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Which was, oddly, congresswoman Debbie Wasserman schultzs office in sunrise, florida. Of course she didnt send that package. The exact same return address, we should note, was used for clintons and obamas packages. Devices were also sent to democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters on capitol hill. Theyre still trying to figure out if its tied to these other incidents, as well as one sent to liberal billionaire and philanthropist george soros and to cnns headquarters where it was addressed to john brennan, former cia director. This is the device that was sent to the time warner center. As i said, it was addressed to President Obamas cia director, john brennan, a vocal critic of President Trump. Now the packages are being described as rudimentary but operative explosive devices, leading investigators to fear the intent was to kill and to kill a lot of people. No, thankfully, none of the devices went off and while we dont know the suspect or his or her or their motive, Law Enforcement inves
it s not just the threats posed by the prc. it s the threat posed by north korea. obviously, that s a real keen for south korean allies. but it has of late become an enmore significant concern to our japanese allies as well. yeah, certainly given the scale of the missile tests. your response to china s framing of this as the establishment of a sort of mini nato? yeah. not true. that s just, again, the prc overreacting here. nobody is talking about a binding alliance here between the three countries. why not? what we are talking about well, good question. what we are talking about is ways to better codify and institutionalize a trilateral cooperation across a wide range of issues, not just in the security realm. so again you will see the leaders come together today and announce a set of initiatives that we hope will be sustainable for the long term. making these meetings on an annual basis, announce them
scheduled exercise. annual military exercises, ballistic missile drills. this requires a level of coordination and diplomatic engagement between the countries that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. as you rightly pointed out these are countries with decades of mistrust and suspicion going back quite a ways now. they have come quite a ways beyond that to say, look. these are our shared concerns. we are putting some of that behind us so we can cooperate here and move forward to work together diplomatically and militarily. here is national security council s john kirby speaking about this earlier today. we are talking about ways to better codify and institutionalize tri lateral cooperation across a wide range of issues not just in the security realm. so again, you ll see these leaders come together today and announce a set of initiatives we hope will be sustainable for the long term.
but also in a kind of near-term level from a defense posture, alliance perspective in the indo-pacific. what is the primary goal the president has coming out of that summit in terms of deliverables? this is going to be about a future focused agenda today, phil. you re right. there is a lot of history here. it is an historic meeting. it build on two and a half years of effort and energy by president biden to revitalize alliances and partnerships throughout the indo-pacific region. what these leaders will be focused on today is the future. just a few hours when they stand behind me and do a press conference they will announce a set of initiatives and framework for making sustainable all these commitments we are going to be making not just in the security realm, although that will be front and center given all the threats and challenges, but on the economic front, supply chains, micro electronics, people to people ties. there is a spate of terrific initiatives that will come out of this