It is an honor to be here. As a young man brought up in the Public School system, i pledge my allegiance to that flag every honor, maybend the one of the greatest honors of my life today, is to be here, and leverage the work that i have done as testimony that may in some way benefit this nation that i love. I would like to start by saying thank you to chairman corker for your leadership in this endeavor and to the senator. Your leadership has been extraordinary, and i would like to say thank you to the rest of the committee that has supported this effort. This is a bipartisan effort, and in a country that is riddled with bipartisan separation on so many things. Slavery seems to come up as one of these issues that we can all agree upon, and i applaud you for your agreement, and i believe in you in your leadership and your ability to take us out of it. I am here today to defend the. Ight to pursue happiness it is a simple motion. The right to pursue happiness is bestowed upon all of us b
That i love. I would like to start by saying thank you to chairman corker for your leadership in this endeavor and to senator cardin. Your leadership has been extraordinary, and i would like to say thank you to the rest of the committee that has supported this effort. This is a bipartisan effort, and in a country that is riddled with bipartisan separation on so many things, slavery seems to come up as one of these issues that we can all agree upon, and i applaud you for your agreement, and i believe in you and your leadership and your ability to take us out of it. I am here today to defend the right to pursue happiness. It is a simple notion. The right to pursue happiness is bestowed upon all of us by our constitution. Every citizen of this country has the right to pursue it, and i believe that it is incumbent upon us as citizens of this nation, as americans, to bestow that right upon others, upon each other, and upon the rest of the world, but the right to pursue happiness, for so man
Could speak with her child and expect a response and issues encouraged to reach to her child in that chance child had a chance to go to kindergarten ready to learn. Thank you for calling me. [applause]. Robert dobby is an awardwinning actor, screenwriter and director who spoke earlier this year at the annual conservative Political Action conference in washington describing the origins of his relationship with President Trump and his support for the president s agenda. [applause]. Good evening. I have to tell you, i got the invitation to come here and from seatac and acu and i said i aint showing up. There Something Else i have to do and im thrilled to be here with all of you. I have to say how moved i am to see how many young people are engaged. [cheers and applause] you are the future of this country and you have to be engaged and yet understand how important this moment is because this nation belongs to you. I would ask a question, how many of you on the day doubletalk came down that
Thank you. Live now to the Mitchell Institute for aerospace studies, group is holding a discussion on the future of air warfare. To top u. S. Air force officials, live coverage here on cspan2. We joined in progress. We have russias next generation, the as 500 to be capable of engaging targets as far away as charlotte and buffalo. As you can see the systems are being deployed worldwide and this trend will only continue as additional nations seek to neutralize our air power advantage. Variants of the same to invoice on the globe where our air forces operate. Moving onto airbase evince the production and proliferation of advanced fighters poses another escalate escalating challenge to our Legacy Fighter force and even our new fifthgeneration aircraft. One only has to look at trends and Aircraft Development over the past several decades to see where our legacy systems are being overtaken. Today are most numerous fighters are outmatched by the latest russian and chinese designs. Every stage
America. Yesterday, a panel of activeduty and retired u. S. Air force officials discussed the importance of maintaining air superiority on the global stage. Posted by the Mitchell Institute for aerospace studies, this is about an hour. Our fellow on panel, which we are fortunate to have with us. Deputy chief of staff for the airports for operations nolan and his partner, lieutenant mison. L dash ja a cat bit of introduction for you all. I think most of the people in this room understand that air superiority is a tenet of National Security operation. We cant succeed unless we have it. However, in terms of quantity of aircraft, the United States air force has been on a down slide for over 25 years now. The air force has 59 fewer fighter squadrons than it had during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, but we had 130 four squadrons at the time. Got 33 fewer people and fewer total aircraft. At the same time, the air force is operating a geriatric force that is becoming more so every day. Bomber