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Good morning everybody. I am the Senior Vice President for defense and policy studies here at aei. We are a little bit tight for time today so i will not take a lot of time for introductions. I think Ambassador Nikki Haley is well known to most of you here. She is a former governor of south carolina. She is the daughter of immigrants, what a Great Success story she is and she is now our United Nations permanent representative. Become toosingly has many rogue nations around the world, the voice of america and a strong and clear one at that. Let me tell you quickly what we are doing here today, she will come to the podium and deliver a short speech. We will then sit down and do a little conversation and take questions from the audience. We will then clea ....
Begins with an intelligence update so it was almost like a ritual prayer. Mr. Clapper would intel be intoned the latest update on whatever heart problems were at the table that day. Its been my pleasure over my entire career to work with a talented members and in particular and the white house who worked with mr. Clapper directly. For legions of intelligence professionals noting the integrity and humanity with which he has led the Intelligence Community from and he truly personifies the leader. And so its a special honor to introduce you tonight. The other thing that shows the humility of that is i did a little bit of surveying some of his former teammates and they said a favorite saying of his is that their job was to be in the engine room show boring shoveling the cold so i am sure we will have more than coal from the conversation he offers us today, so it is my distinct honor to invite mr. James clapper to the podium. T ....
Going anywhere, pretty flat. And Hillary Clintons big plan for the economy. Big fanfare, buried this morning. The media utterly ignoring it . Why . The left may be embarrassed by their socialist candidate . There are give aways, galore, spend big on everything, and this morning, the media again is just bashing trump. The clinton plan, awol. Its friday morning, however, lets join the celebration of american excellence. Phelps at 31, runs away with the 200 individual meter medley. Simone biles, poised and brilliant, crowned the worlds best. Nbc should give them a special medal for salvaging, the salvage job theyve done on their ratings. Have you ever seen anything like this . American olympic gold, a totally skewed media and the stock market goes to the loon. Varney company about to begin. The stock market goes to the moon. Have you looked at your 401 k lately . You are giddy, mr. Varney. Stuart yes, i am. American gold, the stock ....
Continue to be instructed by him in his occasional oped pieces in the wall street journal and elsewhere which i think have been some of the most pri intelligent things that have been written over the last few years about the fight againstav terrorism. Ith also had the privilege of v traveling to europe last wintere with congressman pompeo and i know how well informed and thoughtful he is on the issues. So im delighted to have them here today andle, be able to moderate this conversation. Kte let me start if i could by going back a few weeks to the debate at simi valley among the republican president ial contenders. And during that debate, there was i thought an interesting governor bush n and donald trump. In which governor bush made the point that his brother, t, president bush 43 kept the nation safe after 9 11 for the remaining 7 1 2 years of his te terms and donald trump rejoined i didnt feel so safe today. I want to unpack those thing as little bit. Judge mukasey, could you talk et ....