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Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us as we roll out the fy 2017 Defense Budget. The Defense Budget request totals 523. 9 billion in discretionary funding for our billion in and 58. 8 overseas Contingency Operations for a total of 582 billion. That sustains the National Defense strategy and the figures conform to the budget levels found in the bipartisan budget agreement. When building this program that informs the budget that we are going to talk to you about today , secretary carter first asked partners to take a long view. How is the next 25 years going to differ from the last...

2011 so i think the administration is moving down that course before they started hearing from the Environmental Community and you could see the state department was heading down its route with Environmental Impact statements. They said look this is not environmentally friendly. Only downward as things change in the political environment within the administration not on the public side. Poll after poll has shown 60 to 70 approval for the pipeline so i think its changed at the very top of the political administration. Do believe that canada believes that its not a question of if but when . We t...

My question and from George Mason University about the Police Forces regarding the culture and the value what are the challenges . Thank you. Lets turn over to the panel for a response. We probably should admit we have a huge conversation about the corruption so we are probably talked out on that subject but i will turn it over to the ambassador and we can go down the line. Hes absolutely right to call us out on the corruption. I think from the work ive been doing where i think you need to tackle this by building the institutions and one of the things we were trying to do is tackle the minor i...