cadets, mid shipmen. elder pc. scholarship winners.shipmen. elder pc. scholarship winners. congratulations. congratulations for making a close. congratulations for making a decision that service is something that you wanted to pursue. and your service that you chose was that in uniform. it is annardus four years. we expect a lot from you. then you take your place with us in the united states military. for those of you that i see, maybe a little bit older, who have done your service in the past, i just want to thank you for making that decision. for serving as honorably as you have and for setting establishing a legacy for all of us. i'm a marine. and in two days, three days, excuse me, is november 10th. that is the birthday of the united states marine corps. it is our anniversary. 239 years of history. built upon the shoulders of young men and women heros, who have done everything that their nation has asked them throughout the decades, throughout the generations, in war and in peace. and so we will gather and we will cut a cake. matter of fact i got to rundown to quanico a

the mikes are open for the /cj%shipmen. please, we'll start with you.n it up to the audience. mr. meyers. >> first class eric meyers. gentlemen, you both seem to be at loggerheads as to whether the carriers are defensible. can you elaborate why orb2f why not you think the carriers are capable of defending themselves against area of denial missiles? >> want me to start? >> yeah. >> i think the carrier is capable if it fights as a combat system with the rest of the battle group and with the rest of the joint architecture that we fight as today. again, we're not sending the aircraft carriers in there all by itself to take the hit. the aircraft carrier has an air wing that has the ability to 1"pcf1 o survey the area around it, to kill ships and submarines that could threaten it. it has escorts that have the ability to do similar things and that in a systemic mannere the same ends. you have an isr complex in space and in the -- in a terrestrial isr thatn situational awareness necessary for the aircraft carrier to know those threats are coming and to act agai

the point is that the more we think about what we do and what tools we need and for our mid shipmen there's no time like the present to start reading and thinking that perhaps where we'll be when the waters beneath us start shitchting and respond wisely to support the needs of the nation. thank you. and have a good evening. [applause] >> up next, a forum on a sunshine law requiring drug companies to disclose payments to doctors. after that q&a with dr. anthony fauci. and coming up live at 7:00 a.m. eastern today your calls and comments on "washington journal." [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption contents and accuracy. visit ncicap.org >> good morning. today we have a chance to look at the sunshine act and see how it's doing. we see promising developments in health care. today is one of several congressional briefings. and so i welcome you today. thank you for coming. i thank you especially to c-span for being here with u