Nuclear weapons and u. S. National security policy. Hosted by the Brookings Institution its about 2 hours. Were thrilled to have you here today to discuss the Trump Administration Nuclear Posture review. An important document that came out on grounds hog day, february 2nd. And the National Defense strategy of january. So doing a nice job keeping the clock running smoothly. Prior to now the unveiling of the budget request. Were thrilled to have david beginning our discussion today. He has one of the longer titles but most important. The Principal Deputy under secretary for defense of policy. A job that jim miller had and well talk about that in the panel that follows with jim and others. But for now, i want to introduce david who has been one of the administrations important authors and framing and writing of the document that we have available and you can access on the internet. About a 70 page document, much longer than the unclassified version of the National Defense strategy. A lot
Cspan. Next, a forum on recently unveiled Nuclear Posture review by the Trump Administration. Leading off, remarks by defense undersecretary of policy, David Trachtenberg, followed by discussion with Nuclear Policy specialists. Live coverage due to start shortly. I am mike oh hanlin with the Foreign Policy program. Happy to have you to discuss the Trump Administration Nuclear Posture review, came out february 2nd, following earlier National Security strategy of december and National Defense strategy of january. So the administration is doing a nice job keeping its clock work running smoothly. Prior to unveiling the budget request. Thrilled to have David Trachtenberg beginning the discussion today. He has one of the longer titles, but one of the more important titles in the pentagon. Principal deputy undersecretary for defense policy, a job jim miller also had. We will talk about that in the panel that follows with jim and others. For now, i want to introduce david who has been one of t
Walk us through that evening . Guest yes, well it was actually florida North Carolina coming and pretty quick succession. We always knew North Carolina would be hard for many reasons, but we thought we had a good lead going into election day because of early voting in florida, so when those number started coming in, that was quite surprising, disappointing. It wasnt the end, by any means, because they were a number of ways we saw week would get to 270 electoral votes, but it was a very very long night and then around midnight when michigan and wisconsin and pennsylvania came in, we knew we werent going to be successful. Host what was going through your mind . Guest well, at first i was worried, but not alarmed with early returns because again, as i said our numbers looked very good in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin as did everyone else as we had consultant, but as the evening went on and we were getting not only the broadcast numbers, but reaching out to people working with us in th
Thank you. You are watching the tv on cspan2 with top Nonfiction Book and authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. Secretary clinton, lets talk about the book what happened. You write the first warning sign was North Carolina. Walk us through that evening. Yes, well it was a poor that in North Carolina coming in pretty quick succession. We always knew North Carolina would be hard for many reasons but we thought we had them, a good lead going into election day because it was early voting in florida so when those numbers started coming in that was quite surprising and disappointing. It wasnt the end, by any means, there were a number of ways we thought that we would get to 270 electoral votes but it was a very long night and around midnight when michigan and wisconsin and sabina came in we knew that we were going to be successful. What was going through your mind . At first i was worried but not alarmed with the early returns because again, as i said, our numbers l
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