On this 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, Gordon Adams, PhD, Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute, Michael Herson, President and CEO, American Defense International and Chris Servello, a founder of Provision Advisors (and Defense and Aerospace team member).

Topics:

— Update on negotiations for a fourth stimulus package valued at some $2.2 trillion

— Defense spending update in wake of statement by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith that despite bipartisan consensus, progressives will push for Pentagon budget cut

— National security implications of President Trump’s high personal debt and The Washington Post’s reporting that states led by Republican governors poised to send guardsmen to Washington, DC, and other cities in event of post-election demonstrations

— The Navy’s decision against making public Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday’s heart attack

— A distracted Washington as fighting erupts between Armenia and Azerbaijan, threatening conflict between Turkey and Russia