And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
Theyll inherit. Tension, issues posed by dprk, china, and interpreting all the signs around the region. Our guests this week, john brennan is perfectly positioned to address this critical and evolving set of issues an we are lucky to have him here today. He needs no introduction but let me go through it. Former director of c. I. A. , former director of former principal advisor assistant to the president for counterterrorism and Homeland Security in the white house to president obama, former director of the National Counterterrorism center, career c. I. A. Officer, arabic speaker and author of the bestselling and i would add having read it myself, very interesting book undaunted my fight against americas enemies at home and abroad, he is someone who sits at the nexus of intelligence, Foreign Policy, at the white house, abroad and at langley, also knows a Little Something about northeast asia, the pride of hudson county, i should also add he holds a masters degree from the university of
Coverage of the election process and transition of power. C span, your unfiltered view of politics. Dennis mcdonough served as chief of staff and Deputy National security advisor under president obama. Next, he outlines president elect joe bidens policy priorities which include Coronavirus Response, the economy, Climate Change and Racial Justice. He also talks about the current president ial transition period and associated National Security challenges. The center for strategic and International Studies posted hosted the event. Its 50 minutes. This week, u. S. Elections, bidenharris transitions and their implications for korea and northeast asia. Our guest this week, perfectly positioned to address this critical and evolving set of issues with not just implications in washington, not just implications in seoul, but implications around the world and we are lucky to have mr. Dennis mcdonough, former white house chief of staff. Cabinet rank, we have broke therein cabinet rank ceiling here
It also allows biden and vicepresident elect Kamala Harris access to National Security briefings. In a tweet, President Donald Trump said gsa administrator emily murphy and her team should do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols. He said he had instructed officials in his administration to do the same. The gsa announcement came shortly after officials in michigan certified biden as winner of the battleground state in the november 3rd election. Biden has been moving quickly to form his cabinet. Hes now unveiled nominees for several key posts, including Antony Blinken for secretary of state. Blinken was National Security adviser during Barack Obamas first term as president. He served as deputy secretary of state during obamas second term. Biden says former secretary of state john kerry will be a special president ial envoy for climate. Linda thomasgreenfield will be ambassador to the united nations, and alejandro mayorkas, Homeland Security secretary. Avril haines, form
Steadfast dedication and loyalty. He went on to say she has been harassed and threatens and threatened and he does not want this for her or anyone at gsa. He won on to say our case strongly continues wanting to keep up the good fight and believing he will prevail, nevertheless that he is recommending emily and her team do what needs to be done, with regard to initial protocols, and that he has told his team to do the same. Joe bidens Transition Team welcome to the move. In a statement his team says, todays decision is a needed step to begin challenging tackling challenges facing our nation. Campaign officials will be with federal officials to discuss the campaign sponsor and our National Security interest and gain complete understanding of the trump administrations efforts to hollow out government agencies. We have two correspondents covering the story. One in wilmington and another in washington, d. C. Remind our viewers how significant this all is . It is significant because what we