Putting back and applying forceful sanctions in the event of a violation, that goal can be met. And it will require some creative negotiations by john kerry and others and, im confident well be successful. And i very much appreciate, by the way, the support of that has been provided by Prime Minister renzi. As well as his former foreign minister who now is the e. U. Representative in many of these discussions. And with respect to the russian sales, i will tell you this was a sale that was slated to happen in 2009. When i first met with then Prime Minister putin, they actually stopped the sale, suspended or paused the sale at our request and im frankly surprised that it held this long. Given that they were not prohibited by sanctions from selling these defensive weapons. When i say im not surprised, given some of the deterioration in the relationship between russia and the United States and the fact that their economy is under strain and this was a substantial sale, i do think that it s
I have to say that there are times that dysfunction in the senate. It just goes to far. This is an example of it. Its gone too far. Enough. Enough. Call Loretta Lynch for a vote, but her in place, let her do her job. It is embarrassing, a process like this. Thank you. [laughter] matteo renzi situation on the military and the sea, and cemetery. The problem in this moment is the situation on the ground in libya. If you think about it, 91 of the people who came from africa to italy come from libya. Exactly three years ago, when the people came from libya because the problem was the lack of stability. Today, they it is not easy. We work. Every day to find a solution every day, United Nation and then with older france and alliances in the region, but i think that the only way is to come back to stability in libya. In this period of concession italy is ready to bring responsibility to leadership in diplomatic and counterterrorism efforts. But the key point is to stop Human Trafficking in the
Applied to railroads, then trucking companies, and then to airlines, but it has been revealed for all of those industries going on over 30 years ago. It proved to impose a cost on consumers, delayed deployment, slowed innovation, and chilled investment. We both agree that the neutrality protections are important. Thats an important thing to start with. We do disagree with the lawsuit. We have been very supportive of the rules that the fcc enacted. They have now become a force of law. We think that after a decade of working towards a way to have Net Neutrality rules that can hold up into court, this is the strongest protections we have seen in the three different attempts at the agency to ensure that the internet remains open. Announcer monday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Announcer the New Hampshire republican partys began a twoday summit on friday that included several potential gop president ial candidates. Next, we will hear from some of the speakers, b
Just a few months ago back in september, we observe the 200th anniversary of that moment. Today, and the rest of this weekend, we are observing the 200th anniversary of the end of the war of 1812 and the treaty of ghent. That is what we will be talking about today. What was the treaty of ghent . What was the war of 1812 . As we go through slides, please dont hesitate to call out the question or ask me to back up if i go too fast. They told me i had about two hours. I hope you brought snacks. We are going to talk about the treaty of ghent, or how i learned to stop worrying and love canada. This is a postwar painting of the exchange of the treaty as it was negotiated on Christmas Eve of 1814. We have the british commissioners on the left, the american commissioners on the right. It is called the piece of Christmas Eve. But while the treaty is signed on december 24, it does not go into effect, not yet. The british understood that 200 years ago. That is something that 200 years of american
In 2024, it becomes the entire dod budget. That will not happen obviously. What highlights is the danger of that crowding out of other defense investments and acquisitions and capabilities that we will need in the future. Brad talk to lead a bit talked a little bit about how we make sure we have the right mix of capability that we want in the future . There is a question of who you trade off current capacity for readiness for future capabilities . Even if we are looking at only the 500 billion in cuts over 10 years, money has got to come from somewhere. There is a limited number of places where you can generate that from. Secretary hagel and the vice chairman, when they announced the results of the strategic choices in management review back in july, they want to prioritize and emphasize the feature capability and we are willing to take some risk in current capacity. I think in an ideal world, all of us would say that. I would say that there is a bit of a danger. One of the things we h