the national interest. we can all cover it in an hour and 15 minutes. it s been said that the clearest statement of strategy is a budget where we have to allocate limited means to virtually unlimited demands. shipbuilding is especially interesting in this regard. ships are big usually. they have a 30 to 40-year life span. they have to balance current capability versus future investment, balance force readiness and maintenance versus forward presence and reassurance. and you re making bets on the effects of technology on combat. so, it s no small topic. fortunately we have two distinguished public servants here to help work us through this. to my immediate left is congressman randy forbes, a 16-year veteran representing the 14th district of virginia, chairman of the haas k and a hebb of the readiness subcommittee. and to his left, mark hansen, over 30 years service in the marine corps, a veteran, if you will, of cost assessment in the pentagon. and later chief of the force s
good afternoon. and welcome to the center for the national interests. my name is chip gregson. i ll be the moderator of this discussion today. it s been said that the clearest statement of strategy is a budget where we have to allocate limited means to virtually unlimited demands. shipbuilding is especially interesting in this regard. ships are big usually. they have a 30 to 40-year life span. they have to balance current capability versus future investment, balance force readiness and maintenance versus forward presence and reassurance. and you re making bets on the effects of technology on combat. so, it s no small topic. fortunately we have two distinguished public servants here to help work us through this. to my immediate left is congressman randy forbes, a 16-year veteran representing the 14th district of virginia, chairman of the haas k and a hebb of the readiness subcommittee. and to his left, mark hansen, over 30 years service in the marine corps, a veteran, if you
watch live coverage on c-span starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern. also available online at c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. the state department assistant secretary for military affairs talks about arm sale policy and using it as a diplomatic tool. remarks are followed by a discussion with defense and aerospace experts, the center for strategic and international studies hosted. thank you very much for joining us for today s event on the u.s. arms transfer policy. we re very excited to have the ambassador with us to give us remarks object that and a really stellar panel after that. and i m going to begin as we always do with our security announcement because we have thought through what to do in the case of an emergency. we want to let you know we have plans and if something were to happen, i ll be your security guide and let you know where to go. either out the way you came in or out the back depending on what kind of emergency might arise. we don t expect
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everybody agrees that our immigration system is broken. unfortunately, washington has allowed the problem to fester for too long. so what i m going to be laying out is the things that i can do with my lawful authority as president to make the system work better, even as i continue to work with congress and encourage them to get a bipartisan comprehensive bill that can solve the entire problem. he makes it sound as though, doesn t he, 1600 pennsylvania was located in some other city rather than washington. the details of his unilateral action are beginning to trickle out at this hour. long time immigration activist congressman luis guterros telling bill o reilly the plan would call for two year work permits along with social security numbers for those illegal immigrants whose children are u.s. citizens. i think bill, the president is going to choose between five and ten year that you have to be in the united states for five to ten years and you have to have been working