Do you think harry reid has promised a vote on Unemployment Insurance harry reid has promised a vote on Unemployment Insurance. Does that become part of the debt ceiling debate and should it . That ist should, but not what republicans have in mind as a ransom. Democrats are really adamant about it. Many feel they gave up the best opportunity. Remember, when unemployment has remained this high at seven percent when we have had this extent of longterm unemployment, we have always had extensionsion an of the federal program. See congressd to not act on this. Getink we conceivably could the support to override a filibuster in the senate. It ifn boehner could pass you brought it to the floor, but it will be very tough getting him to do so. Guest there is a larger element to this. The budget deal used all of the socalled low hanging fruit of raising revenues without calling them taxes. There is only one thing left, and it has been used all couple times. We always fall back on it, revenue fro
For the discussion. Everyone was positive in general about the progress made at nato. And some of the challenges we face externally. But, of course, some of the challenges internal to the alliance were not discussed as much. And i thought, perhaps, bob can put you on the spot a bit and talk about one of those which is in turkey, was a surprise that the turkish government decided to open negotiations with a chinese firm to provide missile capabilities. Could you comment on where you see that going, whats the latest status is and the u. S. Government perspective is on that. Well, the u. S. Government perspective is quite clear and that is our good allies, the turks, should acquire a system thats nato and operable. If that were true before ukraine, i think its true in space given the ukraine. So heres a case where the turkish government had a set of metrics to influence a cooperation, a competition. And somehow nato operatability wasnt on that list. And i have a feeling that even the capa
The military has made progress with its hypersonic weapons. But unless testing and production can be accelerated, new hypersonic weapons may not arrive in time to compete with China.
In most if not all circumstances, there would be virtually no real defense against an incoming salvo of enemy ballistic, nuclear and hypersonic weapons.