The war changed the economy tremendously from long beach and the rest of the United States. Long beach was experiencing a depression but we were lucky we discovered oil in 1921. The town was booming from the oil industry at that point. What was happening was also we were seeing the development of aviation in long beach. In 1911, cal rogers flew the first flight from new york and stopp stopped in long beach and made history in 1911. When the u. S. Army was looking for a place to build a plant to produce aircraft, which they thought we would need in world war ii, they picked long beach because steps away we have a wonderful airport founded in 1923. It was one of the first airports with a take off and landing in Different Directions which the army loved. When the plant opened in 1941 in october they thought well, we will produce the a26 but on december 8th we had pearl harbor and a couple things happened in long beach. Most of the ships that were destroyed in pearl harbor had been anchore
Fighting isis. What it will take to defeat the radical islamic movement. And the refugee crisis. The congressional battle taken to the next level. Thank you for joining us from washington, d. C. Cong. Keating good morning. Janet let s get right to it. Will the fight to close the borders to muslims, syrians, or iraqis going to define all other major issues, be it budget or otherwise for the foreseeable future . Cong. Keating you have to be very careful. Donald trump s comments are offensive, illegal, and unenforceable. But do they have effect . They do. Years ago after 9 11, i realized that the apprehension among muslim faith was very real. There was an incident when they tried to blow up a gas station. I spent that day praying in a mosque in quincy because it was important to do. I will never forget the apprehension that was there about retribution or somebody might attack them. It was very real. When you have a president ial candidate making those statements, that is very real. People
Missiles, and Electronic Warfare systems to youpossible orders to create antiaccess zones from which to project power. We met with the u. S. Army europe commander, ben hodges, last week. Wasked him if moscow bolstering its position in europe and what russian capabilities worry him the most. The ability the russians have move a lot of forces very quickly if the thing that worries me the most about what they can do. The lack of indicators and warning that we have, and their ability to move stuff real fast, thats not a good combination. Then you match that with the area and access denial capability they invested in denyingrad, where they can access, what they have invested in the crimea more than 25,000 any ship capability to the black sea, and as you alluded to, they have the ability to create a bubble over a corner of the mediterranean with their Defense Systems they have put into syria. This is not healthy. It certaly is not the action of a nation that wants to be a reonsible partner i
And there was no longer this same status so to speak. A couple years later in 2005, i assume opposed to nato, hard to believe now but in actual fact we were seriously talking about russia becoming a member of nato. And being a part of a membership action plan and we had a few draft sent had some discussions. Than in 2006 we had something called the 12 city tours of russia in which senior nato officials were tasked to go out to 12 major cities in russia and talk about how wonderful nato is and how we were no longer ran opposition. I got the short stick. I did a fleet tried it off, but above the arctic circle, shedding people left and right, lo and behold when i showed up at the university there were 150 or 200 people protesting my presence. I couldnt figure this out. I walked up to this elderly gentleman who had ribbons on his blouse and with my interpreter i asked why are you protecting my presence here as a nato official talkedabout the great relationship we have with russia . His ans
And there was no longer this same status so to speak. A couple years later in 2005, i assume opposed to nato, hard to believe now but in actual fact we were seriously talking about russia becoming a member of nato. And being a part of a membership action plan and we had a few draft sent had some discussions. Than in 2006 we had something called the 12 city tours of russia in which senior nato officials were tasked to go out to 12 major cities in russia and talk about how wonderful nato is and how we were no longer ran opposition. I got the short stick. I did a fleet tried it off, but above the arctic circle, shedding people left and right, lo and behold when i showed up at the university there were 150 or 200 people protesting my presence. I couldnt figure this out. I walked up to this elderly gentleman who had ribbons on his blouse and with my interpreter i asked why are you protecting my presence here as a nato official talkedabout the great relationship we have with russia . His ans