Trump explaining that certain russian behavior had been unacceptable, and there was an effort to build a working relationship. In my book, im trying to argue and other people are, too, that we need to find ways of collaborating with russia and defusing the tension. It is going to be hard. The problems in the relationship are mostly russias fault, but we have to get creative. Seeing President Trump and president clinton able to have a longer meeting, begin to talk about substance, seems to get some kind of an ok report going, that was all to the good. Mr. Trumps two predecessors both started out strong with putin and wound up frustrated, so im not suggesting there is huge progress, but it was pretty much what i expected and hoped for. Host if you could read the diplomatic tea leaves with regard to the somatic hacking diplomatic hacking issue, two different perspectives from Sergey Lavrov and rex tillerson. Guest i take a broader perspective on this. Does not putin released because the t
Trump explaining that certain russian behavior had been unacceptable, and there was an effort to build a working relationship. In my book, im trying to argue and other people are, too, that we need to find ways of collaborating with russia and defusing the tension. It is going to be hard. The problems in the relationship are mostly russias fault, but we have to get creative. Seeing President Trump and president clinton able to have a longer meeting, begin to talk about substance, seems to get some kind of an ok report going, that was all to the good. Mr. Trumps two predecessors both started out strong with putin and wound up frustrated, so im not suggesting there is huge progress, but it was pretty much what i expected and hoped for. Host if you could read the diplomatic tea leaves with regard to the somatic hacking diplomatic hacking issue, two different perspectives from Sergey Lavrov and rex tillerson. Guest i take a broader perspective on this. Does not putin released because the t
Host got to leave it there and i apologize only because were done with this threehour program where we looked at free speech. Time for us to conclude. We take you towe now take you ts institution in washington, d. C. A form looking over Security Matters over 21st century security, looking at the Trump Administration and Security Matters. We will take you to that forum right now. Allow them to take off from where i leave. We will have broad discussion up here amongst ourselves. To my left is former secretary of defense robert hale. He has been through the battles of iraq and afghanistan and sequestration and shutdown. He has seen it all in the obama years where he was for the most of that time. He is speaking today under his own auspices. He is my former boss, i worked with him at the Congressional Budget Office 25 years ago. I know. Twoeflects badly at least ways, the amount of time and your progeny, so to speak. He then went to the air force and was the comptroller through the 1990s f
(Archived document, may contain errors) 117 April 28, 1980 THE DEFENSE DEBA.TE PROSPECTS AND .ALTER'NATlVES INTRODUCTION The Carter Admini stration's FY 1981 defense budget and five-year defense program have undergone intense scrutiny during the first two months of the current congressional session.