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Let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow in governance studies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present, and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The occasion of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this is titled kwoek broken, can the senate save itself and the country. Those of you that read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an institu...

[chatter] [laughter] rep. Schiff glad to be here. [inaudible conversations] Linda Feldman good morning, everyone. I am pleased to make an important announcement. Happy valentines day to everybody. Now, on to the program. Our guest today is congressman adam schiff, Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. This is his fifth appearance at the monitor breakfast. Welcome and we are glad to have you here. I would like to get to questions quickly, we have a big crowd. I would just note that congressman schiff has served in Congress Since 2001. As far as i know, you not ...

President s 2019 request in front of the House Veterans Affairs committee, starting live at 8 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan3. Sunday night on afterwords. Former u. S. Trade negotiator and Senior Senate staffer ira shapiro with his book broken can the senate save itself and the country. Hes interintride former Senate Majority leader tom daschle. Politics was supposed to be about finding a way to overcome some of those differences through principle through extended discussion and a real legislative process thrurk principled compromise. It wasnt supposed to be about one Party Winning on their own. Th...

They have spent a lot of time in vietnam i believe in the 90s or earlier than that as journalists for Eastern Economic review. And they both speak perfect vietnamese. I hope they dont start speaking that here. So todays topic is to discuss vietnams relations with both United States and china. Because of the flareup of the South China Sea dispute in recent years there have been a lot of questions and a lot of skepticism about vietnams alignment choices, external Foreign Policy choices. And china and vietnam apparently theyre both governed by communist party and its oneparty rule. Although could...

Intelligence committee voted to read them i nor release the minority response to the minions nunes memo. This will dispel the majority of the inaccuracies in the memo. We have also asked the support of our transmittal to the white house that unlike the process that was used with the majority memo, the department of justice and fbi be consulted, that they have the opportunity to vet any information they may be concerned about in our memo in terms of sources and methods. We want to make sure that those who are in the best information to vet that do so. The Justice Department and fbi have had our...