intelligence. also a writer and thinker on all the things we are talking about today, so grateful to have him talk about the things we are talking about today. we were just reminiscing outside about two seminal events that happened in this room, in the press club. i want to start with deterrence and integrated deterrence. we heard from our first panel about the need for the u.s. to be engaged and engaged in muscular fashion in the world not reckless, not imprudent, but leading, the definition that leadership requires that you generate fellowship. then we heard from the last panel that you need the wherewithal. the wherewithal for deterrents. the new administration has a concept called integrated deterrence. you wrote a panel about it in the washington post. is it unfair to describe your op-ed saying that integrated deterrence seems just like a slogan and not a real policy? how would you describe it? do we have enough wherewithal to deter the aggression we need to deter to p
the dax higher as well. you see a lot of gains across the board. let s get back to the sectors. defensive. health care, telecoms. just above the flat line oil and gas down that s an interesting one to note you did have brent somewhat recovering now down .20%. the defensive stocks and health care down. construction and materials up 1.8% the building scene and the mortgage environment here in the uk interesting one to note. home build ping is having a boom we want to give you a look at the european the mega cap value tech stocks state side they were the big sufferers. here in europe, you are seeing a bit of recovery across the stocks nokia is higher. st micro is the only one down .50%. we have been keeping a close eye of chips, julianna rosanna, i made a better choice with my green dress it could all change by the end of the day on that note, let s look at u.s. futures. we are trading higher this morning. u.s. futures with a positive start. dow jones industrial average at
wisconsin, member of the house armed services committee and now the house select committee on intelligence. also a writer and thinker on all the things we are talking about today, so grateful to have him talk about the things we are talking about today. we were just reminiscing outside about two seminal events that happened in this room, in the press club. i want to start with deterrence and integrated deterrence. we heard from our first panel about the need for the u.s. to be engaged and engaged in muscular fashion in the world not reckless, not imprudent, but leading, the definition that leadership requires that you generate fellowship. then we heard from the last panel that you need the wherewithal. the wherewithal for deterrents. the new administration has a concept called integrated deterrence. you wrote a panel about it in the washington post. is it unfair to describe your op-ed saying that integrated deterrence seems just like a slogan and not a real policy? how woul
called while america slept . but we had a chance to get to know each other when he served in the bush administration as a delegate to the united nations and originally from california and got the international relation bug and served early in her career in geneva working on gulf-war issues and in our system where somebody who is successful in a variety of field who comes in and serves the government and robert, it s a delight to have you here. and i want to thank people. this event is part of our diplomatic engagement to bridge sector. in the private we have some of our supporters here today, united airlines and grateful cademy and for their support. the work you are doing to inform your capitals about how we are thinking about the world is critical and we want to be supportive of that and we want to be part of that and we are a partner of our state department. so robert, i m going to ask you to come up and say a few words. i appreciate that kind introduction. that is one
happy wednesday. halfway through the week. ambassadors, good friends of merrillian, distinguished guests, welcome. we re extraordinarily privileged to have our national security adviser robert o brien with us this morning to engage in a little discussion. also to take some of your questions. as you know, there s a lot going on in the world. robert has a terrific book called while america slept that he wrote when, i guess, in the private sector probably. but we had a chance to get to know each other when he served in the bush administration as a delegate to the united nations. and he s had an amazing career. originally from california. and got the international relations bug early sort of early in your career in geneva, i think working on some of the post-gulf war issues. you know, a classic example of our system where you have somebody who is successful in a variety of fields in the law, private sector, and then comes in and searches the government. and robert, it s a del