Sunday night, at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Today Marine Corp General Joseph Dunford became the new chair of the joints chiefs of staff, taking over from general Martin Dempsey who is retiring after a 41 year career in the army. President obama and defense secretary Ashton Carter both spoke at the transition ceremony in arlington, virginia. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for at rival of the official party and please welcome todays reviewing official, general martin e. Dempsey, the 18th chairman of the joint chiefs of staff accompanied by the host for todays ceremony, the honorable ashton cartier, secretary of defense and joven f. Dunford jr. , incoming general of the joint chiefs of staff. You guys got Nothing Better to do . Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. Ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing as honors are rendered to general dempsey. Please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, the troops representing Americ
Regarding the Security Checks. We will not cut corners. The Security Check requirements were developed in the inner agency with the consultation and expertise of the fbi, our dhs partners, and the Intelligence Community partners and the security regime was set up with all that input. And i have heard no discussion of making any cuts to it for any reason. I would like to point out that the grant grants of Refugee Status are discretionary so that if there is a doubt, the case is referred for further review and if theres a National Security concern, that individuals application is denied. As the refugee situation continues to evolve, the administration is assessing its capacity and resource needs for fiscal year 2016 within an increased number of refugees it will be important to preserve currently available resources and fund this at a sufficient level. Mr. Chair, if i may just one question related to accountability. Mr. Bartlett, i understand that youre working with the decisions that ha
Speaks, followed by the leaders of russia, south korea and iran. We have it live on cspan. On friday, a Retirement Ceremony was held in honor of general martin dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. He retired after 41 years of service and will be succeeded by general Joseph Dunford of the marine corps, this is about an hour and 45 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen please stand for the arrival of the official party and welcome todays official, general martin dempsey, accompanied by the hosts for todays ceremony Ashton Carter and joseph f. Dunford jr. , incoming chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Ladies and gentlemen, the ladies and gentlemen please remain standing as honors are rendered to general dempsey. Please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, the troops representing Americas Armed forces and participating in todays revue are the United States army band under timothy j. Holton and led by drum major scott little. Elements of the armed forces include the president ial escort p
Secret engagement as well as adeles new music. And now out is some new music fromle v lelvis presley and joi us to tell us about it is Priscilla Presley who is in the kitchen. And joining us is beth stern who has brought a num bber of theward winning cuties from the dog awards. How was your weekend . Both of us went down to maryland on different days to visit family. Yours in maryland, and mine in virginia. And any time i can see my sister and her husband and my nice. And i am so in love just like my niece, and when she was first born i love her. And this is how i feel about my little aaron who this is having lunch on friday. Oh, wait, it gets really, really good. I thought that e e was having a little movement, but that was not the case. He is a mimic. Now, this is a good part, and i come in for the closeup. Oh, bite your hand. I spent a day and a half there, and he never ever cried and eey is all he does. I went to a restaurant i have not been in a number of years the charthouse, and
I went to a restaurant i have not been in a number of year ss the charthouse, and they have redone it, and being back in malibu it is so perfect. He is so cute. I got to see my little nieces this weekend. So i took the tranin to virginia and one of the things that everyone likes the do is that they both have soccer can games. Soccer. And so first we with went to both of their game, and we got to see hannah and el a la both play, and this is the cute thing about these two. When a preschooler is playing sock soccer like ella, what you dont do is when they are playing is yell out the name. Have you gotten that because they take their eye off of the ball. That what they do. All of the kids. They all stopped like somebody is saying their name, scotty, hi. Dont yell out peoples names. Ella and so i went out with my friend to the silver dollar, silver diner diner, i dont e no, it is awesome and we hung out there and we had a fun time. And you were on the acela on the way home with chris chris