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[inaudible conversations]. And were live this morning awaiting remarks from defense secretary Ashton Carter being interviewed by politicos correspondent mike allen and defense editor, brian bender. Should get underway in just a moment. Live coverage here on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. Ladies and gentlemen, the program will begin in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inau...

Pretty explicit. Some of that i quote in my book, others you can find online. Now i say that with the caveat that sometimes in particular crisis appear washington keeps his own counsel things caps on profile. The Duties Committee is pretty quiet but more generally speaking he is talking about the mercantilist system. Kind of along the lines of what your doing. You mean in their financial efforts of the relationships with each other . Sharing information. Yes, we do. I have been operating from pr...

We do that with a budget deal, it didnt take a billion for that. So if youre going to add another 18 billion or so and oak oh within the house of publican caucus right now they will not go along with it. The strategy has been floated that maybe you wait and have an additional request in the next administration. You basically pond and then wait for a new administration and new Congress Takes office and then try to take a new higher level of funding them. What do people think about that. It is ver...

To execute the current Defense Strategy and specific chi unable to address the challenges that secretary carter outlined. The fiscal year 17 budget begins to address the most critical investments required to maintain our competitive advantage. To the extent possible, within the resources provided by the 2015 bipartisan budget act, it addresses the departments five challenges. It does so by balancing three major areas investment in highend capabilities, the capability and capacity to meet current...

Departments plan to reform its command structure. The changes are aimed at updating language of the 1986 Goldwater Nichols act to meet the demands of modern warfare and to add cyberinto the command structure. This is 50 minutes. Welcome. Were delighted to have you here. It shouldnt be this cold in april. I came down from new york this morning and it was snowing in wilmington. What the ll . But were going to warm it up this afternoon. Were going to have an excellent opportunity to talk with secre...

Clearly and unapologetically, instead of negotiating with terrorism, we will rip to shreds this catastrophic Iranian Nuclear deal. [applause] we will defeat radical islamic terrorism and we will utterly destroy isis. [applause] we will have a president who keeps us safe. To the soldiers and sailors, the airmen and marines, the Police Officers and firefighters and First Responders who risk their lives so to keep us safe, we will have a commanderinchief who has your back. [applause] jobs freedom a...

Money we have given them. And theyebuild china know it. I have many friends from china. I dont have any objection to china, i think its wonderful, i am angry at our people, not their people, if you can get away with it. So look, weve rebuild china. It is not free trade, it is not anything, this is horrible, stupid trade. When you have 500 billion a folks, weve got to get smart. I have carl icon, i have the greatest negotiators in the ahn, i havearl ic the greatest negotiators in the world. We ha...

One of the wonderful things we noticed was that the last quarter of the main script, the did not had sewn match the earlier one. This confirms my suspicion the end have been written later. You cannot see that on the microfilm. It was a wonderful thing to see that in person. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Defense secretary Ashton Carter unveiled new plans to update the Defense Departments command structure. He discussed other changes at the pentagon that would try to limit redundancy...

Greater responsibility comes greater accountability. The chiefs themselves and their military staff will need to sharpen this skill set which in places has atrophied over the years. To be successful in discharging their new acquisition responsibilities. I also expect them to leverage the many lessons they have learned over the last years as operators, many of them in war where speed and agility are critical, to help our acquisition professionals deliver even better capabilities to our war fighte...

For you this sunday morning. How do you feel about governmentpaid family leave, either at the federal leave or the state or the local level . Parents, call this number, 2027488000. Business owners, 7488001. Ll others, 2027488002. Do you support or oppose governmentpaid family leave . If not by phone, you can weigh in on social media. cspanwj, handle is or you can post a comment on facebook. Here is one of the headlines out there today about whats happening around the country. This is in forbes m...