Chairman inhofe our hearing will come to order. We meet today to continue receiving the posture statements. We have quite a few more. This is the time of year, and we have general todd walters, and i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with the from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladi
Political level, as a result of recent documents that were approved at the political level, we are seeing greater cohesion. For the first time in over six decades, we at nato approved the first nato military strategy. It is a document that is classified, nato secret, that codifies the threat and codifies the activity we need to embrace to more comprehensively defend all 29 nations agreeing to the nato military strategy. I think that is a reflection at the political level, the military level, of improving cohesion. We talked about the shipbuilding program, can you give us a quick summary of where we are at and where we have to go . Gen. Lyons yes, senator. On toow, we depend carry 90 of our Cargo Capacity in a wartime scenario. Our readiness of the fleet is below where we needed to be. It is rapidly reaching the end of useful life. We are working closely with the nato the navy. I anticipate we will purchase two in 2021 working closely with the navy. My view is we should have the first v
Palestinians but many people speculate the this plan is nothing short of dead on arrival given the fact that this is ministration from the beginning has taken a very adversarial stance with regard to the Palestinian Leaders and the Palestinian Leader for their part say that they will reject this plan as a result of the lack of consultation the fact that they were not involved now we do know that in terms of this plan the white house saying that it will be released sometime after the israeli elections on september 17th we are on clear whether or not jason green will stay for that unveiling or if he will be gone if this plan is delayed yet again as it has been repeatedly already that does raise some questions about the fact that if the architect of the plan is not going to stick around how viable is it moving forward. In the news ahead protests in nigeria lead south africa to shut down its embassy over safety for us and moment rejects in afghanistan a u. S. Service member and a romanian
Okay. Here we go. It is midnight here in new york city, 9 00 p. M. Out on the west coast i am jen psaki msnbcs special coverage of Super Tuesday. I have some of my favorite people, as always, the midnight shift is the best shift as i like to say, to talk to here at the big table to break down everything that happened today. We will learn more tonight, too and we do have a lot to talk about because results from 16 states and one territory, dont forget that one, just brought us one big step closer to a rematch between resident joe biden and donald trump. As of this moment, on the republican side, trump has unsurprisingly won a bunch of state so far. Bringing his total number of delegates over 100, not enough to clinch the nomination but it is making it nearly impossible if not impossible for nikki haley to do that. So we just take a second to look at from by the numbers, just to catch everybody up here, that is four indictments, 91 criminal charges, to impeachments. 911 delegates as of t
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