I am confident you will be able to be the man at the microphone. This is your First Official appearance and we are grateful to happy with us, secured a bunch appointment as historic and a number of ways, hes the first africanamerican secretary to lead the Smithsonian Institution as well as the first Museum Director who was later appointed secretary and around 75 years, he is a historian, something i really enjoy and he understands. Its a great combination of things and this is the fourth position the circuitry bunch has had at the smithsonian. Notably any of predecessors could claim in 1978 he began his smith odeon career in the space museum as Education Specialist in 11 years later he joined the National Museum of American History and most recently served as a founding director of the National Museum of American History and culture. As a founding director he led an 11 year effort in constructing the 400,000 squarefoot museum in helping raise the matching Public Private funds that matc
I am confident you will be able to be the man at the microphone. This is your First Official appearance and we are grateful to happy with us, secured a bunch appointment as historic and a number of ways, hes the first africanamerican secretary to lead the Smithsonian Institution as well as the first Museum Director who was later appointed secretary and around 75 years, he is a historian, something i really enjoy and he understands. Its a great combination of things and this is the fourth position the circuitry bunch has had at the smithsonian. Notably any of predecessors could claim in 1978 he began his smith odeon career in the space museum as Education Specialist in 11 years later he joined the National Museum of American History and most recently served as a founding director of the National Museum of American History and culture. As a founding director he led an 11 year effort in constructing the 400,000 squarefoot museum in helping raise the matching Public Private funds that matc
Fighter program. As i have consistently said, the f 35 Program Remains one of my top acquisition and sustainment priorities. Earlier this month and our last press briefing i made a commitment to come back to you when we were ready to announce the next f 35 contract. Here we aare. The f 35 Program Milestone authority alongside abwe are here to announce the u. S. Department of defense and Lockheed Martin have made tremendous progress and now have an Agreement Regarding the lot 12 to 14 Production Contract. This is a historic milestone to the f35 enterprise. As the f35 is our largest taxpayer investment and will form the backbone of the u. S. And allied fifthgeneration inventory for the foreseeable future. Anf in the joint Program Office are laser focused on driving cost out, quality up, and achieving timely deliveries of our capability to our war fighters. With respect to ontime delivery weve exceeded the total aircraft quantity we delivered to the war fighter last year. We have a 96 per
The audience the podcast i did with you the other week, you were brilliant and the amount that you know and the degree to which you can make that apply to modern america is remarkable. I look forward very much to the chance to chat with you. I appreciate that i had the pleasure to read through your book i was impressed how quickly it came out. Mind took seven years to write so i need to take a page from your playbook to be more diligent with my research and writing but that is on china issues so we have some questions on the challenge the United States faces. My ego requires me to ask what did you think as a genuine china scholar what did you think over all of the information in the book quick. You start with the tough questions. The underlying recommendation and your view how china pursues its goals, i would agree with. Theres a lot of people who have different interpretations but i do think it is very problematic how china is trying to pursue power and influence i may disagree with s
Morning. We are in the middle of a deposition involving ambassador official atcareer the state department, so i am going to have to keep this brief. First of all, i want to thank ambassador hale for being here, for obeying the law, for following the law for the subpoena that we issued. Show thethers would same courage and dedication to the law that Ambassador Haley is demonstrating here today. As you knowo know already that we will begin open hearings into the impeachment inquiry next week. We will begin with the testimony of ambassador taylor and ambassador kent on wednesday, and we will have ambassador jovanovich testified. Will have many others. The most important facts are largely not contested. We have been and appreciating have been gaining an increasing appreciation for the degree to which the president enlisted the whole department of enlisted whole departments of government in trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on the political opponent as well as further a Conspiracy Theory