We have quite a few more. This is the time of year, and we have general todd walters, and i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with the from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and th
In the United States and china are involved in a cold tech war and the winner dominates the 21st century. A decade ago beijing was not considered a contender but now it is a leader. The United States is behind in critical areas. Today we will talk about big data, ai, 5g and chinas challenge to the world. Congressman Cathy Mcmorris rodgers many people say there needs to be a whole of society mobilization on tax. The question is, isnt that serious . Do we need to do this . We absolutely need to win the future and winning the future means winning this race, this race with china right now. I would submit that we need to approach it the same way Ronald Reagan did when we seize the ussr and that is what with free markets and a Strong National defense. It is all related. In order for us to be a diplomatic power we have to be a military power and the military power you have to be an economic power so winning this race is critical to our future and to American Leadership and freedom loving peop
And i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with the from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and then there is transcom, focused on fullspectrum mobility operations. Both of which face
This hour. Were waiting possible new comment from President Trump this hour. The president set to depart the white house shortly, make his way to new orleans. He is attending College Football National Championship game this evening. Well bring you any remarks from the president , if he stops to speak to reporters on the white house south lawn. Plus protests raging in iran. Third straight day weve seen this. Antigovernment demonstrations. Reports of forces firing live rounds and tear gas. Target, how it is what it means for your store. Melissa Edward Lawrence and blake burman are live at the white house. Edward, starts with you. Reporter melissa, a feeling of glee of folks in the trade circles i talked with the signing of the trade deal expected to happen on wednesday. The chinese delegation is now here at the hotel in washington, d. C. The one, the chinese are expected to sign that trade deal on wednesday but two, tomorrow the chinese delegation will meet with u. S. Businesses to try t
Political level, as a result of recent documents that were approved at the political level, we are seeing greater cohesion. For the first time in over six decades, we at nato approved the first nato military strategy. It is a document that is classified, nato secret, that codifies the threat and codifies the activity we need to embrace to more comprehensively defend all 29 nations agreeing to the nato military strategy. I think that is a reflection at the political level, the military level, of improving cohesion. We talked about the shipbuilding program, can you give us a quick summary of where we are at and where we have to go . Gen. Lyons yes, senator. On toow, we depend carry 90 of our Cargo Capacity in a wartime scenario. Our readiness of the fleet is below where we needed to be. It is rapidly reaching the end of useful life. We are working closely with the nato the navy. I anticipate we will purchase two in 2021 working closely with the navy. My view is we should have the first v