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Hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. Tomorrow well hear from the Service Chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. Today, however, well concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. Weve done a lot of reform over the past two years. That includes acquisition reform, a new military retirement system, major changes in military health care, commissary reform, a rewrite of the uniform code of military justice as well as significant organizational re...

A look now at the future of Missile Defense. The center for strategic and International Studies hosted a discussion recently with former defense officials and Global Security experts. Panelists talked about the challenges of Strategic Missile defense, the threats posed by north korea, iran, china and russia. Former defense undersecretary for policy, james miller moderated this event. Its about 90 minutes. Ready to go, okay, good morning, everybody. Thanks for being here today. Im jim miller. Pre...

Including as undersecretary of defense in the Obama Administration. We have a great panel here today. You have already met tom karako, senior fellow here in the international program, director of the Missile Defense program and tom will talk about in particular his report Missile Defense, 2020, next steps for defending the homeland. Dr. Laura grego, thank you for being here as well. Laura is a Senior Scientist in the Global Security program for the union of concerned scientists. And also has a r...

[inaudible] this breathing will be 40 minutes in duration and on the record. Well start off with opening comments with both gentlemen and the will open the 44 questions. Good morning, good afternoon. It is good to see you all. Im not going to do a dramatic reading of the book. I promise it is there for reference in case i have to go to a. We walked your presentation of the budget here between the general and myself we will try to answer questions as best we can. Today president johnson to congre...

[inaudible] this breathing will be 40 minutes in duration and on the record. Well start off with opening comments with both gentlemen and the will open the 44 questions. Good morning, good afternoon. It is good to see you all. Im not going to do a dramatic reading of the book. I promise it is there for reference in case i have to go to a. We walked your presentation of the budget here between the general and myself we will try to answer questions as best we can. Today president johnson to congre...

With us mr. John roth performing the duties of the understand secretary of defense for comptroller and the joint staff director for forestructure, resources and assessment. The briefing will be 40 minutes in duration and on the record. Well start off with a few opening comments from both gentlemen, then well open the floor to questions. With that. Thank you eric. Good morning or good afternoon almost here. Good to see you all. I am not going to do a dramatic reading of the book. I promise you. I...

With us mr. John roth performing the duties of the understand secretary of defense for comptroller and the joint staff director for forestructure, resources and assessment. The briefing will be 40 minutes in duration and on the record. Well start off with a few opening comments from both gentlemen, then well open the floor to questions. With that. Thank you eric. Good morning or good afternoon almost here. Good to see you all. I am not going to do a dramatic reading of the book. I promise you. I...

[laughter] today we have with us mr. John roth. Secretary of defense and comptroller. Staffeutenant general, director for resources and assessment. This briefing will be 40 minutes in briefing and on the record. We will start off with opening comments and then open the floor to questions. Thank you. Good morning or good afternoon. Good to see you all. I am not going to do a genetic reading of the book, i promise it is just therefore reference. Ourill walk through andentation of the budget betwee...

[inaudible conversations] good morning the Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on worldwide threats. We are pleased to welcome our witnesses and the director of National Intelligence. Out of respect for the scheduling commitments of our witnesses and unanimous request from our members, we will conclude the hearing at 1130 in the interest of time and to ensure the members of the committee will be able to ask their questions, i will be very brief. I know that comes as a disappointmen...

About cause and effect. History matters. Go to booktv. Org for the complete weekend schedule. Up next the acting Navy Secretary Sean Stackley testified on president trumps 2018 navy budget request. Hes joined by the chief of Naval Operations John Richardson and marine corps commandant. This is just over two hours. Senator mccain good morning. I want to thank each of our witnesses for they distinguished service to the nation as well as the say alreadies say alreadies, marines and civilians they l...