You can also let us know what you think on social media. Our twitter handle is cspanwj. We are on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Or, you can send us an email at journal cspan. Org. Now, white house spokesman josh earnest was at a News Conference on friday to explain the president s decision. Here is what he said. [video clip] our efforts have improve their performance on the battlefield. It has yielded progress. The president wants to identify that assistance that we are providing. One way to intensify that assistance is pair them up with experts, some of the smartest, bravest, most effective fighters in the United States military. That is exactly what were doing. I do expect that will improve their performance on the battlefield. They will not be in a combat mission. [indiscernible] they could find themselves in a combat situation. There is no denying the amount of risk they are taking on here. They will be equipped to defend themselves. Host we are talking about the u. S. s decisio
Building up to congressional testimony, if you cannot tell. Obviously, i do not want to continue to bang the drum about the centrality of european command to the Global National Security Issues we face. I do want to bang the drum. It is not what it was 18 months ago, or even six months ago. New threats and challenges seemingly emerge every day. We stand ready to meet them, and the supporting commands of silicon and afrikaans and the supporting test command every day. Finally, our commitment to our article five obligation in europe is ironclad. Giving the complexity of challenges we face globally, it remains critical that we continue to Work Together with our allies and partners. This has been true for 60 years, and it is true today. With that, im ready to take your questions. General, the army chief just returned from ukraine. On the way home he said he is recommending a search of army forces into europe. What does that mean . And if i could, have you seen evidence that the russians ha
Europe, we would be relying on those kinds of systems as well. To the extent that the guard, i work with the guard a long time ago when we had something called the Army Air Defense command and they were off the charts in terms of their capability and expertise in that area. So i think certainly its an Operational Reserve for those kinds of tasks. I think the forward could perform valuable function. Senator ernst thank you. Mr. Wood . Mr. Wood i see it more of active army formations, we talked about proliferation of technology, the increasing complexities of military operations, especially when youre coordinating, synchronizing operations at higher levels. We talk about distributed operations. Theres a still set that becomes there is a skill set that becomes ever more complex and takes a lot of time to develop competencies in those areas. So, i think the active component, doing that 247, is the force of choice to go off and do these kinds of things were talking about. You only have so m
We get a taste of our own medicine now. Ms. Ryan please dont hurt us. Ms. Parsons why dont we start with you . Good morning. Ms. Parsons good morning. Lineup. I just want to thank you guys for coming out this morning and talking. m interning a lot of the Republican Debate a few days ago was taste around the Mainstream Media being an extension of the Democratic Party based around the Mainstream Media being an extension of the Democratic Party. I just wondered if you support or debunk that theory. Great question. Ive been thinking about a lot since that debate. People alwayst of want to come up swinging at the media. There are some people who put opinion with act with fact, but for many of us in the white house, we definitely get all the sources, not one or two do. Definitely. Fact it may be something you dont like, but we put the fact out there. About the media all they want, but they are the first ones looking to the media to find out what is going on in this country. It is a doubleedg
Were lied to about weapons of mass destruction. Yes, like to. Yes, lied to. We know where the weapons are, they didnt know where the weapons are, that was a lie. Warblican party, the bushs put us in it. Not only did the creek is to joy war, but they created the wars not only did they create the 2 trillion war, we did exactly what the experts told us not to do. It was a hornets nests. Dan. Ou,hat it would be disingenuous to say the Obama Administration costs are dead. He inherited the debt. Clearly, it would be disingenuous to say barack obama has not been responsible either. He is added to trillion dollars to the national debt. Trillion to the national debt. Been, to be fair, a Republican Congress that worked with a democrat president to have a balanced budget and we have not had one since. Debt and deficit is a bipartisan calamity. Inh have been complicit being fiscally irresponsible. This is one area where we will blame both sides of the issue. It isis no questions that the democrat