Topics include artificial intelligence, the Digital Economy and u. S. And european aid to ukraine. This is two hours and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thank you, everybody. Good morning. So great to be together for third annual Aspen Security Forum d. C. Beginning this evening, seasons greetings to all. Please join me in thanking the Aspen Strategy Group and are cochairs joan i and condeleezza rice and her speakers and sponsors. Thank you all. [applause] also, a huge thanks to our remarkable Aspen Strategy Group Team Including our executive director and so many others. Thank yall for the time you put preparing this summit. [applause] thank you also to the trustees of the Aspen Institute who are so supportive of this work and in particular jane harman, gilded born at a board chair margot who since a greetings, so thank you to our trustees here. [applause] eightytwo years ago today, japan attacked the u. S. Naval base in pearl harbor. Drawing the United
Minutes. [applause] a huge thanks to our markable Strategy Group Team Including emmanuel, Deb Cunningham so many others, thank you all of the time you put into preparing for this summit. [applause] thank you also to the trustees who are so supportive of this work and in particular, james harmon and board chair thank you to our trustee, 82 years ago today japan attacked the u. S. Naval base at pearl harbor. During the United States into what would become the deadliest war in human history. Terrorism, we are today, live in a tumultuous era bearing witness to the evils of holocaust to Nuclear Devastation and proliferation and the cold war. Brought about numerous geopolitical paradigm shift. The American Leadership in the world on behalf of freedom and democracy and human dignity. From the ferment of those transformational times, the founding of many of todays Civil Societies and social progress and human dignity, igniting potential to build understanding and promote possibilities for a be
The air force general in cargestarge of the u. S. Strategic command as well as air force secretary Heather Wilson and congressman mike rogers were part of a discussion of National Security in space from the Reagan National Defense Forum and the Reagan Library in simi valley. This was moderated by cbs pentagon correspondent david martin. Mr. Martin the Breakfast Panel which was moderated by our cbs colleague margaret brennan, there you saw the future of cbs news. Im what the militarywould call the legacy ystem. [laughter] the cold war ring and repurposed for the 21st century. A couple years ago, i did a story called the battle above for 60 minutes. It was about u. S. Space command. At the time, the commander was general hyten and he was one of the main characters in our story. To get ready for this panel, i went back and reread the transcript online of that story. I made the mistake of continuing on and reading some of the comments. One of the first comments i came across said, shame on
Vago what are some of Global Trends we saw . The stabilization of european picture. Year after the 2008 crisis, reducing spending about 2 a year. Is the end ofture the commodities cycle. This affects all away from the middle east and latin america. Tc decelerations middle east and about 10 a year. In themes down to 1 last year. The third major area is the study increases we seeing in asia and russia. Doubledigit until 2016. Vago last year you said that russia was going to be an unsustainable spending spree. Russia has had to cut back on social services, but has stayed on track on defense spending. How has that changed in the last year . Picture of the trajectory it was going great last year the russian economy click declined at 3 , while defense spending was evident doubledigit rate. That is not a single picture, and in 2016 average spending of 10 a year increase. They are basically the. I think from now on it will be a question of trying to maintain that level of spending rather than
Completely unprecedented. Heres what they said. Theres nobody there. Thats, you know, thats not the business of the park services, that were in. Were in the business of welcoming people and providing access to these sites. So i think when the 20th gets here and there are few, if any, people around, its its, i think its going to be unfortunate, but it is being done to guarantee that the constitutional mandate of a peaceful transfer of power on january 20th takes place. Reporter from here on out gets harder and harder to get into d. C. Metro closed 13 Public Transit stations and bricdges from virginia to d. C. Close tomorrow through inauguration and weve learned the faa will more heavily restrict the all very restricted air space around washington. An Inauguration Day like no other. Like you said, unprecedented. D. C. Is shut down right now. Thank you so much, pete. Also learning much more about some of the people that the fbi says stormed the capitol two weeks ago, and that includes Ril