individuals in the us defense . his new book the ever shrinking fighting elforce serves as a catalyst for this conversation and offers relevant insights into the future of defense. so sirs, generals, it's great to see you both and i'm looking forward to hearing your perspective. monitoring this conversation is miss ryan whoserves as a staff writer and print pentagon correspondent for the washington post . for several years missy has reported on national security topics from over 10 countries spanning latin america to the middle east. it really is an impressive list of places that she has visited in her career including reporting from iraq, egypt, libya, yemen, afghanistan, mexico, peru, argentina and chile though nothing so careless as washington dc. with that let me pass it to you and i'm going to encourage ouraudience to direct any questions to the panelists using the q and a tab which you'll find at the bottom of your screen . identify yourself and your affiliation in your questions and we will collect them e thr

you talk about the need about defense spending.ith an ongoing conversation for many years and we were talking in the green room before and that is what makes reforms defense acquisition the way the sellers have managed and then to hear congress talked about this and leaders and the need to increase efficiency it really hasn't happened in the way anybody would have liked. so if either of you think if there is a way to force greater efficiency in the way we curate these dollars while continuing to give the pentagon a pretty big budget, certainly larger than any other country in the world , it seems to me potentially it lacks incentive to be 730 or $750 it still a lot of money so howo do you square that for the defense department? >> as we say in the marine corps you put the seal on the target that with the chair of the finance committee and then working in the senate together to solve the problem for people before they know they have on one of the problems we have right now people don't realize a huge taking tail —- timebomb we need

defense. his new book the ever shrinking fighting for serves as a catalyst for this conversation and offers relevant insights to the future of defense. so sirs, it generals it's great to see both looking forward to hearing your perspective. monitoring this conversation is missy ryan who serves as a staff writer in pentagon correspondence for the "washington post". for several years she has several diplomacy topics spanning latin america and the middlet east. it really is an impressive list of places she has visited in her career including reporting from iraq, egypt, libya, afghanistan, pakistan, mexico, peru, argentina and chile. nothing so perilous as washington d.c. so with that, let me pass to you i'm going to encourage our audience on zoom to direct any questions panelist using the q&a tab which you will find at the bottom of your screen. identify yourself and your affiliation in your questions. ol'll collect them throughout the event and will post some. we also engage online audience to j

security and defense. general james also executive chair, two-time chairman of the atlantic council of major general arnold so thank you for joining us and i'm sure you and everyone else jointly my salute general powell here we are committed to saving the global future together with our allies and partners with the dedicated focus on producing actionable recommendations with real-world facts. there are two others running us today who have done that throughout their careers, significantly impacting trust department defense plans and priority so i'll get into this is the conversation they haven't impacted the plans and priorities as much as they would like to have. working to develop sustainable nonpartisan oddities to address the most important security challenges facing united states and allies and partners. seeking to honor another general, he passed away last year in august seeks to honor his legacy service embodies nonpartisan commitment and security support for u.s. leadership in cooperation with allie

seeks to maintain its the decades to come defenses on the advantage national defense strategy continuing to release analyses to help chart the way forward for the department efforts and that is the concept of today. i'm delighted to introduce the worst speakers and moderator. our speakers happen to be part of our atlantic family. general james jones is executive chairman, founder of the jones group international known as a leading authority on energy foreign affairs and national security. under the obama administration, he served as national security advisor president overseeing national security council cybersecurity oklahoma security and foresight. he served as commander of u.s. european command and alec manor and 32nd u.s. supreme court most senior position in the court. no person ever has held all the position i just named. major general served on the council's advisory board, also chief executive officer chair of the board of the national defense industry -- industrial association. the countries largest defense association. he is a marine and defense previously named temp one of the

defense companies to do well?hoebe: defense spending has been driven by the threat or the perception of threat, and it is not a safe order at the moment -- world at the moment. president biden is also an eighth long supporter of national security. this budget he submitted to capitol hill was a nominal increase, importantly all of our programs were supported because of their criticality. david: do you see pentagon leaders from time to time, the secretaries of the army, air force or navy, how do you interact with them? it's important that we know our customer both on the military -- phoebe: it's important that we know our customer both of the military side and elsewhere. and then we try to get to know the primary decision-makers so we can get inside their decision space, help them think about what we can provide. i spent some time with all of them in our major customers, primarily the army and the navy -- navy. david: the american people have a high regard for the military but they don't think of defense contractors

so the capitalization requirements for defense companies, the large defense companies, and we are one of them, which is significant. so given those capitalization requirements and given the intimacy we need to have with our customers, i think we are pretty well-balanced at the moment. and by the way, when you think about competition, you have a monopsony buyer with enormous purchasing power. so while we may be a duopoly or, for some people, a monopoly, we are up against a very powerful customer, so there's a lot of shaping that happens in our contractual discussions with our customer. david: sometimes people say the defense budget is very high because the cost overruns new -- overruns of new weapons systems and so forth. is that a fair criticism, that sometimes cost overruns are high? phebe: if you think about the complexity of modern weapons systems, it is not unusual for some of them to have, early on, in the production or the development, cost overruns, but it is incumbent upon us as a defense industry that once we understand the technology and then how to build it and build it eff

defense companies to do well?hebe: i think defense spending historically has been driven by the threat or perception of threat, and it is not a particularly safe world at the moment. that's number one. number two, president biden has been a lifelong supporter of national security. so this budget he submitted to capitol hill was a nominal increase. importantly, all of our programs were fully supported because of their criticality to the war fight. david: most large aerospace defense companies have moved to washington. do you see the pentagon leaders from time to time? do you see the secretaries of army or air force or navy? what do you do in terms of interacting with them? phebe: i think it is important we know our customer, both from the uniform and military side. we tend to try to know them as well, and then with each change in administration we try to get to know the primary decision-makers and get inside the decision space, help them think about what we can provide. i spend time with all of them, and all of our

of defense for strategy plans.rning's conversation moderated by senior associate. our speaker here thanks to the gracious funding of our founding partner and we are grateful for the continueded support entering its seventh year. it's my pleasure to introduce candy. >> thank you for joining us online the smart women, smart powers theories series. we are proud to call ourselves meeting rabobank as we are present in more than 100 countries. we talk about advantage, our global footprint brings and we unique facts perspective on economic and political climates around the world. supporting this for six years, going on seventh to bring together women's leaders for policy and national security and business community, the most pressing issues facing our world and we celebrated homecoming of sorts with our distinguished guests. there are many conversations the audience has hurt in the past six years we've been doing and they've been attributed to the efficient doctor hicks has had and has been supported and we want to thank

iron dome, a purely defensive system that protects civilians. it saves lives regardless of religion or ethnicity, period. furthermore, by saving those lives, iron dome also preserves diplomatic space for de-escalation, communication, and further negotiations about israelis and palestinian long-term security and the future of a negotiated two-state solution. there is no conceivable reason why anyone in this chamber, on either side of the aisle, should stand in the way of u.s. support for this lifesaving defense to be fully ready for the next attack. i strongly urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join the house of representatives in passing this funding on a broadly bipartisan effort. so therefore, madam president, i ask unanimous consent that at a time to be determined by the majority leader, following consultation with the republican leader, the senate proceed to the consideration of calendar number 140, h.r. 5323, that there be up to two hours for debate, that upon the use or yielding back of time, the bill be considered read a thi

with regard to mental health it begins in part with department of defense i'm glad each of you joined us today and to chair the virtual stage with congressman brand on —- brown from maryland. you divided your life and career. or the goal love rooting out extremism in the military. that is something you are passionate about. and with this kind of legislation coming from congress not just the executive branch of government. and thank you for your decades of service to the nation thank you for your service and u.s. senate and also thank you to cap action for inviting me. let me start by saying. having spent 30 years in the military. i do know the threat our country faces that the military takes on every day it's not just a threat on distant battlefields from foreign adversaries i know that you know of that national strategy blueprint is much overdue and greatly appreciated document. and for decades is not more than a century. we have grappled withhi ideology. homegrown even in the military ranks. so what i set out to do in partnership with my colleagues in the house and the senate is to

nina: and what about space defense? can you kind of give us an overview of where efforts are going on that realm moving into 2022 and beyond? secretary hicks: sure. i'm sure folks will be familiar we stood up a space force. it was stood up under the last administration, so it's often affiliated or people think of it as aligned to an administration, but i think it's important for people to know there was a strong congressional, bipartisan viewpoint to bring forth the space force. so that bipartisan viewpoint on capitol hill continues, and so we are continuing, of course, to build out the shaping of that space force and its capabilities. again, like i said on nuclear issues, that is in support of an overall white house-driven, presidentially driven perspective on how we think about space, about civil uses of space. the vice president's very engaged in this space -- sorry for that. and also, what are the military contributions to defense space or what we often call space resiliency? so we have a lot of commercial capabilit

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not just the department of defense or department of justice.ts homeland security, veteran affairs, health and human services because there's some aspects when we talk about how you go to the underlining causes of extremism behavior and ideology and if you are going to go after those it takes a whole of government approach, not just the federal government working and tribal local working also with international partners.. that's why we are talking about the domestic terrorism and extremism that's originating. we are beginning to see sort of transnational affiliation. think about the rising fashions in germany and austria to name two countries in europe, so it's a whole of government approach and that has certainly been the focus of the biden administration and also of congress. >> thank you for mentioning that white house strategy. it's a good thingg to end on. a question for both o of you, tt white house strategy led by ambassador susan rice was partnering with societies to tackle the root causes of the supremacy including in the military but a

well as the defense?e ball, is there a frustration between the two sides? >> if it goes on long enough but i want to be clear, this is not the case when you look at this 49ers' football team. they understand, they need each other and they are really still in the infantry stages of the trey-lance show. and if he continues to play, and continues to get better and better, they'll take some of these opportunities that they missed out on on the offensive side, and convert those into points, touchdowns, field goals. >> time for a closer look. a closer look is brought to you by zenni, the official eyewear of the san francisco 49ers. and if you take a closer look at the 49ers third and fourth down efficiency, you will discover it was not very efficient. third down, three for 11. fourth down, one for five. now, obviously, you want to do better. and by the way, on the play where kyle juszczyk went under center, coach kyle shanahan said that wasn't the way we wanted to run the play. something didn't go right. he wou

did you study aerospace defense at smith? phebe: no. government major and a philosophy minor. and i got a superb liberal arts background and education. i learned to write and to think in college. those are two critical values. david: most people that graduate from smith do not wind up in the cia would be my guess. phebe: most definitely. david: when you interview for jobs at the end of your college career, they do tell people i want to be in the cia or how did it happen? phebe: i had a sense of service to my nation. it seemed a good place for me. so much in life is finding place. it was --the agency was opening its doors to women. i thought it was a good opportunity for me. i really enjoyed the service i was able to provide. david: how long were you in the cia? phebe: for five years. david: were you an agent or a spy or undercover or you cannot say today? phebe: we were case officers. david: could you tell anybody what you're doing? what did you tells people you were doing as a career? phebe: we had various storis we told --approved sto

the audience is the defense establishment. uniform military officers as well as civilians and people think about that kind of stuff but also the broader public. really important to me that, and not to me but i think it's really important our military strategy, defense strategy has to be explicable and reasonable to the american people because the great power rivals with potential thinking of fighting could go to a nuclear war or could be exceptionally costly. people need to buy into it. i was conscious in the book of trying to explain that so i don't the weather of a success or not but it's too a very wide audience in that respect, people who are interested in these issues and almost all americans should be interested in these issues. >> i love the way you with all the various options and narrowed it down to get to your conclusion. a lot of these books people will just give you their conclusions upfront and you don't know why they chose that path i love that part of it. i'm going to jump to a part had some disagreements. >> ru

we engaged in formally with the department of defense. that's why for example in the provision we put forward we were initially going to define extremism. based on discussions with the military in formally. we deferred. the military as our understanding is working with the department of justice and coming up with a definition that would withstand constitutional scrutiny or challenge. we also in those conversations preferred to the department to establish the procedures and i'll add that both democrats and republicans have really been harping on this with the military. tell us what the procedures will be if in fact you're separating members because of extremist ideologies or behavior so instead of defining that which we were ready to do in congress we deferred to the military. we've engaged academics on this. we've engaged various advocacy groups. southern poverty law center and done a lot of work in this area. we really tried to tap into the best thinking to understand the best practices and best approach to giving these tools in the mili

kathleen hicks, the deputy secretary of defense. she is a former senior vice president here at csis and the former director of the international security program. deputy secretary hicks previously served at the pentagon as the principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy and as deputy undersecretary of defense for strategy plans and forces. this morning's conversation is moderated by csis senior associate nina easton. our speaker series here is possible thanks to the gracious funding of our founding partner, and we're very grateful for citi's continued support now entering its seventh year. it's my great pleasure to welcome candi wolff, head of global government affairs at citi. candi. >> thank you, bev. thank you all for joining us online this morning for what is going to be another great event of the smart women smart power series for 2021, and happy friday to everyone. at citi, we're proud to call ourselves a leading global bank, as we are present in more than 100 countries. we talk a lot about the distinct business adv

finally, i do think we need to moderate the amount of defense spending. paradox of spending is you want to keep it low so you for the reasons private citizens decide where to put the money because if you spend too much in defense it can have a negative effect on the economy. and if you spend too much little and you can spend too much later. so, again, debate of my own view and certainly given the level of resources that are currently talked about being allocated by thenings effectively cutting defense budget. we have to be laser focused on the one scenario and not get caught up in thinking about other scenarios at the same time. >> let me pull a little bit because there's a common argument that you will find in defense strategies and i don't know how to describe it. it's a shortcut, hey, we intend to do in this particular region and we are going to count on our allies to do more and so it would not surprise me to hear that type of thinking in the europe area and what we are finding is most of the european nations in nato are not spending the 2% of gdp on

to get the department of defense to work with congress of this issue. so when it comes to issues other than the level of funding for fighters and other peer kermit accounts where we seem to work better with the dod. when it comes to the issues surrounding supporting military families and personnel, we always find a much more difficult with the sex assault for one example. racial and ethnic disparities in the uniform military justices prayed and unfortunately, an interesting extremism, the department just recently sent tr policies to congress in which they outright opposed the provisions that are in the house version of 50 authorization act said that is concerning and one of the items that they identify as the dead to collection. everyone was looking at this issue understands the critical fundamental understanding of the scope of the problem in getting after the problem. some hoping we will be able to work with the department was due to concerns are so that we can get them as well. but some of the things we are looking at in that reporting. yet to approv

well, we're, we're defensive defense, steven. those no evidences defense. we know, you know, maybe you can solve it. how does that defensive going to sound? how does that defensive and also georgia, you and i have talked about elsewhere? is that specifically about your brain? nato membership is the key to you membership. that's the, it's always nato, 1st than you. and this is what is going on here. also we're creating a slippery slope and moral hazard year because the lens is getting more and more reckless with his actions and his language. and he's being encouraged by washington . well, the european members of nate know, are much more cautious. go ahead, finish office sports. yeah, that's, that's exactly right. and that's why this became a moral, has lived when you have nato. and you have lloyd austin telling me, flat out, hey, the road to nato is open for you. how are they gonna respond? it's up to us to start generating all kinds of crises. so washington and those around is that right? this nato is the solution to your problem. and this is why is the nat

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what does that have to do with self-defense? it doesn't.king all these decisions that just put that thumb on the scale just ever so in rittenhouse's favor. remember, because this is a criminal trial, all they have to do is find one juror, one juror in kenosha, wisconsin, who thinks like the judge does. >> let's talk about that judge real quick. i believe his name is schroeder, judge schroeder, he's come under fire for several other controversial rulings during his career, including requiring sex workers to get tested for aids and a high-profile murder conviction that was later overturned on appeal due to an evidentiary mistake on the judge's part. you said the judge's bias in this case has been evident in his pro-rittenhouse rulings in the past year. talk to me more about this. how much power a judge holds in that case like this. >> we're still -- remember, all this will is happening in the pretrial stage. we're not to the point of selecting a jury where the jurors will be objected to and the judge will have play in that. we're not in the m

it's defense and military established most sectors that do so much of their work. in seating on renee claims have interviewed more than 30 former u. s. government officials, including 8 who spoke of scenarios such as a possible abduction of julian assange or even clots, to kill him. they were concerned about possible, fought for the russians to break juliana sons out of the academic embassy. and some of the scenarios ended involve a british systems as well. and then also discussing a rendition operation against julian, aside, something previously unknown, taking a plane and abducting him from the ecuador embassy, bringing him back to the united states, intentionally interrogating him in secret. and they redefine the organization as a hostile entity, language that my pompei of used in his 1st public remarks is c. i a director. what do you, leaks, walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service lou the yahoo team reported the cia stepped up, its pursuit of julian assange under donald trump and was ordered to do so by its direct

does on defense. it is lunacy. why is it suddenly there is no polarization or filibustering when it comes to defense spending? not even when it came up for a vote right after the u.s. just ended the longest war in its history at a cost of $2 trillion. you would think money for defense would be going down right now not up. that is what progressives in the house wanted. but no. the senate will also pass this defense spending bill even as the build back better act languishes there. joe manchin and kyrsten sinema don't seem to have the same fiscal concerns about giving $2 trillion to american defense contractors, afghan war lords, as they do about providing free hearing aid for seniors in west virginia or paid child care to working parents in arizona. i mean, i'll be damned if i know what sinema is thinking about anything. >> what do i want from this bill? i'll never tell. because i didn't come to congress to make friends. and so far, mission accomplished. >> sinema, manchin, and their pal josh gottheimer in the house

one's defense minister says relations with china all the worst and more than 40 years. and the beijing will be capable of full scale invasion by 2025. a record number of chinese military planes recently flew inside a buffer zone close to time one's air defense. facebook c, e o mog circle boat has pushed back after a whistleblower testimony to u. s. congress in a blog post. he said his company's research should be taken out of context and the documents that pushes content for profit on a logical but former product manager funds this organ told lawmakers on capitol hill. the social media giant is an urgent threat to its users and should be regulated. she says the company sites home children, stoked divisions and we can democracies officials say it was almost 12 hours before the damaged pipeline that caused a large oil leak and water off southern california was investigated. the coast guard says it didn't have enough evidence of the issue. i'm was hindered by darkness and the lack of technology. they were investigating if the damage was caused by a ship's anchor. more than

that is the only argument the defense had. the idea that it would be an improper mini trial to put on some hearsay evidence when many other pieces of hearsay evidence came in throughout the penalty phase and half the jury evaluate that in the context of corroborating evidence, i just do not think that can be a mini trial. >> what is your argument about the standard under the federal death penalty statute? you argue that the balancing applies only to aggregating evidence? if it applies to mitigating evidence, do you argue that it is inconsistent with the eighth amendment? ms. anders: the way that this works is that the ftp eight set a very broad standard. the courts of appeals have recognized that constitutional prohibitions on admitting aggregating evidence and eighth amendment concerns about admitting evidence also operate on the court's discretion. under the eighth amendment, the court has discretion, but once evidence is relevant and reliable, that discussion is limited. the eighth amendment creates a strong presumption tha

it's a very problematic for the defense. as to how they're going to get around this, but it's certainly, uh, presents proof of an intention and it conspiracy to defraud investors. a dermatologist turned theranos lab director took the stand earlier in the day. dr sue neill. dewan barely even showed up at theranos during his brief stint there and had no experience running a large scale lab. he signed off on verification reports for tests without even seeing data behind them and was in charge of the lab during an ill fated government inspection that former product manager will take the witness stand again next week when this trial continues. at the federal courthouse in san jose evan sernoffsky ktvu, fox two news. and you can keep up to date with the latest development in this case with our app and website, we have a live blog going on the days court is in session. authorities have identified a man who was killed when someone said his sleeping bag on fire in san francisco last week. the medical examiner says the victim was 43 y