the many positive benefits that goldwater nichols has had for dod. instead, they must build on them. let me close today on why we are doing this, why it is important that we deal all the pressing charges and threats we have to deal with every day, and as we do that, we take the moment of addressing the topic of our own organizational structure. we do this because our service members deserve the best defense department and military we can give them. because they are giving their best day in and day out all around the globe. it is our job here, on both sides of the river here in washington, both sides of the aisle, to come together, as barry goldwater and sam nunn did 30 years ago, to give our men and women in uniform what they need to succeed. from the right experience to the right capabilities to the right leadership structure for the right strategic thinking. as long as we do, i'm confident that they will continue to excel in defending our great country and making a better future for our children. thank you. [applause] >> i don't want people to thin

this year as goldwater-nichols turns 30, we can see the world has changed since then.ad of the cold war and one clear threat, we face a security environment that's dramatically different over the last quarter century. it's time we consider practical updates to this critical organizational framework while still preserving its spirit and intent. for example, we can see in some areas how the pendulum between service equities and jointness may have swung too far. as in not involving the service chiefs enough in acquisition decision making and accountability. or where subsequent world events suggest nudging the pendulum further as in taking more steps to strengthen the capability of the chairman and joint chiefs to support force management, plan, and execution across the combatant commands. particularly in the face of threats that cut across regional and functional combatant command areas of responsibility, as many increasingly do. with this in mind, last fall i asked d.o.d.'s deputy management office levine and lieutenant general come walthauser to lead a department wide r

goldwater nichols took four years to write. and it's been incredibly successful over three decades to the credit of the reforms it put in place. which are not driven today by a signal failure, like desert one. on the contrary, i'm deeply proud of how our people operated in iraq and afghanistan over 15 years. the updates we make now should not outdo the positive benefits goldwater/nichols had for the dod. instead it must build on them. let me close today on why we're doing this. why it's important that we deal with all the prezzing challenges and threats we have to deal with every day and as we do that, we take a moment to address the topic of our own organizational structure. we do this because our service members and the nation they protect deserve the best defense department and military we can give them, because they're giving their best day in and day out all around the globe. both sides of the aisle need to come together and give our men and women in uniform what they need to succeed from the right experience to the right

>> goldwater nichols is 30 years old. it was structured for a very specific time.he idea was to take some of the power away to make it more joint. the problem is, 30 years later, we are more used to the types of operations like in iraq and afghanistan, which are more about the type of operations. there is the sense that, goldwater-nichols just isn't as useful in the modern era of warfare. you have seen secretary carter talk about this over the past year. >> now the hill has some of its own ideas. >> just has the pentagon has been exploring internally the armed services committee has been leading its own efforts over a series of hearings with chairman john if these changes proposed by -- we don't know what these changes proposed by senator mccain are going to be. we do know that there is some talk of consolidating, an idea that has some traction in this area of shrinking defense budgets. >> carter came out and spoke about this recently? week, secretary carter used a speech to kind of layout reform ideas. several different iterations, we will see what happens with th

we appreciate csi is for reaching the same conclusion as the review of goldwater-nichols. second area where we had to make cases in our combatant commands, and adapting new functions and continuing to aggressively streamline headquarters. adapting new functions will the changes in how we manage ourselves, cyprus-based in accordance with the emphasis they placed on either of my posture statement and that the president made in his fiscal year 2017 budget. there i made clear in each of the five challenges facing dod, we must deal with them across all domains, and not just the traditional air, land, e. and base, but also cyberspace, where our reliance on technology have given us great strengths of great opportunities, but also some vulnerabilities that adversaries are eager to explain. that is why her budget increases cyberinvestments to a total of $35 billion over the next five years and why we should consider changes to cyberstroll in dod's unified command plan. some of you may know dod is currently in the process of reducing management headquarters by 25% and we are on the

this year, as goldwater nichols turns 30, we can see that the world has changed since then. instead of the clear threat, we an environment that is for medically different. it is time to consider updates to this critical framework while still preserving the spirit and intent. in someple, we can see areas how the pendulum between service equities and join this may have swung too far, as in not involving the surface chiefs enough in acquisition the banking -- making and accountability. suggestnt world events nudging the pendulum further, as in taking more steps to strengthen the capability of the chairman and joint chiefs to support force management, planning, and execution across the combatant commands. in the face of threats that cut across regional and functional combatant command areas and responsibility. that's as many increasingly do. with this in mind, i asked the dod managing officer peter levine and general tom to lead a confidence of departmentwide review of these kinds of organizational issues, spanning the office of secretary of defense, the joint staff, the combata

hans nichols. you are not in berlin. but we did have an interview with some and close to berlin. the bloomberg business bank board member says so far european members are coping with negative rates. principle, they are coping reasonably well. clearly, we have challenges. because we had a crisis in the eurozone and we are still working principle, on solving sf those. hans: let's talk to the person who knows a thing or two about the banking sector. thank you for joining us, sir. when you look at the risks being posed, what really concerns you at the imf? >> we are concerned about a variety of issues including issues in advance economies, concerns in emerging markets related to corporate leverage and debt, and we are concerned about market liquidity, and fragility around the world. guy: has europe got its arms around the idea that it needs to fix its npl problem? how long is it going to take to get rid of? >> it remains a major problem. and a major obstacle. recovery,or a strong but it also impairs the ability of monetary p

i'm guy johnson alongside hans nichols in germany. tame theank of japan defiant yen? the currency hits a fresh 17-month high against the dollar. a quarter to forget. earnings season kicks off. is this the low point for 2016? and, a taxing affair. as the panama paper controversy absorbs david cameron, he appears before parliament to silence the critics. what will it take to get his focus back on the brexit? it is going to be a busy week. suspect once again investors'minds are going to be transfixed on what is happening in japan. hans: everyone is going to wake up and see what tokyo is doing, trading inversely to what can is doing, and yen is very strong. it doesn't seem like yen is willing to budge. that is the one aspect i want to look at. then we've got a bunch of earnings to sort through. will we see those price-earnings ratios come into line? guy: looking at the downgrades, the bar is so incredibly low. it is going to be fascinating to allwhether they've shaken those downgrades out and we can get over that. the other story is what is happening with commodities. you

the campus was designed by the state architect william nichols, who also designed the state capitol building in downtown tuscaloosa. it was designed as an academic village, speak, on the model of the university of virginia. even going so far as to design a rotunda based on both jefferson's rotunda at uva and also on the pantheon. our rotunda was actually a half scale version of the ancient pantheon in rome. >> i think the whole idea was bound up with putting tuscaloosa on the map more than anything. we had been designated as the capital of the state, moving it west. there was a lot of energy in settling the western part of the state of alabama. and so alongside with that political center comes an educational center. so the land is granted 1.5 miles west of the government. initiated here with huge resources. so we've got the state architect brought in. he has designed the most magnificent space in the south, it could be argued. and he has laid out a plan along the lines of jefferson's village, it makes quite a statement. between the time of its founding in 1831 to the epic of the civil war, t

she removes one cuff and turns to remove another when nicholls attacks shoving hall into another cellicholls overpowered deputy hall and severely beat her. >> off camera, hall is brutally beaten. within four minutes he grabs her begun, locks her in the cell and changes into civilian clothes. he's began to begin a killing spree that will paralyze the city of atlanta for 26 straight hours. >> he walked calmly to judge barn's chambers in the old courthouse. took two of his staff hostage and then took three more people hostage and held him inside of his chambers. 9:05 a.m. and he shoots the judge in the back of the head an instantly kills him. this is an actual audio tape recording of the tragic shooting. he then turned to shoot the prosecutor realizing the people sitting at the table were not trying his trial. turned from those lawyers and shot the court reporter. >> the court reporter dies a few minutes later. >> i was right outside the courtroom. >> he is the prosecutor in the rape trial. one of the attorneys he is looking for. he is making his way. >> deputies were laying at me to get

i am guy johnson alongside hans nichols. pfizer is said to terminate its withbillion merger allergan allergan after washington tightens its rules on corporate inversions. in theera of massive m&a drug sector over? donald trump loses the wisconsin primary, boosting the odds of the contested national convention. brexit votee tipping uk's stock valuations? i guess the politics story is front and center. july is shipping up to be quite the month. we've got the u.k. story, greece has got a really big payment it's got to make, and we potentially get into an interesting u.s. political story. hans: normally in july, we had to athens. this year, we may be headed to cleveland. you could have a contested convention. we talk about political risk. a ted cruz victory represents more political risk. a donald trump loss gives you actual political loss. you don't know what you are getting with a ted cruz win. that's one of the stories that is going to dominate throughout the rest of the spring and summer. is, thenuestion really next few elem

hans nichols is in berlin. moments away at the start of european trading and you have the morning brief. ans: no fireworks expected but investors await a risk assessment. as barclays falls 25% of the first quarter of the investment bank is relatively resilient. and a bruised apple. lets head to caroline for the latest. caroline: we are starting to see 0.2%.day stoxx 600 up barclay'stale and come out with earnings. you see a slump for the first time in 14 years. here is the euro stoxx 50. completely flat. waiting for the cac 40 to open, for the dax to open. it is a tech industry feeling the pain. and the fact that apple's earning missed forecast. no huge moves. we want to dig into the individual movers once again. oil guiding energy higher. if you dig into the imap function, you can dig into what is happening on and industry basis. those suppliers of apple saw a let's move on to what is happening in currency markets. this is your world currency. down 1.8%. that is what happens when your inflation falls through t

goldwater nicholls took four years to write it it has been incredibly successful over three decades to the decades of the reforms put in place that are not driven today but on the contrary of our people operated so coming at this from a different direction and with goldwater nichols has had and must build on them. and with those challenging threats we have to do with every day and as we do that we take a moment to address the topic of our own organizational structure. because the service members deserve the best defense department and military we can give them. day in and day out all round the globe. with both sides of the river both sides of the aisle to come together as goldwater did 30 years ago to give men and women in uniform what they need to succeed. . . [cheers] [applause] >> and i forgot one technical announcement. at the end of the presentation, he needs to get a clear run out there. and so there is so much that we can draw upon. we are selecting questions from colleagues. we don't need speeches and i've got some good questions and i have also asked other people as well. does

this is the goldwater nichols. we talked about why it was created in the first place, but it was driven by the congress talking to the reagan white house. the fact that speech was given by the secretary of defense in downtown washington last week is ouse ensign h are holding hearings, they are asking tougher questions, and they are using the authority to ask about how it is organized. host: you can want that by secretary carter on our website, c-span.org. the mccain hearings on this topic are also there as well. did you want to add anything? guest: that is right. it is a competition of effort. the most fruitful are those done a partnership, even if i party were reluctant at first. if the two are not eventually seeing eye to eye, they can step farmthe other branch -- stif the other branch for as long as they want essentially. it was helpful that the seentary is trying to be as proactive on this question because it is coming anyway, and he does recognize that. host: we have 10 minutes left. let's get back to call. jo

prosecutors say mercedes nichols partially arranged for the fight to take place and pleads guilty to battery and tampering with a witness and given three years of probation and 100 hours of community service. as for tori lindsay she is recovering from the injury. >> coming up -- >> if you so much as sneeze, i'll split your [ bleep ] throat. >> a video shows a teenage girl tied up, bound and apparently in fear for her life. >> if you scream and fight, we're going to kill you now. >> those filming call it an innocent prank. prosecutors call it a crime when "caught on camera: teens gone wild" continues. one crest 3d white smile... ...is all it takes... ...to turn the tables. crest 3d white toothpaste... ...removes 5 times more stains... ...than the red box. for a smile like that, crest 3d white... is the way to whiten. we needed 30 new hires for our call center. i'm spending too much time hiring and not enough time in my kitchen. (announcer) need to hire fast? go to ziprecruiter.com and post your job to over 100 of the web's leading job boards with a single click. then simply select the

timothy mcveigh and terry nichols. mcveigh was executed. nichols sentenced to life in prison. 15 members of the federal team sent a letter tuesday to top senate leaders supporting garland's supreme court nomination. >> i hope that the senate will do its job and give him a fair hearing so that everyone in the united states can see what a wonderful, honest, compassionates and fair justice merrick garland would be. maureen: garland met with nine republican senators so far. only two of those have called for the hearings. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says the next should name the justice to fill the late scalia's seat. leon: more isis fight belgium. that -- europe and belgium. that is coming from the head of the government crisis center. he says he will not lower the country threat status keeping it at a second highest level where it has been since 32 people were killed at the airport. in afghanistan the taliban claimed responsibility for suicide attack in kabul. 28 people have been killed. more than 300 injured. truck bomber targeted

prosecutors say mercedes nichols partially arranged for the fight to take place and pleads guilty toring with a witness and given three years of probation and 100 hours of community service. as for tori lindsay she is recovering from the injury. >> coming up -- >> if you so much as sneeze, i'll split your [ bleep ] throat. >> a video shows a teenage girl tied up, bound and apparently in fear for her life. >> if you scream and fight, we're going to kill you now. >> those filming call it an innocent prank. prosecutors call it a crime when "caught on camera: teens gone wild" continues. gy pills only control one inflammatory substance. flonase controls six. and six is greater than one. flonase changes everything. it's true what they say. technology moves faster than ever. the all-new audi a4, with apple carplay integration. you do all this research on a perfect car then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates... maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. li

ben nichols. >> testing, banned substances. >> reporter: some question the impact. travis tygart, ceo of usada said, whether wada is going to relegate itself to another toothless beaurocracy or are we going to fight the battle for clean athletes to win it. that's the question before us right now. it's a question wada knows comes back to playing fair. >> they all must be without influence from the government. >> there's a big conflict of interest. that can lead to a lot of problems. coming to light with russian athletic. >> jacques-maynes grew up riding bikes in berkeley and became a pro cyclist by age 20. he plays clean and he's proud of that fact. now jacques-maynes retired and he advocates against doping. >> i did it clean and those are victim rice i'm proud of. >> jacques main is concerned about wada, points to a 2014 documentary which exposed widespread doping and falsified test results in russia. it wasn't until that documentary came out that wada investigated and suspended russia from world competition. the country's athletes may not compete in rio. >> what we

this is hans nichols p s.a.p.howed its first-quarter sales rose less than analysts expected. .t had quote high visibility joining us now is luca mooch it's -- luca moog. he joins us for an exclusive interview. thank you for joining us. give us a sense on why you are so confident about the visibility moving forward to the rest of the year. luka: thanks for having me. y simpleer is relativel here at we exited 2015 on a very high note. simple. we exited 2015 on a very high note. that growth has continued in the cloud is this. we grew our q1 business there. we have every expectation it will continue on the back of our strong -- in terms of our premise license business, it had a slower start. more or less only in the u.s. as well as latin america, europe and asia-pacific were strong. in the americas, we see the number of deals that slipped at beennd of q1 have either side or on a close pass to be side early in q2. our solution portfolio is richer than ever. our business suite is enjoying very high interest from custome

i am hans nichols in berlin.is whether i suspect the beer gardens will be -- with this weather, the beer gardens will be filling up shortly. take us through volatility. it is nearing a key level. nejra: the chart i am showing here is to do with dollar-yean and options on this. we have seen it breach 108 this week. you can see the dollar-yen is that yellowish line. at the same time, options traders have been increasing their protection against further yen gains. the white line is the three-month risk reversal option. they reached negative 2.1 percentage points last year. a negative level means that trading a bigger level to sell dollars, protecting themselves against the further yen gain. it's rocking back to negative two tod -- negative two today. that level at minus two is still near a 2010 high. guy: we are getting kind of extreme in the positioning. we have seen the pound move quite aggressively, extreme positioning. we are seeing similar trade in the yen. are we near an inflection point? guest: while this is

john isil, our capital physicians be to the contents of the letter itself. , ai'm lieutenant dan nichols spokesman for the united states capitol police. thise senators said morning at approximately 10:30, a letter was received in his office. which contained a powdery substance. there was an exposure when the letter was opened. the following protocol as a staff open letter and contact address please, we also contacted the senate physician's office. the officers responding to the scene isolated the situation and according to operating calls, we conducted field test. the first field test came back as positive for anthrax. in order to confirm that, we did a second field test, and that also came back as positive for anthrax. they hope that it could be contained in a small area, but after a day or so they began to be concerned that the anthrax could not be contained. so all of the senate staff who work in the building were required to come to this room to have themselves swabbed. test to see if there is any chance they tested positive for anthrax. within three days, everybody was ensured that

i will have more to say about our own circumstances in the office after dan nichols of the capitol police, and dr. john isel, our capital physician, speak to the contents of the letter itself. >> i am lieutenant dan nichols, a spokesman for the capitol police. as a senator said, this morning a notice was received in his office which contained a powdery substance. there was an exposure when the letter was opened. following the protocol, the staff contacted the police. the officers responsed to the scene, isolated the situation. we conducted field tests. the first field test came back as positive for anthrax. in order to confirm that, we did a second field test, which also came back as positive for anthrax. >> they hoped that it can be contained in a small area, but after a day they began to be concerned that it could not be contained. so all of the senate staff who work in the building were required to come to this room to have themselves swabbed, to test if there were any chance they might test positive for anthrax. within three days, everybody was assured that they were not. no one in th

a conversation by our john nichols.uty crown prince is front and center in the transition within the wealthy in the nation. he extends on-- the oil freeze and any participation. there is a lot of talk about a well-funded well. francine: right. this was a five-hour conversation. talked us through the main points. there are three main stories often the bloomberg terminal. pin itf all, they try to down on when it will be listed. the prince said as early as 2017. the end ofis out at last year that they were thing , that sentsible ipo ripple effect across the market. they are also talking this wealth fund. if you think about the amount of prince saying,n this could be the world's biggest well-funded controlling $2 trillion. tom: this is not american oil, folks. weaknesslearly dollar oil price up here and a little rollover with those headlines coming across bloomberg. jeffrey is in ubs he can link commodities into what we see with dollar dynamics. what is the ubs' call on oil ? where are they at with oil finding a bottom? whe

marine biologist owen nichols has studied them for 15 years. why has the seal population >> they were essentially exterminated from our waters right up until the 1906s. so you're seeing a recolonization, a resurgence. >> reporter: and they're not hunted because they're federally protected. >> that's correct. >> reporter: before 1972 when the marine mammal protection act went into effect, sightings of even a single seal were rare. but today we spotted hundreds on the uninhabited nature reserve where the aerial video was shot. by biologists say the resurgence of seals here is likely one of the reasons there's also been a rise in the number of sharks in these waters looking for food. researchers counted 68 great whites off cape cod in 2014678 that number doubled to 140 last year. but the hoards of seals are not only attracting sharks. local fishermen like doug feeney say they're eating too many fish. >> for fishermen, it's way too much. it's very taxing on them. >> reporter: an 800-pound male body weight each day. that's 50 pounds of fish, includi

e've been talking a lot about goldwater nichols with that coming up. what's your thoughts about the cocom with the chain of command, what do you see as the potential improvements to the goldwater-nichols organizational structure? general? i guess general applies to both of you. jen cap rot tee. mr. scaparrotti: goldwater nichols has produced the officer i am today and the force we have today that works well as a joint force. however, i do believe that given the change in our strategic environment, particularly in the last three or four years, that it is time to do a review. with reference to your specific question, i don't know that there's a need for the change. i report to the secretary of defense and if -- if confirmed i'll report to the secretary of defense and the president. but i think what we need in this environment is we also, and i think what general dunford was suggesting, is we need the ability to have agility in our decision making and deployment of assets. very few of these challenges today are limited to one cocom. there are multiregiona

progress examines last week speech by secretary ashton carter on the reforms being made to the goldwater nichols act being touted as the most sweeping in a generation. gerald ryle, the director of the international consortium of investigative journalism who talks about the impact of the u.s. plans to stop tax havens like panama in light of last week's release of the panama papers. on thecy spring campaign organization's plans to protest in washington this weekend. it begins live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on sunday. join the discussion. you served as president of ,he national cable association president and ceo of the national cellular telecommunications and internet association. you have been a venture capitalist. since 2013, chairman of the federal communications commission. your first federal job. how is it different from your previous position? >> it follows the other position. what i was fortunate enough to be able to do in the is to be involved as they were bringing great changes to the american economy. and the way they live their lives. that is what we are dealing with at the fcc. we are part

joy reid to his left and john nichols to the left of everybody here among the rest. i do think i want to ask you something. i was going to ask which makes life interesting, life signs. are the american voters, the people that decide elections, 20% in the middle and every fight, are they awake, alive and saying something right now we hadn't heard before? what's the voice of wisconsin for the country tonight? >> look, i think what wisconsin said in its loudest voices is it wants both these contests to go on and i think people will look for, you know, some sort of endorsement of a particular individual. certainly sanders is very popular on the democratic side and he did very well, but i'd be careful on the republican side thinking this was a big endorsement for ted cruz. the fact of the matter is wisconsin has perhaps the most developed out conservative infrastructure in the united states, and that infrastructure lined up behind the candidate they decided to put in the empty suit. it happened to be ted cruz, but i don't think for a second that that same infrastructure e

john nichols of the nation, and back with us is michael steele. out, john nichols by playing a video of you when our producers caught up with you in madison, wisconsin, talking about the proximity, the physical proximity of the money we were talking about in the package before the break and the politicians in wisconsin. take a look. >> literally, we're standing, you know, a few feet apart. and you'll have koch brothers on one side and you'll have, you know, the wisconsin progressive tradition on the other. in many ways, you sum up the clash. >> and so john, you know, does that physical proximity kind of indicate sort of an idealogical and actual proximity between the two? >> well, there is a huge struggle going on in wisconsin, and no one should underestimate what's happened in this state in the last five or six years. six or seven years ago, wisconsin still had a functional campaign finance system. it wasn't perfect. it had a lot of money flowing in. but in the 2010 race, you had massive amounts of money flow in for scott walker and his allies fr

i'm guy johnson alongside hans nichols. he is in germany. to too many weird the fed might be getting more dovish. jamie dimon is still worried it might -- to quickly. the land of the rising yen. japanese currencies rallied to the highest level against the dollar in 17 months. is the boj powerless before the -- rejected a treaty between the eu and ukraine by a margin of 221. how will u.k. politicians be up to make their case on brexit? two big stories ticking around. i like the dimon line on this. is to too many? we are about to hear from peter pratt as well. i also like this exit story related to what happened in the netherlands. protest votes or something more significant? that is my question. hans: it is difficult to see whether there is a direct correlation between a process vote in the netherlands and a clear in her outvote in the u.k. one note on the jamie dimon letter, 50 pages. couldn't he have waited for hours to incorporate the latest fed minutes? i would've asked for an extension. whoever grated the paper, he should've asked for a

and hans nichols has your morning brief.: saudi arabia is set reveal a fresh vision of the future. and draghi holds the door for yellen, but will she step through? with the bank of japan on thursday. bloomberg confirms the boj now owns more japanese equities that the world's biggest asset managers. we ask, what is left on its shopping list? it looks like the fair market value of cac is down. the dax looks up. maybe that tells you a different story in terms of the auto sector. let's check in with caroline hyde. caroline: a very good morning to you and it will take you straight to the wei function on bloomberg. you can see in asia, it was a down day. there is much speculation about what the bank of japan will be later in the week once that news comes on thursday. little bit of caution going into that. the ftse 100 is opening flat at the moment. we are in the green tentatively on the euro stoxx. as we start to rev up, it will be caution ahead of the united states and japanese central banks. commodities.n australia and new zeala

marine biologist owen nichols studied them for 15 years. >> they were ex-term natd, extripated from the since the 60s. you are seeing a resurgence of seals. >> they're not hunted because they're federally protected. >> correct. >> reporter: before 19723 when marine mammal protection act went into effect. sightings of even a single seal were rare. but today, we spotted hundreds on the unin habted nature research where the aerial video was shot. biologists say resurgence of seals here is likely one of the reasons there has also been a rise in the number of sharks in the waters looking for food. researchers counted 68 great whites off cape cod in 2014. that number doubled to 140 last year. but the hoards of seals are not only attracting sharks, local fishermen like doug feeney say they're eating to many fish. >> to us as fishermen, that's way too much. it's very taxing on us. >> reporter: an 800 pound male could consume 6% of his body weight each day. that's 50 pounds of fish including valuable species like cod and flounder. feeney and the biologists nichols are part of an ally yauch allia

as for the mega fund, hans nichols has details.onversation more he's etched out his plan for the kingdom. he has this obsession about moving the saudi economy away from oil and basing it around something new. --s $2 chile and fund is trillion fund is amazing. it is enough to buy google, microsoft, and the whole lot of them, warren buffett, all of those things going to one thing and it was still have change to spare. .nto that fund will go aramco they will add land, property, all of these other things. roughly twice as big as in the or more than twice as big as any other sovereign wealth fund. >> his obsession is understandable even the volatility we saw the oil price and the fact we have concerns that saudi hasn't done the structural reforms needed. >> that is pushing on very hard. he has already cut the subsidies and they are moving on to other things. it is a rather dramatic play in the terms of the economic transformation of the country. tom: all of us were weaned on daniel juergen,obert lacey's book "the kingdom" that everybody

joining me now, john nichols, national affairs correspondent for the nation, who is in madison, wisconsinmsnbc political analyst and former senior adviser to rand paul's campaign, elise jordan. donald trump alluded to the fact he could pull out a victory. on one hand, he pounds to polls who shows he's in the lead. on the other, he expressed to chris not the confidence that we're accustomed to seeing from him. what do you see happening there tonight? >> well, i think you summed it up well there, tamron. look, the polling suggests that ted cruz has an advantage. what's significant is that cruz's advantage does not look to be as strong as it was a week ago. that's very interesting because cruz has been all over the state. he's campaigned very, very hard. what i think a lot of people expected was that when governor walker and really a lot of the republican establishment came out for cruz, that trump might step back. it's very fascinating. he has not stepped back. he has done an intensive campaign in wisconsin. and he's gone to a lot of places out state, places like superior and green bay. i'm

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, last week's speech by defense secretary ashton carter on the reforms they made to the goldwater-nichols act of 1986, counted as the most sweeping in a generation. then the doctor of investing -- international consortium of investigative journalists talks about the impact and effect of havens. plan to stop tax in light of the release of the panama papers. also, a plan to protest in washington this weekend. be sure to watch c-span's " washington journal" beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern sunday. join the discussion. >> now remarks from homeland jeh johnson.etary he talks about ways his agency has been defensive, the defensive nature of his work, and rhetoric from the 2016 presidential race is making his job protecting the country more difficult. this is half an hour. mr. wheelock: my name is tom wheelock of creative associates. since the tragedy of 9/11, the united states and international partners have been combating threat of terrorism on multiple fronts. it is a threat that is neither constrained by international borders or limited to a single ideology. president obama has said often

let's speak to hans nichols.hat can president obama offered to the saudis, given that he is out in six months? hans: well, he can offer them support on syria, saying he will redouble his efforts. at the same time, he will offer them honesty. listen to how he talked about the problem in the challenges in syria ahead of his visit. >> i think there is no doubt that there are many in the middle east to a preferred me taking a shot at assad. the reason is not because of some abstract notions of relevance. the reason is because they v iew assad as a client state of iran. their view was, it continues to be, to some extent, that what we veryd be doing is being a clear military arm of an an ti-iran or anti-assad middle east strategy. look, iran's an adversary of hey go after any u.s. assets, if they are threatening us in any way, we will go after them and they know that. assad is a horrible leader. horrible dictator, who has shattered his country. it continues to be our position that we need to get him out of there. hans:

. >> it is amazing you represented terry nichols. but under the bush administration with the justice system in the united states so we have people who are warehouse in prison that don't belong there. with local prosecutors but they really don't care but with this atrocity. but they just herded up a bunch of people then labeledens. them to stick them in prison. wha i know a dog that lives better. thank you for whatever you're doing up there keep work. good >> guest: thank-you. >> host: what about guantanamo? >> no longer are those the conditions and. they have been preserved under a court order but now it is more like what you would find in the unitedst states. >> at me this point there are 91 all men it is only ever been men. seven have been chargedbe awaiting trial three have been convicted of believe 36 have been cleared for release but have not yet been and 40 something are in in indefinite detention. >> host: wasest: the reason real -- the reason they talk to him. >> whole thing is that the request of the u.s. government. >> ther

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we've been talking a lot about goldwater-nichols throughout this year in preparation for our national defense act coming up. what is your thought about the relationship of the co-com s to the chain of command, to the presidency, what do you see as -- either one or both of you as potential improvements to the goldwater-nichols organizational structure? >> senator, i'd like to first say that gold water-nichols has produced the officer that i am today and the makignificent military that we have today.wat produced the officer that i am today and the magnificent military that we have today. i do believe given the change in our strategic environment particularly in the last three or four years that it is time to do a review. with reference to your specific question, i don't know that there is a need for the change. i report to the second of defense if confirmed and the president. but i think what we need in this environment is we also-of-and i think what general dumford was suggesting, we need ability to have agility in our decision making and the deployment of assets. very few of these cha

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