Can you hear me . Thank you so much, nadia and thank you to the Hudson Institute for having me here today. I think this is one of the most important topics confronting our nation today. I wanted to spend some time today talking about about the economic threat from china in general and to the nation, and what that threat means to the American Military and intelligence. Then i have a fairly specific proposal i would like to talk about to begin improving our economic defenses. Some are referring to this as a new cold war. Its as much economic as military. The economic nature of this cold more is new for america. We havent faced a competitor with near the economic power they have since we faced the british. Nor have we ever faced a competitor that has the economic agility we pride ourselves on. This economic competition is going to require that we have fundamentally new ways of thinking about defense and National Security. Chinas gdp is on track to surpass americas. As measured by purchasi
Michigan. The president on his way to a rally in nashville, making a pitch to theation on t merits of the Republican Health care plan but can he win over the conservatives ahead of a critical house vote tomorrow . Polls are closing right now in the netherlands. Dutch voters deciding between a current Prime Minister and a candidate whose being compared to President Trump. The outcome could spark a new Movement Across europe. Well bring you the results. Among our guests this hour, art laffer, karl rove, minnesota congressman jason lewis and howard kurtz. Allstar lineup. David wow, that is the ateam. Lets go straight to lori rothman on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Lori, investors really liking what janet yellen said. Reporter they did. In fact it was a bit of a relief on the floor that well get three rate hikes including todays, not four. That is why you saw the stock market shoot up. Dollar got crushed. Typical seeing markets moving in that direction when you have a growing
Brought to the tasks. They are truly visionaries. It is unfortunately dont have the opportunity of having this conference in the new museum space. But when you look over at the National Museum of African American history and recognize that a few short years ago, there was nothing there, and what lonnie has accomplished is mindboggling. The idea that lonnie and jim have had about making this engagementand an with the past as a central aspect of opening the museum to the American Public is really quite terrific. I must say i feel uneasy standing up here at this moment. This is the last session of a long conference day. And as stimulating as the conference has been thus far, from my own experience, i know what happens at this point [laughter] everyone is sort of flagging. Youre thinking about fresh air. You are thinking about a drink. And are probably exhausted at having all sorts of people appear chattering away. The good news is i think you will find the presentations in this session ve
38 soldiers took their own lives. More casualties than in the battlefield. More than one a day. This is precisely the topic you take on in the, the the invisible wounds of war. Talk about it. Guest first of all, only 1 of our population over 18 is in the army. It is a volume steer army. Which volunteer army. Which means they dont have enough soldiers. Theyre stretched thin. They have too many deployments. Usually you need two years between deployments. Some of them get a year, nine months. At the most and they redeploy when soldiers are having problems with combat stress, they redeploy. Host it is interesting, one of the trend they found is that, increasingly older soldiers are taking their own lives. And were not even talking about veterans right now. Guest well, ill tell you why. Because since it is a volunteer army. Since were stretched so thin, they are calling upon the national guard. Okay, now the national guard, they have civilian jobs. They have children and wives. Their child