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Hes held all the command billets from lieutenant all the way up through Division Commander and the like and later of course he was the first commander of the Africa Command you talk to us about today. Now hes the president and coo of a very Interesting Company in the corporate world and we were chatting a little bit earlier before this thing started and i said you know, some of the leadership things that you picked up in the military are apropos in the commercial world as well because still, its...

Chief White House Correspondent and editor. Good morning. Thank you for recovering from your same patrick festivities to make it out here for an early breakfast. We appreciate it. Welcome to all of you in live stream land. Where always grateful to you for tuning in. I am joined by bryan bender. A bunch of you know him. He came to politico from the boston globe. He has known secretary carter going back to the 1990s. How did that work out . Brian i wish it was a more peacekeeping operation. We are...

Other countries in the region are not spending massive amounts on defense. Although, australia and japan have committed to increase spending, particularly on maritime capability. Generally, were seeing a reduction in the resources of the u. S. And its potential Coalition Partners and an increase overall. So the task of managing this challenge and monitoring it is becoming greater. Then as i said, were seeing gaps in capability. Notwithstanding the u. S. Rebalance, there are limits to resources i...

So were talking about a pretty narrow universe to begin with. Second, as a matter of principle, we welcome investment. This is good for our companies, its good for all sorts of industries, and its something that as a general proposition we want to encourage. But its vitally important that when it comes to national security, we remain vigilant. And thats what cfius is designed to do. Now, i think youre right to raise the question about whether in the event of a bilateral investment treaty the inv...

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Bush bunch of negative outcomes. The russian economy will contract 3 or 4 this year and will remain into concession next year. Take stands in stark contrast to the vast majority of the worlds economies that are projected to grow this year. Just in the last three years, weve seen the russian economy plummet in size from being oneeighth the size of the u. S. Economy to being onesix teteen. So with all due respect to our friends in spain, that is not a country that is thriving. They are sustaining ...

Assertive abroad. Thats just what we are doing. Thats something that we are addressing with this Regional Security strategy. Admiral harris, as i indicated in my opening remarks, theres concern about north korea. I recall when we met in singapore, you expressed significant concern. Can you just briefly give us your latest update about north korean activities . I might add, since china shared a border with north korea, are they at all being helpful or do they recognize the threat . Senator, i bel...

I also want to address my concerns about the administrations 3 billion pledge to the Green Climate fund. The American Public does not support paying their hardearned taxpayer dollars into a slush fund that spends billions of International Climate change programs in developing nations to address the impacts of extreme weather. The need for spending our natural disasters is down historically while other International Priorities have increased. According to the 2014 annual Global Climate and catast...

For austria as well as the osce mission that you and i had a chance to talk about all are housed in vienna. So youre part of a Diplomatic Team that we have in a critically important place where major decisions are being made. Obviously the focus today is very much on the responsibilities and the implementation of the iran agreement by the iaea and as we talked privately and ill repeat now and as i pointed out to ambassador shannon, your openness with us is critically important and appreciate the...

That goes overseas to bring their product back here, not trading with a country, im talking about our own people getting their jobs where they can, where its cheap and sends it back here and sells it for as much as they can get. Put a tax on those people and they would bring their jobs back here because it wouldnt be worth going over there to begin with. Lets take that idea. Congressman . I think we have to be careful about this, a lot of the companies in my state and district that have faciliti...