Good wednesday morning, im Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt. The president this morning set to tour the mac pro Assembly Plant with apple ceo tim cook. Eamon javers will raise the curtain on that this morning. Reporter youre playing just the two of us and it is going to be about just the two of them. The unlikely relationship between donald trump, the president of the United States, and tim cook, the ceo of apple cook has spent the past several months cultivating a relationship with donald trump largely, im told, by going through the trump family having conversations about technology with Melania Trump at dinner at the white house. Talking with ivanka trump about workforce issues hes cultivated that phone call relationship with the president. I asked the president why he seems to have such a good conversational ability with tim cook the president told me a couple of weeks ago, the reason is because cook is the one ceo in incorporate america who actually picks up the p
Other countries in the region are not spending massive amounts on defense. Although, australia and japan have committed to increase spending, particularly on maritime capability. Generally, were seeing a reduction in the resources of the u. S. And its potential Coalition Partners and an increase overall. So the task of managing this challenge and monitoring it is becoming greater. Then as i said, were seeing gaps in capability. Notwithstanding the u. S. Rebalance, there are limits to resources in terms of humanitarian assistance, in terms of amphibious capability, in terms of assets, undersea assets. The u. S. Attack submarine fleet actually around the mid 2020s will start to get smaller, not larger, for example. And gaps in cyber, Missile Defense and Maritime Security more broadly. For that reason, i really chose to focus my paper on Maritime Security and how we can take the framework of federated defense and start to actualize it in terms of real capability. In the region. Then i nar
Henry thats barbershop talk. Michael when you were arrested at cambridge, did you know immediately when he answered that question this was going to be a big deal . Because it sounded to me like it was a very obvious point he made but did you see it immediately . Henry well, you know, my phones started ringing off the hook. I dont think you could use that metaphor anymore. Did your phone ring off the hook . [laughter] ken vibrated out of your pocket. Henry barack obama said it was stupid you got arrested. Yeah. But immediately he was attacked for doing it. So i knew he was going to have to pull back so i didnt know what he was going to do. Michael i got you. Henry so the idea of the you know, having a beer came up. And he asked my opinion about that and he talked to the policeman before he talked to me and i said, i think its a great idea. At that point, all i wanted was for heres what happened. We were making finding your roots, and my girlfriend and i flew out to l. A. On a friday. An