Thank you for joining us to talk about the u. S. Defense budget in the aftermath of a lot of big changes including the midterm elections but also some rethinking within the Trump Administration about how much they want to spend on the military. We have a great panel to discuss this today. We will have a bit of a logical flow on how we do it. I will begin our discussion here before we go to you for questions with Elaine Kamarck on my far left, at least physically speaking, who is one of the people who redefined the Democratic Party is not being far left. She is one of the people who helped bring the democratic centrist movement to power in the 90s and a longstanding associate of bill clinton and al gore and led the reinventing government efforts and she is that the school at harvard and we will ask her to talk about the politics of where we stand on both sides of the aisle after the elections, after the first two years of the Trump Presidency and with the 2020 president ial election onl
Convenes in january. This was hosted by the the Brookings Institution and it is an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Brookings Institution and i am trend one mike ohanlon. Thank you for joining us to talk about the u. S. Defense budget in the aftermath of a lot of big changes including the midterm elections but also some rethinking within the Trump Administration about how much they want to spend on the military. We have a great panel to discuss this today. We will have a bit of a logical flow on how we do it. I will begin our discussion here before we go to you for questions with Elaine Kamarck on my far left, at least physically speaking, who is one of the people who redefined the Democratic Party is not being far left. She is one of the people who helped bring the democratic centrist movement to power in the 90s and a longstanding associate of bill clinton and al gore and led the reinventing government efforts and she is that the school at harvard and we wil
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