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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Major general will spend the next few minutes [inaudible] watch is complete he will take questions and youll be moderating this discussion. Please limit it to one question or one followup. That allows anybody an opportunity to try to get questions. So without further ado, general horlander. So good afternoon. Great to be back in again and see some family faces here and i really appreciated the opportunity to present to the overview of the armies 2018 budget r...

With senator barbara of maryland. And tributes and speeches from Vice President joe biden. Then at 8 00 p. M. , christmas at the white house. Join First Lady Michelle Obama as she receives the official White House Christmas tree. Tour the white house and see this years decorations. Make christmas crafting projects with children of military families visiting the white house, and, finally, the tree lightening ceremony on the national lawn. At 8 40 p. M. , hear from former House Speaker john boehne...

[inaudible conversations] good evening. My name is eileen and i am the Program Library in here. I would like to welcome you both this evening to hear them majorr general discuss his book entitled war and politics and thank the friends of the library for sponsoring this event. Tonight they provided the baguette portion. [applause] i would ask that you silence your cell phones or anything phg that might interrupt the presentation. Thank you. Tonight we will have the introduction, the author talk a...

[inaudible conversations] good evening. My name is eileen and i am the Program Library in here. I would like to welcome you both this evening to hear them majorr general discuss his book entitled war and politics and thank the friends of the library for sponsoring this event. Tonight they provided the baguette portion. [applause] i would ask that you silence your cell phones or anything phg that might interrupt the presentation. Thank you. Tonight we will have the introduction, the author talk a...

Looking for in there that they, obviously, missed at that time . No whats interesting because the head of the fbi office and people in the orlando area say o they have gone back and looked at those files and based on what they knew at that time they dont believe they missed anything. He he was sort of a blow hard. He was talking about support. There was nothing, you know, we have a First Amendment in this country people can say all sorts of offense i have things so that wasnt enough for them to ...

Pandemic. I wrote an article about this, and i will talk about some of the things i mentioned in that new england journal of medicine article. The reason i believe it is necessary, if you look at some sufficient the challenge that is we face, about ending the hiv despite all of the great results, there is a thing called a care continuum. I dont want to spend time, i spoke to similar audiences about that it we dont do well, access into the system, retention in the system, and adherrence to therap...

Changes. Interestingly enough, the present drop in the price of oil has an impact on russia, they have balanced the budget at 100, and it is now down an 80. Russias political fast and hoos activities have had a serious effect on the russian economy, more than anybody expected to see at this stage. A serious infleet in flight. Many billions of dollars have left. Almost no foreign investment. A rubble Exchange Rate that is going 10 against the ruble. No growth in the russian economy. Oil prices do...

And signer and nuclear and signs and technology and readiness and people. In other words, i think everything is threatened mr. Chairman, under sequestration. And most of all i fear that american lives would be at risk. So i ask you again, please continue your leadership to get sequestration lifted permanently. Please keep on pushing. Thank you very much, and we all look forward to your questions. Thank you. Im going to ask the staff to put me on the clock because i have really one question direc...

Deployments and we ended up producing hours and getting that next set of deployers ready to go we ended up delaying the deployment of carrier. When you talk about the Global Response force our ability to train our folks and their ability to have that next set ready is very much tied to the budgetary topline. Right now we have two carriers ready to go. We always have two to go. We are building up to a larger Surge Capacity but clearly with sequestration our ability to maintain that projection for...

We will be forced to austerity. It will be pledged upon us. We ought to be doing that now before that happens rather than when somebody else is telling us what we are going to do. Thank you. Coming up next, attorney general holder releases the details of the 4. 5 billion in the bp oil sediment. Ed markey reacted to the settlement with bp. That is followed up by president obama touring a Hurricane Sandy damage in new york. In 2010, the deep water rights and rid explosion was the worst oil spill. ...