Wildfires ravaging the west hurricanes pounding the east election that is distracting all of us everywhere pandemic pelting the Middle America and all of that stuff is just here theres a whole world of woe out there things we should be paying attention to lets talk about it with john siddle leidys geo political strategist truly trilogy advisers john is a diplomacy consultant to the apartment of state glad to have you back john china is always looming large. And our relationship is fraught while every nation is staggering to recover from the cove ahead chinese g. D. P. Is actually growing and thats conspicuous that they attribute that to their early aggressive response to cove it is the usa disadvantaged accordingly. Holland 1st of all its good to be back with you and your audience im so glad were starting with this very important question because this is in many ways about what the future of the global order will look like and a lot of this is predicated on how china and frankly the Ch
The Obama Administration. He spoke at the annual Aspen Institute security forum. Welcome back to the aspen security forum. Going to have a session with my friend tony blanken called foreignpolicy choices for 2021. Introduce both of our panelists. Tony doesnt need an introductionto most people for watching. We became friends and worked together long ago. President clinton at the National Security council had a very distinguished career in public service. As many of you know he was staff director for the Us Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Obama Administration and those eight years he was assistant to president obama and Principal Deputy National Security adviser. It was National Security advisor to Vice President biden and deputy secretary of state for president obama and Vice President biden. Is now senior Foreign Policy advisor to Vice President biden in the Biden Campaign and its great to have tony blanken with us and hes going to be interviewed by jerry side, executive edi
Withdrawing the amendment. If there is no further debate, the amendment we are back live at the House Appropriations committee. Theyre working on 2021 spending levels for the defense, commerce, justice and transportation department, as well as the department of housing and urban development. The markup is excited to go into the evening. You are watching live coverage on cspan. Chair lowey for what purpose does the member from california rise . The member of california . Thank you. I havent amendment at the desk have an amendment at the desk. Chair lowey the clerk will read the amendment. I ask unanimous consent to dispense of the reading. Chair lowey without objection, the reading of the amendment is dispensed with. Thank you. This amendment is straightforward. It would block a president from starting a war with iran absent expressed authorization from congress. This amendment consists of language that the house is already adopted as part of h. R. 550 in january of this year. Let me be
A vote now scheduled in the coming days so could the current social movement be the Tipping Point for historic vote all right its time to boost your i q. Tension is building over International Waters near the coast of alaska after the United States says it intercepted another fleet of russian bombers but while the u. S. Claims the flight was too close for comfort russia claims it went according to schedule r. T. Is Rachel Blevins is joining us now to break this all down for us so rachel what is russia said about this incident so far well the Russian Defense ministry is saying this was a scheduled flight and they say that a no point did they deviate from their plan to fly off the coast of siberia and alaska and they actually released footage from this incident which shows one of their 4. 00 to 95. 00 bombers on the mission. And it then shows the u. S. 22. 00 fighter jets that shadow their aircraft during part of the patrol now take a look at just how close those fighter jets get to the
Tipping point for a historic vote all right its time to shoot some good news i knew. Tension is building over International Waters near the coast of alaska after the United States says it intercepted another fleet of russian bombers but while the u. S. Claims the flight was too close for comfort russia claims it went according to schedule Rachel Blevins is joining us now to break this all down for us so rachel what is russia said about this incident so far well the Russian Defense ministry is saying this was a scheduled flight and they say that a no point did they deviate from their plan to fly off the coast of siberia and alaska and they actually released footage from this incident which shows one of their 4. 00 to 95. 00 bombers on the mission and then shows the u. S. 22. 00 fighter jets that shadowed their aircraft during part of the patrol now take a look at just how close it was fighter jets to get to the bomber now heres what a Russian Air Force commander had to say about it. Cre