Good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. Im mike ohanlon, here to welcome you about a discussion with possible wartime scenarios with russia and or china. This panel has a lot of expertise on these subjects. Im going to briefly introduce folks in a minute and hand the baton, so to speak, over to my good friend and colleague jung pak, who will be our moderator. Shell pose questions to the panelists. Were talk amongst ourselves for the first half of this 90minute event then go to you. The panelists have all been kind enough, as well as jung as moderator, to allow me to use my new book the senkaku paradox as the spring board for this discussion, but only the spring board, and the conversation will range much more widely. But let me just say a brief word of introduction to the subject before introducing them. Just so you know, at least where our starting point is in this project and this conversation today. I think back to something that my good friend Lieutenant General John Whis
Want to run reporter the forum . Mr. Mccarthy yes. How many are running . Mr. Mccarthy i think its two right now. Reporter will there be a vote after the forum . Mr. Mccarthy i dont know. Reporter with some republican members back home, what does that say to america . Mr. Mccarthy stay at work. We have a small majority. You see how eight can partner with the democrats and cause chaos. If you have eight members led by gaetz who doesnt want to pay the troops or border ages you could have a problem. I cant believe the democrats want this much chaos. Want this much chaos. Within the last 20 minutes the republicans started voting for House Speaker after the closed meeting. They were waiting for mike mccall of texas and Patrick Mchenry to return from the white house where they were discussing aid for israel. Well bring you the developments and the race for speaker on the cspan networks. Since 1979 in partnership with the cable industry, cspan has provided complete coverage of the halls of co
Struggling to recover from gunshot wounds. They should be enjoying a mild sunday evening. The fact that they are not and for 29 people never will again is the reason were here tonight and the reason we weep. There are vigils for the 29 men, women and children who have been murdered in two Mass Shootings in the last 24 hours. Thats in addition to another mass shooting earlier in the week. Nine killed overnight at a dayton, ohio, night spot. 20 earlier yesterday at that walmart in el paso, texas. In what authorities have reason to believe is another act of antiimmigrant, white supremacist domestic terrorism. The alleged killer, who we are not naming, traveled more than 600 miles from his home to a city more than 80 hispanic. His name is on a hatefilled manifesto shortly before the killing began. One line reads, this is tack an attack to the hispanic invasion of texas, which is similar to the pittsburgh gunman. They are removed from acceptable political discourse. By the same taken, its h