The air force association hosted this onehour event. Gen. Holmes well, good morning. This has to be the best job in the world that somehow i fell into, when i look across the room at our air force family. Its incredible. Believe me, the chinese would not like what we are talking about, what we are doing, getting together here today focused on defending this nation, all of us together. So a special thanks to everyone in the room attending, and of course our sponsors, our Defense Industry partners. When we can put Defense Industry in the same room as our warfight good. Hats also, thanks to the media for being here. You all it criticized sometimes, more than you deserve. If we dont tell the story about the most lethal combat, conventional combat force in the world, were going to miss opportunity to defend this nation. So the medias directly involved here. The good news, this morning we have the leader of the most lethal conventional combat force in the world, general mike holmes. Incredib
Includes author interviews with Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg on her book, my own words. The heartbeat of wounded knee. Sharon robinson talks about her book, child of the dream. Rick atkinson author of the british are coming and Thomas Malone founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book, super mines. The National Book festival Live Saturday august 31 at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on the tv on cspan2. In a short time ago President Trump sent out several tweets about china, the chinese ebony announced in response to u. S. Tariff hikes on chinese goods. China will impose additional tariffs on u. S. Goods worth about 75 billion starting september 1. Resident trump tweening our country has lost stupidly trillions of dollars for china over many years. They have stolen our intellectual property and rate of hundreds of billions of dollars a year and want to continue. I wont let that happen. We dont need china and frankly would be far better off without them. Vast a
Overall blackhawk fleet. And we would slow the modernization of the fleet by 5 to 10 new blackhawks a year. Together those would pay for the option. There are disadvantages to this without question, but we felt they were outweighed by the advantages of keeping some apaches in the guard. I should say while we spent time on the costs and theyre important, there are other important factors. I have mentioned two. Wartime capacity and surge capability. Ill mention one other one. Keeping apaches in the guard helps integrate the regular army and the guard, and thats one of the commissions overarching goals. Under the commissions proposal, the apaches in the guard, there would be one more area where the regular army and the guard could train together in peacetime and if necessary, fight together in war. That completes the very brief discussion of the apache transfers, more details, of course in the report and glad to take questions when that time comes. Mr. Chairman. Thank you, secretary. Last
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