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In the United States i am sure you are very aware that we are in the midst of significant budget battles and dysfunctions one might say, and for those of us who watched defense we are particularly the implications of that for u. S. Defense strategy and planning. Im wondering how you would describe the cuts in defense in canada. I dont think you have quite the political environment we do right now but surely you must have the same sense of general interest in how canada plans to go forward and again strategically where canada wants to be in terms of its role in the world and how to underwrite t...

The American Enterprise institute beginning at 1 30 p. M. Eastern here on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies this 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host and best selling author tom standage has a new book out, and its called writing on the wall. Tom standage, what do cicero and twitter have in common . Guest well, the idea of the book is that social media is a very old idea. We think that its recent and only people alive today have ever done it. But really what im arguing is theres a very long and rich tradition of social media that goes back...

This week on q a, yuval levin. Yuval levin, your wikipedia site has in the second sentence, he has been called, quote, probably the most influential conservative intellectual of the obama era. Whats that mean . Thats a very good question. I wonder by whom. I think its jonathan chait. Ok. Well then probably, in the course of criticizing me for something or other, but i guess what it means you know an intellectual in politics is a person who tries to connect events and practical questions to deeper currents, theoretical or philosophical currents. There are narrower definitions. You know paul joh...

Portland where federal agents facing off with protesters for weeks now. Dan springer has the latest on the west coast on that story. But we began with chief White House Correspondent john roberts where the news is that sour on the north lawn. John, good afternoon. Bill, good afternoon, pushed back and it will happen around 3 20 or after that as you mentioned a second ago. The president expected to announce an expansion of something known as operation legend to the cities of chicago and albuquerque, starting in kansas city earlier this month and partners together agents from the atf and the dea...

Good morning to you, welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford live from new york city. The controversial spying program that collect millions of american phone records will be limited. Thats a commitment president obama made on friday. The proposed reforms do not put an end to mass spying but provide more oversight. They assure allies that they will not monitor phone calls. Theres no guarantees that theyll be implemented. Patty culhane explains. The extent of the spying carried out by the United States, hugely controversial overseas. Beside president obamas speech only a handful of the...