land. Today, he is the secretary of labor. So to my right it is my distinct privilege to have an two extraordinary secretaries, secretary of transportation and secretary of labor. Thank you fo
Across the country tonight. Heavy snow, ice and rain heading all the way into the northeast. Strong winds, then snow and ice from philadelphia to new york, up to boston. Rob has the new track. Tonight, the 14yearold girl who said no one would listen to her about alleged physical and verbal abuse. She set up a hidden camera, and what authorities now say it revealed. And tonight, the arrest. The state of emergency declared tonight by virginias governor, temporarily banning all weapons, all guns in the state capital. As the wildfires rage in australia, the alarming news tonight about Climate Change across the globe. The new and dire numbers just in from noaa and nasa scientists. And the very close call today. Two women walking and the building that came down right behind them. Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. And history was just made a short time ago in our nations capital. The impeachment of a president advancing to the senate for only the third
And i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with the from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and then there is transcom, focused on fullspectrum mobility operations. Both of which face
Political level, as a result of recent documents that were approved at the political level, we are seeing greater cohesion. For the first time in over six decades, we at nato approved the first nato military strategy. It is a document that is classified, nato secret, that codifies the threat and codifies the activity we need to embrace to more comprehensively defend all 29 nations agreeing to the nato military strategy. I think that is a reflection at the political level, the military level, of improving cohesion. We talked about the shipbuilding program, can you give us a quick summary of where we are at and where we have to go . Gen. Lyons yes, senator. On toow, we depend carry 90 of our Cargo Capacity in a wartime scenario. Our readiness of the fleet is below where we needed to be. It is rapidly reaching the end of useful life. We are working closely with the nato the navy. I anticipate we will purchase two in 2021 working closely with the navy. My view is we should have the first v