I have heard it said that russia was a more centralized state today than it was were least there was a bureau that has to be consulted in some sense and that means that it is the power that can make decisions very effectively and can respond very rapidly with a changing situation and can exploit opportunities very rapidly and we as a nation and as part of a western alliance have to think about how we deal with are relatively cumbersome decisionmaking processes and the much broader need to get by with any course of action from a wide range of parliamentary opinions public opinions, Civil Society and 28 countries across nato and so this is also a very big challenge and its not just a challenge of being ready with conventional wars is but a challenge of thinking outside of the box in this approach and meanwhile the prosperity agenda must remain at the half of the scas work and the Prime Minister and chancellor said many times and you cannot be a strong country and that you have a Strong E
Have on our minds and in our prayers senator mccain. Hes going through some recovery right now and wont be able to come back this week. So that will change the way were doing business a little bit. But nonetheless, hell be back with us very soon. And our Committee Meets this morning considering the nomination i should say, the renomination of general sell have f selva. Since weve already been through this drill on the eight required questions, were going to forego that. Im assuming you havent changed your mind since the last time we asked you the eight questions. Is that correct . That is correct. Any family youd like to introduce . I do. Ill do that in my opening statement. Thats good. Your record of service to our nation is well known to this committee. Your first two years a the joint chiefs of staff have been marked by great challenges in our National Security, the advance of isis in the middle east, russian aggression in ukraine and actions against others in that region, north kor
Inspector general roth, you talked about the port added collection information sharing that resulted in Human Trafficking coming across our borders. I appreciate you keeping an eye on that and you know, everybody being aware of that. I have not yet received an answer for a letter ive written. We had i. C. E. Agent Taylor Johnson in one of our hearings involved in government whistleblowers and the retaliation against them which is really prevalent in the federal government. Its jaw dropping. So director soldana, id appreciate if you would respond to that because now apparently agent johnson has been terminated and the process hasnt really gone through office of special counsel, inspector general. Im really concerned about that will particular case. We have that letter and were preparing a response, sir. Again, the oversight of student viz sas. I will try if weve got to produce some legislationings to facilitate the computer system, the i. T. Systems to do this. Coming from the private s
Money we have given them. And theyebuild china know it. I have many friends from china. I dont have any objection to china, i think its wonderful, i am angry at our people, not their people, if you can get away with it. So look, weve rebuild china. It is not free trade, it is not anything, this is horrible, stupid trade. When you have 500 billion a folks, weve got to get smart. I have carl icon, i have the greatest negotiators in the ahn, i havearl ic the greatest negotiators in the world. We had pfizer, a great company, pfizer, they Just Announced they are leaving. They are a huge drug company. They announced they are going to ireland. Companies are going to mexico. Nabisco, ford, where are they going . Mexico. Mexico, mark my words, exit code is a small version of china. We better get smart and we ter get smart quickly mexico, mark my words, mexico is a small version of china. We better get smart and we better get smart quickly. Ivanka, she told me to act president ial, act president
An update on that breaking traffic i told you about at five fifty so well start with a bit of good news here six sixty four southbound at the monitor merrimack actually just a few seconds ago just started moving in was stopped due to a breakdown so as you can see the delays are starting to thin out once the one to be pretty heavy as you approach the bridge out there and the tunnel as well so just be very cautious of that he dont wanna deal with any delays the hr bt looks good in the south side as well as the jr be on our second camera we still have the track in trouble in another part of newport news sixty four eastbound before you get to the din the boulevard overpass accident still blocks the right lane. We now have the two mile back up and growing. Starting at fort eustis boulevards if youre headed that direction that we use jefferson avenue and get beyond all this hop back on the interstate on sixty four east you should be in good shape Nonprofit Network maps was going to a couple