American maritime history in newport, rhode island, it is one of the deepest natural in closed ports in the world. For that reason the United States navy chose it as one of its key anchorages during the prime of American Naval seapower in the early 20th century. Arguably the origins of the Naval War College began. The germans were ahead of the game, literally, in techniques of wargaming. During the wars of german unification, they came up with an idea called the general staff. The general staff was an organization that enabled all the different principalities to fall in line with their regiments under this centralized Organization Called the general staff. There was a guy named emory upton, a greater general. He said look at what the germans did with that general staff. He went over to germany and studied the german methods. He brought them back. Upton basically made the argument what we needed to do was create a federally regulated army. That idea ran against some of the traditional t
To ensure israels security. [applause] keeping people of faith save from threats like radical islam whether protecting them here are standing by israel, all of us need to confront together the threat of radical islam. We have to do it. [applause] now Hillary Clinton or as i call. Er crooked Hillary Clinton [applause] crooked as they come, refuses to even say the words radical islam. Refuses to say the words. Unfit to beakes her president. In fact, she wants a 500 increase in Syrian Refugees to come into our country. No good. No good. Cant do it. We dont know where they come. Rom, where they are trump, trump] [indiscernible] [refugees are welcome here] usa, usa] mr. Trump thank you. All right. [indiscernible] [usa, usa, usa] [indiscernible] mr. Trump thank you. Freedom of speech. Thank you. Very good. [indiscernible] mr. Trump we are so bad and so divided, this is such a shame. By the way these are professional agitators. They come in, their sender by the other party, believe me. [indis
Start another four years as bang as the final Preparations Commander in chief. Savannah . When you say new look, im are being made in washington to expecting bangs but thank you so host the president s second much. I dont think thats good for the president , no. Its a big weekend, of inaugural today, friday, course, for the president. January 18th, 2013. We will all be down there this weekend. Weekend today will be there, lester, erica, jenna, dylan for announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer a special edition of weekend today. And monday morning, matt, and Savannah Guthrie live from willie, al, natalie and i will studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Have coverage of the events, the and good morning. Ceremony, parade, all the pomp welcome to today on a friday and circumstance as it were. Its always an amazing event morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning, everyone. To actually watch unfold. Im Savannah Guthrie. This is a confession years in we hope youll join us monday the makin
I hope im there to see it. This is where i bought my first bag of heroin. It was 1980. I was 24 years old. But in a lot of ways, my whole life up to that point was leading to this address. Western massachusetts, the unlikely new frontier of americas war on drugs. Where heroin has become an exploding problem thats begun to touch nearly every family. Theres nothing like the north atlantic. Its majestic. I love the beach. Pretty much had my first everything on a beach. You name it, first time i did it, beach. I was miserable in love, happy in love, alternately, as only a 17yearold could be. This is where i lived. Very happy summer in the early 70s, and that was my room on the left. Thats an amazing spot, if you think about it. A bunch of knuckle heads working as dishwashers and pizza servers. We could live on a beach like this, happier, stupider times. I can still hear the play list, the brothers johnson. If you put on marvin gaye right now, id burst into tears. What do you do . Youre you
The former Senior Advisor to mitt romneys 2012 campaign. It was a very big night for a couple of candidates and a bad night for others. Lets get started with tonights winners and losers. Lets start with you, gloria. The winner. I didnt change my mind. I think marco did not have a great night. I thought he had a debate he lost with Chris Christie on his experience. I think the governors all did well. I think kasich, bush and christie did well. Well have to see. David. I thought the big winner were people who had executive appearance. That included the governors as well as donald trump. I think the fact theyre more pragmatic than people in congress. Both cruz and rubio. Plays well to New Hampshire voter. People are looking for answers. They want leaders who can get something done. We saw experience does matter in how you think about things. The loser. The loser was marco rubio. Agreed. Hes got something hanging over his head. This narrative about not being prepared. I think hes got to fi