lewis, vice dean at the johns 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 devices. it is a great honor to welcome you to today's presentation of the national defense strategy. the nds is the foundational document that determines how the department of defense will contribute to the president's national security strategy which was released in december of 2017. this nds is the first in a decade. nds, but also because its author is the 26th secretary of defense,service ase u.s. central command from 2010 to 2013. following his military service, secretary mattis was a distinguished visiting fellow at the hoover institution, stanford university and sat on several corporate and nonprofit boards. the scholars in our audience will know, secretary mattis is also known for his love of

we work for you and i will tell you, dean lewis, it is a pleasure for you hosting me today. it is a pleasure to be at a school named for the gentleman that this one is made for. i will tell you he was so wise and how he could select eople. he picked a young man once and gave him a townhouse to help him when he first got into national ecurity affairs. that young man on his couch was none other than george schulz. that says something about his ability to see talent at a young age. there is a lot of talent that comes through here. you all look like promising young men and women because you are all young compared to me. he was also a great and avid scholar. you could agree or disagree with him, but you would not find him flat-footed intellectually. i bring this up because national security document, or report number 68, was a guiding light during the cold war. was it perfect in hindsight? no, it was not. we don't look for perfection from young people, we look for excellence. he served as secretary of the navy so we have a sense of ownership of the men for whom this school is nam

i think we have haven't seen a breakup and this kind of celebrity thing since probably dean martin and jerry lewisit's probably going to take years to fix. and i think the president is as you watched him, his behavior has only confirmed what all those people on the record and off the record said in the book. >> all these questions about the president's mental capacity and michael wolff said yesterday some of these aides talk about invoking the 25th amendment but that's pretty farfetched. >> let's be clear. as a legal matter the 25th amendment is a liberal pipe dream for two reasons. number one, the amendment was enacted post-john kennedy being shot, and the fear was this could be a president who was in a coma, and what are we going to do? some are going to say this is the same, okay, as a procedural matter it's harder than impeachment. >> you have to get a majority of the cabinet and then two thirds -- >> first you have to get the vice president and majority of the cabinet. if the president then objects to that you have to get two-thirds of the house and senate with impeachment you only need the m

allman, judge wopner, david cassidy, harry dean stanton, robert osbourne, della reese, adam west, chuck berry and tom petty and two giants of comedy, jerry lewisnd don rickles. that was a huge part of 2017. think what they take with them and what they gave us in life. and now the time has come for number one. >> you ready? >> robert mueller. we did not disagree. quite the opposite. from the first conversation we had about our number one selection. >> nobody more important in american politics than bob mueller. >> here is the mueller story i hope we focus on. there's a picture of the st. paul's hockey team. didn't know what st. paul's was growing up. i think it was called america's hogwarts. and i mean that only in the nicest way. there's a picture of the st. paul hockey team. there's mueller and kerry. on the hockey team. >> i didn't know that. >> mueller grows up with enough money and awareness to go to a place like st. paul's. then princeton. and at a time when all the guys his age are trying to get out of going to vietnam, joins the marines, infantry, becomes a captain, is wounded by the north vietnamese, then comes home, uva law school. un

dean stanton, robert osborn, bill paxton, robert gee yon, della reese, adam west, hugh hefner. fats domino and chuck berry and tom petty. dick gregory, sam shepard and two giants of comedy, jerry lewis don rickles. that was a huge part of 2017. and think what they what they take with them and what they gave us in life. and now the time has come for number one. >> you ready? >> robert mueller. we did not disagree. quite the opposite. from the first conversation we had about our number one selection. >> there's nobody more important in men politics right now than bob mueller. >> here's the mueller story i hope we focus on. there's a picture of the st. paul's hockey team. i didn't know what st. paul's was growing up and i think it was called america's hogwarts, and i mean that only in the nicest way. a picture of the st. paul's hockey team and there's mueller and kerry, on the hockey team. >> i didn't know that. >> so mueller grows up with enough money and awareness to go to a place like st. paul's, which most person kids have never heard of and then princeton and at a time when all the guys his age are trying to get out of going to vietnam, joins the marines infantry. becomes a captai