stephen hadley was george w.bush national security adviser, one of the most distinguished national security advisers as my former colleague hugo dobler explained convincingly in a recent book on that position, historically in the united states. steve also was the coleader last year with former secretary of defense, bill perry with an assessment of the 2010th quadrennial defense review that seems like 100 years ago already in time so we time so we knew it fiscal issues the deficit debate was far different than in the aftermath of the n-november of a drug revolution when the tea party came to town and everything else happened has been subsequently what would like to do this morning is to begin by myself posing some questions to each of the panelists to frame the discussion and then of course go to you because we are fortunate enough to have television coverage today. when we go to the crowd, please identify yourself, wait for a microphone and ask a short question cannot be specific about who you are addressing it t

and yet when his national security adviser stephen hadley came in, had they told us that he would not take the job until he had gone to see president bush and had told him that he was worried that we are facing another vietnam in iraq and hadley didn't want to have any part of that he told bush if that is what you are thinking of, is that we you see our policy evolve and i say no to the job. this is a very honorable lawyer who never says no to a president but he did. bush assured him that he recognized the danger and said this would not happen so he took the job. it does get picked up. >> where is the microphone over here? >> thank you very much. i want to raise two questions. >> raise the mike closer. >> regarding your assertion about the afghan/pakistan relationship and our interest in it. it is central to much of what we actually do in the coming months. first, i would question whether ten years ago the existence of nuclear weapons in pakistan was a consideration of any consequence in our entry into the war against afghanistan. i don't think so. and then again now one of the proble

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we will have featured alice's tax for as well as stephen hadley report. if i could turn to you and i guess the broad question i've been intrigued and given your thoughts on, a very good report on your concern, that even the milder upper state street deficit reduction may cut defense more than perhaps would be wise. in fact, you and bill perry and your bipartisan team called for an increase in the size and the needy among policy recommendations of the man-size in the defense budget above and beyond what would be needed to keep up with inflation. he must be, i'm assuming a bit concerned about some of the numbers you're hearing now. let me not lead to any further and just as. how do you square the recommendations he made with bill perry a year ago, with the current options we see now for defense budget cut. >> i just want to thank you for convening this panel. think all of you for coming out in the middle of august. this is above and beyond the call of duty. their report that michael referred to wasn't independent panel review of the quadrennial defense revi

my question is specifically for stephen hadley. we have been talking about your report. i think if i understood correctly, one of the recommendations was to increase spending on the navy. i would like to understand more about that. why, specifically, the navy, and not the other branches? we have also been concurrently talking about some of the other non-defense foreign spending, whether it is democracy promotion, foreign aid. could you help us understand what an increase or decrease would look like in that foreign budget? >> the navy is all about asia. if you look at over the next 10 years, the u.s. has a huge interest, as does the rest of the global, of what happens in asia. if you look at the projections of economic growth, and alice is the expert on this, it is all asia. secondly, everybody talks about the major emerging countries -- china, brazil, india. i call them the major surging countries. the integration of china into the global system is a very big challenge for all of us. china is the big player in asia. it scared a number of our allies in that region. it is

stephen hadley was george w. bush national security adviser, one of the most distinguished national security advisers as my former colleague hugo dobler explained convincingly in a recent book on that position, historically in the united states. steve also was the coleader last year with former secretary of defense, bill perry with an assessment of the 2010th quadrennial defense review that seems like 100 years ago already in time so we time so we knew it fiscal issues the deficit debate was far different than in the aftermath of the n-november of a drug revolution when the tea party came to town and everything else happened has been subsequently what would like to do this morning is to begin by myself posing some questions to each of the panelists to frame the discussion and then of course go to you because we are fortunate enough to have television coverage today. when we go to the crowd, please identify yourself, wait for a microphone and ask a short question cannot be specific about who you are addressing it

i want to thank stuart eizenstat, eric fleisher, stephen hadley, john hannah, john-master, john negroponthwab, and charles wal. susan schwab, and charles wal. >> taking you live next to the white house where the briefing should get under way shortly. it is possible that some questions about the selections to congress' joint committee could be raised here this morning, john boehner, speaker of the house, announced his selections to the committee. on the senate side, minority leader mitch mcconnell has named senators kyle of arizona, toomey of pennsylvania, and one who was head of the office of management and budget during the bush administration. just waiting to fill that out with the final three democrats to be selected from the house. just to let you know, also, we have created a special list of those members on our twitter site. if you go to the list that you can choose from. among those -- the brand new list we have created on the members that have been selected for this joint committee on deficit reduction. speaker banner in making his selections today said in a statement, "our debt a

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i want to thank stuart eizenstat, eric fleisher, stephen hadley, john hannah, john-master, john negroponteschwab, and charles wal. -- wald. thank you very much indeed. >> a look at what can be learned from debt reduction from the french and american revolutions. freddie mac chairman john koskinen. after that, we will re-air the event just saw on the simulated world destruction of the global oil supply. >> tomorrow, the commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan briefs reporters at 9:00 eastern on c-span2. general allen singh command from general david petraeus last month. on c-span, at 2:30 eastern takoma the tsa administrator is at the newseum. >> c-span will follow the republican presidential candidates this week at the iowa state fair. live coverage begins friday at 11:30 a.m. eastern. you hear from tim pawlenty and michele bachmann. debbie wasserman schultz is also scheduled to speak. on saturday, the live coverage of the iowa straw poll begins at noon eastern. residents older than 18 can vote for one of the nine republican ballcandidate said. you can follow us at twitter/com/roadwh. >> t

i want to thank stuart eizenstat, eric fleisher, stephen hadley, john hannah, john-master, john negroponten schwab, and charles wal. continues. host: we're back with christian weller, senior fellow for the center for american progress and diana furchgott-roth, from the hudson institute. thk you for being with us. let's begin with the question that all lot of peoe are wondering. two economist help us with that. here is the "daily news." panic is there headline. are we headed for a double-dip recession? guest: i do not think so. there's enough good stuff on the investment and even in the housing market. but the bad news is that what we have in the economy is not enough momentum to carry us rward to lower unemployment. that means we need in order to get to lower employment and stronger growth we need policies of intervention. the president and congress to pay attention to jobs and growth. while we can avoid a double-dip recession, i think the biggest threat is that we will can lumbering along at low growth and high unemployment. host: how quickly do we need that policy intervention? in the co

we will have featured alice's tax for as well as stephen hadley report. if i could turn to you and i guess e broad question i've been intrigued and given your thoughts on, a very good report on your concern, that even the milder upper state street deficit reduction may cut defense more than perhaps would be wise. in fact, you and bill pey and your bipartisan team called for an increase in the size and the needy among policy recommendations of the man-size in the defense budget above and beyond what would be needed to keep up with inflation. he must be, i'm assuming a bit concerned about some of the numbers you're hearing now. let me not lead to any further and just as. how do you square the recommendations he made with bill perry a year ago, with the current options we see now for defense budget cut. >> i just want to thank you for convening this panel. think all of you for coming out in the middle of august. this is above and beyond the call of duty. their report that michael referred to wasn't independent panel review of the quadrennial defense review.