Good morning. And welcome everyone in the studio as as the audience turning in virtually. Im connor savoy, senior fellow at the csu us project on prosperity and development. Thank you for joining me today to discuss a new book published by my long time colleague and friend dan, who is a Senior Vice President and director of the project on and development and holds the schreier chair here at csis. His work is oriented around us leadership in building a more democratic and prosperous world. Among his many other contributions, he was an architect of the build act, helped contribute to the reauthorization of the Us Export Import Bank in 2018 and was an of prosper for a Us Initiative to deepen the uss commercial and Development Engagement in africa. Hes been a leading voice on the role and future of the World Bank Group and u. S. Leadership in the multilateral. Prior to csis he held leadership roles at the u. S. Agency for International Development and the World Bank Group earlier in his ca
More live coverage tomorrow as the heads of the army, navy, marine corps and air force testify about the Armed Services longterm budget needs. The hearing takes place as negotiations continue ton capitol hill over military readiness under budget caps. Live coverage of the senate Armed Services Committee Hearing at 9 30 a. M. Eastern on cspan 3. This weekend on America History tv on cspan3. Sad evening at 6 00 p. M. Eastern in any war at anytime, weapons dictate tactics. You probably heard that the civil war was fought with modern weapons and antiquated tactics. Thats not quite true. The civil war was basically an evolutionary war as both weapons and the men who employed those weapons learned different methods to fight with. Author david powell talks about the civil war. And athen the book potsdam about the 1945 meeting of harry truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin to negotiate the end of world war ii and the reconstruction of europe. The states of europe didnt interact enough. T
What was the reaction . He spoke for himself today. Do you have a job lined up . I have nothing to announce today. Does the white house have a copy of the book and are they caught offguard by the secretarys book last year . I dont have one. I look forward to reading it. Press secretary jay carney getting one of his remaining press conferences as president obama came to the Briefing Room at the top announcing the nine is leaving in may to june. His replacement will be Deputy Press Secretary josh earnest. We have seen him handle briefings on a number of occasions. Of course the other big story today is the resignation of the secretary eric shineski. He is stepping down after a meeting at the white house. We will have the president s news briefing in announcement later tonight at eight eastern on cspan. Weve also take your reaction, calls and emails afterwards starting at eight Eastern Economic cspan. Also on facebook we are looking for your reaction to secretary shineski stepping down. D
With any realistic it cant be done. We have to accept the fact that we have an 11. 5 million undocumented immigrants in this country. We have to deal with them. I dont think we should allow them to continue to exist in a state of legal ambiguity, or in a dark hole. I think from my homeland secured a perspective i would rather deal with this population, encourage them to be held accountable, encourage them to pay taxes, get on the books and get on an armed path to citizenship so that they go through the necessary background checks, theyre in a position where they can work legally, and we reckon with this problem which is why im a strong supporter of Immigration Reform. I think that we have to be realistic about the place we are in with respect to these 11. 5 Million People. There are states know where theyre permitted to have drivers licenses. California Supreme Court says that an undocumented immigrant in this country can practice law. So they are not going away. They will not self dep