On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests include Gordon Adams, PhD, American University professor emeritus and Stimson Center distinguished fellow, Steven Grundman of the Grundman Advisory and the Atlantic Council and Evelyn Farkas, PhD, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia in the Obama administration who is now with the German Marshall Fund.
Topics:
-Congressional Budget Office’s outlook on deficits and debt
-Outlook on future defense spending
-Likelihood defense issues are a significant part of the 2020 election cycle
-Possibility of a second government shutdown
-Review of Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan’s inaugural press event
-Latest reports on the meeting between Presidents Trump and Putin
-Proposed legislation preventing the U.S. from withdrawing from NATO
-Relationship between the President and the intelligence community
