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You for being with us this morning. With us here at the United States institute of peace. We are committed to trying to today, a Panel Discussion hosted by the washington post. Include barton gelman. That collected metadata on americans phone records. Tonight at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. For over 35 years, cspan brings Public Affairs of ants washington directly to you about putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, briefings and conferences. Offering complete gavel to gavel coverage of the u. S. House, all as a Public Service of private industry. We are cspan, rated by the cable industry 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or semiprovider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. On monday, the heritage held a hold it conference on russian politics and influence. Panelists talked about the effectiveness of government backed media broadcasts like voice of america. This is just under two hours. Welco
Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation in our lewis fuller meant auditorium. And thank you for those who are joining us through the various networks today. If you will make sure your cell phones are turned off, we appreciate it as we begin. And if you wish to send in questions or comments, simply email us at speaker heritage. Org. Posting our discussion is a senior fellow for Public Diplomacy in our douglas and Sarah Allison center for foreign policy. She focuses on the government institutions and programs for strategic outreach to the public and Foreign Countries as well as diplomacy. She is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and serves on the journalismolitical at Hanover College in indiana. Please join me in welcoming hello dale hila dale. [applause] thank you. Politics andssian 30 tricks that we have seen in full bloom in recent months, relating to specifically russias efforts to dominate and control parts of its former soviet empire. As we look at a highly unstable situa
It understands hearts and minds operations have been recognized the vital necessity of the source of things on the battle runs in iraq and afghanistan. It understands cultural diplomacy and understands it to be a strategic instrument of American Power. A huge part of this is the problem of our international broadcasts. Our international broadcasts, radio, television and obviously internet are the only unfiltered information that we can get into the minds of aliens in l. A. And the people around world. All other information that we transmit is filtered by the governments that control their media as does russia should this extraordinary extent as it has started to do. We have shut down the voice of america and the russian ukrainian broadcasts over a short wave. Weve barely had an imprint on a station for i dont know what the reason was why the pbg was not able to renew even the little am station that we had in moscow, but a subcontractor failed to review the contract and then putin basic
Inside a look at the founder. He flew to the site immediately. Fox friends begins right now. And right to that fox news alert. Marine Sergeant Andrew tahmooressi a free man this morning after 214 days in a mexican prison. Tahmooressi has been released and is back inside the United States this morning. Peter doocy is live in washington with how it all went down. Good morning, peter. Good morning. You just a heard anna say this marine spent 214 days in a mexican prison for what he says was an innocent mistake. A uturn across the border with three guns in his car. But now Andrew Tahmooressi is back home a private jet picked him up just after 9 00 last night. A a few hours after a judge released him on humanitarian grounds because he has posttraumatic stress. The tahmooressi family has a lengthy statement out this morning. To all those across the country who walked shoulder to shoulder with us as we fought for andrew, it has reminded us that at a time of much discord americans can come tog