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He discussed the implications of a potential Government Shutdown on military operations and urged congress to provide budget predictability for the Defense Department. This is just over 45 minutes. Peter good morning. Im peter lewis, vice dean at the Johns Hopkins University School of advanced international studies. Before making my brief introductory remarks, i think we will start by asking everyone to silence or turn off your cell phones. We just finished our Holiday Season and i had the opportunity to go to a couple movies so i am very mindful of turning off cell phones and silencing our de...

The speaker good morning. Our government has no higher responsibility than to support our men and women who are in harms way. For months now we have been working to get our military the resources it needs to keep the peace. This budget agreement delivers on that commitment. It fully funds our National Defense at levels that secretary mattis has requested. It provides what the pentagon needs to restore our militarys edge for years to come. As secretary mattis said yesterday, i quote, congressional action will ensure our military can defend our way of life. That mission is hard enough, especiall...

Whole bunch of statistics, you hear me do this every week, this is a statistic that gets to me. In 2017 we lost 80 Service Members in accidents and training incidents, nearly four times more than we lost in combat. In 2017, we lost 80 Service Members in accidents and training incidents, four times as many people we lost in combat. Think about that. With better training and equipment, many of these deaths could have been prevented. This is a sad and tragic state of affairs. And this is why we can never allow anyone to politicize our military or use our troops as bargaining chips. The stakes are...

Uptick utilities is the Top Performing sector, i guess we could say it had a pullback. It did hit a nine year high today. Tech strong, Consumer Staples are strong lets begin with dominic chu wh is following the stock market. The stock market might be a little bit ways away from getting back to the highs before the selloff, we looked at the s p 500, it turns out that 93 members of the s p are 5 away from claiming those 52 week highs or better that theyve seen 81 stocks have hit highs so far in 2018 alone. And a handful, 13 of them, has hit 52 or better just this week. Some of the stocks that ar...

Our government has no higher responsibility than to support our men and women who are in harms way. For months now we have been working to get our military the resources it needs to keep the peace. This budget agreement delivers on that commitment. It fully funds our National Defense at levels that secretary mattis has requested. It provides what the pentagon needs to restore our militarys edge for years to come. As secretary mattis said yesterday, i quote, congressional action will ensure our military can defend our way of life. That mission is hard enough, especially in a time of rapidly evo...