Trump President Trump attended a briefing. [indiscernible] thank, everybody. Thank you very much. And thank you to our great admiral. All of thelso to exceptional leaders and talent we have in this room. U. S. Southern command is an Outstanding Group of people. Thank you very much. We are here to discuss our vital effort to keep deadly drugs out of our country and away from our children, and wow, are we making progress in a short period of time thanks to you. [applause] pres. Trump i wanted to make this trip personally. We were going to do a phoner, but i came to personally thank you for your valued fight to defend our borders and take our ofe traffickers out business, knock them out of business, the criminal cartels. We want to knock them out. You are on the front lines every day saving countless american lives and delivering the righteous under of american justice. No adversary can match the awesome power of the United States army, navy, air force, coast guard, marines. And very soon
On Law Enforcement. [applause] pres. Trump thank you everybody. Thank you very much. And thank you to our great admiral faller. Thank you also to all of the exceptional leaders and talents that we have in this room. Just anthern command is Outstanding Group of people. Thank you very much. We are here today to discuss our vital effort to keep deadly drugs out of our country and away from our children and wow are we making progress in a short period of time thanks to you. [applause] amazing. I have come to personally thank you. I wanted to make this trip personally. We were going to do a phoner and i said a phoner is not quite the same thing. So i want to thank you for your valiant fight to protect our borders and take these vile traffickers out of business, the smugglers, the criminal cartels, we want to knock them out. You are on the front lines every day saving countless american lives and delivering the righteous thunder of american justice. No adversary can match the awesome power o
Thank you. Im kathleen hicks. I direct the National Security program here. Our ceo wanted to be here this morning to welcome the commandant, but hes been under the weather, so i get to both moderate the conversation and also do that. Before i begin, i just want to remind everyone that this is the fourth of our Maritime Security dialogue series of 2019. Our Maritime Security dialogue is cohosted between csis and our partners at the u. S. Naval institute. And our goal is to highlight Current Issues and future challenges facing the navy, marine corps and coast guard. I want to thank our sponsor, Huntington Ingalls industries who has made this possible. Today were talking with admiral karl schultz, a commandant of the marine corps. And i want to get right into it. We were lucky enough to have you join us in august of 2018. Pete daily was the moderator for that session and here we are a yearplus beyond that, a few months beyond that when you began which was roughly may 2018. I would love to
Cspan. Org landmark cases. Earlier today u. S. Northern commander general Lori Robinson and Southern Commander testified on their operations including how they handled the threat of Ballistic Missile attacks and whats being continue to combat the opioid drug crisis. Speaking before the Senate Arms Services committee this is an hour and 50 minutes. We will call the meeting to order. Were going to receive testimony from two of my favorite people, general Lori Robinson. I have to say i taught her everything she knows from when she was Wing Commander at Tinker Air Force base in oklahoma, and from kurt ted, commander for the u. S. Southern command. I think there is a lot of overlap. Weve talked all three of us have talked about this between the north and the south command, and i think thats one reason senator mccain would want to have these meetings together. The new National Defense strategy and the nds identifies in protecting the homeland sustaining american advantages in the western hem
Information with regard to the question of premium cigars and how they are or are not sold to children. That was a part of what we are trying to do. And we are reviewing that. And we are in the middle of that process now. Having said that, as we are in that process, a part of your question was the recognition of small employers. And that is something that will be taken into consideration no matter where the rule ends, its something i think is very important that we do as we think about implementation. And so wherever the rule making comes out, as we are in a process. But i do want to recognize the point that youve made, which is making implementation for small employers and small institutions possible, whatever it is. Its something we consider a real priority and something we believe no matter where you are we can work on as part of the implementation. The proposed deeming rule has been under consideration for more than a year. Regulatory uncertainty is exceptionally challenging for Sm