Have a lot of article two people in this room. Even though the title as i understand this is the imperial presidency. Understand that republicans have always sort of deferred to the administration, to the executive branch for Foreign Policy issues. I agree with some of the speakers that on the other Hand Congress has its appropriate roam. Well, administrations have negotiated the u. N. Security Council Sanctions and its my bleach that the administration does have the ability on your own accord to deal with those sanctions. The executive branching also has their own executive sanctions that they put in place against iran and i believe obviously they have the right to dole deal with those as they choose. On the other hand, there are congressionally mandated sanctions that congress put in place. As a matter of fact, Congress Puts them in place with the administration in essence kicking and screaming all along the way, saying that somehow or another this was going to be damaging with our r
The professor. Im fascinated by his review of the u. S. Arsenal and the questions that he posed and the puzzles that he talked about are spot on. The a very interesting conversations and necessary. I might yield a little bit of a bucket of cold water myself because i will speak with a little more certainty but i will say i think he raises fair points about how certain we can be about some of our tried and true assumptions related to nuclear waepaoeapons and deterrents. As you heard, i served for almost 39 years in uniform. Much associated with the Strategic Forces so the opinions you would hear from me are mine and they will have a military flavor to them. As you heard i will take a minute and i will piggyback on what professor gavin said. I think his points bear repeating. Let me do it with a little bit of my own military slant. No question about it Nuclear Weapons have occupied a unique space since august of 1945. I would assert while Nuclear Weapons were conceived to win a war, shor
Gop, the more or less dominance is of the gubernatorial slot. What happens with the redistricting and can the democrats make it, or is that lockin for 20 or 30 more years . Please let me give an impressionistic answer and then let david give what will be a more thorough answer. When you have the first election after the districting, that is the baseline. Over the course of the decade there are Population Trends and some get more democratic and others get more republican. So the precision of redistricted can come undone gradually over a decade. You can argue about how much that happens where a district can be are off. Probably not that much, but some why. And this includes two dozen 18, two dozen 20, it could be somewhat different than the partisan orientation. But that is just my impression over the years. The democrats cannot could not pick a worse year than 2010. Because it really is a vicious cycle. If republicans when and we draw the line, then they are in great shape for 2021. Per
Rebound, more of the spending needs to go to investment. That mean that there needs to be the extent question find a way to more increases deference cooperation. Let me wednesday perhaps anybody that knows me know that believed are spending on Nuclear Weapons. Probably isnt the smartest spending we can think about when it comes to the future of this alliance. These are weapons that are not likely to have any role in anything we do in 99. 999 of the time or perhaps even 100 of the time. Im happy to take your questions. [applause] thank you very much. That was just fantastic. If it remains focus on collective dissent for irrelevant for the future. You laid out the stark numbers about defense capabilities on defense and laid out the importance theres a lot to get in to here. I want to pick up a couple. I know, theres a lot of interested in the audience. Let me start where you ended on the nuclear point. Our next conversation on cartwright and others, former undersecretary, will in to Nucl
The cube to be new government will work out on the issue. Increasingly on the strategic and political side. Within europe and indeed, within nato. I think that the United States needs that strong leadership from germany a willingness to stand up and be part of not only a collective but indeed a leader of that collective. Within nato and within the European Union and broadly. Speaking in order to ensure that the United States will have this partner. Not only in we are lib berlin but indeed europe we need. Germany is the big kid on the block. It is militarily the big kid on the block. It doesnt have the expenditure on Nuclear Weapons that others have. It is transforming its military in to a force that is quite able to conduct the military operations. Its efforts in afghanistan are underappreciated. They are they have been a leader in the north. A true leader. They are the first and only countries so far to have stepped up and said they will be there not only other countries but the first