Rbs is spinning off its american unit, citizens financial first trade this morning. And in retail, bed, bath beyond sharing purchases. That stock surging in the premarket. And say hello to walmart checking. The big boxs largest foray into banking is here. But first, want to get to david with breaking news this morning. Thanks, carl. Were delving into the soap opera that is allergan. This morning we can tell you that salex pharmaceuticals, a company i previously reported on and told you allergan is in talks to acquire, has another potential suitor now in the name of actavis. In recent days, theyve reached out to salix, indicating its interest in acquiring the company. I want to stress these are early stage discussions between the two companies. They have not gotten far down the road there in contrast to it the Allergan Salix discussions, which have been going on for weeks. According to people who know whats going on, they tell me its slowed in recent days and sort of hit something of a
Sheer, whos our assistant secretary of defense for east asia in the pacific. You know that david was had come back from hanoi to do this job. He was our u. S. Ambassador there. David is an expert on china and Southeast Asia. I think for many of us who are sort of in the trenches every day on these issues, couldnt think of a better person for the pentagon to put into this role. Next to him is one of the top Southeast Asiaenists in the United States, and he also is singapores ambassador to the United States. Aspoke. He was most recently singapores ambassador to indonesia. He was in the past has been singapores ambassador also to australia. And to quaul la lumpur and has a long history in Singapore Foreign affairs working on asiarelated affairs. And finally, a good friend and a real hero of Southeast Asia and asian policy in the senate is chris bros. He works with senator mccain in senator mccains office. Previous before that he was senior staffer in the Senate Armed Services committee. A
Forward in whatever their path of life to make a positive contribution to the strength of our democracy. Bless us this day bless us this day and every day and all that is done within these hallowed halls n for your greater honor and glory amen. The speaker pro tempore the compare compare and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from ohio, mr. Chabot. Mr. Chabot please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The speaker pro tempore the chair will entertain requests for oneminute speeches. For what purpose does the gentleman from nebraska seek recognition . Request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. Revise and extend my. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized fo
Fidelity or granularity during the q a period. During the war game, russia was able to operate with more flexibility and options. The russian team had a lot more options. They were less constrained by international norms, laws, alliances. For instance, during one of our turns, russia was able to delay armor and troops along the border, and this was cast as a defensive move or posture, and what it was was an overly aggressive move. Which leads me to the second point. Russia operates with a far more robust informational operations campaign. Their io was remarked by one of the participants as they more or less recognized propaganda. Oftentimes, russia was able to spin a particular narrative that the west could not easily counter, or if they did attempt to counter, it took a bit of lead time in order to gather the facts and figures in order to put forth more of a truthful message. Again, alluding to the first point, the russian team was more flexible in how they reacted to most of the scen
Assistant to president george bush graduate of yale university. [applause] thank you so much for that love and lovely introduction judy. As you mention i used to work as a president ial speechwriter before i started writing this book so you can imagine my shock when i learned that the subject of my new book didnt much care for my old occupation. In fact robert e. Lee was so offended when he heard George Washington might have used a ghostwriter to pen his famous farewell address that he refused to believe it. He said anyone who says George Washington used a ghostwriter was quote injudicious. So if ive learned nothing else from writing his biography its that i should say a little bit less about my own biography. Im so pleased to be at this Beautiful House and im so grateful to the Historical Society for inviting me today. I had a chance to go over to see the Historical Society earlier today and it is such a wonderful facility and im so happy to see it expanding. Thats a great thing for p