Mountain and pacific, thats 202 7488001. We welcome your comments by text. Thats 202 7488003. Nd on twitter we are cspanwj your Facebook Comments are welcome, journal cspan. Org facebook. Com cspan. Members of congress, as we know, saying that the house will be back until may 4. Our capitol hill producer theted yesterday about white house plans, a 10 00 a. M. Conversation with the members of the house. At 11 00 a. M. , president hosting a phone call with members of the senate. Cnbc posting yesterday about the president s briefing and his indication that the u. S. Has passed the pico coronavirus outbreak. Peak of coronavirus outbreak. Host the report says that President Trump says the u. S. Has passed the peak of the infected asich has we mentioned more than 632,000 people in america. We will update those numbers for you momentarily. Heres what the president said yesterday in his briefing. [video clip] American Society is engaged and mobilized in a war against a invisible enemy. We must
Associationat the of the United States army and thank you for being here. I cant think of a better way to the 2020ausa Breakfast Series than to do so in this location with the chief of staff, general james mcconville. Appreciate everyone being here and wish you a happy new year. Toget started, im going introduce ms. Tammy call, the director here at the museum. Thingsike to say a few about this Wonderful Museum were all in today. Please help me welcome mrs. Tammy call. [applause] good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. Mcconville, general ham, all of our guests, welcome to museum of the United States army. We look forward with great excitement of opening the doors june 4, 2020. On and a half months away but nobodys counting. Youre getting a glimpse of what phenomenal museum this is going to be and we encourage all of you to help us spread the to become thepare front door to americas army. So with that, welcome to the museum where we will honor and welcome hundreds of thousands
States against all enemies foreign and domestic and i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and i take this obligation freely without mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which im. Bout to enter, so help me god [applause] i grow book ladies and please stand for the posting of the colors. Please be seated. Gentlemen, the. Oint chaired chief of staff mr. President , Vice President , this doing this distinguished guests, thank you for being here today and your unwavering support. We are all deeply humbled by your presence. Thank you for the confidence you have placed in me and for your personal leadership and commitment. You can rest assured that i will warm, provide you with a candid military advice for you, and the National Security council and to the congress. Vice president pence, thank you also for your leadership and continue to us continued support. Many women like those who stand before you,
With out reservation. I will faithfully. I will faithfully. Discharge the duties. Discharge the duties. So help me god. So help me god. Congratulations, chairman. [applause] [laughter] [applause] [applause] attention. Honor guard. Attention. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the posting of the colors. Post the colors. [drums] please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, general illey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Mr. President , mr. Vice president , secretary esper, distinguished guests, family and friends, thank you for being here today. And for your unwavering support for our men and women in uniform. We are deeply humbled by your presence. Thank you, mr. President. With the confidence you have placed in me to become the next chairman of the joint chiefs, for your personal leadership and commitment to our uniformed men and women. You can rest assured i will always provide you with informed, candid, impartial , to you, thece secretary of defense, and the congress. Secretary
I think we will get started here. Thank you so much for joining us at the heritage foundation. I was told we dont necessarily have to talk about silencing cell phones, but i am going to say that anyway. We usually have a robust online audience and we want to minimize distractions. Thank you for joining us. We are going to talk about a new report on rebuilding the army. Its actually the third paper out, the first talked about how to think about the future, and we released one in the marine corps. This is a major paper on the army, and how to think about its relationship with National Security strategy and how the world is changing, and some recommendations for the path of the army needs to go down with a look out to a 30 year timeframe. We will follow up with a paper on the air force which is coming up next month, wrapping up by the end of the year with a paper on the navy so we have all four Services Covered and thinking about preparations for the future. These papers are meant to give