With you giving a brief background and very briefly with your job and experience and career. Yes. Thank you for doing this today. I grew up in Dutchess County new york and i received a nomination to the Us Naval Academy which i started one week after graduating high school 1989. I completed annapolis and was then commissioned in the u. S. Navy and served first as armscontrol action officer in the pentagon and then i moved on Surface Warfare ships and navy ships in the atlantic and in the middle east. I have been a lifelong student although i a joke around when i was at annapolis i dropped out and studied at night and then go to night classes. So for example working in the pentagon i do my masters in National Security at georgetown and while i was a research fellow. And they likely heard you are not to intelligent hapless sky. And to learn more about you i really thought that was a clearer represent misrepresentation of what you had done. We also want to start how you came to work in ru
Global supplies, chip supplies rather to huawei, this as taiwans Semiconductor Announces plans to build a plant in arizona. China sending signals in retaliation that has this market on edge. Is it a bluff . We will get the read from michael pillsbury. Also, Human Behaviors on a crash course with social distancing. I will explain why. All that and so much more on making money. Now in the green. The cp effect has started. Welcome back. Its been another eventful week for the market. One of the things were seeing is caught of tugofwar between commentary and observation versus realtime news and anecdotes. The financials got crushed on wednesday, after the Federal Reserve chairman powell offered a dire warning about the economy, more specifically the american consumer. Credit Card Companies were especially slammed. But then after the close on wednesday, mastercard updated its operating metrics. They show a sharp improvement year over year transactions. Every single week for the past four wee
In order to ensure each can deliver two ships per year. Today the lcs program is on budget and blows the congressional gao to actually read the gao report which is not a friendly one. They conclude cost isnt the issue. Strategically, what are we talking about . Why do war fighters keep asking for it . It is not only an ideal platform from which to employ Unmanned Systems to increase important in the future, it can go places tanker ships cant. The commander of logistics in the western pacific said they can go places and do things no other american ships can with flexible large payloads that enable easy integration with Regional Navy for mandatory missions. There are 50,000 islands across the philippines to sri lanka. Larger ships can visit 50 ports, the lcs can darken 1000 ports. Admiral harris was invoked, in a meeting with chairman thornberry, myself and many members of the delegation who had to leave for no fault of your own told us the lcs is playing an increasing role in the pacifi
Aid trucks have started to move towards besieged towns and villages in syria. There are more than a hundred vehicles loaded with food, water, and medical relief. The humanitarian operation comes after the Syrian Government agreed to allow further aid in to help people who are stranded and starving as the violence intensifies. The truck spent most of wednesday waiting for the go ahead to start moving. The they have trucks heading to the south to four towns. 29 trucks are heading to idlib province, and two other villages encircled by rebel forces. Further aid is to be sent to a town surrounded by isil. Aid has previously only made it there by air drop. Zana hoda joins us live now. Zana what are we hearing about the movement of aid trucks . Reporter well, there they are on their way to these besieged areas like you mentioned following a deal late yesterday, undoubtedly progress, especially for the thousands of people who are trapped in these areas. You mentioned that some of these areas a
Unlock one of the st bernadinos attacker phones china appears to have deployed missiles on a disputed island in the South China Sea. The taiwan ease defense minimum see says beijing has placed surface to air missiles on an island. Ownership of the island is disputed by taiwan, vietnam, chinese and the philippines. The president is appealing for calm. Translation i think the South China Sea is a region that everyone pays close attention to, especially on the issue of the dispute over seventy in the South China Sea. It is a tense situation, so we call on all sides to stick to the principle of resolving the dispute over the South China Sea in a peaceful manner. Self restraint is most important chinas foreign minister says the claim is an attempt by the western media to create news stories. Translation i hope that the media everywhere, including those in western countries and australia, will turn your attention more to the lighthouses that we have built on some of the islands that we are u