That is important that they forget numbers. Do you want to focus on that issue or how you see it Going Forward . Mac thornberry i agree, i think his focus on building the military is exactly right as was the piece you wrote that chris mentioned. Numbers do matter. Part of the reason we are challenged right now is we dont have enough aircraft i will just continue with that example. We are all flying more and more hours, and that is part of the cycle of how hard it is to get things ready if you dont have enough, and what you have got, you are flying the wings off of. What else is true, i was recently in the asiapacific region, you can have more capable ships we had this debate all the time with the Obama Administration. It can need more capable but only in one place at one time. You have to have numbers to cover geography. These days, when you have such a huge array of threats from russia and china, iran, north korea, terrorists that not only have gone away but are spreading out in more
And secondarily, the future is made of swarms of small things. How do we get the pentagon to realize you want to buy 1000 toyotas instead of one lexus . They keep missing the boat on that and creating giant aircraft carriers. One torpedo takes out a huge amount of our capability. Thats crazy. Mac thornberry well, both good questions. Ive already forgot the first one. Oh, the two im sorry. This years defense bill will abolish the qdr. Too much time, effort for nothing. And part of our frustration is, that it becomes, became a budget justification document, not really a strategy document. And so, that really gets to what you are talking about. We have adjusted the two mc kind of approach just based on the budgets, rather than the other way around, rather than looking at the world, trying to see what, ok, what sizing construct makes sense for the world were facing, and then develop the budgets to support them. So we have provided a different system of kind of thinking about the world with
Talking about the Clinton Administration. So much for that. So, how are you . You have spent a few weeks kind of getting your mind around how you are going to approach Foreign Policy under the Trump Administration . Can you say a word about that . Ben cardin kristin, thank you for your public service. It was really wonderful to be here. You are right. It was a little bit of a surprise. When we accepted this invitation, we had outlined our comments about how the Clinton Administration would carry on from the Obama Administration. And now we are talking about the incoming Trump Administration. It is going to be different. There is no question. It is going to be different. Foreign policy institute, one of your goals, your goal is to rope us support for Democratic Institutions and human rights. Thats under attack today. Thats under attack. And the principle opponent is russia and what they are doing. I think there is going to be a great deal of concentration on russia. Russia is using its
Average of the three. European markets this morning, lets take a look. We are in the whoa. Gave us a few more there. Look at that. They added italy and spain. Getting a little creative there in the old production booth. Thanks, guys. Always wanted to know whats going on there. But the three we look at are all down and there is the 10year note yield at 1. 52. Crude hanging there above 42. It has for the last few days as you also see brent. Lets get to our road map this morning. And it starts with the earnings out from yesterday from disney, which topped estimates, making a billion dollar streaming bet as well. We will take a look at the companys video plan and hear what ceo bob igor has up his sleeve. Major Retail Stocks on the move after earnings. How the retailers are handling the pressure that keeps up in that industry. And Michael Phelps making history last night. We will go live to rio and get carl to bring us up to date on all the latest action, including that amazing and very clo
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