They are engaging. The issue for us is our ability and they talk about it with the United States and the prc has, and that is the existing world power and how did you operate together and solve disputes in a peaceful manner under international norms. The indications that they are continuing to try to solve those in an aggressive way we would not agree with. Some with relation to the philippines are disconcerting, and we think that is the wrong way to go. There are other cases where they are engaged and things are handled in a more appropriate way. It is kind of a National Strategy with china, which i am not sure how you would answer what the true united National Strategy is with respect to this prc. There is a case where we are looking at both sides of that someenge, is that there is kind of movement in their territorial game. I will merge a number of questions together. One is a lot of bilateral engagements, and most of your answers were bilateral in their description. Theres probably an opportunity for trilateral, multilateral operations as well. The specific forces thinking at a multilateral level or trilateral level . Countrys one you do not mention, russia. Tell us how you calculate rush into your thinking. Talk about it not enough, but going from bilateral to multilateral, we are working very hard on that. On the humanitarian assistance disaster response, the republic of korea is participating. We will have the philippines participate next year. Singapore, thailand, the United States. We had the republic of korea and japan and australia. We have significant larger exercises. Pitch black we will partici folksand there will be from many nations including singapore and thailand and indonesia. Were working hard on multilateral, and the federated defense and you have heard the general talk about it, as we face the challenges we face in the future we have to pull our friends closer and online war on that ability to operate as heather operate together. We are making a good positive response on that. The second question was i talked about the longrange aviation and what they are doing there. Increasinglyming active in the pacific and they have a long as a matter of fact it is not an area, but it is because we think about it all the time. We have forces in alaska, the closest point of approach between the United States and russia and how we operate with and what wegion, are doing as they continue to expand in the asiapacific. There are things that are concerning respects to how they operate and how transparent they are with other nations in the vicinity. Engagement and they have positive momentum. It is something that we a sickly consider russia we deal with it in our area of responsibility pacific boundary. There are concerns, and i will tell you what is happening in ukraine today is causing significant concerns in the asiapacific. How do you respond to those concerns . I think it is twofold. Fairlythere is the inressive act by russia crimea. For many nations that have territorial disputes or a unrest, the challenges they face in china, tibet, taiwan, in some ways that is disconcerting to them because of internal unrest, and in other ways the ability to take what they believe is rightfully theirs in some method other international law, that is something that is concerning on the other end of the spectrum. What allhe belief and of us do is spend more time abilityng allies of the to operate together, build stability, is dependent on how we Work Together and how well we engage as teammates as we go forward. Her dominantly when we respond, we are here, we have always been here, we will continue to opt rate with you and work as partners. You mentioned getting the exercises back on track after from pickup from cyclization. The lessons about logistics, and logisticr faces challenges like the pacific. What are your big concerns about logistics . What role do our partners play in logistics, and what happened to things like lower numbers that come to pass and that just come ok things even further . The lesson of logistics is not lost on anybody in my opinion. Supply the forced to engage is when you have to have logistics trained to support that. Commandst concern is gas and control, because you know those networks can be disrupted. Our ability to operate the command and control logistic and have the ability to to move forward. Part of it is the interoperability with our friends and allies and how we forge position things. One of the results of the agreement with the philippines is to put humanitarian which is a need cheermade disaster that has the same problems. If you remember during the earthquake in japan, power was shut off to the korean peninsula. That can happen by ill intent or by natural disaster. Command and control of the logistics chain and how you do that, again, angela the, and that is why we talk about flexible command and control. Stuff in theo put right place. Certainly, allies treaty partners as well as other nations, australia, japan, korea, singapore, thailand, some of those are close in our ability to operate as we work as a team. That will be part of the solution. Command and control is one of the things i think about most when it comes to logistics. Your raising of the philippines agreement last week raised some broader issues of dispersal as a tactic. You have refer to that as the past in the past as resiliency. How do you describe your thoughts on resiliency and your engagement as well as with planning . It is hand in hand. Resiliency in engagement is part of that discussion. The basic premise is that if you have a few numbers with a large capabilities,of those become vulnerabilitys. If you have a future amount of force, those that becomes a vulnerability. The ability to disperse and move throughout the theater if required for whatever case you respond to use you more flexibility. It also removes some of those owner abilities and large concentrations, small area. Everyis a balance because place you are you have to be able to support adjustably and defend. The resiliency is the ability to move things in multiple locations while at the same time ng able to sit port them support them. You do not put one airplane at 72 different locations so you have three squadrons of airplanes, but you dont put 180 in one place either. Peace,he resiliency there is a passive defense which is the ability to move out. It is fuel storage and then also your ability to move stuff and support that. We are piling the hard problems on, can i ask the gentleman to Say Something about cyber and space. How does a regional commander create strategies and operational concepts for two problems where attribution candy heart in cyber cases. A lot of what you do it is about allies. L withbout how you deal different domains. And what cyber com Major General williams and those folks in presenting the Cyber Command and control model for the department of defense as it directs with other departments within the u. S. Government. Complex, manmade domain that we have to figure out how to operate in. If you talk cyber, there is the ability to support your networks, defend yourself, and offense, soft kill or nonkill in the cyber domain. All of that is overlaid by authorities you have and do not have. Sam lock clear talks about the cyber support element, then we Start Building our ability to predominantly defend our own ape ability, command and the commandle and control capability. But has someve, offensive mindset to it in a way at least in trying to figure out there. Ability to deny potential adversaries, his ability to do that, in cases which are within the authority of a command and ones that are not. Then there is active cyber you will go out and take out other portions and how you operate that. Difficult as ay nation for us to figure that out and i will tell you in my opinion on the international front, working with partners, it becomes an order of magnitude more difficult cause of authorities. In some of our closest allies, andir a few of those, there are a few of those, we are working on those issues, but cyber is a huge challenge. You mentioned also shortages usesr, although you did not the word shortages. Go what are you doing across globalnd what role does hawks play in both u. S. And japan . It is going well. It will operate to get out of the typhoon belt for the summertime. We think we will probably get 70 greater utilization by operating it there. Australians announce they are going to buy the triton surveillance equivalent of that. The u2 ismponent, a key component of that. I will tell you across the word and with sam locke we are in the ocklear, ifmand l they had one more dollar to spend, they will go and buy more isr. We are Getting Better at using all the hip abilities we have. We have jstars and pacific for the first time this year. Ep3. D we are doing great work with our ability to use multiple platforms together. We are Getting Better at it and we are trying to take advantage of every little piece we have. Have a heckuva job. You are trying to understand and technology is going those who spent time on this are trying to figure out where the region is going. We appreciate you for being with us today. Thank you very much. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] if you missed any of this, you can find it at www. Cspan. Org. We will be back to the center for strategic and International Studies at 1 30 eastern for discussion on the continued tensions between ukraine and russia. This is heavy fighting reported today in an Eastern Ukraine city. That will be at 1 30. Looking ahead at tomorrow, the Senate Armed Services committee will hear from the top brass about the military Compensation Program in the military. We will have coverage of that beginning at nine 30 eastern tomorrow. On capitol hill, at the Supreme Court, a decision, 54, that allows prayers to open town council meetings. The court deciding that the content of the prayers is not as significant as long as they do not denigrate non christians or proselytize. 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In for this is one of the favorite sessions for all of us. This is our opportunity to talk to two of our favorite political reporters and have a chance for all of us to be able to ask them questions front and center in our mind as adl advocates. We are in the middle of a threeday conversation about adls mission and how we can make progress on issues like preserving the Voting Rights americans cherish or an acting an Immigration Reform policy that a majority of the American People crave. But being right and having the will of the majority on our side is not enough. Adl is a nonpartisan organization. We are completely uninvolved in campaign activity. But in order for our advocacy to succeed, we have to navigate the Political Landscape. We have to be mindful of the Political Landscape in order to craft a smart strategy that will take us where we need to go. We have with us two reporters whose work we admire who will help us understand as advocates what we can expect during this campaign season. Hopefully, we will ask them to make a few predictions. Larne meckler of the wall street journal writes about changing american demographics and the effects of those challenges on politics and policies. Changes on politics and policies. She writes about issues that are close to adls heart. She covers congress and has been a White House Correspondent. She has written thoughtfully about issues we follow closely like comprehensive Immigration Reform and the nondiscrimination act, two issue she will be discussing with house members tomorrow. Julianna goldman occupies one of the coveted chairs in the White House Briefing room, that is much smaller than it looks on tv. Shes the White House Correspondent for bloomberg tv, Bloomberg News, and bloomberg businessweek. Political junkies who watch morning joe or Political Capital will recognize her and her analysis of the inner workings of the obama white house. She has just returned from ukraine where she was with Vice President bidens entourage. She was with Jeff Goldberg who talked to us about his trip to ukraine this morning. Perhaps we can ask her about that as well. Please join me in welcoming Laura Meckler and julianna goldberg. Im going to dive right in with a couple of my own questions. Please think of your own. I have colleagues who will be giving you cards. If you have a card, hold them up. We want to take as many questions as possible. 50 years after the passage of the civil rights act, it is hard to imagine congress reaching consensus on something as profound as that was. The functioning political process, a functioning democratic process, and the give and take that is an essential part of a Pluralistic Society seems to be totally evaporated. The public has had enough. The ratings of congress and washington in general are at record lows. I guess the short version of my question is, what is wrong with our political process . Is there anything we can do to fix it . I will take a stab at that. Thank you for having me here today. I want to apologize. My allergies are getting to me, so if i keep rubbing my eyes that is why. I think there are a number of factors that have contributed to this polarization youre talking about. When we were thinking about topics for today, i immediately thought to president obamas remarks at a fundraiser before the 2012 elections and he said, i think if i win, the fever will break and republicans and democrats will be able to come together and Work Together. Clearly, the fever has not broken. It is still pretty high. I think a few factors have contributed to this over the past several years. One with redistricting. I think the incentives to compromise, especially for republicans where their ability to keep their jobs largely rests on winning a primary means they are pushed farther away from the center. I think also if you look at the wheeling and dealing over the past decades in washington, a lot of that has come from relationships forged between the president , lawmakers, between lawmakers themselves. President obama and members of congress have both contributed to the lack of Relationship Building in washington. In part, because of fundraising. Members of congress have to leave washington on the weekends and go raise money in their home districts. If we are honest with ourselves, we need to look at our own profession and say that the news media also contributes to the kind of polarization with the 24hour news cycle, with access to information fundamentally changing, depending on your political views, depending on how you have your twitter feed set up, you can access information that is already catered to the mindset of what you are already looking for. I think the immigration debate frames those three issues together. You ask, why cant we get immigration done if republicans and democrats both want it and know they have to come together . I went back and found a staggering statistic. This is from the New York Times in february 2013. It is not that most republicans come from very conservative districts, but also overwhelmingly white districts. In the 232 congressional districts represented by republicans, the average hispanic share of each district is 11 . Just 40 of the 232 republicans in the house come from districts more than 20 hispanic and just 16 that are at least 1 3 hispanic. You can see the challenges. Over this past weekend, House Speaker john boehner was speaking at the rotary club in ohio. What a change from several months ago when he said the reason we cannot get Immigration Reform done this year is because the president cannot work with republicans. Now he is saying republicans are not willing to step up for this. With the 24hour news cycle, it was any private event, the remarks came out. Congress comes back this week. John boehner will meet with his caucus and probably hear some words from his caucus. I think the immigration debate is a prime example of the polarization and gridlock. What is it going to take to change this . I think it is fair to say i dont know. I dont know anybody really knows. One would have thought after a tragedy like sandy hook where you have 26 children gunned down that would have been an opportunit