This discussion. You can see the rest of it on cspan. Org. Going live as maritime administrator mark busby is talking about defense funding, live coverage on cspan2. Retired navy admiral mark busby. I would like to welcome the general officers and the many distinguished guests that are with us this morning. Welcome to our industry partners, leaders of industry and others for your continued support of this event in the navy league as a whole, General Dynamics is pleased to sponsor the special topic breakfast. These events and venues for the Defense Industry to interface with government requirements and acquisition professionals, something that we value. General dynamics thanks you for your participation and we thank General Dynamics for their support. Now back to our special guest. Are you ready, admiral . Admiral mark busby was sworn in as maritime administrator on august 8, 2017. Prior to his appointment he served as president of the National Defense transportation association. A posi
There is concern that Government Intervention to prop up the market will fail. Meanwhile, fed vice chairman Stanley Fischer hinted that raising rates has not been ruled out. Mohamed elerian said investors should not count on the fed to ride to the rescue. Market has been conditioned to view the Central Banks as their best friends, so whenever there is a hiccup, people look to the central bank. I do not think this time around the central bank is going to respond. The fed has reason to not do qe4. A new poll shows Bernie Sanders is now with Hillary Clinton and iowa. He has picked up 25 Percentage Points since january. He opened about his growing momentum on cnn. Bernie sanders all over this country we are generating enormous enthusiasm. People do not understand why the middle class of this country is collapsing at the same time as almost all of the new income and wealth is going to the top 1 . Another poll has donald trump in front at 23 , followed by ben carson, ted cruz, and scott walk
Expansion of isis in the middle east. After that remarks by the israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. Next a look at u. S. Strategy against isis. Thursday david cohen, the undersecretary of treasury for terrorism and Financial Intelligence outlined his agencys work to attach the terror groups Funding Sources. This hearing of the House Financial Services committee is three hours. The committee will come to order. The chair will declare a recess at any time. Before we begin, if you think you are in a strange room, you are. We did not change the portraits, as i have announced previously to the committee. Our hearing room, i think, is the last hearing room in the raburn building to receive a sound upgrade and other modifications to make the room ada compliant. As a reminder to all members, we will be a no maddic tribe between now and theoretically the end of march. We hope that doesnt mean midw midwmid midmay. And we will take whatever Committee Room our friends will allow us to have.
Grown from maybe 27 to now 800. As you know thats important because it means that funds in the u. S. Can be blocked and the u. S. Persons and entities are no longer permitted to do business with those on the list. It is my understanding that so far only four members of isis have been designated global terrorists by treasury and it is my understanding that these four are not involved with the major Funding Sources of this elicit Petroleum Trade to the black market. It strikes me as a little bit of a low number. Can you describe the challenges and what should be the expectation of the committee and the American People Going Forward . Absolutely. As you know, the authority to impose sanctions on terrorists and terrorists financiers arrive as an authority that we have used extensively in attacking the foundations of a wide variety of organizations including al qaeda and their predecessor. We used this to designate in more than two dozen individuals and entities, some of them who necessary
Finishing up the inheritance here when Michael First joined as a fellow and you know, at the end of the day, he would come by either my office or his office and his endless curiosity for for how this would play out, his love of the wonderfully ambiguous nature of dealing with the iranian. The questions of whether or not the specifics of the deal led to a much greater political kind of reconciliation, a subject that my great colleague, mark, will take up in a moment. He was also wonderfully into the weeds. And wonderfully competitive in that way that somebodys whos been a reporter all his life can be. When i r reported in the book after i wrote after i had done the inter hans than the United States had been involved in a lengthy cyber saab technology, that was really the first use of a cyber weapon by the United States against another state, i think michael was probably the first person who called me the day they ran the excerpt in the paper. And his mind had moved three chess steps out