Cspan. Org landmark cases. Earlier today u. S. Northern commander general Lori Robinson and Southern Commander testified on their operations including how they handled the threat of Ballistic Missile attacks and whats being continue to combat the opioid drug crisis. Speaking before the Senate Arms Services committee this is an hour and 50 minutes. We will call the meeting to order. Were going to receive testimony from two of my favorite people, general Lori Robinson. I have to say i taught her everything she knows from when she was Wing Commander at Tinker Air Force base in oklahoma, and from kurt ted, commander for the u. S. Southern command. I think there is a lot of overlap. Weve talked all three of us have talked about this between the north and the south command, and i think thats one reason senator mccain would want to have these meetings together. The new National Defense strategy and the nds identifies in protecting the homeland sustaining american advantages in the western hem
In ad jigs general tidd talked about combating the Opioid Crisis and improving elicit drug interdiction. The Senate Armed Services committee hosted this four and 45minute event. We will call the meeting to order. Were going to receive testimony from two of my favorite people, general lori robinson. I have to say i taught her everything she knows when she was the Wing Commander at teeinger air force base in oklahoma. And from kurt tidd, the commander for the u. S. Southern command. There is a lot of overlap. We, all three of us talked about this between the north and the south command and i think that is one reason that senator mc cain would want to have these meetings together. The new National Defense strategy, nds, identifies protecting homeland, sustaining american advantages in the western hemisphere as key priorities even as the dod focuses on the rising challenge of great power competitors. As we have seen from increasing economic and military efforts by china and russia to gain
President the one year in office than any president in modern american history. This in fact is our new american moment there has never been a better time to start living the American Dream. And welcome to the Program Everyone we begin the day with the consequences of twitter trump turning into teleprompter trump last night when u. S. President donald trump delivered his first state of the Union Address bits were taken would he stay on script or would the donald trump that the world has come to know when expect veer from the message and tell it like it is or tell it like he tweets teleprompter disciplined one else last night for one hour and twenty minutes a speech that had been teased by the white house as an appeal to unity building by. Partisan bridges we know was not the forte of the president who has a thirty seven percent Approval Rating his numbers outside the United States are no better all the more reason to use the state of the union speech to reach out to americas allies and
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