Good afternoon and welcome to the aspen institute. I am the executive director of the Strategy Group and formed and its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You will all be on cspan so be on your best behavior. We are here to launch an important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle for power u. S. China relations in the 21st century. I want to say a word about that but first, recognize distinguished guests. I want to recognize the cochair of the organization, former secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice whos here with us. And youl you will be hearing fm secretary rice and about half an hour she will be one of our conversationalists. The harvard emeritus professor could not be here with us but is very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to the former secretary of defense and a very good friend of mine, secretary bill and mrs. Janet calling. Welcome. [applause] i also want to pay tribute to one of the people who form the embodies bipartisanship
The aspen institute. I am the executive director of the Strategy Group and formed and its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You will all be on cspan so be on your best behavior. We are here to launch an important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle for power u. S. China relations in the 21st century. I want to say a word about that but first, recognize distinguished guests. I want to recognize the cochair of the organization, former secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice whos here with us. And youl you will be hearing fm secretary rice and about half an hour she will be one of our conversationalists. The harvard emeritus professor could not be here with us but is very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to the former secretary of defense and a very good friend of mine, secretary bill and mrs. Janet calling. Welcome. [applause] i also want to pay tribute to one of the people who form the embodies bipartisanship was involved in every effort
Dissidence notes from an uneven playing field. Harry doing mr. Bryant. I am doing great. This is a very interesting book. I had a chance to read through it here and i could not put it down. You have ten original essays, and i think you really touched on a lot of different topics with the different worlds that exists. And i think that mainstream america is not aware of those two worlds, and even though we are talking about them and we are pointing these things out, you did a really good job of laying everything out through these different essays. First of all let me ask you you dedicated the book to tea set, why did you dedicated to her . While tcell is my sister, she is my older sister and she is the original troublemaker. So i wanted to make sure i acknowledged her and she is a one of the people i was talk about in terms of when she and i go back and forth over the years talking about these different subjects and these details and all the books ive done this was the one most appropria
On book tv on cspan2. Next, officials from the defense department, army, navy, and air force on the incidence of White Supremacy in the military. This portion of the hearing is an hour. The hearing will come to order once again. Id like to welcome our second panel. We have joined this afternoon by mr. Gary reid who is a director for defense intelligence, obviously the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, stefanie miller, director of accessions policy, office of the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness and mr. Joe etheridge, chief criminal intelligence division, u. S. Army criminal investigation command and mr. Christopher mcmahon, National Security director, the naval criminal investigateive services, and mr. Robert grabolski of afsoi, u. S. Air force, office of special investigations. We will begin with you. Thank you, madam chair, and Ranking Member. On behalf of the entire team here, i would like to convey our appreciation for your time and interest and the c
Available podcasts. Thank you for joining me today. I have to tell you, i thoroughly enjoyed your book. I had the opportunity to read it and its obviously a timely subject. Obviously very important subject. Very. As you made know, im a pharmacist currently the only phenomenon pharmacist in congress so health care is something that is extremely important to me. Also important to the american citizens. I think everyone would agree we. They thought it was interesting you start by start off the book with the premise the Health Care System is broken, and if we look at the polls i think the polls would indicate that. Almost 70 of the people in america say that the Health Care System is broken. Right, well, i really think that health care is going to be in the number one domestic policy issue in the president ial election. In a recent poll, just came out from gallup that said 35 of the American People polled weighed health care as extremely important as one of the issues and we have seen in t