Host kevin weems and of the National Review, the latest book is called the smallest minority independent thinking in the age of mob politics. In this book you write that i come not to praise democracy but to bury it. Guest i dislike and reject the idea something becomes better or more important or more respectable just because more people adhere to it, a a certan idea, a certain point of view. Often its weird being a writer but that because writers are treated as politician. Sometimes people say who do to speak for . Hoosier constituency . Who do represent . I always say nobody. Im not running for office. We live in a time of politics as team sports, and a team sports aspect has really displaced almost everything else, all the other intellectual content, all the policy considers a trip consideration, tribal tribe action and its a question of whose game is bigger. I dont think its necessarily something that shows anything about whether an idea is good or not. The fact 50 of the populati
Woman in congress could be sitting in this very room. Im really excited to bring up our next speaker. She has more than 30 three yeaf experience in National Security and defense, both in the federal government and the private sector. Shes an expert in the fence, government services, and has extensive leadership experience. She was the 23rd secretary of the air force. [cheers and applause] one of two women to hold the position. And i know she will probably talk but her new book. We have available in the bookstore here on the Convention Floor and i just got a cup and i look forward to reading it. Id like now to bring up ms. Deborah james and moderator colonel carol. [applause] good morning, everybody. Good morning. All right. Well, good morning and im honored to be able to moderate you this morning. So as she just mentioned were going to be talking about secretary james new book. I read it. Listen to. It is absolutely amazing i will say to you today thats what were going to talk about. S
Because the opinion that matters most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Now jonah Paul Nakasone the National Security Agency Director and Cyber Command commander speaks at the National Press club here in washington, d. C. He talks about section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which gives the Government Authority to do targeted surveillance on foreigners outside of the United States. Authorization for this intelligence gathering tool is set to expire on december 31, 2023. This is about an hour. General nakasone has said the cybersecurity is National Security. And while the internet has givea us Global Connectivity and rapid innovation, it also leaves the United States vulnerable. Militias and often oustatesponsored cyber actors seek to exploit our new connectedness, and achieve target on our Critical Infrastructure and honor military. Since general nakasone assumed command that u. S. Cyber command in 2016 and the nationals could ag
Again, good morning and welcome to the fifth annual United Statesjapankorea trilateral symposium organized by International Student conferences and generously sponsored by Sasakawa Peace foundation usa and the Korea Foundation. We thank you all for joining us on this cold and blustery day as impacted hopefully other parts of the east coast more than us but we know it wasnt the easiest commute this morning. For those of you that i follow us and paying attention today on social media we like to point out that we have greater a hashtag for todays conference and that is hashtag isctrilat. For those of you not following on instream and twitter that at so my name is Alexander Evans and i will be your master of ceremonies for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins. The preps perhaps more portly r todays event i am a lump of the 63rd japan america student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of wa
Good morning, were placed to welcome back a good friend, dr. David shulkin. She last time you appeared before our committee you were in the virginia undersecretary for health and now kicked upstairs after a nance confirmation vote and that says a lot in this political environment. So congratulations. You have a great background in the philadelphia area, just learned you were in marstown and you certainly bring lat of experience to the job and although im sure these days that the challenges are very dawning for you daunting for you. This hearing is unusual. Rather than the typical Budget Hearing we have at this time of year, were limited to a discussion of the skinny budget, the skinny budget materials the onb sent to the hill in march. They twopage entry for the va doesnt give us much to go on in terms of Program Priorities but the skinny budget gives us the administration is proposing a 4. 4 billion 6 funding increase for the agency and addition theres 2. 9 billion proposed in new man