being from the way with the greatest president of the challenges for those victories get through so you please ask me what it meant that i have going through washington i had in my mind what that looked like it was pretty different i am doing well. want to understand history for a privilege have a living country through difficult time confident we can make it through challenging times as well.. k [inaudible conversations]

>> good evening everybody. that's the energy we solve a few came in. by the program director here at the commonwealth club. thank you for some coming to an interesting program tonight with michael chertoff. he will a lot. we hope you will write a lot of questions. before we begin please take a moment to turn off your cell phones. we have some other upcoming programs.

we will also have janet napolitano. we want to talk about reducing our risks from earthquakes and fires and environmental threats. former democratic congressman david israel will be here it will also be moderated by tonight's moderator as a former national representative and a member of the commonwealth club board of governors. steven pinker will be with us to talk about science and reason you are not a member of his free time to. do you love the new building? we feel very easy to be. a lot of interesting event coming up we had events like white house reporter and noted celebrity chefs among others.

finally let me tell you there are cards on your seats will be collected and brought to the moderator also remember copies of the book is on sale in the lobby and he will please to sign them after the program. we are a nonpartisan organization you ask speakers be allowed to make remarks without interruption please give a warm commonwealth love welcome to secretary chertoff. [applause] >> thank you.

good evening i former undersecretary of the of arms control of national security former member of congress and on the kabul club for the governors in the moderator fortunate program. it is my pleasure to introduce to get michael chertoff

under george w. bush and his author of his new book exploding data. as secretary to u.s. department of homeland security 2005 through 2009 he led the country before heading up the department of homeland security he served as a federal judge u.s. port of appeals for the third circuit. currently as cofounder of the chertoff group he provides high-level strategic to corporate and government leaders on a broad range of security issues. today, we will discuss his belief that the growth has made our greatest threat not physical but digital. please book the sec. chertoff_spee17 speemac thank you. >> when i saw the gavel i thought i haven't had a gavel since i haven't had a gavel since i was a judge left on the court of appeals you don't have to use that. >> i used to use one when i would preside over the house when nancy was the speaker. it was five times the size of this but the trick is helping you go like this. (though.

it is only effective if you have the look that my mother taught me. so now let's get down to our conversation. this is really a great book. exploding data. i was interested but only because of the world that we live in is really building communities are just selling your data? the largest stock decline in the world today. i approach the book this is really one of those technical subjects. tv.org.

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