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oc we biabixfut to all of these location around the country. we load up the trucks with all of the materials. early on, we learned that when weusthlio tfos dot wh,dt hahestwobe in so what we do s load up one of the 24-foot trucks and go up there and we kind of lead the opou 8 w, ose two days. that's how people learn. d that's how once they learn how to do it. they can pass it on and take it ba tohira ta tt dgban
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w,wet toethe nd see in? and it i don't, i'm going right -- >> let me answer that for y. lwke ionef t ht ra p nber one in theation. so certain plants take up lead to mtard's, a lot of different ma katha lup ttea le tyess problems and so forth when th get tested. so we have no digging equipment. now, if you're going to do a ll sctt llou ca itcuod t ou aveou ad that the epa really likes. we put 2 feet of new soil on top of existing soil. microbrew fibers don't go dow
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loinrienow er n i i th ishe technique we have been using for many years. even thoug epa has not signed on and said this is the method, but they wille coming out with meecll vibu w ay hyisseusad paint. i would notat f t irtlynoil psoa wotanouoothatess bau you just think that you he really help the soil without really finding out for sure. so it is really important to grow fm soil .erer bitfdfonnaon
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sese d tranwtffts i d'thotf knowledge. to tell you the truth, no landfills are not good. the worst thing that goes into th i w i ior twasteaue heha nro. keep food waste out. one of the things that we're going to start at the new housing project at westmont which is aed iome developmenru t oingo w milwaukee's first food waste pickup from homes there. training folks tt arin tre, ntthenti
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ac a, working with schools. so it is really important that our teacherlearn how t ecau t an cal whenever. week marks them down the hall and give them the wld worst fo. i noo msa t wo, far rds onhechrounds, very important. of course out i california. matres0- lseit c h gde the community as a garden. a combination community garden
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in school garden. so that ismpnt paf pntg ittisoarinmerk aunthe wow we are developing some projects i b dngabwe, south africa. inifou. ukne seork t rsians get out of there, so we have been doing a [iibof work in those areas. bungoongbanded twenty schools, and some of them have a lot of acreage. a contract sitting on my desk. gotoputng
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anlvgi ateen closed for five or six years. so we will be able to put up 20 sises tt -- i t scean find. but definitely these buildings, like and said, the building where building out, a hatchery on tenth and north anue ihad ag of lettuce there. so also have a farm and forest on cemetery he g weedas genes hee ofiears n kpl the cemeteryt longer to eat that food. [applause]
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>> alosf us nge than 1% and up to a 100 percent organic local food, do you haveny ias thi ald inut wl, c st. ihink that would be the first thing. one of the problems, when you go to o retail grocery store he leally aer search for l polo llywnl o odt summertime. we need to be able to grow locally grown food year round. at jtwid ee kit ogly
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giedd ot. >> oop are looking at it and complaining about it. our approac is really to change the dynamics of how people access their food. ca gtiso c etle eang for that locally grown food. it will be labeled. you will be able. in weasakeeictures orms gwi ts oseho l uihe infrastructure, our members, we are less than 1%. get up to 10%, the implications of tremendous in terms of 10% locammy reeob inn ss er m more than 10 percent better help for cells . tdor tngs.
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kinda fun animals. making artists and cheese. there is that cheesent yoys pbay d m.enat chepln th south side, one of the oy ones i know about on a major city, at maar s ooat'iler et y an'lmeac trying to answer everybody's question. >> i heard you talk about how u never dig into soil. you'reakin you ore te wddra loheeouthe rihathat
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the genetically modified food is contaminating our natural sea. there are a lot of people that believe that you haveo nal, aulred antoet opion on at i henks viasoaar growing power in the future. >> well, we do some, but that is a whole other business. we participate in cpanieshat eioomeesp we d'tse- a mter factng very few. the vegetable line, tomato and corn are probably the only ones that are geneticif mohiff c bu as f a vegetable seeds, yes, it is important for us to start seedsaving. a lot of companies that we support toeeavn
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olgitanea t tts wleth we to support people that want to go into those kind of businesses. i hope more people want to. if you want to do it,efinitel [lte t >>. >>. oncerned about my new friend who really wants to do farming in her house. s gwicoided horshingor yo i a ia. >>olel. we have scholarships. we also have -- we also have, when we launched this 2000 coieatave o3000 be tas in folks.
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every ten gardens that we sell we donate one to a low-income family. bue eboan tth tay wek. we want our food to go to everybody. our community. we want e same food, the same t go trya o ths ay. is wea a justice and food justice. growing food injustice that we reon to ahoanddiertiznsun, he he onncry rongoodnjti. [applause] >> w hs tbl u. barmd heoa
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cck ha talck d o gosh. i knew you were going to ask that. >> within 100,000. >> we don't have that many. the state allocation, but w havever oe. yno wn osone of the things, wee thousands of kids every year. many of the programs don't allow kids to go up because of t onsod. ey tee a r de ty noer er. >>hails ho [laughter] >> yes. >> by the way, those are also employees. [lgh teallyhe b okay. thank you very much. they're cutting me off.
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well, i will take one mor pe wrellteed waopo. you are a tremendous leader, your enthusiasm is unbelievable. what are you doing to ensure th thiitiatees ths nss. >>p. k martinelli. frank minnelli is helping us to lead our organization to a succession plan. we have -- i he the mos nderl stfheld e g le lin er s onryg i c to our staff, and our strategic plan isuch different than most organizations. ank, you wan s apl. wutow w e mem?
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because that's a great question. >> thank you. well, i would start by saying that one of t hallmarks of a great leade ishinks beeda thew of orgat thrive and he impact in the future, and that is really why will it is supporting and leading this strategic planning li m s pnng esitimta i fio lverd and and the staff together and then really throws the net wide in terms of who we talked to and ask about the future, what is changinheor t oanatike erempli hohaes a w weeee tge order to be around in the future. i have said this dou will and the others,heir is a special
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liro p wch uralou staabit enouale sustainable itself. >> thank you, frank. [applause] g barnd f n i'trng to pass on to the next generation. 75 percent of the folks around bere it mtly ade ng t fst a us oldmeik myself, but no we have all these young people that want to become farmers, butarm i a different way. most of thereeare ert bro ll cro anirsiesnd
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nd toury. growing on rooftops and on asphalt. dienec.n ofdings. ngeti h a tfthn. aasng ohem a 'rin t it and ally grow our food system that works for all of us. thank you vy much. [alause]ppe] >> we will allens this ceo of growing per. for more reformation visit owin per doa >>t eoueai ts mm? tnt kw. >> the a s nderpicoo of course sense that is what i do i am always interested i th tt hadt the history a
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tnktaly rob c ab lbjs worth theeid. this one documents hisea a ruinggastrede nny th nn a thsint kennedy tapped him for vice president. we all know that was a troubled time for both lyndonohnsnd thweerly sot w a time of trial certainly in lyndon johnson's life. and then as is pasngo e sihis i t, e threntesng ground. om b
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i have to say, i think he does an incredible job. having looked at his othoo d hed h tbootof isk th i jume he tells the good a the bad and let people decide for themselves what they think is important dnkt so ndon so muc r wtow lro n tkind of see in the early growing up years what lyndon johnson's life would have been like. d each time h he j am of rea. so i think he is an excellent writer, and i was privilege to invite himo speak to roup of rublin aon
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he a we a restacdor us ten o crse, were interested in the experiences that lyndon johnson had as majority leadeand the cticchre v ff f s youebl alk orl did today. it is a different world. he was very, very stong as a leader and also a ver dan itou inowtesrchso odha heoy reading that. another book that i have been noas aelg to reads ugsle. owndover in american news more than walter
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cronkite. we love him in texas. atheneas aoruit of esndor ure international, got a lot of real reporter experience. he was not just the kind of face that. buhen en t cbsveng ws bameor iornt w a t three major networks had them to walter cronkite started as the anchor, i think, in the 60's an w thereorbo0 t 8s. he he covered eight presidents. his time covering is certainly fascinating, and he was a wasohohtpern beee igl is
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fu s history professor at rice university. he has also taught at the naval academy and princeton, so h is a reahistn o alo dtaedomprh is a btt i think, will be the definitive biography of walter cronkite. i thi both t t palytend m hh gaorim a tact tf course, is so well known and loved in our count, having this kind o a biography is an excellent t f us or htoc meio tute. the last book, i have a chapter in this book. it is vital voices.
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or tasoral voices tn ntnt dyssonar co-chairs. i relate to thiand put a chapter in,s didow secretary of state cntseenompyheole wenadou eorrl countries that are in trouble. and the wom leaders have emerged to create peace juightor han these countries research it is so lacki. all of us, i think, were taken woinhaan women,heme o treneyd a how
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some of them emerged even in the face of torture andea hendht forcaon for girls with the united states has done since we have been i afghistatryioel hatell aan we have insisted that all the a that america put fort be for girls an women as well as bs orza tcaro experiences. where vital voices honors each dice, y taomen whoaded
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center, now secretary of state clinton and i ha been the honorary co-chairs, we have come to the award o van held a e eden heseom df purshaey're doingn their countries. in some cases it is a woman who is building an economy, giving mibus.microtu f inome cases it is just standing up. we have had a rape victim in the juendot jti asnho p rn b to creat schools
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for both boys and girls in her llage. ner.s wasoman w evhoasllite. yet she had a spirit and the wisdom that was so far beyond itr eere oerti i wenatha by aois. the book, i think, a wonderful book for this summer. just came out. it talks about some of tse great stories do b t bng an economy and an equality and a treatnt coieaton hhen who are
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pral arnd jed ab febar i was really full-court press straight through september, and then i submitted toteer. it wering a b otr toight weeks really plowing through. >> the publisher. adding. the fhat itore editing. p,venyin upew she sent it back. what is this? this doesn't go year. so i literally, t second ap bheou in e c ll rll i wasnhe cohaer,tohe on. s fupo new york. and so once we got on the right
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fo unisi s. he has done extraordinarily well. he has a position. and then my second one is in e. wog ora. ends te know. recovering from a medical condition. l ovhe. wopg. bu noi hivellil >> it's nice. thank you very much. good luck to you. [bunoise eedt >> my husband is somewhere around here. he will tell you the same thing.
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this show. do you know what she did for us? puthis tet down ts job. el how how didou get involved? >> well, thatid cknd tsd hi esive you flexibility. control how much you work, where you work, what you do. i do a lot at i cakfteron. innte.ed. niner ten. anthen i would be on the phone until two in the morning llgveborounat.
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theost important male in their life.ecmeou to tam tet. eryg yan. i tret gi y can give your kids. al recognize that i did notive them dad in the home, and tt alwaotd dveinat cld loor t.netha w aerri ruly missed something important. so do i like the book from his perspective? and don't care. aomdoesn mattee. he same. t's b tny nd sroubled in the i knew from earlier days, knewho asrindad c rn troe s io arrao
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>> this boo is from my hea. is o -reat ale. le,tory retalyro itor otreo oer in particular single moms. i never get letters from grandfather's saying how much loved it and it reminded them of en they we being -ai i tir avhamoayit ha s i bk t bb g aow knd up in of shooting the target, shooting each other. my front door, i might add. but he writes the story. re bth damom u b aows. roer immediately shot me
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in the arm. grt s heieople rememring ed f wcty asas raising his children, and i came, as i say, get dumped into the world single moms, when i wasregnant with my d, hd to ar cnds e hsgnt tu. se a bld choci family, irish cholic family. two brothers are here, i might add. we had this great home le pet d bl o t tle d. was always there, an anchor in that home. i remember going to college sinking, thereest family in the world enutho itft.gd
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most wonderful family. and i knew dad played a critical role in that all. and so when i became a s a i s tnk daya chrehiho a s se father was so important, and i don't he that option anore. so how can i possibly give them kn,hen iec ainfe is r tk, y re i be bteart. ca br when became a single m. because up to that time i have always said, you know, i'm going to mak my kid fst il be erm fe. puu crsun aheirst every day and every decision you make, and your life is
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secondary. i used to go on television leldom on r my own program. orsl ha heite te,heeysen their private space. they had to have time to themselves. i would look at these people. what are you talkingbo llou i ar d cma oheslngbo of the august and play in the big brothers don't beat them up the line in the shower. this is it. my te is the tim sce tir s alakhendat pre pdi. i must of lost my mind. next thing i kw i had bullies of there. mittce
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a iculida. no way that i would have private time. roe thi i arfr dolde, c t steps plated night. it was a school. he was down there just sitting in a chair and relaxin. toe toownre,e ltheh hehi,ow fourth grade. his death came to his school and said he was leaving. yo tnghekeffected himndel co w aooleet uld run ahead to see if it was his father. he did this for years.
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ma,uchat up to myself, his a isrfam. isl rogzed keen te in this profession. here he is 60 years after the episode talki about the day his fath left him artng ateth ath're goino remembd carry thisith them. i have to do something. i have to see what it is that i myernd igave milydi motr. t is iidp mids first. and let me -- i kind of straight debate. when i was raising them in tse early days i would be on televisi a lot because re h sew cr olic. th latest -- latest stastic.
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and they were absolutely correct. they would go out there and s, lo he atas quonis ftut it h tumrsh year. four times more likely for a child to drop out and fail in school if they don't have a mom and dad in theomfiese lybe caed e s ly toe alsses. anhi,ee y ks there any other message here? i can't have a debt in the home. what do i do? wh.ghatayijuanaor drt? a iteverny ncgent oop nor guidce, no statement. it is the best for the children, something i absolutely agree
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with. ifou h a a wf r agf aid wonderneheir argument of the importance of the debt. you could do it as a symbol that. it might undermine that argument, but for atev ast nea ag o per erame min fth erve se. waow iornte i seto think, a great movement. we are a powerful movement. we have troops on our side. try we have a msa. ulwho wuthe wehe cldn ri. d the odds are against them let's figure out why that is and what those parents can do to compensate? and that is whe i staed out. stofki ,ndeed, i ior myecd-st thi
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d in their life. and so i made a point to never bad mouth their dad. and did not talkbouwhat o ant teddwo ifree tio ouem g int five, six, seven to my would hear them say sothing. i would want to say something positive. warveus ale. anmangad yoou he en tse kids. there eyes were bright nap. it was not two hours later i would hear em repeating the story. theyanted to be pudoe th t. do dy bnd let h tmne h coulfor as long as i could. so when he did not come on wednesdays i wouldn't say, okay, that's it. free trs
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.vo ven ak senimes more likely to be involved in drugs. ihought, would somebody like iouharitth aword? as masan. it's so easy, as simple tradition. it puts you together. the gives suchat nighou t e eyw eul it amazing tradion. so much that we can say. going to chuh is another one, any church. th the parent evyunda lihto tob yo, hi >> and we don't know.
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sitting there all day long. raising. trng to nd sometng to put theable gngea [bkgdd resolve. totally focused, but they don't have time to readxtenve ok dsgaou. b tv has over 150,000 twitter followers. follow book tv on twitter to get publishing new sul das,thti,nd dtlith twtem/tvng >> recently book tv asked our twitter follower what they hereomf wes.eading this summer.
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summer reading list. waevmivitktor to shon a rdi pns 8ou oio authors and books every weekend on c-span2. neol tt tia. ayheo is weorgio coshedn ann e s long the september 11th attacks. this is abt an hour. .. en ananu o po stenoonthe founder of crumpton group a strategic international advisory and business development form h works with global corporations incinte einsturnean heiseod res.
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s political, security and commercial dynamics in emerging and frontier markets. ambassador crumpton joinsus in ati vi 1 apeonfi heoprain fgnld ud signnts. in washington he served at the fbi's debut cheaper an teioteis 20ne led the ia's afghanistan campaign. then became chief of the cia's national resources division andom05 i 07msacronsve crtor fos ice baor pt has been honored with many common nations including the distinguished intelligence
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medal e ci hea acem re id asa nrum wst entort sew o he otigen," onom life in the cia's clandestine service. would you please join me now in welcomingambassadohenry crumpton. ppe] >>rlhaou for hat great inroduction and for the opportunity to come and speak at this store. it isreally a privilege. de aforet 4r has enin e thatd cover hosted 600 events a year. that is pretty remarkable s ma spe hifrwhat you and all your ll oe tuf
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coming, former governor of corado here for many years. i'm honod that you could attend. ul mne b yi t or ll juraed om college and my brother-in-law, steve, thank you all for joining me tonight. thpi elncryci whllberer imrtance, and what should we do? we as citizens. i include myself inat te,patcen leovenrvmo anee o,di fl onymye i government, 24 with the cia and 18 months serving under secretary rice for unerrismand llow inig oiob t
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horrible images uploading this into cyberspace hang an immediate global impact, it advanced thing the propaganda of im whiin, ei sds wh a to infect thousands, tens of thousands, maybe more computer sysms arod the worl exes i deree po rg itot in terms of threats and risks but also opportunities. who wohave thoug someon like ckrght ar o liebndthho nypl individuals, small companies, entities, that facebook and other social thtrndseta
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perhngthat nhaigrg. aithk it aclerated. the second variable is the role of nonstate year's when we used to iautw, nf nerng ao, ststonioat imy. 'says been irregular forces of course, always irregur warfare, but more often than not today when we think about threats to the united states we thinkab noteyo aed zbhtncotfficrs soh of our border and within the united states, these transnational ctels. theyve $4ll coer t s. thgrgilu o i xico, the u.s. and central america but the reach
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goes to central african year. and nonstate actor. nofi clrgy, media, private companies like the ttered cover, this bookstore. monde h t i thlo nde,ar in a nta ar in afghanistan, after our efforts immediately preceding ba th haanok fit wanot nation-state. it was not nato. it was nonstate ctors,th anbaadscre rout cry eywura atft
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d seateain ps nd l but they are variable is global i talked about that single opiv h soreleq esoa i beac re mr ee, veie thecan plot ad plan on one side of the world and execute on the other in ys, hours or icyberspace we are talking second soyook sre ris,easet r,irwir o nsacrsd ft, complex, fragile glo battlefield if you will, the emergence and convergee of hu fle or v are t tre? who are our enemies? how do we define them? how do we find them?
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and then once we o,ow e thss ae met for intelligence collectors and analysis, to inform policymakers and other consumers of intelligence so they can makehat her thanncberr thdv tntt ot t.st o allies. than to give you an example, in kaarl ce 7201ter 1,h e u sghoft li haners re theroat that time? bear in mind that a quarter of ki,0,0m 30 adership had been reen aqaad tan beilon
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bled. their leadership was routed and they were on the way to pakistan. gr? manymericans were on the h0 is wssa0 a . inon of afghanisn after 9/11, i grind my teeth. because wa not anvn. d i a phe. as jau vor it was an afghan victory. becaus we, through our networks, which re informed by enwasut nwh roctov kwhrals a anto our respective potential allies and we worked to bring them to our side.
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teen atwa vr an, sfit caev ihe100 sources in every province, am on every tribe, among every strata of society in afghanistan. e re nrkiler lawor p hantai t thhyalerra. eodtus temy but our friends and our potential friends and allies. that is how we ere able to work closelwithentral command in specialopioom t rgttehaou ialuss the late speaker of the house and great american politician, tip o'neill, he transferred all lila thwefedwihiob nde i scd,t
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l true for intelligence collection. you have to understand those neighborhos, those vlages, those valleys d the people astr p ahee ntecnhi t, mp complicated global arena, we have to understand. nosetatn mooriseoa liha face, driven by nonstate actors in some states like iran and north korea and others that support terrorist groups tt sotimedire foi anoike itll m more i believe a conflict about the people among the people and thi le akurt human intelligencen
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teenhalnf opion ann r 9/11. it wasn't just t human networks i talked about. signals intelligence, collecti of information from the ane trerde. w driven to that technical collection, that particular platform out of a degree of fratn anrcn toqaan bador poma in washington were unsatisfied with our reporting, did not ust their human sources. they wanted eyesn if w, iceyn de ienteord inde ar sending
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cia teams into afghanistan in september of 1999 to work with our afghan allies to collect so ry lmd,y st to engage n rt at heepnggete th policymakers, to our master's if you will. soe look to techcal means because we could nott weke ainate anapite at icve been proven in the balkans so we networked and it wi rka ohile platform, and sc i ok df pyms an atin recall some bureaucrats not just in the cia's counterterrorism center, but in th iltary er em othe itig mmy. mr mothth p
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iskaogr, i at ondy w w pl i afghanistan. and sure enough, driven by intelligence collection from our sources on the ou r wa60utli r stda d e n e bin laden highlighted. that was taken from the video of that surveiance platform off tharor 91100tor. t,n t intelligence, without confirmation, we did not have sufficient authorities or resources to engage with lethal force ainsbin denten on hir msesch anr brrac adventure. the technology in fact apparently was not tt difficult.
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it would have been for me personally butor our technical haaff, they sa it sn'that whwa w fur herepoon a force platform under the command of cia? that was a miracle,nd again they did this in just a f mohs a inear 0e t es tshf anat of ost precise, adaptable, flexible 20nddocarethave in our arsenal. tleru t ag away. driven by necessity. at about threats we face now. [inaudible qstion] itotjt qah fan lafe thou
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aldaaffiliates surfacing in yemen, full scale war inye r . neeisoju airesity t 10opil and 105 that last count, hundreds wounded. in syria another group just surfaced claiminresponsibity for antt eninahaan ooo taanle mullah front has claimed responsibility for some horrific attacks. three nonstate actors have popped jt recently tomtefce tsaneifies arnpsuba n that safe haven in southern yemen, they have tried to attack us in irnd he substate after qudsns.
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force, their intelligence be 9hell leeir fce ballre ban bee ry ir is -- and i'm not sure that anyof our policymakers understand that her realize that, but that haseen long tm haen niremee het up tac seg ev aability to at some point build a nuclear weapon. that is a threat. bob s ena hem atus u.. doknhit ul eser are more hostile
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intelligence officers inside the united states now than at the and siic rtofhaold war. cypai rr to that. weapons of mass destruction, chngntgelweans in w oul aton biochemist whose got the ingredients and he is working in a small laboratory, maybe a kitchen that hase rte do fh ealin aisns war ths ugineen target. bw, that is a big problem. buthat ousan n
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ache einos. a china? i believe that china poses an espionage threat to . they are sophisticated and they coneou slin but'm ao in ee ohiha increasingly adopts, embraces liberal values and liberal institutions. atthemif sta.u wheyou ofte, cmee and battling transnational threats whether it's terrorism, other crime. we need atronghina, buon ru, werful country and
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great resources. what is going to happen in this transition with putin? and his new leadership ro ssngtpam tl emng rpil,a indonesia, india, what roles did they play? what will be the geopolitical impact x many complexities and maueions. liaqtith au teenusds. and if you look at the risks, they are coplex and there are many. i'm not sure if the world is more dangerousow than it was during the cold warthgh e l u mllsu run 'sryholr e t ghemr that. it's a differe type of threat, a different type of risk. i also think there are greater opportunities th
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oul a pora o unsi, aab spring. great opportunities but also it raises many questions at we need to address a thik thugh llce our cyrsorset eiarw rct, omr. or of you thinking about a career in intelligence service [iibuld encourage you -- let cth. quond er d us hanaian thoo up.o honedyoab other countries or units like al qaeda getting ahold of the
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predator used against us, up? rinore alst ess ang i e lot poio of their own unmanned aerial systems includg iran. we know that. there is really no way to keep that in a bottle. mofs ncsi poa ict th s. dobua dense strategy against those threats, those airplanes? we arin the process of doing that and i think we have a long way to re iotaay alea t ilie llonabie a njust their homeland but particularly our troops and our embassies and other installations that are scattered all over the wor. and it willba in unntgeprmf
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agt tofhn collection? a big problem. a good question, thank you. >> was wondering if you had anoughts or concernsbout iza oe yerlkbowi wa e'n th aby pe llcett needs to collect? >> that's a terrific question. i talked with the rrent director of the ci gener dad peaeusbouthis t e n ra otamance thist ayun that and it is a sacred mission if you will. the cia plays an important ole haturtthmiry prtiheesou n woinunfo er herangha is iptiak away from the more traditional, more
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strategic issues about opolitical pows,us, ourt t ahte b h omngne do there is a stress, there is a strain in the cia's a small organization and the clandeine service of thecia dens al hoth atoer anoer i i could spend your question, i am concerned not only about the milirization of intelligence, but the militazation of whelatth rlan inmita man ouli.hccof they are very adaptable. they are aggressive and they have done some terrific work. they want a leadership role. where believe oth par of .ovmeres es.
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te ct icly the leadership over some of these expeditionary, high-risk environments. we do really good job of precti milypo vectpodr b thmbhruy ae s aan e an pakistan theater, the last decade, his life expectancy has soyohenereesix mnths. t eferg ce yilyatas n operations for al qaeda and that part of the world, you have got a pretty gm future. it's because of this inteigenn vt tif mar rellbevth nd einn kllg en tusddefiin n we him. where we could do aot more work is in nonmilitary non-covert action as part of our
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licy. cajth nitt, we ad ewo, particularly in some of these expeditionary environments? what is the role of the state departme and commerce and stic of rs vi'sur oni p menoo ghtahecewe had and the relative stability from zero to 205whee the afghans were just waiting fothe fod top teit c juihe. th mmyfts,le ecismiry power. energy, education, health care. w we have spent bilons and billions, sting most of it i indo pofc io wh y kut itls a policy and i don't
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necessarily blame the military. in fact i admire them. they are charging hard. i d ese going r u.oven is t. tag t giitt thorgae enemy. bees vintages and valleys that we have secured and can reatd r stng efr kng us, stopping the enemy from attacking us in our homeland but that is only thefirst 10, 20%. viy?av einert? >> hello. i am with a major u.s. air kerry con man te h
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rts of africa and the security of our crews when they are laying over in those countries. do you see al qaedaats heernsng ugh gian ul ueih being at risk in those countries? >> i think it depends where you are in africa. it's a massi continent and we have more than 50 countries. mygeon r r nis bue a li canyons and the ugandans and the ethiopians and some of the somali clans, they have done a pretty good job of containing al-shabaab, the al qaeda li e s thetw o eees o,reses mp by some ethnic somalis in australia
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to launch terrorist attacks. eyweac s otdee nd tc--tuho vo. e a nkack to somalia so when i talk about the global landscape, thais an example. in africa though, you have got a gring cnn ner ifoo tinaby ibthwastou ll aowt be diisfaction. bears are satisfied with the government thaanytime you g nflict, anytime you'veot a a pun,prde wh g t happen in parts of north africa. so somalia we have been focused on for years and we are doing i think an adequate job forn d ks lrtou rialhe
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rtri'mttmoe ieou m nneouca nigeria. it tells you a lot about the al qaeda affiliates and our adversaries. if you k a te calua asll edio er o w,doni institutions. i believe that frica offers a lot of promise, a lot of opportunity if you look at the lianana.soof euie thdlat su growing, that is really challenging the status quo. i spent 10 years in africa's different countrs in some respects i'mvpsitibo afriutnogihe i evatty tid. u.eeo th look at the chinese, the indians and russians, others that are in their competing.
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in these capital markets and eeere rty. u.eeo nhe. itott u.it rn, mps yours, private enterprise, they goes into places like africa and affords the opportye pabilitiesor icto aisouory etere g k mean hsp t raluhatha ior ir al iemkere en cosswh seg eiization and interfering in syria or intervening directly or otherwise. i'm curious what you thinkhe united states's stance should be about ta ua. nd,has- e et?
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>>l,hie lda le m grve ee that the key strategic geopolitical strategic issue here when we step back and look at the middle east is that syria really thenal irn orbit or let me rephrase that. if we help empower the syrian dondre l iam what they want to wimmteunrmhe nnon the networks of hezbollah in lebon which poses a direct threat, not just on israel but n t mi-cciizth so i think it's a big strategic opportunity. how we dthis is important.
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aly lyaro t et saudi arabi e-any. suinnotai communication. beyond that i don' know what we are doing but i hope it's more than what i'd know or what the blic knows because if we are no in theel tyrn le aotpe and q ier otilraou are there, trying to influence and drive the future of syria. excegly complex? i dnare reti s.op tro te atmsspov i baan 'sngo a wo orieet there. but have to engage at some point i believe. a good question, thank you. this gentlanhe. hestinatto ort ties al
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tworking, enterprises and industries such as facebook that involve 700 million people ine s journal"40 blion called the technocrats that is being established, where the central intelligence aency 70lln popanciing t wiae ofh a mth0 o can tell you what they are doing in social networks and need even if i d know i wouldn't be able to discuss it. i will may could geral comment that mayddreouio beevathew no, isliti ouheld is being manifested some social media like facebook or like others, linked in is anotr great exale.
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thisproidesre liintus lkd t. ewehed ons em dtt advances our strategic objective in the united states. and i think that the intelligence commutyn just th wlictse mmie thvan eecn e mo. ce byse young, brave technocrats that organize through social media and thea dt the mubarak rgim lu. anrgizfhe il so m.cuyrh d ouk ome the liberal actors and groups in egypt that are now vying for power in concert with the egtianility, hoel suesqud leg llce lloniat believe
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for the cia. so a very general answerut i su monhesuffices. gydeupf ein i er ch s e erssri t s ont het century and what should the u.s. be doing about our own energy security and independence in that regard? res.nergy is crucial for lots eaesurstan mixa ooneca tricsof efforts. the u. has, through the power of privateepr uer wi oor.s i iweule opportunity. we should do it responsibly. we should look at the environmental impact of course, that we should charge ahead a blanl ot ats
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ernia bi n rdalut whether it's in counterterrorism, counter insurgency or energy production because you build a me resilient, sgesyst i neks links and i'd like to see that decentralize more and more and with natural gas and other types of energy, we can do th. dl nhio gyat aas th k. th orsfr the next of administration, whoever that might be. another example of energy, talk about hoyou empower people so nw, r ins technologro aty s h ry the r d oune do connect to the rest of the global community?
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and this goes to understding if latgepaof h picly ki, ann he rdreatthem objective? they want to isolate those communities. they want to keep out western dirasemen,iberal vls. theyato nhose villages so our strategy of belief should be just the opposite. how do we open up these communities to the world? andi00leha oe elicd. -frd t, bly six or 7% are on the electric grid in ahanistan. a complete and utter failure to provide the power tothse afan vge d o tinsof bis, a wie
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loaiani a that son will scorch you. there are enormous opportunities there and went to empower a village with energy, what is the first thing the villagesant aneyt koph tocaheidy they want to get a satellite link in there. there is a great afghan inocanesm re who has got the w oud y te vl? ulve t s broadcast of oprah, 20 years of oprah reruns. evy afan vlagend eer [lte h tquonat ki of interrelated and it
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regards the u.s. ties. my feni rtsthaf9/ a ittaan cn' thnh en paas edep for one flight for saudi families, 106 filies i believe that were allowed out. it was thelflt nd i ly'terd ta e r s for the u.s. sortie relationship, rtie seemed to be the sos, ye m to sayithal tot that the sorties are our allies against this fig again all terrorism in the world. th seeto fancilysut rrm i ly ul keheouthhtabt
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e fl twalo t. >> ft ar referring to was from a saudi oil family here and their friends and i have a very imperfect secondhand le t m inedthut wy rsin e sus, sryg es. au are critical ally in the counterterrorism fight. they also i lieve pose a political, competitive challenge yloteidey no ab tof osstverfl sa der tle to help us against al qaeda and their affiliates until may 2003. why is that important? becath is en il ype l a te tag ifli, i etsiau abndaus responded and did a 180 when that happened. i took a trip to saudi arabia to
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thas20iy st wheia at the state department. the message was to do more to fight al qeda. wa. ihoundrd fa itfr se o hondur seorsi bush at the time. we were kept waiting two or three hours and finally he ow up. dabircunhi es h tlostwo men in a firefight with al qaeda. we change the tenor of our discussion. and the saudi's are inreasingly ctcortri liheu a a. lot wohe g e
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re tpl k role in stopping the latest al qaeda attacks. the second underwear bomber. e saudi's had animporta thusow ali evpoca mpor ey fciad eg o tadas pakistan that are fueling the youth to go into afghanistan and ovroe aigoentlibannd sk tharoam o attirlfa. whas not just a religion, it's a political ideology and i think it is in direct competiti if you will with our liberal viewsthe d. onin sd tm eke t t d d bth qaaneifies but just like we compete agast communism, think we can take this ideology on and
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imbthod os d avdtt ry . reemgee w ou fiha re where's the spectrum? a terrorist enemy over here, political competitors here, yorkngtprus that might bemu i.hs weto st know that they were important saudi citizens including the royals that were here. i believe some of them m have been going tschool but i just don'knowmohah. cin. e a laly teli compared to the rest of the world and the united states. what is your view on homegrown terrorism and how we have to leas odoe ge edrce a ta thwsmtth t? >> paul, thanks.
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good question. more and more cases of this. waone of themt ifmple from 2009, in frm eln, fedf expression, legal immigration into our country is essential to th ly h . inut.manic we must always keep that in mind and we must always welcomed those who want to come hear who can contribute i believe. thats rt of mytng t. ale tcndg imann ic we nttehe i veou epl en iwent into afghanistan in the fall of 2001, i had two cifi tacmpd,
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imri. bhtso ue ur linguistic skills that i din't have. they performed heroically. and when people talkabt t hi, yor ary t a.th fim pretty torqued that we have allowed al qaeda and others to define the lexicon of this war. we disparagi referred to ha n wh wnfutmt e olwio cathink of anything more unholy. let me answer your question w. grg no stira you have white american americans if you will that have been caught up in this.
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not just affiliate with al qaeda but all sort is pt hrg atalat. e t ofeifu llinllce n ininelnc's rtth we don't defat to this concept of an orwellian, pervasive surveillance. noa looo s he.ventnk th bng eye. ha it is not anmpact it concerns me, given my emphasis on civil liberties here. the st eenoln tatsobemeo ergy, the local store owner, the teacher, parnts, famils, neighborhoods, communies. atthstelncwe .
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usnekstcaim l enem l civic leaders, to help blunt that problem. but it aks momo taha o. iteshiatio teenor e tgeof sample line know is nypd. they have done a very good job in the big and complex city. leae inedts of the ty iin'sct. in'sfrmp. we need to do a much better job. the second part of that is education and that is one reason i wrotethis ok. ltre tmca blnoues to rihri and where threats are in intelligen and the value of these trusted networks that i talk about.
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a go questi, thank u. >> dou ci c pndtloor something else is one question in two when you talk to young ople today who might be interested in going io the agen, wh is p? so degree.o i was raised in a small town in georgia. frs thavade h ennm a vironment where i was encouraged to read, to learn, to explore intellectually and also ysly hd twup ind ind ng ee wmyadn s in efostou
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ntwihi so, in this wonderful childhood, i was exposed to t warren countyliy. eyd vea ks en an ov s, particularly american history and the american revolution, canagularwar ey sgrsts whwexinl esbs. and i wrote to the cia when i was 10 or 11 and got a response from some very non-bureaucrat in thei calygiha s, eo goo e notebook paper. they sent a formal business letter, thank you and please reapply at a later date.
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i reedin e d iygen s yoedgrp tmo it fonannt a different offce and reapplied in that time i got an. i was driven i think by many motivaons see naon and in our family and in that community a lot of men who went t ar rtarie. scoll rth thweoio na couple of them had come back. so washis intellectual curiosity and a sense of coit aset rwee n'jt
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li v it was intelligence service. i was really drawn to that with all the james bond booksand all the moves of there there was th yatke it are er i ct cd ig boyhood dreams, and i am forever grateful to th cia and to the u.s. government into ia ih tcel the book. i had a journalist a few days ago ask me if i wrote the ok ca--in i ths r o te e . dnnoatme. wldo ? b is basically a note of thanks and my tempt to inform enaille ,
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m lykybespe tocbohae t there that are considering serving their nation through the intelligence service. noteth tol rell young ople ifanw n a ll un ra and lead our nation in a war after something as horrible as non-11 and if i can serve myaa e ss arg esngcotr cryf tere, malean pdent bush, then i think that dreams are important, and that is what i tell young eople today. ethehis vernre th tnoe pa e soy wn
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contribute,nd that is what i drngaca ufurage them i gues exind leg aour erab your safety cracks that is a pretty dangerous mission. wh wsenghc protectyse onaf the cia, the screener applicants. there was a rigorous process. i went through all kinds of sety epoap, amiod it t nn process. then once you get through that, for met was about 18 months of some pretty rigorous training. prs.hereg trngbeti t
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clst world. and so that is one aspect of it. the training was very good i thought. it was a lot of fun and soerl riacs driving, aggressive driving, shooting, just a whole range of different tack ticks and procedures thatweeoya vs tl t rot. t qs m r ane os et se ae is ennm t a other tactics you need to exlore. what was i think most
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challenging in terms of personal securi at cia ssof e dri yadng ndnigothh roadblocby drunk teenage soldiers. i did that scores of times. how do you negotiate through that roa k? thbeor vem fe s usst e do mvethrough that, particularly if you have a national spy, one of your sources in the car with you? anreplo rlr re thanwn trras inths nt, let ca tes, people that and call in to an american office or in the sea or to esyhlndmsrth
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sa, ykw ' o important information that i'm not coming to meet yoat that facility. i will meet you this night, this mahmeitcrafteet r do you employ, what procedures do you put in place? and i did that scores of times. i t su uose arefarlruit ly ik. examples of the life of the surface when you're out meeting stngts, reruiti ae t n ei a l [lte ein -- and i really enjoyed tht. [laughter]
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.. >> ieausof power what are the obstacles to getting there and how do we overcome those obstacles? >> thankou. odfin rfss tep a a wit nsy td oe o e t t megri was making earlier abo the strategic need for the u.s. to project long military power. you lot l hesf ec a gv u prm tthketcesa hiprogram where they will take a u.s. attorney from a particular city they will sign them overseas to a u.s. embassy that couldbeva edm rtnd amadead rkr
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nns n counterterrorism law and how we understand ourysteand aftwar esyafo e ofver will have come in u.s. government will have, that program is very small or was. i would love to seehundrs of atysheov evianavar mfrhprshexas statecraft, commerce, agriculture, things they could be doing it's much broader than that it's not just the toolof the ..goen enholkbut r ang butca n canvein we bring whether its private sector such as the media or the enrtnmentol or okan
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so m itlko l ecf erhe hi atat the time if it's a strategic level and project into these areas we have secured or areas we'vbe at risk i would noord n'e artegc n nk b rt oal solution when our friends and potential allies aim somalia might be totallyfft ia t qu nusege omte bnmaic anat wow ow project power matter whetr it is hard or soft or is recently rerred to smart power which is a cobination of both. ifou hen'tdsrk ul o co oeaxas e h
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columbia, very successful counter insurgency. not eliminated yet close to be a bogsspecttot2 lis o dage reeridn, ilneala, singapore, so there are some examples of how we could take hard part was of power, education ing a big piece of i k nces hqa again, but we thank you for e opportunity to come speak with you. great questions and i wish you all the vry bst. thkyuhing else, dam. la
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and i think the pictures are absolutely beautiful. i could telleasewe l sapi i,ts o alltled in by the pictures and they couldn't put it down and they started looking through them and ty started ctually. entu iot i onds ha wweop t b e tua to e e en ht to be and how we had our ups and downs in trials and tribulations, but it's also a story of community, gardens ac theon. er fthonul beenamed vice mag dab in the middle of new york was in grade school kipeers of the story of thryreelyngos rtpaf bos
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weo ao neey itvewch is, let's move, which is all about getting our kids healthy. the book shares that journ and me othe tereg is t r h re g crteont anensct, too. i'm not thbest gardener in the world, but i do great team of national park service people an i had to bringcropdidn hadid. ey mrticrei i , these two schools have been with us from the beginning and that is one of the things that we said we strted exploring whether we could plant a garden iuh i ulvebec en ahtks u rtat andan ereiodcm nd engage in that process because that is what i learned in my own
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life that when i bought my kids and is today a dimwitted garde in chigo,te wdnt errk o hm olinllgig procs,ha they accepted it if not more. we have seen that with these kids. you know, these kids work in the gardens in hi n cho knhebrbadend titoir fa th ado rhings. these kids have been amazing and they are just been a pleasure comeo the white house. th don't get starstruck. they don't look around. theyet twr. ey oela n es matter of 10, 15 minutes, sometimes 30 minutes if they get it done. pr p, oud oualf you all. nky
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so i just want to thank you all for standing in the rain, for coming out. i am just thrilled and i hoe hotbombegngbd nyveion n men cmmues hethier generations of kids at some point. there's also good recipes in there that are easy to follow it pretty goo. e use chef. i urt r h al t yo uh. k frd g a ar l right. [iibonat]]
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