Terrorism, we have assembled a panel of leading experts to discuss these issues which include, by the way three generals with seven stars between them. Coming to moderate the panel is jerry who was one of the original members of the delta force and commanded all of the armys green berets. Today we are proud to announce he served as the Vice President of the Research Council. Ladies and gentlemen as these men come to the stage would do not just welcome them but also thank them for their service to the United States of america. [applause] thank you all very much. Please be seated. My name is jerry boykin. Tony is a marine and i normally start my presentation with a range of. Having said that, general conway is a retired commandant of the marine corps, so im going to skip that out of fear for my life. [laughter] we are going to go right into it. Listen i know as americans we are all concerned about what we see today unfolding across the globe with the chaos that we see with the ebola is r
That said we really want to take a chunk of the i]budget, go over it and see whether we could do ataq things more effectively whether we could do emphasize some priorities better. I dont think you could do the owhole budget. You certainly couldnt do it every other year. ut you could set up a mechanism the budget say every three years or five years to see if the money could be spent better and the priorities were what congress reallyco wanted them to be. Bob . Can i just ask you a quick question . So is what alice describes on the domestic side, is the military really any different . Isnt there a certain amount of the air force, the navy, the marines, everybody has to get their share of the cuts . Broadly, the budget shares havent changed a lot. Thats a fair statement. Within those shares theyve changed a lot. Let me try to respond. First off i think its way too harsh that suggest that ovq all only 1 of Government Spending has any effect. I will offer just a couple examples. One obvious
Is so key, i would like you in your very eloquent way explain to us why certainty is so critical. And if you didnt have the certainty of this federal bill, how it could impact you back home. Again, i know its repetitious, but its important. Thats the message i would like to see go out of this hearing. Again, let me say, i think certainty is the most important thing that we have to deal with. And over the last five or six years, we have not had that certainty obviously. And so we need it to plan. I mean if we dont have we need five six, ten years whatever the number of years that you decide, we just need to know what those are and we need to plan accordingly. And, this program that i have put in place and was able to actually put in place without legislation because the people of alabama had allowed us to borrow the garvey bonds. So were using future federal dollars. And so the certainty is so important for me because i signed a billion dollars in bonds and i want to make sure we pay it
Protests against political moves by the president , Mohamed Morsi, have turned deadly. Tanks, armored personnel vehicles, all stationed outside the president ial analysis cairo. Not only are they guarding the palace, theyre also keeping apart supporters and opponents of morsi. Hundreds of his islamist supporters already taking to the streets in cairo this morning. Opponents are gathering not very far away. Last night the two sides clashed right outside the palace. The violence killed at least five people. Hundreds of other people were injured. Opponents are demanding that morsi dial back on those sweeping powers that he has granted himself. Cnns reza sayah is live for us in cairo this morning. Whats the latest . Reporter soledad, were getting the first signs that maybe, just maybe, cooler heads are prevailing and peace could be extraordinary in front of the president ial palace. Within the past 20 minutes, weve seen about a few thousand of president morsis supporters move away from the