Cspan2. Booktv live coverage of the Annapolis Book festival continues. Starting now a panel on drone warfare. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Annapolis Book festival. We will be Getting Started in just a minute. This is being broadcast on cspan booktv. We ask that you silence yourself and then remain quiet during the discussion. It is my distinct honor to share the stage with these tremendous authors. Im going to start on my immediate right in introducing them. After my introductions, im going to let each of them talk for about ten minutes, then im going to take the power of the chair and ask a few questions and then open up to the audience for questions. On my immediate right is richard whittle. His book, predator the secret origins of the drone revolution, is the book well be discussing today. Richards a career journalist, he cut his teeth at the raleigh news and observer, then on to the Dallas Morning News where he covered defense issues for a numb
She coauthored the smartest guys in the room about the fall of enron, but more important than that, she actually foretold it a few years earlier when she started asking questions, is enron overvalued x is it transparent. Actually, when she says there may be another issue brewing, we probably ought to sit up and listen. To my left, ben strauss, hes written in depth on College Athletics, but hes really dived into the very rich and multidimensional Human Interest stories behind College Athletes and athletes around the world. Actually, hes got my sons dream job. Frankly, my dream job. So its really great to have you here, and thank you pote for coming both for coming to this years Annapolis Book festival. American dream, american greed, you know, its a very provocative title. And i think today were in for a real treat. Were going to try to have a very lively 30minute discussion, and im going to try to leave room for about 10, 15 minutes of audience questions before we break, and we have a
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Be indicted and we do know individuals that Robert Muellers team has been looking into, in the investigation into russia meddling. Theyve raided the home of paul manafort, a person of interest in a number of ongoing congressional investigations due to his previous work lobbying on behalf of pro russian groups in ukraine. Last night manaforts attorney told fox news neither he nor anyone on the legal team had been informed of indictment, which would have been if charged had been filed against manafort. Another target of muellers investigation has been President Trumps former National Security advisor Michael Flynn. In particular, investigators reportedly were trying to determine if flynn made a role in trying to get Hillary Clintons emails from Russian Hackers during the investigation. Flynns attorneys have not responded, but former Trump Campaign chairman Corey Lewandowski believes that no one such as flynn or manafort did anything wrong. This last nothing to do with the president. If t