Maybe we will get some conversation going. We will say the last part of our time in the session for questions from the audience save the last part of our time in the session for questions from the audience. Let me quickly introduce our group. The. Ght is we have the Principal Assistant deputy administrator at nsa, where he runs the defense program. Anita is the acting system secretary of state from the bureau arms and control. Im very pleased that we can gather the screw. This group here. Greg, going to start with then we will go to phil, anita. Greg, over to you. Greg what i thought i would do in my brief remarks is give you a little more insight into the tookach that 3 departments in conducting the Nuclear Posture review over the last year. Generalemphasize what hyten said. This is a threatbased and strategy based review. I will talk more about the approach that we took and how we did that. Onant to focus my brief time giving you a little more understanding of the rationale behind wh
We have blegedegged and pleaded and nobody has listened to us. If you had to pay for all we pay for, the hospitals the tens of thousands of babies, all you have to do in this country is you walk over the line, you get someone pregnant, i cant leave these are american babies. Thats something we have to get rid of. I tell you, blacks should be the most upset about that. They should be the most upset. That was put in there to keep blacks safe. And i just went to my 50th reunion to get the party going. And they cant believe what theyre seeing. My friends i have so many hispanic friends. What am i supposed to call you mexican hispanics or we will be covering donald trump this weekend the live weekend event. Tell you more about that. We want to hear your thoughts on scott walker has he entered the race. Hes had two term governor. He won reelection last year in wisconsin. Athens, ohio, on our democrats line. Caller i cant believe i got through. Iate have to tell you the first time i got throu
Years after the war. And a congressional briefing on internet defamation lawsuits and their impact on freedom of speech. This aoefrbt the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. It is 90 minutes. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to center for american progress. Were glad to see folks here on a rainy monday morning. Im Vice President for National Security and International Policy here. I would like to welcome our distinguished guests from shanghai. They have both managed to get to washington despite a typhoon that disrupted all air operations out of shanghai. So were extremely happy youre here safe and sound. We hope the jet lag wont keep you from raising strong arguments and lively discussions this morning. Back in february 2014, the china u. S. Change institution and Shanghai Institute neuer International Studies discussed a report on a new model for major power realizes. It stressed it needed to be more about avoiding conflict. They needed to look at forwardlooking actions and
Cspan3. Great. Welcome, everyone. My name is michael matera. Im the director here. Its great to have you all here today. We need to make requirement of csis an emergency announcement. If there is an emergency, im the emergency officer. Follow me. We dont expect any problems but given that were having a program today on hurricanes, one never knows. So this special Public Program on hurricanes irma and jose and the Massive International response thats already under way. Weve all seen the pictures of the tremendous damage thats been done on antiqua and barbuda, the British Virgin islands, cuba, florida and elsewhere and we shouldnt forget Hurricane Harvey. Disasters like these hurricanes always present an opportunity to refocus our efforts to see where we are doing well and where efforts need to be improved. Emergency response systems have been tested like never before in the u. S. And in the countries of the caribbean. We organize the program today to bring greater attention to both the
Health Insurance Market for 2018. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce our five witnesses. Welcome to you. After their testimony, senators will have an opportunity to ask the witnesses five minutes of questions. To begin with, we ought not to take for granted the three hearings this committee has had over the last ten days. For seven years hardly a civil word was spoken between republicans and democrats on the Affordable Care act. It was trumpcare versus obamacare day in and day out. But for the last ten days senators from both sides of the aisle have engaged in serious discussion for several hours at a time about what congress can do between now and the end of this month to help limit premium increases for 18 million americans next year and begin to lower premiums in the future. And also to prevent insurers from leaving the markets where those 18 million americans buy insurance. Last week, between the meetings held before our hearings, such