army chief of staff general mark millie.ing remarks to start and a morning keynote address by white house deputy national security adviser ben rhodes. this is live

army chief of staff general mark millie. opening remarks to start and a morning keynote address by white house deputy national security adviser ben rhodes. this is live coverage, it's just getting underway. >> please join me in thanking our elite underwriters, adobe and cdwg. [applause] our strategic underwriters, hp and marklogic. [applause] our industry underwriters, drs technologies, ibm and monster government solutionings. [applause] you know, we say this all the time, but events like this would not be possible without their generous support so, again, i would like to thank them. and now i'd like to introduce your host for this morning, kevin barron, executive editor of defense one. kevin is a veteran of washington's defense, national security and foreign affairs scene. he's previously written for foreign policy, national journal and stars and stripes. currently, he serves as the pentagon press association, and this is breaking news, he just recently became the military analyst for nbc news and msnbc. kevin sets the edit

lunenburg, actually dipped to the 16 according to mark out there, millis at 20 this morning. braintree at 20. we're also 20 out in natick. the coldest night of the season last night, highs 50s. well, at least some spots. we did not make it to 50 in boston. we were there in plymouth, though, close to it in hyannis, a little bit of a sea breeze today to keep us cooler but a nice recovery. starting off in the teens. temperatures warm up but only temporarily. temperatures will slide going into the weekend. a nice band of rain. when it's long like this, i mean, almost the width of the to south distance, i should say, from the gulf of mexico to the great lakes, this is when it gets kind of funky because it's almost unstable in the sense, that you know, there's too much rain to move along and inch along that long of a distance. so what's gonna happen is there will be an area of low pressure that forms along that band of rain that enhances a small portion of it, see what i mean, watch this, low moves along the front. it forms just in the nick of time to come into new england. and i'm

i'm very pleased to have general mark milly, the 39th chief of army staff with me here today. general milly took over in august. prior to that, he was u.s. army forces, fort drag. graduate of princeton. one of the few army chiefs who i think was not a west pointer. he has been demanding general of the mountain commander. deputy in afghanistan overseeing 100,000 troops also in iraq. married 30 years. two children, including ale son who played at my alma mater. st. stevens in alexandria. he was not up late watching the world series because he is a red sox fan. >> that wasn't very nice? >> too soon? >> there's always next year. >> when you took over in august, you said we have to be a able to fight guerrillas and terrorists through nation state militaries. if we do not maintain our commitment to remain strong in the air, on the sea, and, yes, on the ground, we will pay the butcher's bill in blood and forever lose the precious gift of our freedom. why did you feel the need to say that at the moment? >> i think as a soldier, as a professional soldier, and i've been doing this for 3

a chihuahua in puerto rico named millie is the guinness world record holder for the world's smallest fully grown four inches tall. marking the first dog that has a legitimate reason to be scared of the vacuum. [ light laughter ] all right, shut it off, shut it off, honey. got to get -- let millie out of the bag. come here, millie, come here. help me put a leash on millie. [ light laughter ] all right, millie, get out of there. guys, i saw that an animals rights group is suing an amusement park in louisiana for letting a chimpanzee drink soda and smoke cigarettes. meanwhile, the chimp was like, you nerds need to mind your own business. [ laughter and applause ] get a life! and finally, this is great. one of the games we sometimes play on our show here is called the whisper challenge. and you put headphones on, noise cancelling, and you try to guess what someone's saying even though you can't hear them. just read their lips. well, a family in texas decided to use the whisper challenge to make a big announcement. and check out how it went. >> you're going to be a >> short short. >> you're going to be a a grandparent. >> you

from assistant attorney general for national security, national director rasmussen and general mark milly. this is about an hour. >> so thank you for inviting us to do this here today. i'm going to introduce you briefly to our guests. this is john car hand, at the justice department. they handle intelligence matters from the legal perspective at doj. nick rasmussen, since 2014 has been the leader of the national terrorism center and previously worked with the white house as advise er to the president on national security. both gentlemen lead agencies that were born out of the 9/11 commission report. i wonder if you could give us a perspective 15 years removed how you see the role of our agencies as they evolved? >> it was created in 2006 as a result of reforms recommended from one of the post-9/11 commissions. sat side by side. so it was created so there would be a one stop shot with a full range of national security problems could be tackled. in doing that, it meant looking at legal problems in a way where, whether it was the department of defense, fbi, cia, nsa, that we viewed the probl