Sharing this space with us today and also to begin, i would like to thank our cosponsors, the gender equality and initiative affairs and the studies program, the National Securities program and the g. W. Military and veteran services for making in event possible. Thank you for your support. I would lining to begin this like to begin this event by saying is it is on the record and questions at the end are welcomed so today our conversation will center on the role of little and of in National Security and the role of women in National Security and interNational Security and ican think of no one more qualified to share her thoughts on this topic than secretary christine wormuth. Please allow me to share some of her career highlights. She is the 24th secretary of the army. She was worn in on may 27, 2021 following her nomination by President Biden and her confirmation by the United States senate. As the civilian leader of it have United States army, secretary wormuthover sees the services
Evening. Tonight on the communicators. Democratic representative diana degat from colorado and jim lanjman from rhode island on internet privacy and how to combat recent data breaches. We have seen attack after attack, the most recent attack, of course, on the office of personnel management, but also in private industry. Target, home depot, so many other prives corporations have had problems. So what we realized is we can try very hard to keep ahead of the hackers, but what we need to do is think about how we minimize the need for customers to put their private information onto websites. Right now, there are legal oppositions from the government sharing classified information with the private sector, and legal prohibition on the private sector sharing information back with the government. Otherwise they would be termed into the acting of agents of the government, and thats not allowed. What we need to do is allow those barriers to be removed so that you could share information on threa
Lets turn to you across the gulf in the position that they may be having different reactions. They may have taken this agreement. How does it impact their relations with the u. S. And iran and their identity identity in a clear arm rate issues related to this what are your thoughts on the reactions and actions . I look out at the audience and i see so many friends have told me that i have been doing this for too long. I want to start off in all of the years that i have been living in and writing about the middle east a recently learned that the fact that i want to start with discussion by just leaving it with you. Islam make law provides which is levied on the nonbelievers in an Islamic Community. One of the act acts consolidating their control over arabia tack in the early years in the 20th century by the king was to levy a the nonbelievers and to me if you want to understand the collective attitude about shia, that tells you what you need to know. Keep that in mind as we go through t
Status. Officials on both sides seem to be losing patience. The ball in greeces court but they want to throw it back at their creditors. No end to this debt debacle. Foreign currency volatility. A sudden spike in the euro. We are trading higher on zero point 3 . A similar dip in the dollar index. 0. 3 . In fact, the swings between the euro and the dollar between this hair is the high pair is the highest since 2011. Volatility is present. Bearish. Bets against the euro are pretty low. Many believe it will be done with greece. The market is positioning with a deal. The Hedge Fund Speculators have been cutting their bets the euro will fall. A little bit of an issue. The dollar will be moving today on the fact without Monetary Policy committee comments together, the Federal Reserve will start debating Monetary Policy in the u. S. Could there be any hit by jenny yellen will see rate rises later this year . Most bets on september. The bond market, a move to the haven into germany. Borrowing
Reach out to republicans and make sure i am listening to them. I look forward to them putting over at a very specific agenda in terms of what they would like to accomplish. Lets compare notes in terms of what im looking at and what they are looking at. Meanwhile, Mitch Mcconnell is promising to end the gridlock in washington. Mcconnell is expected to be the next Senate Majority leader. Were going to function. The gridlock and dysfunction can be ended. Dysfunction that actually works. Mcconnell promises there will be no more government shutdowns or defaulting on the debt. Bankuropean central staying on the course of Interest Rates. It announced moments ago it would keep rates unchanged at record lows. Investors are waiting to see whether mario draghi will push for more stimulus for the euro zone. We will hear more from him a few minutes from now. Most active stocks trading right now. I must critics seven years of growth. He says the issue is manufacturing keeping up with demand. It is r