Good afternoon and welcome to the aspen institute. My name is nick burns, executive director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the aspen security forum. Its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You all again cspan so be on your best behavior. And we are here to launch a a y important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle forth powe. I agree friend could not be here with us but hes very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to our former secretary of defense and good friend of mine, secretary bill and mister janet , secretary , janet, welcome. In i also want to pay tribute to i think one of the people for me and bodies bipartisanship. Hes involved in every effort to bring peopletogether across partisan lines and thats steve hadley, our former National Security advisor here as well. Our director is jan and 90 well, we you will be seeing anja as one of the people doing the interviews. The subject is china. I think all of us agree our relationship wi
Deal, one of the reasons it was bad is because it expires. And i think you know that is false. There are provisions in the agreement that expired. Thats correct. So the agreement has a set of agreements dealing with centrifuges and inspections. So say to me, to our committee, to the American Public, that the deal was bad because it expires is just wrong. First paragraph of the deal, free face, i said first sentence. First paragraph of the deal. Iran reaffirms under no circumstances will iran ever seek develop or acquire any Nuclear Weapons. Thats permanent. Ever. Under no circumstances. Any. That is a permanent provision they have assigned to that never expires unless someone like the United States decides to blow up the deal. Second page of the deal, preamble and general provisions. I guess they felt that was important enough that they wanted to repeat it twice. Iran reaffirms under no circumstances will iran ever seek, develop or acquire any weapons. Thats not the only permanent part
This song cannot be played enough this time of year its the best new original Christmas Song it is outstanding good morning a warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Its december, happy christmas i can start saying that now. It is im wilfred frost im Courtney Reagan in for sara eisen ive been celebrating for a couple weeks now you were celebrating thanksgiving initially its a blend. Courtney does do the best internal decorations her desk is epic its pretty good. I may have to sit at it later and take a picture and say its mine you can claim the credit and move on. Lets check the markets we did mention at the top of the hour that futures are pointing to a lower open after another record day on wall street. You can see the dow jones is positioned to open lower by 19 points if it were to open now, we know we have 4 1 2 hours to go. S p 500 and nasdaq pointing to a lower open we got this delay in the Senate Tax Reform bill passing late yesterday. As we look at whats going on with the t
It is just over an hour. [applause] thank you very much. It is great to be here. Great to be with you. In the back there, they said to just call them two italians. I will go with cia director mike pompeo and former director and former white house chief of staff leon panetta. I want to tell you that we will have questions from the audience at the end of this session and you can ask them by going to the rndf app. Ndf2017. Org. Ww. Rd we will take some of the questions from their at the end of this from there at the end of this session. We want to start the questions. I was told i had Carte Blanche to ask anything. [laughter] dont forget youve got two italians. [laughter and applause] i was also told i could refuse to answer. [laughter] let me start with this. If you were secretary of state for the trump administration, how would you handle all right. My former friend. [laughter] host understanding what the president tweeted, have you had talks about another job . Very focused on doing wh
Director and former secretary of defense and former white house chief of staff leon panetta. Before we begin, i want to tell you that we will have questions from the audience at the end of the session, and you can ask them by going to the rndf app, which is www. Rndf2017. Org, twitter is rndf, and we will take some of the questions from there at the end of the session, and we will hear from you. I want to start the questions. I was told i have Carte Blanche to ask anything. [laughter] dir. Pompeo dont forget, you have two italians. [laughter] dir. Pompeo i was also told i can refuse to answer any question. [laughter] bret let me start with this. If you were secretary of state for the trump administration, how would you handle all right. [laughter] dir. Pompeo my former friend, bret bair. [laughter] bret understanding with the president tweeted in, and understanding you serve at the pleasure of the president , have you had talks about another job . Dir. Pompeo i am very focused on doing