Good morning. Good morning. This hearing of the Senate Appropriations committee will please come to order. We are here today to discuss the National Security components of the president supplemental funding request. Were glad to have secretary austin and secretary blinken with us to talk about the challenges were seeing around the world and the urgency of providing the necessary resources to meet these challenges, support our allies and make the word and our country safer. At our First Full Committee Hearing earlier this year on outcompeting china, both secretaries made a strong case for why passing our full year appropriations bill was robust investments in america and avoiding perpetual cuts was so crucial of keeping the United States on the world stage. As the two of you return to this committee, i think every member understands and takes many of the messages we brought to you in the last hearing. These are difficult times and American Leadership and support will be critical as we f
Next a discussion about the political future and chinas military modernization with policy experts from the broking institution and at the German Marshall Fund. The panel also talks about the tension between taiwan and china and the probability of the u. S. Going to war with china over taiwan. Welcome everyone. Im Suzanne Maloney Vice President and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and im delighted to welcome you to todays event marking the release of an important new book titled u. S. Taiwan relations with chinas challenge lead to a crisis. It is a great honor to help launch such a profoundly important to study of the u. S. Taiwan relations and to celebrate its truly impressive coauthors, ryan and richard bush who are my colleagues here at brookings and Bonnie Glaser of the German Marshall Fund. I want to congratulate them on the publication of this book. Growing concerns about chinas intentions and plans prompted an enormous amount of policy attentio
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Goldman sachs, wells fargo. Senate Banking Committee oversight hearing is about 3 hours. Senator scott, thank you for your work on this. The eight bank ceos appearing before us today lead the biggest global systematic banks in the United States of america. Your banks hold nearly 15 trillion in assets, manage trillions of dollars of investments and retirement accounts, fund the Biggest Companies in the country. You hold nearly half of the nations deposits, more than 80 trillion in client assets. Your banks touch almost every aspect of our Financial System in workingamericans money even if they are not your customers. You may be private companies but the mistakes you make dont just affect you, they dont even affect just your shareholders or just your workers, the mistakes you make affect the whole economy and as we remember from 2008, 2009 they can certainly affect american taxpayers. That amount of enormous power should also come with enormous responsibility. We finally have financial w
International analyst for msnbc news, and the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, happy new year to you all. Happy new year to you. Happy new year. We have so much to talk about. New year yesterday morning, mika and i went to a new Years Day Service, and the priest gave a homily on the need to be architects of peace in our daily lives and political discourse, and Foreign Policy and everything. The harsh path we have taken in our not so new century is elevated, revenge over reconciliation. And reminded us for all of us in attendance, and i love this. Its a good one. He said start by digging two graves. One of them for yourselves. Yeah. Wow, that really does strike you when you look whats happening in washington over the past 20 years because i really do believe, mika, we live in two americas. One that has seen Childhood Poverty has dropped to 60 year lows, and teenage pregnancy drop to 70year lows. Its in the u. S. World dollar and anytime over