Good afternoon and welcome to the aspen institute. My name is nick burns, executive director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the aspen security forum. Its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You all again cspan so be on your best behavior. And we are here to launch a a y important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle forth powe. I agree friend could not be here with us but hes very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to our former secretary of defense and good friend of mine, secretary bill and mister janet , secretary , janet, welcome. In i also want to pay tribute to i think one of the people for me and bodies bipartisanship. Hes involved in every effort to bring peopletogether across partisan lines and thats steve hadley, our former National Security advisor here as well. Our director is jan and 90 well, we you will be seeing anja as one of the people doing the interviews. The subject is china. I think all of us agree our relationship wi
Steve joining us on newsmakers is republican congressman greg walden. Here in the studio is bob q sack, editor in chief of the hill newspaper. I want to begin with fridays boat and the procedure move from congressman massey. A number of colleagues are upset they had to make a trip back to washington to force the vote. What were you hearing . Rep. Walden it was unfortunate, unfair and unnecessary. We all get a voting card. We have a right to privileges on the house floor. It was just not necessary at all. We have the votes. We have a quorum in the house, as was easily identified and removed on. In the end it did not have a delay in effect but it did discomfort some members. We are 435 we are down a couple of members. There are a lot of members that illnesses and are dealing with things that make them more vulnerable to the virus. I dont know. It was a waste. It was unfortunate. Steve did the move put members at a health risk . Rep. Walden i think it did. Otherwise members would have sta
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