Retired from the marines so we had to get to the library but then we had a distinguished professional here we would remind people jack brennan continues to serve we are so glad if you are here if you are a veteran or member of active duty please sting and. [applause] our guest graduated from the United States Naval Academy 1976 a 37 year career and some extraordinary stations along the way including Combatant Commander and of course the nato allied Supreme Commander with masters of arts which he subsequently went on to gain after the navy is also an operating executive with the Carlyle Group that most known as a Permanent Fund in the United States and with Mccarty Associates one of the most treasured guest i have on my radio show and have personally campaigned to get the admiral on the board of at least one and three Big Tech Companies so facebook and amazon with their discussion of National Security of the United States. [applause] i also like to point out he spent those years out of
[applause] our guest is an admiral who graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1976. He had a 37 year career and some extraordinary stations along the way, including as the Combatant Commander of u. S. Southern command from 06 to 09 and of course his nato ally supreme commander. He earned his phd as well and masters of arts and law from the Fletcher School of law and diplomacy which he subsequently went on to lead as dean after his retirement from the navy. The author of ten books, but hes also an operating executive with the Carlyle Group which most americans know as perhaps the preeminent Venture Capitalist Fund in the United States. He chaired boards of the council. Hes among the most treasured guests i have on my radio show, and im leading personally a campaign to get the admiral on the board of at least one and hopefully three of Big Tech Companies so that google, facebook and amazon bring to their perspective and discussions of you to the National Security of the United
Memorial in arlington, virginia, a special veterans day edition of Halftime Report. Now, heres scott wapner and the halftime investment committee. [ cheers and applause and welcome to the womens memorial here in arlington, virginia. We have a great lineup of womens veterans in business including the ahead of womens veterans on wall street and some of todays highest ranking female officers. Were happy to be with you to honor women who have served this great country. Our traders today were going to get to our guests in a few moments. We honor your service. Lets kick things off with the markets. Stocks have been trading around record highs. Im going to defer to you first for obvious reasons. Thank you for being a part of our program. Trade. Thats what it all comes down to yet again. Trump earlier today, the president saying he hasnt agreed to a rollback of tariffs with china in any way. Were still up a little bit. Before we do that, thank you again. More importantly, i think thank you to
Joint chiefs of staff. Chairman brown general brown spoke about civilrights, diversity and inclusion in the military. This is about 20 minutes. [applause] general brown thank you, and good morning. As president truman once said, occurs when courageous leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. Today we are here to celebrate 75 years of progress, only possible because resident truman and his administration seized the opportunity to change things to make america better. An in order that made it possible for ordinary americans to have so many opportunities. Thanks to general scott for the kind introduction. Its an honor to have someone who knows my parents, someone who served with my father, introduced me. Thank you so much. I want to thank the Truman Library institute for the opportunity, and for everyone that has worked to make the truman civilrights symposium possible. Thank you all in attendance, not yesterday, but over the course of the past three days to help us
several private messages on facebook in the 30 minutes leading up to the massacre. one message referred to shooting his own grandmother. another about attacking an elementary school. julie: a short time later he entered the school through a back door and went into a fourth grade classroom, barricaded himself and opened fire. a border patrol agent from an elite unit rushed into the shooter killing the student. bill: we have heard from many anguished parents waiting for news of their missing children and many are now left to remember their loved ones who are no longer. she was very happy and very outgoing. loved to dance and sing and play sports. hundreds of friends. they were all frantic praying. they were saying anything they could to the policemen to let them get the kids. he is still in there, we can t do that. other kids staying he is in still in there. we re stronger together. julie: last night mourners gathered for a vigil to honor the victims, wanting to com