committee reopened confirmation proceedings as a result of the allegation. you can see portions of that tonight at 10 pm eastern on c- span. next middle hill are from heather wilson the 24th next we will hear from heather wilson. she talk at the national press club here in washington. good afternoon everyone. welcome to the national press club. it is a place where news happens. i am donna, the 102nd president of the national press club. we are delighted to have you listening or viewing or in the room with us today. we are going to hear from air force secretary heather wilson on the newly proposed space force and the issues facing the u.s. air force today. if you are on twitter, we encourage you to treat during the program. please use the # and cc life and tweet your questions. we will answer as many questions as time allows. for our c-span and public radio audiences, these be aware that in the audience today members of the general public, so any applause you may hear or
we believe the world is a safer place with the development of missile defense and we advocate around the world and around the country. i have been engaged with missile defense since 1980, when our nation did not have a missile defense capability. and now we do. we have had a phenomenal movement from those days. though we have a limited capability today, it is protecting 1.3 billion people. that is all of the united states, japan, korea, the middle east, israel, and europe. and the world is a safer place, because of those deployments and partnerships. we are able to do things that we haven t been able to do before. the korean situation has stabilized. as we go forward, i am looking at how best we can improve this capability. cheaper, more effective, more capable. we will open up a public discussion today on what we need to do in space, why we need to go to space, and what is space-based missile defense. we have probably the top three experts today to be able to discuss this wi
we believe the world is a safer place with the development of missile defense and we advocate around the world and around the country. i have been engaged with missile defense since 1980, when our nation did not have a missile defense capability. and now we do. we have had a phenomenal movement from those days. though we have a limited capability today, it is protecting 1.3 billion people. that is all of the united states, japan, korea, the middle east, israel, and europe. and the world is a safer place, because of those deployments and partnerships. we are able to do things that we haven t been able to do before. the korean situation has stabilized. as we go forward, i am looking at how best we can improve this capability. cheaper, more effective, more capable. we will open up a public discussion today on what we need to do in space, why we need to go to space, and what is space-based missile defense. we have probably the top three experts today to be able to discuss this wi
the founder and chairman of the missile defense advocacy alliance. we have one mission statement, we believe the world is a safer place with the development of missile defense and we advocate around the world and around the country. i have been engaged with missile defense since 1980, when our nation did not have a missile defense capability. and now we do. we have had a phenomenal movement from those days. though we have a limited capability today, it is protecting 1.3 billion people. that is all of the united states, japan, korea, the middle east, israel, and europe. and the world is a safer place, because of those deployments and partnerships. we are able to do things that we haven t been able to do before. the korean situation has stabilized. as we go forward, i am looking at how best we can improve this capability. cheaper, more effective, more capable. we will open up a public discussion today on what we need to do in space, why we need to go to space, and what is space
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