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[ music ] [ music ] music [ music ] [ music ] [ music ] good afternoon, everyone. This meet willing come to order. Welcome to february 14th. Happy valentines day. My name is sfie. Chair of the committee and to my right is the advise chair and Committee Member catherine stephanie. Thank you for joining us today. Also our clerk today is alyssa sumera and i would also like to thank sfgovtv that is staffing this. Hernandez and ianes. Clerk please make sure to silence all cell phones. All documents s...

Ladies and gentlemen and distinguished geverts, thank you for joining me this morning for operations. Aval the navy maintains that its presence of 100 ships were deployed around the globe reassure our allies and ensure the freedom for all nations. Never been greater. Argueare those who would that the greatest challenge to our nations navy has come from our own congress. Over a decade of continuing ,esolutions and constraints capacity capabilities and u. S. Navy. F the the discussions today could...

Discussed the status of the media and its role in protecting national interests. He also discussed the defense readiness. Thisth a is an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests thank you for joining me in welcoming the 31st Naval Operations admiral John Richardson discuss the navy the nation needs. The presence of almost 100 ships and submarines across the globe to detour the potential adversaries from the allies and ensure the freedom of the maritime for all nations. The greatest chall...

The committee is part of a major transition of American Military leadership. If confirmed as army chief of staff you will serve along side the joint chief of staffs new Service Chiefs for the navy and marine core. You will lead part of the volunteer soldiers and time and time over a decade of time in iraq. The army indured 70 of the casual casual casualties. As the nation confronts the most array of Global Crisis since the world war ii the next chief of staff of army is responsible for making su...

I have heard it said that russia was a more centralized state today than it was were least there was a bureau that has to be consulted in some sense and that means that it is the power that can make decisions very effectively and can respond very rapidly with a changing situation and can exploit opportunities very rapidly and we as a nation and as part of a western alliance have to think about how we deal with are relatively cumbersome decisionmaking processes and the much broader need to get by...

Is one of the tests that the fbi utilizes. One other thing most of the people have been radicalized and guarded to violent extremists has certain characteristics. The same type as people who join gangs. Low selfesteem, unemployed categories such as this. A gives you some indication of the kinds of people they usually get involved. There are different statistics on that. That maythat may be more true to those who are going of foreign fighter out and less true or al qaeda type operators. Educated ...

Target them. We can come up with objective way to define what a sanctuary is. And i think it should be a jurisdiction that does not comply with all detainers all of the time for all types of people who are removable whether theyve committed serious crimes or not. And i do think that the policies of the Obama Administration in enabling sanctuary jurisdictions and greatly restricting what i. C. E. Agents can do despite the plain language of the law also ought to be given attention through legislat...

Information with regard to the question of premium cigars and how they are or are not sold to children. That was a part of what we are trying to do. And we are reviewing that. And we are in the middle of that process now. Having said that, as we are in that process, a part of your question was the recognition of small employers. And that is something that will be taken into consideration no matter where the rule ends, its something i think is very important that we do as we think about implement...

Institutions, on a series of concrete actions and effective agreements. Help guide ourld ship of state through some of the most perilous moments in human history. With kennedy at the helm, the cuban missile crisis was resolved peacefully. Under democrats and republican president s, new agreements were forged. A nonproliferation treaty that prohibited nations to develop Nuclear Weapons. Start treaties that abound the United States and the soviet union to cooperation on arms control. Averted. Conf...

Club a little later, and human caused disasters such as the deep Horizon Oil Spill in the gulf of mexico. Additionally, the coast guard rescues more than 3,000 people each year and searches for boaters who go missing such as the two teenagers who disappeared off the coast of florida recently. As the smallest military force and the only one with Law Enforcement authority, the coast guard has had a role in the defense of the United States for 225 years. In fact yesterday was the coast guards birth...