Communications in technology will now come to order and the chair recogs ins herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement and i do want to welcome each and everyone of you obviously a hearing of interest as we have a full room in front of us. And it is our first hearing in 2017 with a fully formed federal Communications Commission as often seems to be the case, the senate takes their dear ever loving time to get things done but im pleased to see that the commission is back up to speed and ill tell you i am pleased that we have five members of this commission and they have different points of view to bring to the discussion on all things telecomrelated and i think thats healthy for the telecommunications and technology industry. And were here today to conduct oversight of the agency which is this subcommittees primary role. It is very important that we fulfill these obligations. Because we have given the fcc a Critical Mission and task to fulfill. From the commissionss Disaster Res
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As we speak to you in the heart of trump tower, you are prepared to move into the white house, what will your portfolio be . Guest it will include some communication, i have been in talks with the president elect about the strategy, something i have done over a number of decades. We have a number of means and opportunities in the white house. Everything from women and girls, office of public liaison, anyway to help with those efforts, i will. General strategy and advice, walking privileges, and the communications operation, donald trump is it is important to him. Host walking privileges. How important is that . Guest it is important to continue the relationship i have with the president elect, one of his trusted advisors am a someone who has the opportunity to speak with him on a regular basis. He would like me to be in the room when it happens and that is how it has been in transition and i expect it will continue to be as he sees appropriate to my service for him. I have found on beh
I i would briefly walked to the agenda before we invite the speakers onto the stage. First up we have Katherine Brown and jay wang will participate on a paper which is published online today called Public Diplomacy and National Security in 2017. Building alliances, fighting extremism and dispelling this information. Katherine is council of Foreign Relations International Affairs fellow and a visiting fellow with my program here at csis and weve been fortunate to have her for a couple of months leading to his work on Public Diplomacy. She most recently served as executive director of the u. S. Advisory commission on Public Diplomacy. Jay wang is an associate professor at the Usc Annenberg school for communication and journalism, and director of the usc center on Public Diplomacy. The paper theyre going to present to you today emerged from the workshop that we held jointly with jason center back in november. Essentially what it does is indexed and assessment of where weve been with Publi
As we speak to you in the heart of trump tower, you are prepared to move into the white house, what will your portfolio be . Guest it will include some communication, i have been in talks with the president elect about the strategy, something i have done over a number of decades. We have a number of means and opportunities in the white house. Everything from women and girls, office of public liaison, anyway to help with those efforts, i will. General strategy and advice, walking privileges, and the communications operation, donald trump is it is important to him. Host walking privileges. How important is that . Guest it is important to continue the relationship i have with the president elect, one of his trusted advisors am a someone who has the opportunity to speak with him on a regular basis. He would like me to be in the room when it happens and that is how it has been in transition and i expect it will continue to be as he sees appropriate to my service for him. I have found on beh