On behalf of csi, i would like to welcome everyone both in person and online for a great discussion on what has become an important component of the department of defenses defense planning, their larger role of Missile Defenses. As the pentagons recent National Defense strategy, the classified version noted, missiles he become a principal means by which adversaries seek to protect conventional or nuclear power. And as such missiledefense is a core deterrence by denial component of how we contend with adversaries. We are her today to mark the 40 th anniversary of rona reagans speech announcing the strategic defense initiative. That speech, which was in march of 1983, came just a few weeks after his evil empire speech, which was march 9. They were all coordinated towards the larger strategic goal of winning and bringing an end to the cold war. One of the most recent books that i wrote was on president reagans Covert Action Program to provide assistance solidarity. I had the opportunity t
but american executives argue that biden should look stateside for solutions to gas prices. a controversial greeting with the saudis featuring fist bumps by biden at his senior administration officials in a contentious meeting with the crown prince. we start there tonight. jacqui heinrich is traveling with the president enjoins us from saudi arabia. hello, jackie. good evening to you, rich. president biden didn t directly respond to criticism. his fist bump the cia blames for a grisly murder was too friendly. and the saudis quickly seized the opportunity to burnish the crown prince s image, releasing video of top u.s. officials doing the same here president biden says he did not sacrifice his principles in promoting u.s. interests. after a broadly condemned fist bump, president biden said he addressed the murder of u.s.-based murder were with a man the cia says order date, crown prince. for an american president to be silent on an issue of human rights, is this consiste
Glad you are here on the friday afternoon. Not that many people will do something on a friday afternoon so that shows you are serious people and i thank you for coming. My name is john henry, president of csis and i want to say a hearty welcome to all of you. We are in for a very unique opportunity. Assistant secretary stewart, this doesnt normally happen. When something is kind of a breaking, very serious development, we dont normally have the opportunity to hear from a senior policymaker in the state department or any place, to share with us the thinking of the government about a big development. And this is a big development. We are really very fortunate. I dont know, it was a week ago, 10 days ago . Jake sullivan in a press availability, made note that we think russia has put a Nuclear Device in orbit. Now i mean, for 50 years, we have had what are called rtgs. These are Power Sources that are used to provide electricity for satellites. There is a Nuclear Court to those. But this i
Poll numbers, fundraising data and campaign ads. Watch the campaign trail friday night at 7 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Online at cspan. Org or download on the podcast, our free mobile app or wherever you get your podcast. Cspan, your unofficialed view of politics. Coming up, a conversation about russias development of a space based nuclear went with the secretary of state arms control Mallory Stewart hosted for strategic and international studies. This is about 45 minutes. Glad you are here on the friday afternoon. Not that many people it show that is youre all very serious people. Thank you for coming. My name is john hammory. Im the president here at csis. I want to say a hearty welcome to all of you. Were in for a very unique opportunity. Assistant secretary stewart is this doesnt normally happen when theres a breaking very serious development. Development, we dont normally have the opportunity to hear from a senior policymaker in the state department or any place, to share with us
Glad you are here on the friday afternoon. Not that many people will do something on a friday afternoon so that shows you are serious people and i thank you for coming. My name is john henry, president of csis and i want to say a hearty welcome to all of you. We are in for a very unique opportunity. Assistant secretary stewart, this doesnt normally happen. When something is kind of a breaking, very serious development, we dont normally have the opportunity to hear from a senior policymaker in the state department or any place, to share with us the thinking of the government about a big development. And this is a big development. We are really very fortunate. I dont know, it was a week ago, 10 days ago . Jake sullivan in a press availability, made note that we think russia has put a Nuclear Device in orbit. Now i mean, for 50 years, we have had what are called rtgs. These are Power Sources that are used to provide electricity for satellites. There is a Nuclear Court to those. But this i