Now there is a tiny fraction of americans serving in repeated deployments while the rest are not involved. How does the experience of your Vietnam Service and reflect on the service by this 1 . We are products of our experiences. It affected me. I was there in 1968, the worst year. Home 56,000 dead americans in one year. To fathom that today is unbelievable. Lot, like anyone does when you go through those things. Ways, to do in many this job. Else, it always made and careful of unintended consequences. Of goodreful intentions. Always think through the whole sequence of questions. What happens, wheres it going, what is the end result, and what could go wrong . I wish i was smart enough to have all of the answers, i dont. It has made me cautious. Ok, theno a point is you make decisions. For the next two years i hope we can bring the country back together to Work Together and atress the big issues coming the country that will have longterm consequences for our society for the next generat
Standard system. Its just absolutely critical as they trade in broader Economic Strategy in asia. We will go to julian and howard. Thanks, julie pace with me. I want to follow up on something or he said about g being less accommodating. Can you give us any ideas why any ideas why that is an administration thinking on this given they invested a lot of time and emphasis on having obama and biden in particular build a personal relationship with him . One of the fundamental conceptual flaws of the pivot has been a failure to assess the nature of chinas behavior in asia. I think there have been different views within the administration. Until recently there was a strong view that much of chinas assertive behavior in the East China Sea and South China Sea were driven by domestic pressures and nationalism by japan and vietnam provoking china. There has been another view by the pentagon which is that this is in fact part of a chinese strategy if you will to steadily assert more and more contro
Have been for years. So when we talk about Mental Health and is pleased to offer that so Insurance Companies have to provide the same copays and the same premiums in the same coverage, we dont do that in the community. So we were very, very hard. We brought together a huge coalition of those to how this is a major priority. 22 veterans committing suicide today. Both of them in the Community Come in needing in the community. They end up having people in jail a lot to his services, families. When they jump in there for a minute, senator. You are beginning to walk through some of the Human Dimensions of this. I guess perhaps my editorial, lets run the question is why, despite this legislation passed in, why when it comes to mental how is a small . Another was coming to pass a, but it got a huge bill. But mental out thursday, where everyone where people get trained and certified that cpr. But when you really put it on the face of it, were talking about Mental Health. If you scratch between
November. I was just in south america about a month ago to lay out the roadmap and how we are dealing with this. I just sent this morning one of our Deputy Assistant secretaries to iceland for a conference the next two days. This is critically important that we Pay Attention to this. Bottom line is, with all the crises of the moment, and thats part of my job, to manage immediate crisis, we also cannot lose sight of the strategic longerterm challenges that face our country either. And this is one that we got to be smart in how we handle it. Spent behind the political figures who would resist and argue about Climate Change respond differently when its coming from the pentagon . I think there is sometimes more of an awareness and edge put an issue it comes from the pentagon. Only because the military, the pentagon has maybe at least perceived by many people in more serious look at the world. And doesnt mean the state department that series or anybody else, but when you talk about the mili
Is always about money. Melissa start with a look at the markets. The dow in a free fall, down more than 200 points on the day, look at that, 223. Looks like were sitting at the low of the session. All three Major Industries april, nasdaq even more than that. We have very own Charlie Gasparino and wall street journal spencer ante. What do you think of the selloff. Much overdue. We need a break. We need a correction. Im still, if youre asking me, i dont give people investing advice, if the fed keeps basically easing on its schedule, taper schedule as it is without raising interest rates, not a lot of placeses to put your money. Has to be in stocks. Melissa spencer . The stock market is going up on upper trajectory. It was due for minor correction. There was more major correction in the spring. Is this longer term play . Hard to determine. Melissa we had tendency to ignore bad news. What changed . Israelipalestinian issue is getting worse. Could threaten Global Oil Supplies if it gets wor