Chairman. I have no idea what it is is like now. Think you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for joining us. Chairman mccaul thank you for having me. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] thursday, admiral Michael Rogers talks about Cyber Security. He is the keynote speaker at the sixth annual afcea Cyber Security technology summit. We will bring live coverage of his remarks at 12 15 p. M. Eastern. Coming up the Brookings Institution hosts a discussion on the state of the iran Nuclear Talks. Then a discussion on u. S. Preparedness for a biological or chemical threat. And the former Committee Chair talks about the role of congress and by a defense preparedness. Here are some of our featured programs for this Holiday Weekend on the cspan networks. Saturday at 8 p. M. , former texas state senator and gubernatorial c
That, and they are willing to continue to work with the afghan troops, and theres really no other way to do it. You cannot mentor from behind a wall, or another base, or over the phone. You have to put yourself out there a little bit. It is one of the unfortunate realities, and it is not something that is taken lightly. Host rick in nashville, tennessee, on our line for independents. Caller i do not understand why we cannot take our troops out of afghanistan, and use our drones, technology, to help with the afghan army. We cannot trust them. We have our kids coming back. We have a Health Care Issue that is hampering the problem. Put the troops on the border, and you kill three birds with one stone and make America Great like it is because at this rate we are going downhill and they will loan us. Us. Guest you bring up a good us. Guest you bring up a good point, while we cannot remove troops and maintain some level of awareness of what is going on in afghanistan and still be able to tar
As part of the first that, called for to be concluded within one years time. There are ways to address the concerns of the sanctions. The administration worked closely with the israelis on identifying the sanctions that most mattered, identifying the possible ways to avoid sanctions, identifying how you could close loopholes, working to ensure commercial activity and those that might engage in it understand the high reputational cost. We could again engage in that work with the israelis and we can do that with the saudis as well. We could do Something Else. I see that i am coming up on my concluding time. We could do Something Else hear the administration has made it very clear that no deal is preferable to a bad deal. While i understand very well the desire not to hire tie our hands in terms of giving away bottom lines, one thing we can do is make it clear, what do we mean by a bad deal . We have not spelled that out. In private with the saudis and others that may have concerns, we co
The demographic changes for the 1980s. This is about 20 minutes. The book is called Barack Obamas america have new conceptions of race, family and religion end of the reagan era. Catholic University Professor John Kenneth White is the author. Professor, lets begin. Tell us about the cover of the book. I had not been to do with the cover, but it works so well for the book because it is the photographs of people who attended obama rallies in 2008 and you have a mixture of coming in now, white, black, hispanic, you name it. Theres even a couple of pictures and their of al gore and you have to really search for that. But it describes i think visually the changes in the democracy of the United States that led to Barack Obamas election. And sho forth. And i think americans understand the changes taking place in the country are here to stay. But for some americans can creates discomfort because there is a sense of loss. A loss of a 1950s america. A loss of a time when rules were clear about m
Being forced to choose a number of bad options. It is not like we have a good thing or bad thing. Those choices were made a long time ago. It is between good and good. Needed and needed. Best structure to balance readiness and modernization is a tough thing. What elements of the structure recommendould you retaining if you have the Budget Authority to do so . Is a mission of great concern. What others have similarly impactful consequences . The greater shortfalls we have related to the requirements every year are isr and fighter squadrons. Those are the two things we cannot meet the demands on more frequently than anything else. In the isr category, i would include command control platforms. Isr is clearly the first category that i would maintain capability in. As we do best more, we will not meet them by a wider margin. We have to be careful about the vesting our fight too much because we are at a requirement today. We are going to go seven squadrons below the requirement with this bu