To talk about and anything that the chamber or the members can be doing more with your team . Commissioner the burdenen falls on us quite a bit. Like brend and, todd and maria but i havent seen them take the opportunity to attend one of your conferences to have some of the smart people like steve and others to be able to brief and we do that a lot. We spent a lot of time and effort on that and its time and effort that is well spent. So you should not be and i dont think you have been you shouldnt be the least hesitant in asking and demanding of us that we should do more. Thank you. [applause] on this weekends newsmakers a look at the upcoming 20s acting president ial race with New Hampshire Republican Party chair jennifer born and just kaufman. They discuss some of the potential candidates and the role each of their state has in the early stages of a president ial election. Actually interview tomorrow at 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. You turn on cspan. One of those candidates, marco rubio
Until we come closer to the kind of system we all hope and need out of our department of defense. The bottom line goal is how to defend the country. That is what this is all about. Host we have come to the end of the hour. Thank you for being here this morning. A really great start. A continuation of the effort. We very much look forward to having the legislative language released on wednesday. I imagine there will be lots we will be interested in. Good luck in your efforts. Thank you. [applause] on our next washington journal, we we will talk to tend his congressman Michael Burgess about a bill that tries to solve the annual medicare doc fix. Congresswoman glewen moore will talk about the budget. Then jeff mauer will discuss world oil and gas prices. Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Texas republican senator ted cruz announced he is running for president. Here is part of what he said and you can watch the entire remarks at www. Cspan. Org. Senator cruz i
Information will contact authorities. Im mola lenghi for wusa9. We do have more snow on the way to our town tonight, but this time around its more convenient at least timewise. First alert meteorologist topper shutt is on the weather terrace to tell us how much snow well get. For us little or nothing, but a good snow for the mountains. Its a vigorous little clipper, snowing in cincinnati, raining in kentucky down into tennessee. Some of this snow will get into the mountains before midnight, but the rain and snow will make it into the metro area after midnight. Temps will remain above freezing is in the beltway. So a trace to an inch and frederick back toward winchester, maybe an inch or 2 and maybe 2 north of winchester up into hagerstown and the bulls eye will certainly be the mountains, kind of an elevation driven snow. This is lacking cold air. You folks in oakland down toward davis, west virginia, great weekend to go skiing. Temperatures, heres one thing were lacking. Its still 46
Better job in explaining why it is important that nations who would like to be taken seriously in the world require military capabilities to be partners in the larger endeavors that confront us. But lets be clear. Its not clear that in this country there is the kind of support we may need for defense spending at large, and it is definitely clear there is no support or no knowledge for nato. Much of our parliamently our congre congressmen and senators dont know much about nato. Most would be surprised that nato continues not only to run the Afghan Mission but have between a third and a half of the troops there from european countries. So we have done not a particularly good job of explaining the importance of nato to our own security, to our own to what it is that europe and nato contribute to what we do day in and day out. So before we start lecturing our european friends about how important it is that they go out and tell their parliamentarians how central nato is and defense spending
Important it is that they go out and tell their parliamentarians how central nato is and defense spending is, we have a job to do here ourselves. Our interim general scocroft that when were thinking here how to engage in capitol hill that narrative. Ill take the woman in the back. Thanks. My name is trina flocrant. While in washington im at the transatlantic academy. What you said about the nato issue is music in my ears. I just wish it had been said by the defense and Deterrence Program or defense and deterrence posture review whats going on. Because one of the things that was very apparent during that time was the silence from and i know that you as ambassador could probably not say what you said now, but from an american perspective, there was very little said to actually push the europeans in that direction you just outlined. I can say this because im a european. I think without the americans taking the lead, and quite frankly, lecturing and pushing the europeans on issues like thi