Particularly with china. I refunded . A variety of individuals and corporations. We dont accept any corporate or foreignon money. Several headlines got our attention that w says chinas military has surpassed us in ships and missiles and air defense. Talking about conventional weapons first. So what is the strength of the Chinese Military . Its very impressive. Its daunting. Remember the United States spends more on total that china has been closing the gap and exclusively focused on its own region. So that the age in the pacific the most recent is shifting in chinas direction. Thirty or 40 years ago the Chinese Military was a sophisticated force is no longer the case and they are closing the gap in key areas and that trend is continuing. Mr. Cole be the headline of the Nuclear Arsenal that tells us the china plans to double the nuclearhi arsenal. Talk about that part of the equation. The conventional event is more sobering. It is slated to doubleed in size from a low amount what is con
Organizations on legislation recently passed in the senate which is expected to be taken up in the house. This is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. The committee will come to order. I am pleased to have this opportunity today to hear directly from organizations that work with, represent or support millions of veterans every day. This committee has gatheredli today to hear from these organizations their firsthand perspective and reasons they support our comprehensive Suicide Prevention legislation, s. 785, the commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health care improvement act. This is a legislation that is been before this committee and before the senate, and i wanted to give the opportunity to those Veterans Service organizations and others the ability to tell us any thoughts that in regard to this legislation as we negotiate with the house in its p
Between israel and the United Arab Emirates, afghanistan, the potential october surprises dealing with Foreign Policy. This a fantastic panel that bring such a depth of expertise to these topics and i would like to introduce them. When charlie cook who is editor and publisher of the cook political report. Celinda lake, president , Lake Research partners. Doctor norman ornstein, resident scholar come senior scholar at the American Enterprise institute, and christian sultans anderson, who is part of cofounder of echelon insights. Thank you all. Were lucky to have you or this discussion and want to dive right in. I was excited to talk you to yl about this. Its something im interested in. Id like to start with the question for each of you that generally gets at the role of Foreign Policy in the 2020s election. How much do Americans Care about Foreign Policy and nationals could issues in this election cycle and how is that different from past elections that weve had recently . Lets just go
The battle against covid19 . If you were asked for status reports what would you say . A mixed bag. If you look at the numbers, very serious and concerning. We have had 185,000 deaths, 6 million infections. If you look at the country, a large country, there are some areas doing really well right now particularly those early on, in the metropolitan area, at least a month been less than one test positivity. In other parts of the country, what we saw in the Southern States with a big surge when they try to open the economy that brought a baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 a day to 70,000, we are back between 3040,000 and as though states are starting to level off and come down which is really good sign we are seeing the beginning of surges in places like montana, the dakotas, michigan, minnesota, iowa. It is a mixed bag. Some areas are doing really well and some are still threatening to have surges. It is not an easy situation. If someone say we are rounding the final curv
Familiar. Republicans roll out yet another effort to forge a bipartisan compromise around coronavirus relief, and democrats reply with partisan cheap shots and threats to block everything. Republicans develop a serious plan to get historic amounts of additional money in the pipeline for kids, for jobs, for schools, and democrats just point fingers, call names and keep blocking American Families from getting any more help before the november election. In july, republicans put forward a serious framework, but Speaker Pelosi and the democratic leader refused to talk unless starting point was their literally absurd 3. 4 their literally absurd 3. 4 republicans rollout other efd coronavirus belief. And with that threat to block. Republicans develop a serious plan in the pipeline for kids and jobs and schools and democrats point fingers from getting any more help and to put forward a serious remark the democratic leader it is literally absurd three. 4 trilliondollar wish list that even democr