socom and as commander of central command during probably the busiest time ever for our armed forces in the middle east. you were an avid and regular consumer of intelligence, and if you'd start by giving us a war fighter's frank assessment of the intelligence support you received. how were you doing? what were the strengths and the weaknesses and the gaps? >> let me add my thanks to the leadership here and to all of you for being here and thanks for joining us here today for this panel. you're right, i do consider myself to be a user and a panel that comes out of this great intelligence community that we have. i think from a perspective of, you know, qualities and strengths, i mean, certainly great people. there was extraordinary integration at both of the commands and especially at centcom with the intelligence agencies well integrated in the command and that paid a lot of benefit for us and there were routine relationships and there were very clear expectations there on that and that was very, very good and of course, i benefited from being the centcom commander. so the focus of a

socom, as commander of central command during probably the busiest time ever for armed forces in the middle east. you are an avid and regular consumer of intelligence. i wonder given the conference and its theme in this audience if you start by just giving us a war fighters frank assessment of the intelligence support you received. how were we doing? what were the strengths, weaknesses, the gaps? >> thanks michelle. let me add my thanks to the insa leadership and all of you for being here. michelle, thanks for joining us here today for this panel. you're right, i do consider myself to be a consumer and the use of the products that come out of this great intelligence community we have. so i think from a perspective of qualities and strengths, certainly great people. there was extraordinary integration at both the commands, special at centcom with the intelligence agencies will integrate in the command. that paid off, paid a lot of benefits forth. the were routine relationships and very clear expectations there and that was very, very good. i benefited from being the centcom commander

>> and socom in the sense that we were right there was no particular reason to panic the market has gone up in the big news is there might be some sort of the trade deal but i don't think we should really stay calm when they consider how the. raspened. we have o the one hand the tech trade war with china being published by the u.s. administration for some of the factions against its minority. we have in the private sector the nba tweeted in favor of protesters in hong kong and that did not go down well with beijing. we had spoiled by apple and google because of concerns by china. these apps were helping protesters and i think you have to look at the trade war is being one of many wars in our conflict with china. czech that's a tough one because it's one thing to worry about economic issues and how many soybeans are going across the border when it comes to free speech versus profit i'm not sure how you resolve that. >> you don't resolve everything but you don't have to. what the market wants. the president called it substantial to the people who are with the president will look at and say

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