Forum. Let me introduce each of the gentlemen here and then i will say a couple of broad words about where we stand in the Defense Budget to allow them to take off from where i leave off. We will have broad discussion among ourselves and go to you about half way through. Immediately to my left is former under secretary of defense who is pentagons comptroller. Bob has been through the battles of not only iraq and afghanistan but sequestration and shut down and has pretty much seen it all in the obama years where he was the comptroller for most of that period of time. He has been with hamilton but speaking today under his own and is also my former boss. I worked for him at the Congressional Budget Office. After that reflects badly in two ways by the time but as things turned out bob went to the air force and was comptroller throughout the Clinton Administration and spent a number of years in various pursuits. And then tom wright is sitting in the middle today. Tom is my colleague at broo
Welcome to countdown. A warm welcome to you. Its just gone 6 00 a. M. Tech. Ng news in partneringsoundcloud and we will speak to some of the key people in this deal. Lets get back to some breaking news. We are hearing back from the forecastaising their from ¥1. 7 trillion to 2 trillion yen. It means this would be a prophet record they are now forecasting. This is the highest profit they would have ever made if they do manage to deliver on the oflyear net income forecast 2 trillion yen. An upgrade to the fullyear income forecast. We have the first half 2014 net but theoming in headline, raising the fullyear benefitorecast possibly from the weakness in the japanese currency. N joins us from hong kong to put some of these numbers in respective. Better than expected results. The positive results coming out of toyota because of cost cuts, because of a weaker yen, because of price increases. Especially with bank of japan easing monetary policy. The yen has dropped to seven months a sevenyea
This is Al Jazeera America and im Morgan Radford in new york. Americas closest allies are and inning answers over the lathest spying allegations. So theyre bringing the debate right to americas doorstep. A delegation from the European Union will arrive in washington monday to question u. S. Officials over this weeks revelation of spying, including access to tens of thousands of french phone records and even monitoring german chancellor Angela Merkels cell phone. Now merkel is demanding the u. S. Sign a no spying agreement with germany and france. Same as what they have with great britain. But u. S. Officials say this is really nothing new. All are aware that collection on their high level political leaders is always a possibility. And now, Mike Viqueria brings us the latest from the white house. While u. S. Officials are still not commenting publicly on the substance of these allegations, spying on americas closest allies, including the cell phone of Angela Merkel, president obama has
Life. Protesters new aggregations from german magazine der speeg somepiegel, cs spying and thank you Edward Snowden, highlighted the calls to rein in the nsa. Our jean meserve was there. In washington, hundreds gathered to protest the National Security agencys surveillance programs. The man who made them public was called a hero. Form he nsa contractor Edward Snowden is in russia but sent a statement. Its about power, control and trust in government. About whether you have a voice, in our democracy or decisions were made for you rather than with you. The protestors messages to the government, youve been listening to us, now hear this. It bothers me because we dont know whats going on. It bothers me because whenever you send a tweet or email or take a picture or do anything that involves any kind of data, phone calling or anything, you dont know that that information isnt being housed somewhere and thats wrong. You have a right to privacy. I believe the accusations a constitution that w
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