jean-pierre, and john kirby as the irs continues to stay silent amid growing questions over why the agency made a surprise visit to twitter files journalist matt taibbi s home, the same day he was testifying before congress on the weaponization of the federal government. john: house republicans are demanding answers over the unannounced house call and whether biden s beefed up irs will target democrats political opponent. is the agency being weaponized? here to weigh in coming up. we are probably not going to be able to do anything to stop, slow down, disrupt, interdict or destroy the chinese nuclear development program. i have a hard time seeing where we are. please tell us what we are going to do with this threat that s at our doorstep. we are interested in investing in the right capabilities that will support the war fighting concepts. can you look us in the eye today and say the dei strengthened the military or weakened it. sandra: our nation s top military l
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Club a little later, and human caused disasters such as the deep Horizon Oil Spill in the gulf of mexico. Additionally, the coast guard rescues more than 3,000 people each year and searches for boaters who go missing such as the two teenagers who disappeared off the coast of florida recently. As the smallest military force and the only one with Law Enforcement authority, the coast guard has had a role in the defense of the United States for 225 years. In fact yesterday was the coast guards birthday. Today admiral zukunft will discuss the challenges for the coast guard such as congressional budget struggles a welldebated Cyber Security plan, maintaining a zero tolerance for Sexual Assault and a fleet in high need of modernization and sheer numbers to tackle the next 225 years. Please give a warm National Press club welcome to the commandant of the United States coast guard admiral paul zukunft zukunft. [ applause ] jeff, thank you for the flattering introduction, and i had a chance to m
Hamiltons vision is alive and well because his letter to those commanders resonates with each and every person in the coast guard. Ill now read my notes no, actually im done with that. And what id like to do is open it up to question and answer. [ applause ] and now the fun part. Some of the questions have been quite interesting, admiral. Lets see. Senate Armed Services Committee Members are concerned that russia has 40 arctic icebreaker ships and america has one. Is that going to change and when . I know you addressed that a bit earlier. Yeah. So as i stand before you today, i have one of my vice admirals is with the National Security staff up in the arctic to see firsthand what some of the challenges are up there. When youre up in barrow, alaska, you now see berms being built because you used to have a natural berm, a barrier, if you will, by all of the ice. So youre seeing a lot of coastal erosion. Youre seeing a nearly threefold increase in human activity up there, but you look at