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indo-pacific command. it's lifted billions out of poverty. all to a level of prosperity previously unseen in human history. today the concept of a free and open indo-pacific resonates with our allies and partners across the region and includes economic, political, and security dimensions. and it demonstrates our commitment to a safe, secure and prosperous region that benefits all nations, large and small. as the primary military component of the united states efforts to ensure a free and open indo-pacific, u.s. indo pay come works with the rest of the u.s. government and other allies and partners to advance our shared vision. when we say free, we mean free both in terms of security, free from coercion by other nations and political systems, free to choose trading partners. an open indo-pacific means we believe all nations should enjoy unfettered access to the seas and air aways upon which all nation's economies depend. open includes open investment environments, transparent agreements between nations, protection of intellectual property rights

pacific. there is indeed more work to do. when i took command of indo pay com nearly nine months ago i said for more than 70 years the indo pacific has been largely peaceful. this was made possible by two things. the willingness and commitment of free nations to work together for a free and open ndo pacific and the cred ibility of the combat power. this commitment and credibility have worked to liberate hundreds of millions of people and lift billions out of poverty in those seven decades. all to a level of prosperity previously unseen in human history. today the concept of a free and open indo pacific resonates with our allies and partners across the region and includes economic, political, and security dimensions. it demonstrates our commitment to a safe, secure, and prosperous region that benefits all nations large and small. as the primary military component of the united states efforts to ensure a free and open indo pacific, u.s. indo pay com works with the rest of the u.s. government and a constellation of like minded allies and partners t

not with just pacific command, but we have helped facilitate budgets by the department of detier your and the pacific island forum. i'm providing some assistance to make sure for the oceans conference in 2020 will be sound as well. we have to step those things up additionally. >> these are very small nation states. as you mentioned that the citizens of these compact nations can travel to our country to any state without a visa requirement and they mainly come to hawaii and they go to guam. so whatever we can do to provide the kind of support for these citizens would be very much appreciated. i know they feel we have not done quite what we should be doing with regard to their needs. thank you. >> thank you, senator. senator tillis? >> thank you, mr. chairman. gentlemen, thank you for being here. general, it's great to see you again. i appreciated all your hospitality when you were down at fort brag. admiral davidson, i'll start with you. the subject of the 355-ship navy has come up. to be honest with you, i'm not obsessed with the set number. in fact, i think it could be dangerous for

pacific. there is more work to do. when i took command nearly 9 months ago i said the for more than 70 years the indo pacific has been largely peaceful. this is made possible by two things. the willingness and commitment of free nations to work together for free and open indo pacific in the combat power within the indo pacific command. this credibility have worked to integrate -- liberate billions and lift them out of poverty. offer a level of prosperity previously unseen in human history. today the concept of a free and open indo pacific resonates with our allies across the region and includes economic, political and security dimensions. it demonstrates our commitment to a safe and secure and prosperous region that benefits all nations, large and small. is the primary military component of united states efforts to ensure a free and open indo pacific working with the rest of you as the government and allies and partners to advance our shared vision. when we say free, we mean free. both in terms of security, free from coercion by other nat

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though, has to deal with what is now -- and that is, for example, adam davidson commander of the pacific commandid of this. if we can go to the full screen on admiral comments. the chinese communist part of leadership and beijing senses weakness they are testing our resolve and if with we do not act they can concludely force we cannot take these for granted said admirable but none of his comments it he say what we should did and none of his comments acknowledge that this is the president who is moving against the -- against the intrusion and intervention of the chinese in this country. and our national security, and this hemisphere. >> well this has been a change in attitude when president trump took office because you see many more of these freedom of navigation operations you see much more in challenge of china, and also you see a president who wants to build up the navy and he actually wants to build the -- and that actually even more so than many do this this is important because china does pose a challenge to not only the united states but country in the region but this is important because

side on capitol hill, including the senate arms services committee theearing from the head of pacific command. that is happening on c-span3 now. that is admiral davidson testifying about hearing. it is james in half or motorhome a, the chairman of that hearing is best if you questions. if you want to watch that, we're airing it on c-span3. james has been waiting in tallahassee, florida in independence. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? in reference to this compromise, i do not like it. i would rather he did not find it. i do not want him to do it government shutdown, but i do right todoes have the iticiate or however you say moratorium on migration and refugees and not only the people as right nowr retroactively. they get to be seen as far as ase hurt as -- heard as far legal immigration and i would not sign it. until the yield. it sounds real good. he does not matter. those of us who live with it no better. livese a legal woman who on the only two story house on the block. $40,000 yearng me of our tax dollars. she does not get any money. she has seven kids with five daddies an

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indo pacific command and u.s. forces korea.nouncer: iranian president hassan rouhani spoke on the 40th anniversary of the iranian revolution. in the speech delivered in tehran, he talked about iran's military and missile program, and the economic sanctions imposed by the united states. this 45 minute program is courtesy of press tv, iran's 24-hour english-language news channel. president rouhani: in the name of god, salutations to the prophet of islam, prophet mohamed. blessings of god upon him and his pure household. salutations to azra, peace be upon her.

pacific command. think of how much is invested in preparation for war with north korea. china behinde's that. i think about what we can do. we will never be able to achievable vision for medicarere for all or f free college tuitin or green new deal unless we tackle the $700 billion budget that is currently being invested. north korea isis the greatest -- allegegedly the greatest u.s. foreign-policy challenge. we have a golden opportunity. the korean people want peace. it is time for the american people to stand up with them and urge the president -- and a president trump is not movable, then we have to try the u.s. government, and that is where congress has a role to play. nonot just to authororize war, t they have a role to declare peace. amy: christine ahn, you were among hundreds of women who wrote a letter jointly to donald ,rump and two kim jong-un calling for peace and saying peace womomen should be at the tatable. can you explain?n? >> absolutely. i think right now the fragility of the talks shows that we have to democratize this process. we cannot leave it just i

pacific. admiral chester w nimitz, in command of the central pacific ocean area forces, what, in june 1944, attack the southern marianna islands. they would seize sipan, tinian and guam. the purpose of that operation was to secure the sea lanes of communication into the central pacific and also to maintain naval and air bases for further operations, including basis for b-29 super fortress bombers that would conduct a strategic bombing campaign against japan. nimitz within pivot -- within pivot south to seize the palau islands in 1944. and they would shake out to the island of peleliu. after that operation, they would security approaches to the philippine islands. in november 1944, macarthur and nimitz would combine to attack the large, southernmost main island of the philippine islands. these operations would continue according to this schedule until september, when admiral william f halsey junior intervened very dramatically. halsey was commander of the third fleet, which was effectively the main force of the pacific fleet, including the fast carrier task forces. those carrier forces had conducte

indo pacific command and u.s. forces korea.esentative beto o'rourke, a potential 2020 presidential candidate, held a rally in el paso, texas. the rally challenged president trump's statements that a wall in el paso impacted crime rates. mr. on the telling the story of thelma white, he graduated -- douglas high from school in el paso in 1954. rep. o'rourke: denied entry because of the color of her skin. she did not allow that injustice to deter her or to dampen her

he would prove to be one of the most able imperialist commanders the americans would face in the pacific war. when he arrived on peleliu he recognized that the island offered him a premium defensive opportunity. peleliu is about six miles long, about two miles wide. the southwestern most portion of the island is level. it was one of the major american objectives in taking the island. the shape of the island is that of a lobster claw with the western part to claw being the largest. and that part of the lobster claw housed a feature called the umurbrogol mountain. this was an outcropping of corral, corral peaks, ridges and valleys. other might see this as something transplanted from an alien planet. but nakagawa had an extremely formidable fortress. men at end he put his work to explore the natural gave. he had a tunneling unit providing advice and how to construct tunnels that would have formidable defenses. they took all together the natural and the added man-made features and would have 500 underground divisions housing from a single man to hundreds of men. the k fronts were covered by

and pacific command, and u.s. forces korea, to discuss their missions and operations. our live coverage begins at 9:30 a.m. eastern here on c-span 3. t-mobile and sprint executives testify wednesday before a joint house committee on the proposed merger between the two wireless companies. watch live wednesday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 3, online at www.c-span.org or on the free c- span app. there are nearly 100 new members of the house of representatives this year. ohio, west virginia, maryland, mississippi, and washington. how five of the states added one new member. representative anthony gonzales was a football star at ohio state before the indianapolis colts drafted him in 2007. after injuries cut short his professional football career, representative gonzales earned his mba at stanford business school. he is the first latino elected to ohio's congressional delegation. representative carol miller served over a decade in the statehouse before voters in west virginia's third district elected her to congress. politics runs in her family. she is the daughter former

joint chiefs of staff issued a directive scheduling operations for the two american pacific theater commanders. >> would you put the slide up, please? there we go. go ahead, richard. richard:: no, i was where i wanted to be. >> what's there is not what's here. go ahead. go ahead. rich: forget about all that. >> we're showing slides but they're not popping up behind us at the same speed. i'm just trying to coordinate. rich: the joint chiefs are going to join this directive to the two american commanders. general douglas received a directive that in the beginning joe mccarter was keened on having his name mentioned first after the phrase "in the beginning." [laughter] his forces would continue their advance along the northern cost in the island of new guinea which is in length as long as the width of the eastern front was which again emphasizes the difference in scale of everything in the pacific. juneester nmimitz would in 1944 attack the southern mariannea islands. ey would seize sipan, tinean and goo wham. the purpose was that to solidify the communications and have air bases. they included b

pacific command saying the inf is handcuffing the ability to sound to china.r ability to counter chinese and other countries' cruise missiles, land-based missiles is problematic. the current take on commander davidson said the same thing last night. i believe it unfairly places our forceers at risk because china is not a signatorey. the absence would give -- it finishes by saying china is capable of controlling the south china sea in all scenarios short of war with the united states. jon, that's a huge concern for the united states which is why we keep sending ships through the south china sea where china is building islands to put missile bases and naval bases on. the u.s. is saying publicly that it wants russia to come into compliance but a lot of people hope they don't come into compliance because they want the united states to withdraw from the treaty to address the looming threat from china. >> jon: so much of the world's economic production flows through the south china sea. >> it is huge. >> jon: john roberts at the white house, thank you. >> sandra: fo

you come in here and you rail on the president of the united states, commander in chief while he's over across the pacific ocean to negotiate this deal to make this world safer. mr. chairman, having this committee at this time when the commander in chief is out of the country as a new president. you call him a racist, a cheat, attack his character. i've been with the president a little bit and i didn't see that in the president. i see a president who is very sincere, he's trying to make this country better for every american. and for you to come in here and do that -- on your part is really unbelievable. real repentance would be go serve your time and don't come back here and make allegations towards a man you can't substantiate. >>> i'm looking here at the remarks of the prosecutor for the southern district of new york, false statements to bank 3 which cohen pleaded guilty was -- isolated event. one of the long series of self-serving lies. cohen told financial institutions. earlier in your testimony you said there was a home equity loan. apparently the prosecutors in new york think there's other financia

here and you come in here and you rail on the president of the united states, commander in chief as he flies over the pacific ocean trying to negotiate a deal to make this world safer and mr. chairman, just having this committee at this time while the commander in chief is out of the country i think is a new precedent, but you call him a racist, a cheat, and attacked his character and i've been with the president a little bit, and i didn't see that in the president. i see a president who is very sincere, who is trying to make this country better for every american, and for you to come in here and do this on your part is unbelievable. real repentancy is go serve your time and don't come here and make allegations against a man that i can substantiate. i can look at the remarks from the prosecutor of the southern district of new york. false statements to bank three which cohen pleaded guilty was far an isolated event and it was one of the self-serving lies that cohen told in numerous financial institutions. not only is it a home equity loan and the prosecutors in new york think there are other financial things

holding six operational commands, one of only two officers in the navy's history to command both the atlantic and pacificleets. he graduated from the u.s. naval academy. most relevant for today ambassador edelman served as cochairs national defense strategy commission and read, when once again you are willing to beer to discuss the findings of the report. welcome to fdd and think about the to inaugurate a first event. i cannot think of a better way to do it. before we jump in come along measure provides some context. defense will pass by congress and signed into law distinguished a commission on national defense strategy. congress required the commission consists of 12 members, three appointed by each of the senior republican/democrat members of the senate and house armed services committee. that includes the current leadership of the house armed services committee, as well as senate armed services committee ranking member reed and a late chairman john mccain. in other words, this commission was a serious bipartisan effort led by 12 of our nation's leading national security experts. the statute tasked th

you come in here and you rail on on the president of the united states, the commander in chief, while he is over across the pacific ocean trying to negotiate a deal to make this world safer. having this committee at this time, i think it's a new president. you call him a racist, a cheat, and his character. i've been with present a little bit. i didn't see that. i see president very sincere, trying to make it better for every american. and for you to come here do tha that, it's really unbelievable. real repentance would be to go serve your time and don't come back here and make allegations. that you can't substantiate. i look here from the remarks of the prosecutor of the southern district of new york. false statements to banks, which was far from a nicely live in. it's one long series of self-serving lies. earlier in the testimony, i think i heard you say it's only home equity loan. but apparently the press gators in new york think their other financial things you did. he managed to commit a series of crimes, while holding herself as and upstanding member of the ba bar. they wrote that your consciousness of wrongd

chile, commanded in our largest exercise in the pacific. around the reall region, the corruption, weak governments, lack of jobs, these are things that are affected, when the military as part of this whole government solution. i sell this in honduras, i was an outreach center run by usa deep, right next to police station, meeting with some young women men and that had been supplied jobs, i asked the one individual, he'd gone all the way to the u.s. mexico border and turned around and came all the way back. walked, part of the caravan. he came back, and i said why did you come back, he said it was scary for me, i felt that i should come home, and i said why did you go and he said the family next to us was starving. we were starving, and then exit them was starving, and across the street at some food because their father had made the united states and was sending remittance back. at the heart of this, it's a want of a better life in an economy in the want to have your kids go to school, and all citizens of the world deserve that. >> this will

pacific fleets. spent time on four different submarines, three attack submarines, one ballistic missile submarine. commanded the "uss." honolulu, i believe, in his final command job and chief of naval operations. so without further ado, please join me in welcoming the cno to brookings. [ applause ] >> well, thanks very much. okay, good. all right. well, it's a pleasure to be back here. michael, thank you so much for your hospitality and that very kind introduction. i love coming to brookings, because the vibe of the place is so good. and it's as much as anything a learning institution. you know, you've got a .edu e-mail address, and, you know, learning across such a broad spectrum of defense/security professionals, foreign attaches and leaders. the whole deal. coming here is always such a pleasure. and i really look forward to getting through my remarks as quickly as possible so we can get to the q & a, which is where i learn. i learn a lot just from the questions and answers. and as the leader of the navy, we strive always to be a learning organization ourselves. we have a dot edu navy address ourselves, a