On this Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, a Textron company, our guests includeGordon 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
