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[inaudible conversations] welcome todays International Spy museum maya vase curator welcoming you to one of our author debriefing programs. We are appreciative of you coming out tonight we know that it is friday night. We are pleased to have any jacobson here and the best selling author about government secrecy not to mention intelligence. Her best seller area 51 has been published in five languages as her 2014 nonfiction best seller operation paper clip was one of the best books of 2014. Her ne...

Guest thanks for being on booktv. Is there a Nonfiction Author or balky would like to see featured on booktv . Send us an email, but tv cspan. Org, tweet us at booktv or post a comment on our wall, facebook. Com booktv. [inaudible conversations] there should be a couple seats around, grab them if you can. Welcome to the International Spy Museum Design the historian and curator here at spots. Welcome to one of our author debriefing programs on a rare friday night. We are appreciative of you comin...

Test. And now, thats right, i cant go to the airport because i couldnt get my code without pacing the test. Code. Mr. Hubbard . Until Technology Catches up public awareness. I would say the most efficient is an Industry Based standard so we dont have to go down a regulatory path. I very much like that idea of Industry Standard versus government edict. One quick question because i see im down to 52 seconds and i guess this would be directed to you, mr. Hanson, going back to that idea of Industry ...

Paul. And that is on the Violent Crime side, we tend to have a lower crime rate than a lot of other states while at the same time keeping our incarceration rate lower by using more probation and using more treatment options. So thats why im a fan of the work thats been done here. And my first question is really along those lines of drug courts. Ive led some. Efforts here on drug courts and getting funding for drug courts carrying on the work of many that came before me, including ted kennedy and...

Appeared to be sweating at the time, was seemed happy to be leaving the room now that the hearing had concluded. I thought the most interesting thing was those conversations that didnt get captured on camera. I did mention one about chairman gowdy and mrs. Clintons aid, huma abedin, but there were other moments, other members of Congress Talking to each other. We devote gaveltogavel coverage to the house and senate, the house on cspan and the senate on cspan2. And when it comes time to those key...

Federal prison serving mandatory minimum sentences for a drug crime, 55,000. Thats more than 50 of all federal drug offenders and more than one quarter of all federal prisoners. Many of those serving are lowlevel offenders and its true that some lowlevel offenders like couriers dont receive mandatory minimum but others are frequently sentenced to so what is your response to the claim that this is much ado about something to that were not going address or potentially address a large sector of the...

Forward, but also to people who were convicted and sentenced under old laws. Inmate sentences under the old mandatory minimums can ask a judge to sentence them in accordance with the new mandatory minimums. But a prosecutor gets to weigh in also. And the inmate will only get a lower sentence if the judge agrees it is appropriate after the judge has considered factors like the inmates danger to the community. But others have raised concerns about the department of justice going to stand idly by a...

Commission talks about the role of money and etices in Political Campaign campaigns. The Heritage Foundation hosted a discussion today on Disability Insurance and proposed changes to the program. Among the speakers was tom cotton of arkansas. This is an hour and ten minutes. [ applause ] thank you, john. And let me add my welcome this afternoon to the Heritage Foundation. Social securitys Disability Insurance program was established in the 1950s. Like much of our federal governments social safet...

1952 decision. In this case the justice is affirmed the separation of powers by determining that president truman act the beyond his authority in seizing control of the nations steel mills during the korean war wh and imminent strike was threatening to shut down the actions. The court ruled that the president s actions, unconstitutional because they had not been authorized by congress. Find out more next monday live at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan3 and cspan radio. You can learn more about...

And after the courts decision. That is coming up next on t weimar cases on cspan, cspan3, and cspan radio. For more background, order your copy of the landmark cases companion book. It is available for a dollars . 95 plus shipping at cspan. Org landmark cases. Here on cspan live at the Heritage Foundation in washington, d. C. Or a discussion with our consent arkansas republican senator tom cotton on disability benefits. Joining us on the cspan network, we remind our internet and Television Viewe...