Pennant. He will take remarks and then well have about 10 to 15 minutes for questions. If you have questions i would ask you to limit to one in a followup. With that thank you. Good afternoon. I appreciate the opportunity to brief you on the president s request for Missile Defense agencies 2018 budget. The Agency Requests to continue the development of reliable increasingly capable for our nation deployed forces, allies and international partners. The fiscal year 2018 Missile Defense will support the deployment and of accept sores and command control management Communication System for bmds. A priority remains the delivery of greater Missile Defense capacity for the war fighter which includes investment and advanced technology and future capabilities. Next chart. Mda remains committed to delivering, expantding and sustaining our homeland Missile Defenses and requests 1. 5 billion for the ground based program. Today we have in place 36 ground based intercepters on track to expand the fl
Ladies and gentlemen, were going to get started here. Ladies and gentlemen, im captain hope cronin, air force public affairs. Thank you for being with us. First, just to reiterate ground rules. One question, one followup, please, so we can get to as many questions as possible. Additionally, ill give a final question towards the end. As a reminder, tomorrow at 9 30 in the morning well have the air force space budget rollout, that is a separate budget rollout. If you would like more information about that, please find me afterwards and ill give you further details. Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, general martin and ms. Gleason. Good afternoon, im general james martin and im joined by my associate, carolyn gleason. I think what youll see in this budget is that our message and our budget is consistent with what weve done over the last two years. For the last seven years, though, american airmen have always been there, breaking barriers, dominating the high ground, and providing
Bitcoin at a new record as the price does too, nearing 3,000, 2818, as we speak, an an investor said its in a bubble, bitcoin is. You think . Details ahead. Amazon takes a a shot at walmart again, this time by offering discounts on prime membership for customers who receive government assistance. Well have a good oldfashioned debate on amazon versus walmart coming up in a bit here. Im telling you, its going to be just amazon versus walmart in Retail Industry at some point, right . I think maybe amazon and everybody else, but youre right. They are they are making some right moves. They are. Walmarts coming back. Thats definite. Thats in a bit. Beginning with breaking news, President Trump is scheduled to meet with congressional leaders at the white house. Eamon is there. What are they going to talk about . Reporter yeah, hi, bill. Theyre going to talk about the legislative agenda here on capitol hill. The White House Briefing reporters yesterday saying they are still focused on the idea
Since the start of the syrian crisis, the United States has helped lebanon support Syrian Refugees with clean water, food, shelter, and health care. Our approach, supporting the humanitarian needs of displaced syrian citizens, as close to their home country as possible, is the best way to help most people. America is proud to stand with courage toave the terrorism and take responsibility for affairs in their own region. The reliance and resilience of the lebanese people terrorism ae responsibility for in the face of war and terror is extraordinary. Mr. Prime minister, im grateful that you are here today. Its a big day for our country because of the vote you just heard about. We stood and watched the results out,levision before coming and you found it very interesting, i hope. Yes, i did. And very important. I look forward to working with you to strengthen our partnership and the Enduring Partnership between the american and lebanese people. Thank you very much. Mr. Prime minister . Tha
The adp employment report in july ahead of the jobs numbers on friday and at 8 30, the treasury refund announcement. They are refunding the treasury. They are going to be trying to limiting the effect of the fed reducing its Balance Sheet. Also what 8 30 this morning eastern time, alix steel will interview Goldman Sachs Ceo Lloyd Blankfein. Lesters speaks at a business conference, and John Williams speaks in las vegas on Monetary Policy. Late yesterday we got news of Apple Earnings for its Third Quarter and the tech giant Beat Estimates on earnings per share, robust growth and strong projections on revenue for the rest of the year. Here to take us through the numbers is angelo zino. He has a 170 target of the price and is joining us from adam sitslittle as area, bloombergs tech reporter. Give us the numbers that are most important to you. Adam the biggest thing is now about looking forward. There have been some concerns about the next iphone that adam apple will be producing will have