Welcome to the Hudson Institute im senior fellow and we are here to talk today about today in america and hightech warfare chris is a former staff director for the Senate Armed Services committee the senior policy advisor for senator john mccain and previously held other positions in government right now the chief Strategy Officer for those for the military and department of Homeland Security we can talk about that as a go through the interview but they give for being with us today. Its great to be here. What led you to do this book obviously this is something you have encountered over the years as a policy advisor but what is the genesis to lead you to sit down and write the entire book . Its a great question i ask myself constantly why did i get into this . Basically its two things. Both of these are a product and thinking about the stuff on a daytoday basis with the growing realization that we decided a fundamental problem to be underappreciated that we were losing competitive advan
Of representatives at 5 p. M. Eastern. And you can see that here on cspan2. Now, live to the floor of the u. S. Senate. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, we whisper our prayer boldly before your throne of grace. You have invited us to come to you with all our needs. We thank you for our requests that you have already answered. We have sought and found. We have knocked and walked through open doors. Lord, with your grace and mercy, strengthen our lawmakers for their journey. Prepare them for the ravages of the valley and the chill of the mountain summits. Guide them, great redeemer. They are pilgrims on this earth. They are weak, but you are mighty. Inspire them to keep their eyes on you and not the problems that seem too difficult to solve. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pled
Since the last oral argument in this case the committee referred to the house of representatives, the house of representatives approved two articles of impeachment. Neither of those articles arise out of the events investigated by the special counsel nor the events described in the report of the special counsel land we are here today facing a different claim by the committee, for some political reasons pages 13 to 17 of the supplements a brief their argument is they need the grand jury information to prove in a senate trial on the articles of impeachment approved by the house, the president s culpability for those high crimes and misdemeanors. There are a couple problems with that. The first is that is not what the court found in this case. The court knows we have significant concerns, we dont think she applied to test at all but put that aside. What the District Court found was the house of representatives was acting preliminary to a Senate Impeachment trial on misconduct in the Muell
Good morning again, your honor. As the court knows, in the time since the last oral argument in this case, the committee referred to the floor of the house of representatives and the house of representatives approved two articles of impeachment against the president. Neither of those articles arrived out of the events that were investigated. Neither of them concerned the event described in the report of the special counsel. We are facing a different claim by the committee. Brief, the 17 of the argument is, they need the information underlying the Mueller Report in order to prove in a senate trial on the articles of impeachment the president probability for those crimes and misdemeanors. There are problems with that. The first is, this is not the need. Concernsurt knows, with the test that the District Court applied, put that aside for the moment. What the District Court was that the house of representatives was acting preliminary to a Senate Impeachment trial on misconduct in the Muell
Im david as han in for Stuart Varney, of course, hes doing the big debate tonight. President biden making history after he joined the united autoworkers in michigan. Biden becoming the first sitting president to actually go in a picket line during a strike. He told autoworkers, quote, you deserve a hell of a lot more than what youre getting now, enquote. Today former President Donald Trump is going to be making his own trip to michigan as the strike enters its 13th day. And hollywood writers are set to return to work after Union Leaders reached a tentative deal with the major studios. This would end the nearly 150day strike. The vote will begin next monday. And dramatic new footage showing migrants breezing through an open section of the border yesterday as construction workers attempted to reinstall the barrier. And mass looting overnight this philadelphia. Businesses across the city ransacked by masked teenagers. Looters targeted several Major Retail Stores like apple, foot locker, l