It is not a red state or blue state thing, it is the towns and communities that have been ignored or left behind or forgotten. Places like selma, alabama, like the north side of milwaukee, places like the bronx in new york city. Places that are kind of stigmatized and defined in various ways as being places where there is high crime or poverty, but places that make up a large part of the United States. Susan that is the back row, the front row is chris the front row is me. Me and my colleagues. I used to work on wall street. I was there for 20 years before i did this. I have a phd in physics. Those are what i call front row professions. People who have harvard degrees, yale degrees, who make up a large part of the political class. People who make up a large part of wall street and the media. People who are very different in many different ways but have a similar lived experience after high school, which is primarily about where they go to college, where they go to school. Susan and the
Hours away from history making articles of impeachment being unveiled by the House Judiciary Committee, jerry nadler. That would put the house on track to potentially impeach the president before christmas. Sources tell cnn that House Democrats will unveil at least two articles of impeachment against President Trump charging him with abuse of power for pressing ukraine to launch investigations into his political rivals using nearly 400 million in military aid and a white house meeting as leverage and obstruction of congress for stonewalling and defying subpoenas in the impeachment inquiry. We want to move exte dishsly, fairly, but also with the urgency of a crime spree in progress. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will have to give her approval for the articles drafted by judiciary chairman jerry nadler and his team. Pelosi met privately with Top Democrats last night debating whether to include findings from the Mueller Report in a third article as obstruction of justice. That move could spl
Before we get to the meeting. Please make sure your cell phones are turned off or at least in silent mode and that places smart phones and any other Electronic Device that might make an annoying noise while having our discussion. We will have a q a portion as we get close to the end and when that goes down ill ask folks to wait to be called upon and wait for the microphone so everyone has an opportunity to hear you and ill ask you to not to name and affiliation. Our topic today is this particular absolutely fascinating and terrifying book, eyes in the sky, i have to point out, the little digital version of what im calling the eye from lord of the rings which i think its apt in what were going to be discussing today. Six years ago this month it in a say contractor whistleblower named edward burst upon the world scene with his absolutely amazing resolutions about mass surveillance taking place during the socalled war on terror. And of course there was literally dozens if not hundreds of
The plan today is to have a talk about the book. We will chat 25, 30, 40 minutes depending on how it goes on at which point we will turn things over to the audience and have them provide some questions. We havent rehearsed anything. He doesnt know what im going to add, so im sure that he has nervous expectations. Sometimes it is hard to write a book and they often call it a memoir which might be a recollection of the theory that led to the result the recollection of the entire life i think that you have chosen to focus on the centerpiece of the less work and that is his efforts to help elucidate the structure of the gene machine protein manufacturing apparatus. He doesnt really tell us much about his early life. In fact, the book begins by saying when i left india but nevertheless, we definitely associate. If you were trying to say what it was all about and how it helped to shape you, tell us about that because we dont hear much about your appearance or how you live those first 19 year
Undersecretary of state for Economic Growth, energy and the environment, keith cross. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and space administration, jim bridenstine. Chairman. Joint chiefs of staff, general jose joseph dunser. Acting secretary, matthew donovan. Acting deputy of homeland security, david bokosski. Acting intelligence director, joseph mcguire. Acting director of office of management and budget, russ volk. Secretary of commerce wilbur ross. The director of the national air and space museum dr. Ellen stofan. Stofan. Its an honor to welcome the National Space council back to the museum to continue the work of mapping the future of American Space exploration, surrounded here by icons of our nations highest, proudest achievements in space. The council is ensuring our future achievements are fully empowered by the past achievements, the things you will be discussing today will one day be enshrined in this museum and dont forget about us, we need hardware. Last month at our