Try it for two months and see what the difference is. Thousands a dying and sick because of the exposure to the deadly toxins at the work site. They issued a report called the 9 11 Commission Report that sold more copies than harry potter. Most read document in the history of our country. I nominated them for the national book. They didnt win. They should have. If we cant protect our president , our workers our people, then we cant do anything. Your department is the most Important Department in the entire government. You took 22 different agencies that werent talking to each other on intelligence and other areas and are forcing them to talk, share information and protect this country. Youre doing a great job. We havent been attacked again but people are trying. In the great state of new york they have tried 14 times. Because of your agency and the locals, we prevented it. Were preventing the attacks on our great country. Id like you to take your workers down to 9 11 and hear the stori
To understand what their side of the equation is. And to be honest with you, some of the things they have done arent really clear today. So you know we always get in a debate about whether we should continue mill to mill if were unhappy with the things theyre doing. Im a proponent of continuing to take some risks there because there is benefit in us continuing to have dialogue, to try to establish those types of frameworks that allow us to communicate with each other in crisis. Weve had some good work with the prc lately of building some confidence Building Measures that allow us to understand how to operate with each other in these constrained waterways so we dont have a bunch of lieutenants and captains and commanders of ships out there making bad decisions that might escalate us to something we didnt escalate us into the trap. So we need to i think continue engaging them. We need to be forthright about how we feel about these things and what the u. S. Position is on behavior when it
We have seen indicators of how they are advancing nuclear capabilities. And then within their missile force, they have more than several hundred Ballistic Missiles. The predominance of those are close range and short range missiles that affect or influence the peninsula. They have also deployed both medium and intermedia range that influence the region, and of course the development of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile has impact here and Homeland Security in the United States. They have not slow down at this. We have seen as you have seen, this past year they demonstrated their capabilities. They conducted testing. They had more missiledefense and launches in 2014 and they had in the previous five years together. Each of these being in violation of the unsc. We have been taking steps both in material capability, in terms of our missiledefense, to counter that. As well as work with the republic of korea and their Ballistic Missile defense. They just recently funded an upgrade to t
Adm. Locklear gen. Scaparrotti primarily in terms of proliferation security, we have a Proliferation Security Initiative that is global in nature and multinational. That is an important key because we have to bring in and deal with other nations to provide intelligence and forces that may help us in interdiction, etc. And continue our training in that regard, which we do. And terms of the nations that i think we have to be concerned about, i prefer to answer that actually for the record in a classified document instead of here the open form if i could. Sen. Ayotte i appreciate that. I also wanted to follow up, admiral lockley are admiral lockley are, tooear, in light of chinas military buildup, what is your assessment of the current balance of military capabilities in the Taiwan Strait between the pla and taiwan . And where does taiwan have an advantage and where is the pla advantage . What concerns are you hearing from the taiwanese . And what platforms, weapons, assistance and traini
Earnings before the bell. Happy st. Patricks day. Some welsh. Green beer later on this hour. I am a quarter irish. Here is a headline. Inflation and little but lower than expected. Sir. 7 0. 7 . Lets do a did a check. And optimistic bounce off a tough week. 10 year yield goes nowhere. Euro essentially goes nowhere. Nymex crude is still under. Vix, 14 to 18. Yan is a little bit lower. The rubel goes nowhere. That is a headline. Part of it back stories on commodities. Here is copper, the ascension of china. There is the financial crisis. We have rolled over again in copper. Why have we rolled over again . All of the volatility in china. Financial trades really have nothing to do with actual supply and demand. Copper, you secure it, are you unwinding that and have to sell it . Some things are going down copper, but other things are going up. Right. You have oil that has been moving with ukraine and russian issues. They are moving on the totally on fundamental. Lumping all commodities toge