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House will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Dear lord, we give you thanks for giving us another day. At the beginning of a short work week, we use this moment to be reminded of your presence and to tap the resources needed by the members of this house to co to do their work as well as it can be done. May they be led by your spirit in the decisions they make. May their faith in you deliver them from any tensions that might tear t...

Of the San Francisco bay area. Fleet week for many years in San Francisco was a somewhat [inaudible] affair and it has been transformed into this great coming together by the military and the first responders, the great coming together of our uniformed personnel and a great [speaker not understood] of San Francisco. This amazing transformation in the last few years was due primarily to the vision and the dedication of three people, george and Charlotte Schultz and mike myers. Id like to pause to...

Shine has more energy needs for more energy than they can produce themselves, and to maintain the Economic Growth which they believe is essential. We observed that the South China Sea is a potential source of Energy Supplies for china and that there is a contention among the nations in that region as to where the ownership and rights of access are to the South China Sea. And this is conceivable that china might seek to reestablish its claim there by military coercion and that could lead them int...

We observed that the South China Sea is a potential source of Energy Supplies for china and that there is a contention among the nations in that region as to where the ownership and rights of access are to the South China Sea. And this is conceivable that china might seek to reestablish its claim there by military coercion and that could lead them into a confrontation with the United States desire to maintain free access. The best way of avoiding that military conflict is what we should see beca...

Them into a confrontation with the United States desire to maintain free access. The best way of avoiding that military conflict is what we should see because the military conflict with china would be catastrophic for both nations, indeed for the whole region. So, we want to avoid that. I believe the best way of avoiding that is by maintaining a continuing to maintain a strong naval presence in the region, and by having an unambiguous commitment to doing that. I believe that our new National Sec...

Expeditionary force. It goes away. Reducing infantry battalions, regiments, air groups pretty significantly. Were pairing that down, senator. As it relates to somebody getting fired, i cant speak to that. I can talk pretty intimately about the maneuvering around among the f35 program, both with the management at Lockheed Martin and my service. There have been cost overruns, but our vector is actually heading in the right direction on the program. Senator, the short answer is yes, absolutely need...

Face. And that Defense Strategy was comprehensive, and it had various pieces to it that we would look to agile for itses, that we would look to having a global footprint. But with emphasis, reemphasis on asia, continuance on the middle east but innovative partnerships around the world that could involve a lighter footprint in cases. Rose tom donilon for the hour next. Funding for charlie rose was provided by the following captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york c...

National security. Joe biden has called him the most important person in the mix this week in the Vice President spoke about Foreign Policy challenges at the munish security conference. We have made it clear at the outset that we would not we would be prepared to meet bilaterally with the irani leadership. We would not make it a secret that we were doing that. We would let our partners know if that occasion presented itself. That offer stands. Nearly all of our partners and allies are convinced ...

National security. Joe biden has called him the most important person in the mix this week in the Vice President spoke about Foreign Policy challenges at the munish security conference. We have made it clear at the outset that we would not we would be prepared to meet bilaterally with the irani leadership. We would not make it a secret that we were doing that. We would let our partners know if that occasion presented itself. That offer stands. Nearly all of our partners and allies are convinced ...

Rose welcome to the program. Tonight the National Security advisor to the president of the United States tom donilon. At the beginning of 2012, the president after a multimonth review, close consultation with the uniform military, the joint chiefs, Service Secretaries and combatants around the world, put together a new Defense Strategy, that Defense Strategy had to take into account that the budge contl act quir the Defense Budget over the next ten years to be reduced by 500 million or so, a lit...