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In afghanistan, military readiness, and the importance of emerging defense technologies. This is an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. It is a sincere pleasure for me to welcome our featured an honored guest today, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley, United States army. Since becoming the 20 the chairman of the joint chiefs in 2019 general milley has worked to realize the u. S. National Defense Strategy which prioritizes competition with china and russia, and American Defense plenty. Chairman milley has worked tirelessly with civilian and uniformed leadership towards developing the u. S. Armed forces into a truly modern armed force, capable of deterring and heading off the threats of all types that we may be facing today including those emanating from nearpeer competitors that have now re ....
And all the work that you will continue to do on the days ahead. In the car on the way here after i landed in charlotte i was on the phone with more than 5000 volunteers all across america. Well be getting people together in your state and in every state and territory across this land. We already have the largest Grassroots Campaign in American History and were going to secure two million volunteers before election day. [applause] it israelly about reelecting this president for four more years but it also about an agenda. About an agenda that made america prosperous, more prosperous than ever before, before this great Global Pandemic struck our nation. More americans were working than ever before. We were setting records in this economy left and right. In the midst of this pandemic, when i speak about wenz night ....
Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining us. Im a tv critic for the National Public radio come and we are going to tackle a small topic, race in america and sold it in about a half an hour. [laughter] one thing i do want to point out we are going to take questions at the end of this, so i will ask and let you know and you can start lining up over here so while we are talking start thinking of what you might want to ask these wonderful men and yes we do want questions and not speeches we have the distinguished Henry Louis Gates junior next to him steve luxembourg the story of plessy versus ferguson. [applause] next to them the blinding of isaac would [applause] they talk about the progress and backlash against progress on the civil rights in america. First we want to show a little clip that will tell you a little bit about the reconstruction documentary that was spearhead spe ....
Stay ahead of the possibilities of storms on the 4th. Download the nbc washington app. Set your home page to weather. Now to that fourth of july and the show of military might such as weve not seenn decades. Yeah. Bring in the tanks. They arrived in the district today at the request ofid prest trump, and they are being transported by train to the National Mall for the salute to americaju this is one part of the president s grand vision, to makes the 4th a much bigger celebration this year, bt a of these changes mean its going to be a much biggerpa one ryone traveling through the area. Dont you know it. Were working for you with Team Coverage tonight. Adam tuss has new details on why the celebrations will impact air travel. Corey smith and new details on t tanks. Cory . Reporter well, wendy, we knew before today that the salute to america was going to be big. Military flyovers, ....