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My hope is to use about half of the time to talk about questions ive got for these two, then spend the other half taking questions that you have. If theres one thing i hope you take from this whole session, it is that being a president ial speechwriter is exactly what you would think it would be on the west wing. Thats it. Im kidding, it is much more like veep. Since this is the president ial ideas festival, i will start with a question about the relationship between ideas and speeches. Sometime...

For defense of democracies about the armys moderation and readiness efforts. This is about an hour. Well, welcome to the foundation for defense of democracies, a special welcome to viewers online and those watching on cspan today. Im cliff may, im the founder and president of fdd, and im pleased to welcome you to the event, ruthless prioritization, the arms realization of the National Defense strategy. Were honored to host acting secretary the arm ryan d. Mccarthy. Thank you for coming together....

The Reagan Library in simi valley, california. Thank you and welcome to panel six, assessing the rebuild, will we have the strategy and resources to rebuild the military in fiscal year 19 . On this panel we will evaluate president trumps desire to rebuild the military, and we will look at the problems they see as. Like to introduce our distinguished panel. Honorable eric adelman at the income for secretary of defense for policy from 20052009. Independent gun, a former ambassador to turkey and fi...

Crises and decisions by going to 1988, or wilsons decision for war in world war i. He is reassessing these decisions. We are all looking forward to philips next book. Time, he is doing a dozen other things none of us can keep track of. Philip, thank you. Need tosorry to say we wait for james wilson to show up. He is probably out there somewhere having a good conversation. If we canhe is send the search y out. So far it has been a great time. [laughter] it is rather intimidating sitting somebody ...

Relatively armslength am a in other words, syria doesnt turn into afghanistan, a decadelong occupation where they are fighting directly on the ground against the enemy, and as long as that enemy is not been supported by another superpower like the United States, i dont think the russians will go broke in syria. I think the editorial piece that was referenced earlier is probably right, putin will get some version of what he wants in syria. Cleverhink its a pretty approach. When hes basically doin...

Vo advisory teams on the ground, joint tactical Forward Air Controllers and other groups. These are small numbers of highly trained professionals. They would make all of the difference going out there with iraqi forces, be they peshmerga, National Guard or awakening sunni or the iraqi army, the nine brigades forming. Theres a huge difference between how these people perform and other conflicts perform when you have american advisers with them and how they perform without them. We dont have the l...

And confidence. Bless the members of the peoples house as they return from their home districts. May these decisive days through which we are living make them genuine enough to maintain their integrity. Great enough to be humble. Good enough to keep their faith. Always regarding Public Office as the sacred trust. Give them the wisdom and the courage to fail not their fellow citizens nor you. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker pro tempore the chai...

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Member of lpr 2011. I would much rather hear you speak than joe biden, so thank you. That bar is not very high. The real question is, from our perspective, from my perspective here out in the real world we hear about all of these investigations by the house and by the senate and all these hearings and all these hearings and all these hearings and nothing happens. At what point, what needs to take place to actually have an independent investigation on benghazi . Yeah. I think the answer is we are...

System in persian gulf. It was in 1990. It is not in 2014. It was right after war. And gensher was almost shocked. He came to washington, and washington declined. Therefore, you can see from the beginning, iranians have been seeking for a type of Regional Cooperation. And the foreign minister in 1991, 1992, 1995, he paid visit to all gcc countries. That time i was in foreign ministry, and he raised iranian willingness to establish such a cooperation with the neighbors. But gcc was not in positio...