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were all together in the beginning started like this. i was born two months premature current to a teenage mom who had just turned six years old. i remember going to bed hungry many nights. i was raised in an abusive environment. if i told you how i accomplished all that i did, you would ask me how. many had a determination. the reason i was able to accomplish that is because i have the blessing of being born into the greatest country in the world. and you can all applaud him not. [applause] >> the greatest country in the world, no matter where you are born, how were you are, where y...

islamists have considerable confidence in radicalizing people over the internet with radical oriented islamic content. so we have an edge in the first two areas. we have us and the israelis. the most skilled people elsewhere on this, probably the governments behind russia and china are very good at that stuff. and that will come into any confrontation we have with them. content, they are more skilled at using than we are but we should certainly use whatever weapons we can. >> thank you, john. let's give john wohlstetter i hand. [applause] .. whenever it is you are watching i apprecia...

agraph, what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate." i have heard it say you honor a great author not by reading their books but by buying them. you'll be happy to know that the books will be sold after the conversation on the stage in this room back here. bob kaplan's work is no doubt well known to many in this audience. he has been a senior fellow at cnas and in march of 2008, a foreign correspondent for the atlantic for a quarter century, and is currently chief geo political analyst at stratfor. i first became acquainted with his writing with a book t...

other people's idea? >> steven johnsons is the guest next month on "in-depth," the science writer will look at the computer culture and networks in politics, live, sunday october 7th at noon eastern here on c-span2. presenting thoughts on what a second term for the obama administration would look like. the author contends the president's policies would great ly reduce america's global influence. it's about a hour and ten. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. please, sit down. i'm excited and thrilled to be here with barack obama in this election year, i think we are dealing with one...

in an sec filing released late yesterday revealed facebook's earliest investor sold the majority of his stake in the company of a sale that was planned before facebook's ipo. he sold 21.million shares last week after the ipo lockup expired. he also distributed another 2.2 million shares to investors. thiel still holds 5.6 million shares between last week and the sale of the shares prior to facebook's ipo. he made about a billion bucks. you can see it right here. not a good sign if you are a facebook shareholder that peter has decided that he's not playing along any more. >> they said...