On this Washington Roundtable episode of the Defense & Aerospace Report Podcast, sponsored by Bell, our guests are Dov Zakheim, PhD, former DoD comptroller, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr. Patrick Cronin of the Hudson Institute, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission as well as a fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and Michael Herson of American Defense International.

Topics:

— As worries of a full-year continuing resolution increase, House Appropriations Committee chair suggests $740 billion funding measure, plus next week's HAC-D hearing on CRs

— Implications of Jan. 6 on 2022 legislation and politics, including President Biden’s address this week commemorating a year since the insurrection

— US-China relations and Xi Jinping struggles with a faltering economy

— Washington’s failure to rejoin Trans-Pacific Partnership as Beijing organizes rival bloc

— Deterring Russia as Moscow moves forces to quell uprising in neighboring Kazakhstan

— Whether bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission can serve as a model to solve other pressing national security challenges

— Latest on national security, defense and military strategies

— Update on Iran nuclear negotiations