They want to go to france, they want to go to germany, they want to go to these countries where they came from. That is their home. The u. S. Is not their home. It is not fair we are holding these people and that other countries are not taking them because we are bearing the cost. I think nato should be expanded and we should include the middle east, absolutely. We paper a big percent of nato. We pay for a big percent of nato. If you speak to the secretarygeneral, who is doing a terrific job, he will tell you i raised 130 billion more. It was going down from past administrations every single year. It was down to a low number. I came in and said you have to pay, we are protecting you, we are a part of this. We do not want to be the fools like we have been. We raised 130 million. We had a meeting with the countries. I said you have to pay. I can imagine they do not like me as much as obama and other people. More. E 130 billion my biggest fan in the world is secretarygeneral stoltenberg b
Excellent panel and were start off with heather. Thank you so much. I think the arctic is the best place to talk about the intersection of climate stress and security. In many ways, the arctic is telling us, both polar regions are telling us theyre under the most stress as the arctic is warming two to three times faster than anyplace on the planet. In many ways, were now dealing with a very new ocean. In fact our former coast guard commandant called the arctic americas fourth coast. I thought that was a powerful way of thinking about it because Many Americans do not know the United States as an arctic nation to bring it home, this is homeland security. We now have a new coast that requires our protection. That is what in many ways the nexus between the rapid diminishment of the arctic polar ice cap is now creating new borders, new coasts to protect. Which is why we need enhanced coast guard presence. Certainly thats through the enhanced ice breaker component, what we call a polar secur
What that means now in the policy and the security space. Im excited to have an excellent panel to talk about that. Weve got heather conley, our vice president. We have john. We have sara glasser, the Deputy Director of secure fisheries and amy lair, the director of our human rights initiative. Thank you to the panel, and im going to sit down and be quiet and turn it over to my excellent panel, and well start off with heather. Thank you so much. Good morning, everyone. I think the arctic is the best place to talk about that intersection of climate stress and security. And in many ways the arctic is telling us, actually, both polar regions are telling us theyre under the most dramatic stress as the arctic certainly is warming two to three times faster than any place on the planet. And in many ways we are now dealing with a very new ocean. In fact, our former coast guard commandant called the arctic americas fourth coast. I thought that was a powerful way of thinking about it in part bec
Climate on oceans, Marine Biodiversity and human populations living in vulnerable areas. I appreciate it andthanks to our first panel. Ive enjoyed the conversation. I think were going to pick up on the end of that conversation around this idea of the Dynamic World and what that means now in the policy and security space so im excited to have an excellent panel to talk about that. Heatherconley , John Mimikakis was Vice President for oceans Environmental Defense fund, there was director of fisheries and amy lehr who is the director of the Human Rights Initiative so think the panel and im going to sit down and be quiet and handed over to my panel and we will start off. Thank you so much, good morning. I think the arctic is a tough place to talk about. The intersection of climate stress and security. And in many ways, the arctic is telling us, actually most polar regions are telling us they are under the most dramatic stress as the arctic certainly is warming 2 to 3 times faster than any
Directions but we are truly fortunate to have rob joyce in his place. For those that dont know rob, rob is the cyber lead at the National Security council. Hes the socalled cyber czar, the coordinator for all things cyber. He comes to the white house from the National Security agency where among other roles he ran t. A. O. Which i think has gotten a little more noticed in recent years and there was a time we couldnt even mention that, but rob comes to this job with true professionalism. And he has a natural ability to translate sort of those ideas into policy and the like. So rob, thank you for doing this, especially at last minute. I thought wed start with a general question. The executive order promulgated in may. I know a lot of homework items were due early september, late august. Can you sort of give us a sense of where we stand and i dont expect you to break all news in terms of what exactly was provided but tell me where things stand and in particular, just because its been a co