Good morning to everyone assembled here and those watching online and tuned into cspan one. We are delighted to be able to host this one hour session today and the release of the review. We are doing this today under the auspices of the csi says csis special thanks to my colleagues at csis. Special thanks to the csis Production Team putting this together. From dod, special thanks to jennifer nicholson. There has been a lot of support from dod in putting this together. The biodefense posture review a few minutes ago, we published here csis at csis, my colleague and i published a critical questions piece on the release of the bpr. Week my colleague and i also released a piece and it began by impacting unpacking many factors that feeds the pessimism that they will be little sustained against future path again eight pathogenic threats. And makes the case that there is reason for optimism and hope based on several factors, survey work that shows strong support for active American Government
Just an osc body. It is very much one that we hope we have not met yet, but we will have active participation from the services, from the combatant command, so they have that element of hearing from all parts of the department where there are challenges and what is needed to get them. Like most bodies, there are lower working groups that will feed into this on a regular basis and be meeting more often. When i asked richard to talk to that. Just to briefly say, as someone who has cochaired Nuclear Posture, i think my colleagues and we served as the daytoday cochair working group for the bpr, and i think she has been sick and tire of this when we made all these comparisons through the Nuclear Posture review. But as was noted, i think there were some value there in one of the outcomes and the mpr. As we do npr and plantation, a lot of those issues were identified to have a body to go back to to be the lead for implementation for there was a Nuclear Weapons counsel on the case of policy or
Online. Go to www. Cspan. Org, and you will see the icon to click on our live coverage. The Supreme Court oral argument having today. We have been getting protesters and speakers outside all morning. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Eternal god we give you thanks for giving us another day. Once again we come to ask wisdom, patience, peace and understanding for the members of this peoples house. Give them the generosity of heart and the courage of true leadership to work toward a common solution to the many issues facing our nation. As true states men and women, may they find the fortitude to make judgments to benefit all americans in their time of need. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal st
Washington already covering everything from energy to trade. He has a hard stop here because hes going to meet with the number two at the state department. But we thought wed focus on the nato summit which just took place in warsaw. So let me just open by asking you, mr. Foreign minister, based on bugull garys priorities, wh were the most important outcomes in warsaw. Thank you very much for the warm welcome. Apologies for the fact that we were late. And yes, youre ax absolutely right. Mentioned that it takes quite a while in d. C. To move around. That could be figurative and literal. Right. Yeah, there was no intention behind it was not a euphemism. First, when it comes to the nato summit, it was a long expected event. Because what we expected from the summit and what happened was somehow to recapitulate the achievements after the wales summit and to build up on that. Everything that we have laid as goals and expectations from the wales summit was basically achieved, and from then on
North reaching only about manchester, New Hampshire and north and west of that and most waking up to clouds and breaks in the clouds, especially here in southeastern massachusetts, partly sunny in plymouth at 60 and good morning, boston at 59 and seeing partly cloudy skies, same in beverly at 58, 55 in worcester, 49 nashua, New Hampshire and then again as you head to the north and west thats where we have some rain showers popping on the map right now. Future cast through noon time is going to continue to hold best risk of any kind of showers up there southern New Hampshire, southern vermont doesnt make it into massachusetts until about midafternoon. So by 5 00 p. M. The showers reach boston and downpours and gusty winds and warm out there, upper 60s to lower 70s but it is also going to be incredibly wet, even at 8 00 p. M. I still got pockets of heavy rain that continue and the slight chance that we will get a severe thunderstorm out of this. 66 to 72, winds gusting up to 40 Miles Per