I call this joint hearing of the subcommittee of the house of Armed Services committee to order. We are here in honor of memory of the seven uss fitzgerald. Enate sailors and the 10 uss John S Mccain sailors. We are very grateful we have a mother here with us today. We send to you our give his sympathies and profound sorrow for your loss and appreciation for your sons service to our nation. I want to welcome our members to todays hearing. Recognizeespecially that we have with us the committee chairman, donald mac thornberry. He has been the leader of our ongoing efforts to mitigate our military Readiness Challenges and i want to thank him for his leadership and for being here today to hear about the challenges in limited by the tragic collisions in the pacific. To send a warm welcome to congresswoman Elizabeth Este from connecticut and congressman rodney davis from illinois. That ananimous consent member not a member of the committee be a lot to participate in todays hearing after all
We are very grateful we have a mother here with us today. We send to you our give his sympathies and profound sorr for your loss and appreciation for your sons service to our nation. I want welcome our members to todays hearing. I want tespecially recognize that we have with us the committee chairman, donald mac thornberry. He has been the leader of our ongoing effortto mitigate our military Readiness Challenges and i want to thank him for his leadership and for being here today to heaabout the challenges in limited by the tragic collisions in the pacific. I also want to send a warm welcome to congresswoman Elizabeth Este from connecticut and congressman rodney davis from illinois. I ask unanimous consent th a member not a member of the committee be a lot to participate in todays hearing after all subCommittee Members and then full Committee Members have had an opportunity ask questions. Is there an objection . Without objection, such members will be recognized the appropriate time for
Suvayan. And the uss john mccain sailors. Were very grateful that today, we have ms. Rachel echols with us, we send you our deepest simp sympathie sympathies. And i want to especially recognize, we have with us the committee chairman, chairman thornberry. The leader of efforts to mitigate the military Readiness Challenges. And i thank him for being here today. I also want to send a warm welcome to congresswoman elizabeth estes. And full Committee Members have had an opportunity to ask questions. Is there an objection . As we begin todays unkplaclassd hearing, i have no doubt that our navy remains the most powerful in the world. But these recent tragic events only reinforce our committees concern about the challenges the navy faces. Im especially concerned about the shortfalls in the structure and whether the tempo of a reduced 277ship navy may have contributed to these events. I also believe that the first responsibility of the National Government is to provide for the National Securit
Good evening. After ten years of low Interest Rates, the governor of the bank of england has signalled theyre likely to rise in the near future. That could mean as early as november. Mark carney told the bbc that because of the state of the economy, which is experiencing rising inflation, consumers should expect rates to increase, though he added any hike would be limited and gradual. Millions have enjoyed cheaper mortgages and loans since rates began coming down after the financial crash in 2007, though savers have lost out. Heres our economics editor simonjack. Its been a great decade for borrowers, a miserable one for savers. Interest rates are at their lowest level since the bank of england was founded over 300 years ago. But today, the governor of the bank sent his strongest signal yet that that may be about to change. What we have said is that if the economy continues on the track that its been on and all indications are that it is in the relatively near term, we can expect that
[applause] thank you very much. C with him back to the afternoon session of the National Security forum. My name is juan zarate and im the chairman of ft center and sanctions and finance but if you are here morning i was privileged to be able to sit down with director pompeo for what i thought was a really interesting conversation and i hope you did as well. Bear in mind that we are not just people in this room, great goodlooking crowd by the way but we are being livestream so we need to be on our best behavior. I have the distinct honor and privilege of introducing this afternoon session and first of all kudos to have ftd and cliff may in the whole team for settling this discussion with two of the most important if not the most important figures in National Security is circling now with the National Security adviser h. R. Mcmaster with us this afternoon so a real honor and privilege i think for olivas to have general mcmaster with us today. I have been asked to introduce general mcmas