Withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account, which i have kept for emergencies and the history of my family Facing Confiscation in cuba. He did address these on your screen, the gold bars, the stash of gold bars. He did address the gift of the mercedesbenz convertible. And of course, he is absolutely innocent until Proven Guilty in a court of law. And he is not the first lawmakers to even face corruption allegations. In a moment, im going to talk to former illinois democratic governor ron blagojevich. He served eight years of 14 year sentence for a pay for play crimes. Plus, as you, know we are on the brink yet again of a shutdown of the federal government as of 11 59 pm this saturday. And as a pretty stark choice to make, will he save his job or the government, is that really the Rock And A Hard Place were at right now . Well, right hardliners are threatening just that. And now, while, donald trump. And everyone, she also spoke and broke the internet over t
Monitor Nuclear Deterrents summit. [inaudible conversations] right now, were going to have a session starting now and woven its way through the conference. So, if you want to take your seats i will have david and jeff prater introduce you to our panel. Here you go. Thank you very much. All right, well, thank you very much, nancy, and we want to thank everyone still out there staying until the bitter end and to hear what i regard not only a very important and phenal panel of the day, with four speakers that i promise will not just im jeff prater, and with me to moderate the q a today is my fellow cofounder and managing director, david charrington. We stood at the center to focus on educating policy makers, most importantly, new Congressional Staff on the u. S. Strategic Nuclear Deterrent and at the time we stood up the organization, the new programs. Its expanded with our podcast and i hope youre enjoying that hosted by dr. Adam louther. Reaching not only the United States, but to our a
Institute, this is one hour. [indiscernible] im honored to have with us to have with us the assistant secretary of the navy, the navy comptroller, Russell Rumbaugh. Weve been friends and colleagues for many years. He has worked in a variety of positions at dod, on the hill, and think tanks, and he most recently came into the department of the navy from aerospace corporation. Previously he had worked at the Simpson Center and other places here in d. C. , the Congressional Research service for many years, and he began his career as a u. S. Army infantry officer. You dont talk about that with the navy folks. Navy i will ask you a few things about the army budget and how much the navy took from them this year. [laughter] its a pleasure to have him here for this discussion. We will also be taking discussion from the audience in the room and online. So, when we turn to that, if you are online you can go ahead and start asking questions on the site where i get to read the questions off the ip
Thats about. But there are a lot of strong learns that that is going to be addressed thats it. Singular people are more universal than they sound on the surface grace i seizure. Finally, were all going to be listening this weekend. Thanks so much thanks to our panel and thank you for joining us this morning. Im jim acosta, cnn news starts right now. Have a great day, swiftness cnns Breaking News are Breaking News. Israel strikes iran hours after a stark warning from iran that it will respond with maximum effect. But this morning we are seeing what appears to be the first signs of relief Around The World as a source in the region declares direct strikes between the two atoms are now over and vote both nations so far seem to be downplaying at all. We are standing by right now to hear from us secretary of state Antony Blinken he is in italy right now, and well deliver his first remarks since israel strike. Heres whats happened. Us officials confirm israel carried out an attack overnight a
Monitor Nuclear Deterrents summit. [inaudible conversations] right now, were going to have a session starting now and woven its way through the conference. So, if you want to take your seats i will have david and jeff prater introduce you to our panel. Here you go. Thank you very much. All right, well, thank you very much, nancy, and we want to thank everyone still out there staying until the bitter end and to hear what i regard not only a very important and phenal panel of the day, with four speakers that i promise will not just im jeff prater, and with me to moderate the q a today is my fellow cofounder and managing director, david charrington. We stood at the center to focus on educating policy makers, most importantly, new Congressional Staff on the u. S. Strategic Nuclear Deterrent and at the time we stood up the organization, the new programs. Its expanded with our podcast and i hope youre enjoying that hosted by dr. Adam louther. Reaching not only the United States, but to our a