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The acting labor secretary, Naval Operations chief and commandant of the marine corps were on capitol hill this morning to brief members of the Senate Armed Service committee addressing concerns about readiness and modernization. The hearing runs about two and half hours. The fiscal year 2018. I want to thank each of our witnesses for their distinguished service to the nation, as well as the sailors, marines and surveillance they lead were serving around the world today and recent months our nations senior civilian military leaders have testified to this committee about the severe threats we face around the world. The report shortfalls in readiness that our military has advantage over our potential adversaries is eroding and the dire need for new modern capabilities. Yet, as secretary matus testified here on tuesday, the greatest immediate threat that our military bases is right here in washington, fiscal uncertainty, continuing resolutions, arbitrary and inadequate caps on defense spe
Giving bunch of speeches and ran are across former Washington Post writer peter eisner and did traveling through, and while we were were will, i was there on speaking to peter and let me know that he was working on a new book about spies and manila one claire thrip and number working on archives i knew of other people tharm working on books about Claire Phillips like okay, all right. But then pete let me know ive got Claire Phillips diary. So that feeds into a lot and over the past two years because we have all of the papers of parsons one of the main characters of the story as well as the papers of john boon who was a big gorilla on baton and daughter is with us tonight. Gene can you just raise your hand . [applause] im so glad she came down and donated papers quite a long time ago. And its a really a thrilg for all of pus to have you here. But petes work is now finished two years in the making and here we are with a really great piece and let him tell the story that he has to tell so