The republican senate. We are living through one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership in our countries history. Did you hear that donald trump . You have created one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership. We are going to this last portion of the conversation because the senate is about to gamble back in after their weekly caucus meetings. Senators continue work on the 2021 Defense Authorization bill with votes scheduled later this afternoon for five Senate Coverage on cspan2 a senator madam president. The presiding officer the senator from wyoming. Mr. Enzi madam president , i rise today to discuss our federal finances and the need to address our unsustainable fiscal debt and deficit. The federal budget has already been on an unsustainable path before covid19 reached our shores and before the pandemic and our governments response to it, which has accelerated what i believed is a coming day of reckoning. I recognize the unprecedented crisis presented by th
Our August Mitchell institute forum. Today our subject is the next Generation Air dominance. For those of you i havent met, im the dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Power studies. We are plead we are pleased to have the president of the air force association, general bruce right, amongst a set of distinguished visitors to include general mike low, force former vice chair of air force staff. We have an expert panel to discuss this topic. Say again . [laughter] [inaudible] they are all youngsters, sir. Forlanned this Panel Feedback and discussion. I will offer remarks to set the stage for the discussion. Ability tority, the deny enemy forces access to key portions of the sky, is today a bedrock mission for the department of defense. Everybody over there and each one of the services, understands that the viability of soldiers and marines on the ground, ships at sea, space and cyber installations, logistics lines and command and control facilities are fundamentally dependent on
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. Im mike ohanlon, here to welcome you about a discussion with possible wartime scenarios with russia and or china. This panel has a lot of expertise on these subjects. Im going to briefly introduce folks in a minute and hand the baton, so to speak, over to my good friend and colleague jung pak, who will be our moderator. Shell pose questions to the panelists. Were talk amongst ourselves for the first half of this 90minute event then go to you. The panelists have all been kind enough, as well as jung as moderator, to allow me to use my new book the senkaku paradox as the spring board for this discussion, but only the spring board, and the conversation will range much more widely. But let me just say a brief word of introduction to the subject before introducing them. Just so you know, at least where our starting point is in this project and this conversation today. I think back to something that my good friend Lieutenant General John Whis
Summer meeting held in providence, rhode island, last week. Virginia Governor Terry mcauliffe chairs the nga. I would like to welcome everyone to the great state of rhode island and the official opening of the 2017 of the nations governors association. Before i get started i would like to recognize some of the very distinguished guest guest e with us. I would ask that they please stand when we recognize you. I would first as you will see at this summer meeting that first is the first time weve actually had a head of state, Prime Minister trudeau will be with us today, in addition we have representatives from all over the globe to show the growing importance of the governors and giddy with International Trade and Business Development issues around the globe and that we has governors want to do direct direct relationship with any of these countries and many of these businesses who have come to visit us here at the nga, and i thank them for i also want to thank china. I want to thank amba