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Mr. Dewar. [speaking french] the guest of honor has arrived, french president Francois Hollande greeted by the president and the first lady. This is the seventh state dinner were official visit for the Obama Administration. We will take you to the south lawn pavilion, a tent that is turned into a springlike display. First, we will take a look inside a state dinner as part of our coverage here on cspan2. We will tell you what it is like to be invited to these expose of affairs and will get the ro...

After more than a decade at war, the u. S. Military could undergo a major shift. Today the defense secretary proposed changes to the armed forces. All branches will be affected, the earn taking the biggest hit. We have the details. The army will shrink to levels not seen in more than 70 years, but this is still a very hefty budget, 469 billion. It was secretary chuck hagel said today it reflects the current budget realities without compromising National Security. With the war on iraq over and th...

Ill start from sip the fact were going have to deal not only with nation states that are going to have crises and groups and individuals that are highly empowered and able to bring threat against nation of the capability most addressing the likely. The second thing, we have to bring down the alliance on Strategic Deterrent and increase the reliance on other capability and tools diplomatic and military for strategic defense. The technology and capabilities and the architecture that would allow us...

And what i know here, if we look at the democratic races, a great deal of their competitive races have occurred when the candidate is leading in National Polls readers for the election. So right now doesnt run. Ted kennedy in 1972 and again in 1970s pics three years before the primaries he was the leading candidate. He didnt run. Gary hart dropped out in 1997. Mario cuomo didnt run in 1992. Hillary clinton didnt run in 2004. And each of those democratic years wound up being more competitive. We ...

In 2024, it becomes the entire dod budget. That will not happen obviously. What highlights is the danger of that crowding out of other defense investments and acquisitions and capabilities that we will need in the future. Brad talk to lead a bit talked a little bit about how we make sure we have the right mix of capability that we want in the future . There is a question of who you trade off current capacity for readiness for future capabilities . Even if we are looking at only the 500 billion i...

That we normally dont have heard namely 25 fuel efficiency as an example. We very much would like to have competition on all of our programs. Continues,estration its compounding effects, we may be forced to down select earlier than we would like. That is the risk of sequestration, ok . I would like to give an example that is exactly what had happened on jack comes program. Joint air to ground missile it 30 million mark and then a 69 sequestration on top of that. It is not that we wanted to make ...

Answer it in two parts. The two takeaways are the terms. Ncertainty and inflexibility uncertainty is the budget environment we are in right now. Not knowingnty of when we are going to have a budget or with the budget is going to be. As a navy, we are asked to with capablence ships to do our nations is this. To do that, we have to plan. We have to plan a strategy, a budget. Aviation andan for ship depot maintenance. We have to train our people and we have to have a plan for that. We also have to ...

Let me start. I will ask admiral myers and general myers the admiral in general to step in. The data that you just described in terms of cost reflects the positive trend that the program is on in terms of driving down we enter the as inservice portion of the program, greater feasibility to the operating and support costs that we are able to attack and were seeing projections come down in that regard and it is all good. The ioc dates set by the Service Chiefs earlier this year that reported to co...

Yes, they are as prochoice and so on, but in terms of what the government should be doing and things they are concerned about economically, they still feel more comfortable in the Republican Party and that is what they choose to focus on. I want to ask you one very fundamental question, which is, is there a really any benefit to finding more Common Ground . We have been talking as though there is. And on some level, there seems to be an idea that needs no defense, but would it make it a differen...

Shown, you are very few governments in fact, a tiny handful who are extending reciprocal courtesy to him by protecting his rights the way he has decided to protect all of ours. Because of that, he is currently in a situation that is very uncertain where his own government has threatened to subject him to persecution and put him in a cage for decades if not the rest of his life and for having shown the light on behavior that is illegal and abusive, and most governments have decided to turn their ...