Good morning. Welcome to the hudson institute. We are honored and privileged to be hosting this event and conversation with Robert Obrien assistant to the president on the National Security affairs otherwise known as National Security advisor. Of youto welcome all here that are able to join us and the audience watching live stream from the website but also a very special welcome to the cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today we are delighted to have you here if only virtually and delighted to have everyone that has been able to participate in this discussion. This is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that weve done here at hudson given the fact we are less than a week away from the election. The question of what america is going to do and where america is going to go from here those are going toil be decided very soon and so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to w understand what tas place regardless of who it i
I dont want to deal with money. That was u. S. President donald trump responding to a question on trade talks with china and this is your Business Report im so you can be in berlin its good to have you with Us Donald Trump once again casting down his trade deal with china saying tuesday he chose to cancel last saturdays planned meeting between both sides an advisor had said that the phase one trade deal struck in january was on track but beijing is falling behind on its purchases of u. S. Goods outlined in that plan and tensions are growing elsewhere washington is singled out chinese firms doing business in the u. S. In recent weeks including ticktock owner bite dance and we chat for fun and for more on this im joined by my colleague Chelsea Delaney chelsea good to have you with us chelsea are there signs that the trade agreement is falling through and what would that mean. Well as with anything relating to the u. S. Administration theres a certain amount of rhetoric and theres a lot o
News from california yesterday and have been. ,olatility is a little elevated and we have got a really negative u. K. Two year yield. We were below japan a little bit early on. Slightly better retail numbers, but i have to say a bleak forecast coming out of the obra. Even the medium one i do not think it was positive. What are we going to be talking about . We will be talking commodities. We will chat oil and a little bit of copper and gold. Francisco blanch will be joining us a little bit on a little bit later on, and he is the head of the Global Commodities research at the bank of america. His dash cam weighing in on those commodities commodities. Fargo, citibank and jp morgan with jp morgan the outperform or. What stood out to you. It was something that one of our guests said earlier, validating the thesis that the strong get stronger, banks like jp morgan can use their skill to build up the dominance. In terms of how the shares are performing it is a mix. Jp morgan all the loan gai
Chairman inhofe our hearing will come to order. We meet today to continue receiving our hearing will come to order. We meet today to continue receiving the posture statements. We have quite a few more. This is the time of year, and we have general todd walters, and i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with it from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combata
Appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with it from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and then there is transcom, focused on fullspectrum mobility operations. Both of which face capability shortfalls. I just returned from the security conference with several others here at th