This past week, secretary of defense James Madison and Joseph Dunford testified on the 2018 budget request for the pentagon. U. S. Were also asked about strategy in afghanistan. Well, good morning. The Senate Armed Services Committee Meets to receive testimony on the department of defenses fullyear 20 budget request. We welcome secretary matus, general dunford, thank you for your leadership of our minimum and in uniform. Before we begin, we all want to acknowledge the service and sacrifice of Sergeant Eric howe, Sergeant William baze, and corporal dylan aldrich. These three soldiers were killed this weekend in afghanistan. But thoughts and prayers of this committee are with their loved ones. The sacrifice of these heroes is a painful reminder that america is still a nation at war. That is true afghanistan or after 15 years of war. We face a stalemate and urgently need a change in strategy and an increase in resources if we are to change this situation around. We also remain committed t
Shannon good morning, everyone. Welcome to our symposium on the future of anticorruption in u. S. Foreignpolicy. Everyone knows that the senator, we know he has been thinking about these issues for many, many years. Let me start off by asking you in your time here, 30 years are close to 30 years here in washington, you have dealt with a lot of foreignpolicy challenges. Youve dealt with wars, economic classes and refugee crisis. All sorts of threats and amid all of these, where did corruption link . Thank you very much. Take you to the council on Foreign Affairs for holding this series of discussions of dealing with corruption. You have to realize there are forces working against us. We scheduled this over a month ago and we had snow. Here i am trying to get away from the Nuclear Fallout happening in the United States senate. There are outside forces at work here. Corruption is you talk about my experiences when i first came to congress, i got involved in the Helsinki Commission basical
Our conversation. Politics a watching long time and i dont think of ever seen an election like this one. The College Democrats and the College Republicans both internally split. College republicans couldnt agree on which candidate to support. Sharp emails were exchanged. And now both democrats and republicans trying to figure out what direction for the party. Where do we go. Who are we . To help us sort this out im delighted to welcome back our graduates i wont say one class, but a recent class of brown university, david corn. David is the Washington Bureau chief for mother jones, and if you read it, he has written in it. I think that is all that needs to be centered old winning journalist. I will plug your book. The inside story of spin, scandal, and the selling of the iraq war. Familiar face around the Watson Institute and brown university. He will take it from here and help us sort out the future of the Republican Party. With 2 republicans he will introduce our panelists. We are wel
Powerful as i can. He is the commanderinchief or she is the commanderinchief and the orders will be followed. So that person has the ability, sole ability to call for Nuclear Strike . . They are the commanderinchief. Also im very supportive of the National Guard as you mighty know. I would like to know how you see your performance in space, Missile Defense and cybernc operations, how they could be more effective. Spectacular. But but anyways we just scratched the surface. If you think of many other nations we do in space andhink cyberspace, they are stateside mission. Missions that is perfect for the guard and reserves. Some of her most impressive the cyber units are guard unitsmp because they can leverage the civilian workforce and civilian population. Theyre stepping up into the space in new and exciting ways. I just met with the head of the air National Guard and head of air force reserve and were looking at new ways to expand both space and cyber in space command. If im confirmed a
From Judicial Watchs perspective, we have seen this before in the clinton administration. It came to our attention that 1. 8 million emails were not being records managed properly and they were not being searched in response to subpoenas and document requests. We were focused on litigation over the mishandling of fbi files i Hillary Clinton and the white house. It turned out the office of independent counsel investigations were being impacted. It was a big mess. Because the whistleblowers told us that, when they raised this with white house officials, this gap, they were told that if they told anyone about it, they would go to jail and lose their jobs. So, we had a monthlong hearing. It saw the testimony of white house officials, including john podesta, who was chief of staff. Charles ruff, now deceased then, white house counsel. Cheryl mills, a deputy counsel in the white house, later became chief of staff to mrs. Clinton in the state department. Although the court did not unfortunate