It is my job to help people get on the right track. Brian you have four stars and you are full admiral. It has never happened in history that a woman has been a fourstar admiral. When did you know that you would go this far . Adm. Howard i did not know that i knew i would go this far. I had only been a threestar for about 10 months when the chief of Naval Operations was traveling through norfolk and he asked to see me. I was supposed to go up and be his chief strategist and planner. That is when he talked to me about becoming a fourstar and a couple of different opportunities where we think you would do well and benefit the navy. It is a big transition. You probably want to talk to your family about it. Come back to me and say whether you think you are the right person. Brian your mother is mentioned a lot of times. Adm. Howard she is 82. Brian what did she say to you when you said they wanted to make you a fourstar admiral . Adm. Howard she was enthusiastic. She said you are a leader.
Proxy forces, misdirection plays, propaganda, a different way of exerting power . Sec. Carter exactly right. And we need to counter that, too. And we need to fortify our european allies to counter that. So weve got a lot to do, and thats just another way of saying that we need to continue to be innovative. We innovated a lot when it was came for iraq and afghanistan. They were new kinds of one of the things im really proud of in our Defense Department is a long history of innovation. It goes back you know, i started my career in science and technology. As you said, we were doing stealth at that time. We were doing a whole lot of stuff in space. Missile defenses, all those were new capabilities. And those of you who are in High Technology industry know im trying to reach out to our industry, building those bridges. Mr. Seib i wanted to ask you about that, as a final thought before we take questions. But but you have spent a lot of time in silicon valley, which is not a normal place for
Yourself and mashed in my world, and then you discover, there is a hook in their. There. [laughter] been s. i have always interested in your little biographical tom toles in the righthand corner. What are you thinking about it when you write it . The thought, initially, was the thought derived from pat all oliphant, who to me is the watershed of political cartooning, and he hates me to this day for coining that, and heme that is perfect because invested in it and it was so personal, and it seemed like it was offlimits. Library, i wasa looking through early 20th century american cartooning, and i found out this marginal commentary was part of the andand and i thought i thought, i would give it a try. I put myself in a personally. It is a drawing board. David s. do you have any way of putting yourself in the cartoon and giving a Second Opinion . Tom yes, it is just another dimension. When i draw cartoons and sketches, i always draw them without that in mind. Take that away, the cartoon i
Happened. The two iraqis in kentucky was were the most shocking example. They had done bad things in iraq, lied to get into the country, and had our Current System been in place, they would have been caught before they got here. That is why the system has been improved since that episode. You had said few things in life are riskfree, i heard the governor of Washington State say you take a risk when you get out of bed in the morning, there are a lot of dangers in the world, absolutely, but i think the program we run does as much possible to reduce the risks of bringing refugees to this country. We have great confidence in it. We invite members to come out to the field and meet some of the people and sit through some of the briefings by leon steen that i sat through leons team that i set through. Ms. Richard, that is what hates that is what makes me hate waste, fraud, abuse, deception so much. When anyone engages in it, it impacts those that would never consider engaging in it, because i
202 7488000. Are you opposed . 202 7488001. Republicans with and some democrats that congress should take a pause on the program . 202 7488002. You can also lead us or go to facebook, or email us at journal cspan. Org. We will get to your calls in a minute. Listen to what the speaker had to say yesterday about republican concerns and why they want to halt the program. [video clip] isis showed that they are committing an act of war against the west. What else do you call what they did in paris . What is the congressional response . We have the authority under the existing the way we look at this issue is, number one, in front of us is the fact we have a refugee situation that we think requires more comprehensive assessment on how to guarantee members of isis are not infiltrating the refugee population. Please know that this is not only about refugees. This is about having a comprehensive strategy to deal with isis by defeating isis, that is what we dont have. The bill we are sending som