Okay. I guess we have a break. We can get going. Welcome to everyone. My name is mack owens. We are an independent graduate school of National Security affairs. We offer three masters degrees. We offer an executive and a professional masters as well. In addition we have 18 certificates. Were very happy to cosponsor this event with mark meyer whom i will introduce this very second. Weve got a great speaker who is done a great deal of work in this area. Its a topical topic as you know. I think that department of redundancy department. We are cosponsoring this with the center for military and diplomatic history. Mark miller, say a couple words. Great. Im dr. Mark mirror. I wanted to thank dr. Owens, president who have done a wonderful job organizing this event and several others that weve done here and also lindsay markel. We do events on history that have relevance to todays issues. Weve been hosting an average about one event per week since we were formed nine months ago and we particul
Impacting any shipping channel or any commercial operations. Reporter the barge belong to vortex Marine Company of antioch. They were hired to do maintenance on the tube. Vortex was not talking today, b. A. R. T. Was. The barge has a crane and some extra cabling and its just what the divers use as their base and then they dive down to the replace these metal pieces that a track it so the tube doesnt get corroded. Reporter the barge sank at midnight after being overrun by wind and waves. If has leaked a small amount of diesel fuel, hence the yellow containment bowies and the president of the department of fish and wildlife. Could the leak be a problem . Its possible. At this point right now the amount of action going on out there, the birds are staying away, and right now there is a sheen and thats not a huge cause for concern. Reporter huge, no, but at 112 feet long and 50 feet of water, not small either. The vortex Marine Construction has hired a salvage company, but the coast guard s
Neil gorsuch will be sworn in today. Watch the ceremony administered by Justice Anthony kennedy live at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. After that, democratic senator, chris murphy, talks about u. S. Foreign policy. We have it live at 12 30 eastern also on cspan. Now, a discussion on women in con bat. Speakers discuss the challenges and how allowing women in combat has changed the military from the institute of World Politics, this is just over an hour. Welcome to everybody. My name is mac owens. I am here at the institute of politics. We are an independent graduate school of National Security affairs. We offer three masters degrees, an executive and a professional masters as well. In addition, we have 18 certificates. We are very happy to cosponsor this event with mark moyier, whom i will introduce in just a second. Very important topic. Weve got a great speaker, who who has done a great deal of work in this area. It is a topical topic in the redundancy department. As i say, we are cosp
Stand to defend the boston bomber, saying he expressed regret and sorry and losing ground. I wouldnt have to work so hard the struggle the to survive in the city of angels sparks a push to raise the minimum wage good evening im antonio mora this is al jazeera america. President obama will host leaders from six gulf countries this week at the white house, and camp david. The summit is expected to cover the Iran Nuclear Talks and other issues in the region the the rulers of several will not attendful perhaps most notably king salman, saying it coincides with a humanitarian assess mire in yemen. Others believe the king is sending the white house a message. Reporter many see it as a blatant snub of barack obama, as a key ally. The white house down played a risk. I know there was some speculation. This change in travel plans is an attempt to send a message to the United States. If so, that message was not received because of all the feedback we received from the saudis has been positive. Re
To the 94 bits in these graphs were rough total of 617 billion. My question is kind of a can to a congressman fleming was acting. Does it make any difference to the department of defense if the money comes to the department of defense via the base versus overseas Contingency Operations . How does that affect your ability to do it need to be done . I think i addressed that earlier when i said for the army receiving relief there are end strength provisions above 450 provides 4. 2 billion in one year relief. Im trying to explain. Ive only got a minute and 10 seconds left to so let me move onto something more specific. Look tauro combat ships that are being built in the state of alabama, secretary mabus cannot be built out of oco funds . I dont believe that under the current fund we can do new construction. Its not as good as base money in that instance. Is that a fair statement . Can you do Missile Defense out of oco money general odierno do you now . As far as i know we are not able to d