For defense of democracies about the armys moderation and readiness efforts. This is about an hour. Well, welcome to the foundation for defense of democracies, a special welcome to viewers online and those watching on cspan today. Im cliff may, im the founder and president of fdd, and im pleased to welcome you to the event, ruthless prioritization, the arms realization of the National Defense strategy. Were honored to host acting secretary the arm ryan d. Mccarthy. Thank you for coming together. As secretary jasper and millihighlighted earlier this year, the area confronts a Global Security environment that is increasingly competitive and volatile. We see great adversaries working overtime to erode americas military power in order to threaten our interests and those who are our allies. In the light of these challenges and to support the National Defense strategy, the army has achieved tremendous progress on modernization and reform over the last couple of years. But the threats remain
Our views online and those watching on cspan today. Im the founder and president of fdd and im a pleased to welcou to our event today, ruthless prioritization, the armys realization of the National Defense strategy. We are honored today to host acting secretary of the army ryan mccarthy. Thank you so much for coming again. Working overtime to the road americas military power, to threaten our interests and those who are our allies. In the light of these challenges and to support the National Defense strategy the army has achieved commendable progress on readiness, minimization and reform over the last couple years but the threats remain significant and the budgets remain finite. There is much more work to do, and we are ready to reform this effort. As many of you in our audience know we are focused exclusively on National Security and foreign policy. We are nonpartisan and accept no funds from foreign governments, never have and never will. This event is hosted by ftd center on military
Institute for research for catholic studies at au. I just confirmed with him a few minutes ago something that i thought might have been unlikely but its true. He has two books hot off the press just in the last few months. These arent just any presses. From Cambridge University press his book legislative hardball, House Freedom and power of threat making in congress, and a few months before that, choosing the leader, u. S. Elections in the u. S. House of representatives which looks like this, because it is this. I think theres some copies in the back maybe. No copies but ill talk about that. Ill leave that to matt. Matt was originally supposed to speak with his colleague doug harris from the university of bal mer who couldnt be here. Well leave that with matt. Thanks for making time to join us here today. Welcome. [ applause ] well, thank you very much and thanks for the opportunity to speak to the capital Historical Society. Can everyone hear me . Youre in the back . Excellent. Its gr
This time than what we might have otherwise been expecting. If the allegations in this indictment are proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and a jury convicts some of these crimes, history will not ask, wow, how did america get to the point where they indicted a former president . History instead is going to ask, how did america get to the point where such a person could be elected to the presidency of the United States. Were actions such as these could be carried out from the oval office directed by a person who was elected president by the American People, along with his advisers. This is a grave day and a serious one for our country. Thank you for being with us here tonight. We know you had every choice in the world. But we are happy to have you here on what will go down in u. S. History as a black letter, bold faced date, August 1st 2023 is the date on which a former president and the leading president ial candidate of the Republican Party was indicted in Federal Court, accused of lead
The special coverage. He is of course innocent until Proven Guilty and he will and should mount a robust defense against these charges, and he should be acquitted if he didnt do what he is accused of. But if the allegations made by the Justice Department in this indictment are proven, if the former president did what he is accused of, history is going to ask a different question of this time than what we might have otherwise been expecting. If the allegations in this indictment are proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and a jury convict some of these crimes, history will not ask, wow, how did america get to the point where they indicted a former president . History instead is going to ask, how did america get to the point where such a person could be elected to the presidency of the United States. Where actions such as these could be carried out from the oval office directed by a person who was elected president by the American People, along with his advisers. This is a grave day and a ser