to former representatives about televisions influence on politics. we start with celebrities. kutcher is the cofounder of an organization thorn,foreign -- called defenders of children. he testified before the senate foreign relations committee. ashton: it is an honor to be here. as a young man brought up in the public school system, i pledge d my allegiance to that flag every single day, and the honor, maybe one of the greatest honors of my life today, is to be here, and leverage the work that i have done as testimony that may in some way benefit this nation

that i love. i would like to start by saying thank you to chairman corker for your leadership in this endeavor and to senator cardin. your leadership has been extraordinary, and i would like to say thank you to the rest of the committee that has supported this effort. this is a bipartisan effort, and in a country that is riddled with bipartisan separation on so many things, slavery seems to come up as one of these issues that we can all agree upon, and i applaud you for your agreement, and i believe in you and your leadership and your ability to take us out of it. i am here today to defend the right to pursue happiness. it is a simple notion. the right to pursue happiness is bestowed upon all of us by our constitution. every citizen of this country

has the right to pursue it, and i believe that it is incumbent upon us as citizens of this nation, as americans, to bestow that right upon others, upon each other, and upon the rest of the world, but the right to pursue happiness, for so many, is stripped away. it is raped, it is abused, it is taken by force, fraud, or coercion. it is sold for the momentary happiness of another. this is about the time when i start talking about politics that the internet trolls tell me to stick to my day job, so i would like to talk about my day job. my day job is as the chairman and cofounder of thorn. we build software to fight human trafficking into the sexual exploitation of children.

that is our core mission. my other day job is that of a father of two. a two-month-old and a two-year-old. it is part of the job i take seriously. i believe it is my effort to ensure a society and government that defends it as well. as part of my anti-trafficking work, i met victims in russia. i have met victims in india. i have met victims that have been trafficked from mexico, new york, new jersey, and all across our country. i have been on fbi raids where i have seen things that no person should ever see. i have seen video content of a child that is the same age as mine being raped by an american in that was a sex tourist cambodia. this child was so conditioned by

her environment that she thought she was engaging in play. i have been on the other end of team asking from my for my help because we have received a call from the department of homeland security telling us a seven-year-old girl was being sexually abused and the content was being spread around the dark web, and she had been being abused. they watched her for three years and could not find the perpetrator. asking us for help. we were the last line of actor and his foundation, the last line of defense. that is my day job, and i'm sticking to it. i would like to tell you a story about a 15-year-old girl in oakland. we will call her amy. amy met a man online, started talking to him, and a short while later, they met in person. within hours, amy was abused,

raped, and forced into trafficking. she was sold for sex. this is not an isolated incident. there is not much that is unusual about it. the only unusual thing is that amy was found and returned to her family within three days using the software that we created, a tool called spotlight. in an effort to protect its capacity over time, i will not give much detail about what it does, but it is a tool that can be used by law enforcement to prioritize their caseload. it is a neural net. it gets smarter over time, better, more efficient as people use it. and it is working. in six months, with 25% of our users reporting, we have identified over 6000 trafficking victims, 2000 of which are minors. this tool is in the hands of 4000 law enforcement officials and 900 agencies, and we are reducing the investigation time

by 60%. this tool is effective. it's efficient. it's simple. -- it is nimble. it's better. it's smarter. there is often a misconception about technology that in some way, it is the generator of some evil, that it is creating job displacement, and it enables violence and malice acts, but as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in the technology field, i see technology is simply a tool without will. the will is the user of that technology, and i think it is an important distinction. an airplane is a tool. it is a piece of technology. under the right hands, it is used for mass global transit. under the wrong hands, it can be flown into buildings. technology can be used to enable slavery, but it can also be used to disable slavery, and that is what we are doing. i had a call from the department

of homeland security about this girl who was being trafficked on the dark web. it is interesting to note that the dark web was created in the mid-1990's. it was a tool created by the , aal research lab called tor tool with positive intention for sharing intelligence communications anonymously. it has also been used to help people who are being disenfranchised by the government in oppressive regimes. on the other side, it is used for trafficking, for drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and for human trafficking. and it is also a warehouse for some of the most offensive child abuse images in the world. when the department of homeland forrity called us and asked our help and asked if we had a tool, i had to say no, and it devastated me.

it haunted me. for the next three months, i had to go to sleep every night and think about that little girl that was still being abused, and the fact that if i do the right thing, we could save her, so that is what we did. and now, when i get that phone call, and greg, wherever you are at, the answer will be yes. we have taken these investigation times of dark web material from three years to what we believe can be three weeks. the tool is called solis. i will not go into much detail about the tool, but it is being used by 40 agencies across the world today in beta, and we believe it will yield extraordinary results. and just like spotlight, it gets smarter and more efficient and more cost effective over time. so where do we go from here? what do we need? we need money. we need financing in order to build these tools.

technology is expensive to build, but the beauty of technology is once you build the warehouse, it gets more efficient and more cost effective over time. i might be able to present to you a government initiative where next year, i come back and ask for less. and to me, that is like -- it seems extraordinary. the technology we are building is efficient. it works. it is nimble, because traffickers change their modus and we can change ours as well. it is enduring. and it only gets smarter with time. we are collecting data. we understand that if we are delivering value, we can increase our efforts in that area. if we are not delivering value, we shut it down. and it is a quantifiable solution. one of my mentors told me don't go after this issue if you can't come up with a quantifiable solution. we can quantify it and we can

doing andork you are the initiatives you put forward accountable. my second recommendation is to continue to foster these private/public partnerships. spotlight was only enabled by the mccain institution, and the full support of cindy mccain, and a man i find not only a war hero but a hero of this issue, john mccain. it was not just created by them. there is extraordinary support from the private sector. the company digital reasoning out of tennessee stepped up to the plate and offered us effort, engineers and support in pro bono work. we had the support of companies war with eaches other, from google to microsoft to aws, facebook, and some of our other technology initiatives, including many other private companies. it is vital to our success. these partnerships are the key.

the third thing i would like to highlight is the pipeline. you know, we sit at the intersection of discovery of these victims, but the pipeline in and the pipeline out are just as vital and just as important and addressing them are just as important. i would like to highlight one thing in particular, the foster care system. there are 500,000 kids in foster care today. i was astonished to find out that 70% of the inmates in the prison across the country have touched the foster care system. 80% of the people on death row were at some point in time exposed to the foster care system. 50% of these kids will not graduate high school. 95% of them will not get a college degree. the most staggering statistic i found was foster care children are four times more likely to be exposed to sexual abuse. that is a breeding ground for trafficking. i promise you, that is a breeding ground for trafficking.

the reason i looked at foster care is it is a microcosm, a sample set that we have pretty extraordinary data around today even though we cannot seem to fix it. a microcosm for what happens when displacement happens abroad, the unintended consequences of our actions or inactions in the rest of the world. when people are left out, when they are neglected, when they are not supported, and they are not given the love that they need to grow, it becomes an incubator for trafficking. if we want to be serious about ending slavery, we can not ignore our support for this issue in that space because otherwise we are going to deal with this for years to come. outbound pipeline, there's not enough beds. once someone is exposed to this level of abuse, it's a mental

health issue. there's not enough beds or sup port. and we have to have the resources on the other, side otherwise the recidivism rates are through the roof. when massive needs are not being met, people resort to survival and if this is their means of survival and the only source of love they have in their life, this is what they jump for. we have to address the pipeline out, and we have to create support systems on the other end. it's a demand to end slavery. my fourth and final recommendation is the end of sex slavery.ng and they are both punitive. highlyutions are differentiated. when you look at sex trafficking, a victim is most often present.

this provides an opportunity for drastic intervention. in blaber trafficking, it requires an entirely different set of legislation and productivity and enforcement than it would to shut it down. there's a lot of rhetoric in the world right now about job creation in the u.s. if we want to create jobs in the united states, i would ask you to consider eliminating slavery from the pipelines and corporations.

bringing jobs to america can be the consequence of doing the right thing, or it could be the consequence of doing the wrong thing. but that choice is up to you. it is not lost on me that all of this disruption within our marketplace is going to happen. economic backlash that is not lost on me at all. but i ask you, did you believe abraham lincoln had to consider the economic backlash of shutting down the cotton fields in the south when he shut down slavery? because i am sure that weighed on his mind. happiness can be given to no man. it must be earned. ht must be earned throug generosity and purpose. but the right to pursue it -- the right to pursue it is everyman's right. i beg of you, if you give people the right to pursue it, what you

might find in return his happiness for yourself. thank you. michaeler this year phelps used his status as the most decorated olympian ever to call for improved anti-doping measures in sports. testifying before a house energy and commerce subcommittee, mr. phelps describe a system or some athletes are tested repeatedly and others are never tested. you can watch the entire hearing on our website, www.c-span.org. >> mr. chairman, members of the committee. good morning. my name is michael phelps. i am a retired professional swimmer and an olympian. i want to thank the committee for the opportunity to appear before you today. it is a privilege to be here to share my thoughts and perspective on the issue of clean sports, which is in part and to so many athletes and to sport in general. i competed internationally for over 15 years and have a tremendous honor to represent the united states in five

olympic games and six world championships. without question, many of my proudest moments have been representing my country in international competition. there is no greater feeling than standing on top of the podium, watching the stars and stripes rise as the national anthem plays. the rio olympics were special to me because it gave me the opportunity to end my career on my terms and do it with my wife, nicole, and some of whom are watching. it was neat because of increased doping concerns. i watched how this affected my teammates and fellow competitors. we all felt frustration. looking back over my career and knowing how difficult it is to get to the highest levels of sport, i cannot help wonder if the next generation of athletes will be able to do it if there is uncertainty continues. as a child, i found school difficult. i had adhd, which probably contribute to my restlessness. i will never forget being told by one of my teachers that i

would never amount to anything. it was swimming that enabled me to see past the challenges and not be defined by them. my mom for my sisters and me in the pool so we would be water safe. at first, like many children, i was afraid to put my head under the water. by overcoming that fear, i got my first taste of self-confidence. as it turned out, i was pretty good in the water, and i quickly realized that the harder i work, the quicker i improved. i found a focus and purpose i had never found before. i would set goals for myself and work like crazy until i accomplish them. dreams would just pop into my head when i got into the pool. it would dream of becoming an olympic medalist. i wanted to be the best. i talked with my coach so we could come up with a friend, not just for what i was doing and the fool, but how it could better myself away from the pool. and made it my mind to do everything i could to make my dream a reality. in school i had friends, but it was not that social. i focused on swimming.

at times i was made fun of for what i was doing because it was different. i was in love with challenging myself to become the best athlete i could be. i felt every single day was an opportunity for me to do something special. i would assault the kids who worked the hardest got the best results. i was pushed myself as hard as i could. ier a five-year period, trained every single they without a day off. i figured by training on holidays i would get that extra edge. asa part of my hard work -- my hard work and sacrifice began to pay off, my confidence grew and i began to feel that if i could dream something and give everything i had, that anything was possible. the strength of that belief drove me to set goals that others thought might be unrealistic. that is one amazing thing about competitive sport. it demands you believe in yourself. this is not always easy.

there were so many times they could have quit and walked away. sticking with it required me to dig deep, especially knowing that after all the work and sacrifice, success might be determined by just a hundred of a second. and those critical moments when you test your commitment and can ultimately define your career, that if youbelieve i push on, you can get the opportunity to measure yourself, your preparation, your desire, your talent, against others who have prepared themselves in the same exact way. throughout my career, i thought some athletes were cheating, and in some cases, those suspicions were confirmed. given all the testing that i and so many others have been through, i have a hard time understanding this. in addition to the test in competitions, i had to notify where i was every day, so i would be able to do written testing as part of the competition. this whole process takes a toll,

but it is absolutely worth it to keep the sport clean and fair. i cannot describe how frustrating it is to the other athletes breakthrough performance barriers in unrealistic timeframes knowing what i had to do to go through that. i watch how this affected my teammates as well. even the suspicion of doping is disillusioning for queen athletes. -- for clean athletes. to believe in yourself through sport, you need to be able to believe in the system that safeguards clean sport and fair play. all athletes must be held to the same standards, which need to be implemented and enforced with consistency and independence. for years now, i worked closely with kids, most of which are not swimmers, but are eager to sit down and talk with me and always full of questions. it is when i talk about being a kid like them and how this all started with a dream that you see their eyes like an up. i talked about how i did it and tell them they can do it too, and tell them if they do the work, they can succeed.

the power to believe in yourself and inspire others through sport depends upon fair play. now that i'm retired i frequently asked by think anybody will ever win more medals than me in my lifetime. my answer to that question is that i hope so. i would like to think there is some little boy or girl with the even bigger dream and a stronger drive to do some of it has never been done before. but for that to happen, they must believe they will get a fair opportunity to compete. the time to act is now. we must do what is necessary to ensure the system is fair and reliable, so we can all believe in it. thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee. [applause] >> next up in our celebrity

sstivist program, actre jennifer garner at the national governors association winter meeting on the issue of early childhood education. ms. garner sits on the board of trustees for the group save the children. jennifer garner: it's thrilling and exciting to be ina room filled with people who are giving their lives and service to our country. i am grateful to be part of this conversation. believe me. when i started working here nine years ago, the thought of early education being part of a national conversation was something that was very far off in the distance. it is really chilling to see everybody here and committed and ready to get to work. first, just to let you know how i got into this in the first poor. my mom grew up after poor, with 10 siblings, no inctricity or running water

oklahoma. she managed somehow to get herself educated. the only member of her family to go to college. eventually they waited my sisters and me in charleston, where he throughout middle class, started by generational role property. the kind where my friends from first grade did not make it to second grade when i did, did not make it to third grade when i did and somehow, disappeared off the face of the earth as far as i knew in my little elementary school mind. i grew up one generation and one holler removed from poverty. that has driven me to think about big things, like how did my mom get out? help kids likean i the ones they grew up close to? and so, i hunted down the organization that at the time i believe had the most efficacy in helping kids get out of generational rural poverty in

the united states. that was save the children, run by marc scheiber. we had the great luck and fortune -- and when you are going into someone's trailer home that is surrounded by trash, that has plastic over a broken window, that has the oven door open to heat the small space, that is invested by cockroaches, and that has not an ounce of sound or julie in the place, -- or joy in the place, you feel privileged to be welcomed into a place where they could actually just feel shame and not want you to take a look inside. when we walked into these homes, you would be suffocated by the silence in the room. the children are not babbling.

they are not talking. they are not crying. they are not making joyful sounds or anything else. that is because their senses are doled. there mothers and fathers are overwhelmed by the stressors of living in poverty. food scarcity. not knowing where they will live. rugged addiction and abuse. you all know the drill better than i. the mothers are so overwhelmed that they don't have the capacity to look outside themselves. i'm sure they have not had the modeling, like i am sure many of us had some great parents. they have the capacity to look the other spells -- to look beyond themselves. they sit their babies in front of a television. i have seen it over and over again across this country. and the child quietly goes to sleep inside their mind. well, if the brain grows between birth and five, we are doing these children a great disservice because they are absolutely losing the chance to ever make it ahead in life.

if you are growing up in poverty, by four years old you are a year and a half behind developmentally. how will that feel when you start kindergarten? 60% of kids in rural america starts special ed in kindergarten. that doesn't make sense. but there is an answer. the answer is starting earlier and earlier and earlier. as much as i believe in a plot all of you who are putting money and effort into helping kids at three and four years old, governor inslee, i challenge you to three andrth ask what you are doing for those newborns. [applause] in the lastner: couple of years, i have visited governor inslee's mission, calhoun county, west virginia, eastern tennessee, south

carolina, where programs are so, some needed and the money for them was cut yesterday and i'm coming after them. [laughter] jennifer garner: i am thrilled there'syou that so much optimism in getting to a mother and child early. i was visiting a family in a concrete home in the heat of southern california. there was a little boy there at 11 months old. at the time i had a 10-month-old -- who is turning five on friday. at this time, the boy was 11-month-old. he did not look up, he did not smile, he did not react to me at all. he was sitting in front of an episode of "oprah." and she is wonderful and i hope he got something from her. [laughter] jennifer garner: the mother also

looked depressed, overwhelmed, exhausted, and i can understand why. her life did not look like anything i would want to lead. this little boy was stagnant. the save the children coordinator came in and she brought something for this child, along with a book bag and books and a log for the mother to fill out every time she was reading to her child. she brought a ball. this little boy had never seen a ball. imagine your own children, imagine your son, with his first ball. this kid kind of looked at the ball and he looked at his mom and his mom was just putting up with us, frankly. the save the children coordinator said, role that ball to your son. she did. she rolled it to him. and he looked at it and could not believe that was happening. and he rolled it back. the mother kind of sat there. in the coordinator said, he is playing with you. do it again. she rolled it to him again. [beep] jennifer garner: is that my

time? ok. you guys are like the osca rs. you are so scary! can i tell you what happened with the mother and child? [laughter] baby made aner: the noise. the coordinator said, he is talking to you. the mother said, he is not talking to ,me. the quarters said, he is. this is speech. -- the coordinator said he is. this is speech. the next thing you know, they were babbling back and forth. i saw a lightswitch go on for that little boy that day. because we visited that mother a week later, that light switch was turned on just run and yes for us to catch her week later and the week after that and after that. there was a connection made and the mother knew she could play with her child, knew she could speak to her child and expect a response, knew she was encouraged to read to her child and that kid had a chance to go to kindergarten, ready to learn.

pleaseou so much, and call on me if i can be part of going to your state and introducing these great programs. and governor mcmaster, i will speak with you soon. [applause] anrobert dolis award-winning screenwriter, actor and director. he spoke earlier at the political action conference. he spoke about his relationship with president trump and his support for the president's agenda. [applause] robert davi: good evening. i've got to say. i got the invitation to come here. and cpac and acu. i said to the oscar party, i'm

not showing up. i've got something else i have got to do. and i'm thrilled to be here with all of you. but i have to say how moved to him to see how many in people are engaged. [applause] you are the future of this country. and you have got to be engaged and you have got to understand how important is moment of your history is. because this nation belongs to you. [cheers and applause] robert davi: i want to ask a question and i want you to be honest. how many of you on the day donald trump came down that escalator, were you trump supporters? just raise your hands. how many? and how many are supporters today? [cheers and applause] forrt davi: i write breitbart. its done that since inception.

andrew breitbart was a good friend of mine. i met him on the uss ronald reagan. i also have a radio talk show now. go figure. bond villain goes talkshow host. you get danger and politics at the same time, you know? i hope my show -- for those of you who don't know what cioppino is, it's an italian fish stew. and politics can be very fish y sometimes. i let you know before my show if it is edible this particular week. i want to read something i wrote on june 16, 2015 for breitbart, the day donald trump made his entrance with melania down as goiter. theld trump could be presidential candidate that provides america with the message that conservatives have been waiting to hear. the common sense populist message of the donald, while not as poetic as that of ronald

reagan, does go right to the gut of an american population that has than ripping its hair out while watching the destruction of the republic from within. [applause] the compliance and lack of imagination and some in the republican party, the elite, along with the aggressive takeover by progressives who are bent on reshaping america into the image of europe have brought us to the point we are now in. i have not in my lifetime seen such a disparaging portrait of america as we see today. it will take a leader who understands how to build, not just govern. we have had years of tired political elites who have dismantled america's individualism. we do not need another politician at this particular time in our history.

that was my opening statement on the breitbart article i wrote that our president announced. you see, these are all great political figures and people, and i respect them all. i remember watching, and we love all of them, but there are a couple of benchmarks for me. the media is one of them. the culture is another one. we will get to media and a second. we have talked about that for years. the hollywood since 1977, i did my first film with frank sinatra. 1977. [applause] robert davi: so, i've seen hollywood. i've seen reagan, ronald reagan, 1980. [applause] robert davi: i'm going to bring to mind is something -- i talked with a friend of mine, a couple of times. we discussed this, marc masters, actually. when ronald reagan was president of the united states, he said,

mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. the wall came down. peace through strength, nuclear detente, prosperity. in 1988, his right hand was a guy named george bush. we respect the bushes. we respect george bush, but there was a shift. there was a shift that is absolutely stunning. after being the right hand of ronald reagan for eight years and seeing the bold choices and the bold moves that he made, and much like what we have seen with donald trump, how the establishment those on the left and right have attacked donald trump route thi -- donald trump thing --t this whole what did george bush run under? what was his slogan in 1988? no, that was 1992. in 1988, he said "a kinder, gentler nation."

nation.", gentler right after he saw what ronald reagan did. george bush is a good man, but that was the globalist flag put in the ground. that was the beginning of it all. after reagan we have had bush, obama --bush ii, [booing] robert davi: we needed a force of nature to take the shift back, generated by you, the pe ople. it's your campaign, as donald trump says over and over again. when mitt romney ran, we thought he could win. another good man. but here he is. he's doing a debate. remember that debate, the second debate? i'm an actor. i'm sitting at home and i have watched media.

i am seeing the second debate, and he goes like this, and the president says -- talking about benghazi. at that moment, mitt romney was not able to go -- and this was on cnn, by the way it. [booing] robert davi: i am going to tease you a second about cnn. who is the parent company of cnn? who is it? time warner? is time warner the parent company? remember that. on cnn, there she goes, she holds it up. instead of mitt romney looking at candy crowley, looking at the president, saying, did you rehearse this? then, the american people knew, we were misled about benghazi, mr. president. we cannot be misled any longer. that is what should have been taken at that moment. for some reason, the elites are afraid to rock the boat. i called that campaign and i

said, "please, the third debate, please, have them bring it up." i also said, when hurricane sandy happened -- i never contacted mitt romney to tell him this, but i said it to the campaign people in messages. when you're going to be president of the united states, act like the president of the united states. you are three months from the election. act like it. donald trump did just that when the hurricane happened in louisiana. he understands the media. [applause] robert davi: he understands how to bring a message to the people. remember the night he won the election? [cheers and applause] my 16-year-old boy hours -- or four [laughter] robert davi: no kidding. he ate his sandwich like this.

it was pizza. "dad, i'm not doing it until they call it for him." he was pissed off they didn't call it early. a was pissed off, 16-year-old kid. finally, when it was called for him, it was released and she did not give the concession speech. i know what happened backstage. you have got to realize what happened. everyone's hair had to be on fire. the phone in hollywood, they had to be calling him, every hollywood elitist had to be calling, what is going on george soros. we do second. -- wait a second. what happens? she does not give the speech, for whatever ereason. there's a book supposedly coming out about it. here is what she said in her speech. and to the millions of volunteers, community leaders, activists, and union organizers who knocked on doors had talked to neighbors, posted on facebook, even in secret,

private facebook sites, "i want everyone coming out from behind that and make sure your voices are heard going forward." and to the young people in particular, i hope you will hear this. i have, as kim said, spent my entire adult life fighting for what i believe in. i have successes and setbacks. sometimes painful months. many of you at the beginning of your professional and public political careers, you will have successes and setbacks, too. but please, never stop believing that fighting for what is right is worth it. it is. it is worth it. and so, we need you to keep up these fights now. a couple of hours later, there was the first riots, the first marches. that was the trigger. what is happening right now in our country, from the elite in hollywood -- the elite in hollywood can fly and work

anywhere. i can fly anywhere. i travel the world singing. some of you may not know that. i am a pretty darn good singer, by the way. i travel besides the acting. and i can go anywhere. but the makeup artists cannot go on the plane. the key grips, the electricians, the dry cleaners, they have lost touch. the hollywood community has lost touch with the blue color in -- lost touch with the blue-collar in america. they think -- they don't know. so now, just a few little things. the parent company of cnn is time warner. [booing] robert davi: we know that the media, the fake media, the very fake media, we know these -- i have known for years. i have seen them being manipulated. there are good people. i respect everyone's living. i respect everyone's point of view. that is what america is about. i understand that when i see the vitriol and the

misrepresentation, the continued misrepresentation of certain things, or the exaggerations of certain things, carried to a point that they should not be. and that is what we see happening right now. even on every media says the first 100 days. he has only been in office for 30 some odd days. about 100 days. look at what has been accomplished. look at what has been accomplished. and look at what the future is going to be. [cheers and applause] robert davi: so, anyway, i've got to wrap up. i'm going to have to finish this speech tomorrow. because of mike pence, in honor of mike pence, i'll have to mention another son of indiana. how many of you know of red skeleton? red skeleton, on his tv show, january 14, 1969, talked about the pledge of allegiance. do you remember that? some of you don't.

i would like to read what he said about the pledge of allegiance. because the kids were not saying it with any meaning behind it. the last message ronald reagan gave to the american people in his farewell speech was the american patriotism, to educate the youth with a new american patriotism. my article, i wrote it in november on breitbart. please read it. it is important. and president trump, during his inauguration address, brought up patriotism. that is what is lacking. the assimilation of immigrants that don't know what america stands for, have not been taught it and the youth that hasn't been. so, the pledge of allegiance, before we all say it. an individual, a committee of one, pledge, dedicate all my worldly goods to get without self-pity, allegiance, my love and devotion, to the flag, our standard, o' glory, a symbol of

freedom. there isshe waves respect because her loyalty has given a dignity that shouts "freedom is everyone's job," sanctified by the blood of our most brave, united. that means we have come altogether. states, individual communities that have united into 50 great states, 50 individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose, all divided with imaginary boundaries, yet unified to a common purpose, and that is love of country. and to the republic. a state in which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern. is the people and it is from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people. for which it stands, one nation under god, meaning so blessed by god. indivisible, incapable of being divided. with liberty, which is freedom, the right of power to live one's

own life without threats, fear or some form of retaliation. justice, the principal equality others in with equality. it is asthma is yours as it is mine. now, boys and girls, let stand for the pledge of allegiance. [applause] robert davi: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [cheers and applause] >> former california governor and actor arnold schwarzenegger spoke at a summit this year on afterschool programs, where he federaled proposed

spending cuts. he is the founder of afterschool program based in los angeles. he spoke about his activism on the issue with cnn commentator van jones. jones: let me ask you a couple of tough questions. art you spoiling some of these kids? let me be honest. you yourself come from a modest background. nobody gave you a big afterschool program. you got out there and figured out a way. you almost invented bodybuilding. he almost transformed the entire field. you didn't say, i need a program. sioo, aren't you spoiling these kids? arnold schwarzenegger: i know exactly what your question is, but i have to tell you, i was spoiled myself. toause the day we have

organize afterschool programs because, like i said, both of the parents are working in most households. when i grew up in austria it was very uncommon that both parents were working. i didn't ever hear that. very rarely. i would say maybe 5% may be at the time to. but most of the time the mother remained home and cooked. my mother was a traditional housewife. my mother stayed home and from morning to night was all about providing food. she would be gardening, growing the vegetables, doing all those kind of things, and then cooking up a storm. in the afternoon, when we came home, she was there, and she made sure we did our homework. and she was tough. i mean, really, really tough. the ruler, the back of the hand, if you did not do your math. you cannot do that now, but this was the old days. mr. jones: that's a lawsuit. [laughter] arnold schwarzenegger: she

helped us with the homework. she was a very well bred woman and educated, so she could help us with the homework. shethe afternoon, could help us with the homework all the time, with tutoring and stuff like that, and then in the afternoon at 5:00, my father was a police officer. he went to the sports field, the soccer field, and he coached us in soccer. and then they would go ice curling and ice-skating with us. it was literally from morning to night, between the coaches and the teachers and the parents, everyone, mentors, everyone was there 24 hours a day. this is why i am here today, because i had that kind of upbringing. this is why i became a fanatic when i was the chairman of the president's council on fitness. i went to all 50 states promoting health and fitness in the schools. saw hundreds of kids being sent outside, and they were just standing around.

i would think about it. i felt sorry for the kids that they don't have someone there helping them with homework. i felt sorry for those kids because no one took them to the sports field. there was no one helping them, helping them play the guitar, or music or art or painting, or whatever it is. that is where the idea came from. i was inspired. if i want to give anything back to this country, that is one of the things i can do to get back to my community, by starting afterschool programs, and at the same time, showing the way on how to do it. mr. jones: i just think -- yeanh, that's beautiful. my dad was born poor. he said the liberals and

conservatives get it wrong. he said that liberal thinking is that you and give somebody money and stop them from being poor, but if you are still poor in your heart and pour in your skills and self-esteem, you might not be broke, but you will be broke again tomorrow, because you have to climb the ladder yourself. at the same time, the conservatives get it wrong because even though every kid has to climb that ladder out of poverty on their own effort, the grown-ups have to make sure there is a matter for them to climb. you are building ladders. your building ladders, and we appreciate that. arnold schwarzenegger: thank you. i cannot stress enough, and you and i talked about that -- how important it is that we pay attention to our kids. they need the help. imagine how many kids are falling behind with education and they cannot keep up because everyone has different abilities. they don't have anyone to help them, to give them the little push. it would be during our afterschool programs, to give them tutoring, so when a country

afterschool programs, we see they are falling behind in math, they get tutoring in that. if they fall behind with their english skills, maybe they are from a foreign country, maybe from germany or from some latin country, some french country, wherever it is, then they need help. we need to help these kids all the time. that is the bottom line. mr. jones: well, i've got a couple more questions. the first time you got involved in politics in this state, i was angry with you and jealous because i have been in politics for a long time. i never passed one bill. you stepped out, your first ballot measure, you get 60% of embarrass the professionals. it was terrible for us. the way you did it, you have the civil rights groups and the cops together. we have been fighting throughout the whole 1980's and the whole 1990's, fighting, because of rodney king or whatever.

you got us together. you got the republicans and democrats. you got the gun and the old. how? it's not fair. the rest of us have been trying. it's not like we did not show up to work. how were you able to pull this off? . how were you able to get republicans and democrats to work together? arnold schwarzenegger: it wasn't just me alone. there were a lot of people working on this. the way we did it -- it was known that law enforcement was very adamant about getting the kids off the streets, and finding a way to get them to a community center to have them play basketball or have them do something educational. because we always talked about the dangers, so as much as it was the teachers union. they went to them and said, can you endorse this? they looked at our initiative

and said, it is fantastic as long as he don't create competition for our teachers. i said, we are going to hire teachers. that's great, and they were in. this is how we went from community organizations to democrats and republicans, law enforcement, and everyone started getting involved, and on top of all of that. i am a very inclusive person, so i do not ever try to do anything thinking i can do it myself. so i felt that, you know, everyone is really interested in having kids get afterschool programs, i want to get in touch with them and i want them to endorse the initiative. i went up and down the state and spent millions of dollars of my own money to advertise and promote the initiatives and so on and we raised millions of dollars. that is how we pushed it over the top. but you have to understand. for years i have tried to get in

touch with the legislature of california. nobody wanted to meet with me. then i got in touch with the governor and he did not want to meet. nobody had interest in the subject because it was kids. so they did not give money to politicians are anything like this. so, there was nothing in there. so they did not understand the value. i said to myself, i think the next best thing you can do when you have a good political system when you can go directly to the people through initiative process, i said that is the route i'm going to go. that is exactly what we did and when i saw the poll numbers -- they jumped up and up and then everyone started endorsing it and became part of it. which was great. i do not hold any grudges or anything like that. it was great. everyone worked together. and we got it done with almost 60% of the vote. during a recession, might i remind you. mr. jones: it might have been the last great bipartisan moment. since then, things have gone in

some pretty interesting directions. havew about you because i had a chance to read stuff and learn stuff about you. you seem to be a sponge. wherever you go, it seems you are just learning and learning and learning. you've gotten a chance to meet a bunch of folks in this room. you met a bunch of the kids during these programs. what has this community taught you that you want to reflect back to them? arnold schwarzenegger: i think every time you do something, it doesn't matter if it is -- i have been an international code for the special olympics, for instance, for the last 40 years. most people don't know that. i just came from the special olympics in austria because we the international special olympic games for winter sports. people say, you are really pumping up these guys.

is, whenof the matter thetch them, when i see obstacles they have got to overcome to perform, and they have unbelievable races, or ice-skating, figure skaters, whatever the sportive, it is spectacular. with all those obstacles. and that, to me, is really inspirational. they don't look at it as an obstacle. they grind it out so i get inspired by them through the same is also here. when i go around in the community, and i see the way kids grow up, the lack of money there is a lot of times and lack inspiresunity, it me. i was very privileged because i got a lot of help. from apparent early on and later

on. the publisher of muslim fitness magazines, the king of bodybuilding, he gave me all the opportunities. producers gave me all the opportunities to do great movies and all the stuff. i want to do the same thing. i want all of those kids to have the same opportunities. so, this is why it is important. when you see the way they live and the lack of opportunities they have, it inspires me in turn to go out and help and do something about that because i am a person that doesn't like to sit in front of the television set and complain. because i hate that. mr. jones: that's the national sport, dude. [laughter] arnold schwarzenegger: i know. i have a lesson for people. instead of complaining about something, it's better to go and have a solution.

and to go -- [applause] arnold schwarzenegger: and do something about it. because to just sit there and say, "i can't believe what is going on in washington, this is terrible." and they complaint. then i say to myself, wait a minute. congress has a 15% approval rating, which is worse than herpes or colonoscopies. [laughter] arnold schwarzenegger: and i say gotyself, that 98% of them reelected in this last election. so, i say, you are the problem. instead of complaining in front of the television set, do something about it. listen carefully to what they say. the whole political system is fixed in the first place. [applause] nbc correspondent maria

shriver is founder of a group called the women alzheimer's movement. she testified earlier this movement before the special senate committee on aging, calling on congress to roll back proposed cuts to alzheimer's research. you can watch this hearing in its entirety on our website, www.c-span.org. maria shriver: good afternoon. thank you for inviting me here today. to be here with so many extraordinary people. every single person behind me could actually be testifying and tell incredible stories. i'm honored to be here speaking on behalf of all of these incredible people. as chairman collins mentioned, and as some of you might know, i have been here before. eight years ago to be exact. in march of 2009, i sat here

and testified about how alzheimer's took up residence in what had been my father's beautiful brain. my father was an idealistic, intelligent, and dedicated to public service. his mind was as sharp as they come, a beautifully tuned instrument that left people in all and inspired. he was an expert at sharing his passion with the general public, thought leaders, and people like yourself. he often came here to the hill to advocate for increased funding for his beloved peace corps and all the war on poverty programs he created, including headstart, vista, job corps, and legal services for the poor. he loved working in this building and he was really good at it. he knew every senator and congressmen by name and if he were here today, he would know every single thing about each and everyone of you, about your

careers, about your interests, your politics, your families, and yes, your soft spots. imagine how painful it was to watch when this walking encyclopedia of a man went from knowing every fact about everything that happened in the history of this country to not knowing what a spoon or fork was, to not knowing what my name was, or not knowing his own name. testified, myr i father died of alzheimer's disease and now, i'm back. back again to testify. back again to sound a 911, an alarm about the biggest biomedical crisis facing the world today. and i say it is a world crisis. act again t -- back again to focus your brains on this killer ravaging brains and families across this great country of ours. believe me, i wish i didn't have to come back here to testify.

it wasn't on my calendar. but when i learned that the funding for nih and alzheimer's research might be in jeopardy, i practically rain here to say, this cannot be. wait a minute. there must be some mistake here. i know this committee is well aware of this crisis unfolding in homes across the country. i know you know about it firsthand, and from the people your represent. let me use this moment to remind you here on the committee and the american public just what the up to date facts really are. and trust me, these are real facts. another brainds will develop alzheimer's disease and 2/3 of these brains belong to women and nobody knows why that is. a woman in her early 60's is

twice as likely to get alzheimer's in her lifetime and she is to get breast cancer. the statistics are even more alarming for women of color. african-american women are twice as likely to develop alzheimer's ,s caucasian woman and latina 1.5 times more likely. on top of that, more than 15 million americans are caring for someone with alzheimer's or other form of dementia while also. also while holding down full-time jobs. and 2/3 of those caregivers are also women. all of those reasons are why i founded the alzheimer's women's movement. i believe the determining why women are more affected by alzheimer's will help us unlock some of the mysteries of this disease. instead of focusing only on the formation of plaques and tangles in the brain, let's also start focusing on women's brains and their bodies, on their

chromosomes, on the way they process information. this could help us learn more about alzheimer's compression and its progression. -- about alzheimer's progression and about its prevention. i believe studying women and getting more women into cynical -- i believe studying women and getting more women into clinical trials could possibly lead to the chore for all of us. i don't believe this is sexist. i believe it is just plain old smart. it is smart. thank you. [applause] maria shriver: it is smart because alzheimer's is the most complex, mysterious and expensive disease in the united states. more expensive than heart disease and cancer and it is the only one of the top 10 uses without a means to prevent, cure, or slow its process. since 2010, the number of deaths from breast cancer, cancer,

heart disease are all down. but alzheimer's disease deaths are up by a breathtaking 89%. it is bankrupting families and it is on its way to bankrupt this country. if you ask how much medicare and medicaid will be spending on alzheimer's, the projected total is $259 billion. if the government does nothing, the costs are projected to explode to an astounding $1.1 trillion. i hope we can sit for a minute with those astounding figures. i want to take a moment to thank , chairman collins, for introducing a bipartisan resolution, for claiming the plant to effectively treat all timers disease by 2021 is an urgent national priority. an urgent national priority. right now, it is the most seriously underfunded disease in our country.

this at a time when every alzheimer's scientist will tell you we are at a critical and potentially groundbreaking moment in the history of the research of this disease. so much extraordinary progress has been made, but now it has stalled. the only thing, many of them say, keeping us from pressing on to find a cure is the federal funding to move us forward. for instance, my friend, dr. ady tencent at harvard, is top alzheimer's researcher who discovered the first gene for the disease 35 years ago and his lab has found two dozen more in the last decade. he says we learned from studying these genes important clues about what needs to be done to prevent alzheimer's a decade or so before any symptoms arise. but he says laboratory budget constraints mean researchers

like him are able to follow up only on about 10% of the new clues and information available. that's just one lab. the united states government is better than this. we are letting down the millions who have this disease, the millions who are caring for them 24/7 -- and it is a 24/7 job -- and the millions who are going to get alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia as we, the baby boomers, and our millennial kids continue to grow older. right now 10,000 people are turning 65 every day. remember i said that the brain develops alzheimer's disease every 66 seconds. the unitedmeone in states will develop alzheimer's every 33 seconds. every 33 seconds. we have to fund this disease at the level it deserves before it levels all of us, and our health

care system. [applause] fund shriver: we have to it at the level we funded aids and the level we funded cancer. this is an equal opportunity crisis. intonami that can crash all of us, democrats, republicans and independents. without a federal commitment like you have spoken about, we are going to lose this fight. over the years i have racked my own brain, wondering why alzheimer's doesn't get funded at the level of these other diseases. i have asked myself, is it not being marketed property? is it not sexy enough? hip enough? i wonder, is it because we think it is a normal part of aging, which of course, it is not. or is it because our country is so obsessed with youth and none of us want to grow old?

maybe i thought to myself, maybe it is sexism question mark maybe because it disproportionately affects women. i cannot tell you how many have said,n doctors, isn't it because women live longer? no, that is not why women are getting it. so, what is it, i thought to myself? is it because we are terrified of losing our own minds that we want to push this disease out of the field of vision, or denied that it exists at all? the truth is, we can't deny it away anymore. alzheimer's is everywhere and it can develop in your brain 20 years before a single symptom ever shows up telling you that you have it. what does that mean? it means the chances are that several of us sitting in this room today have it now and we don't even know it. think about that for a minute.

imagine one of you up there. imagine turning to somebody you have served with for years, and not knowing who they are. imagine looking at the person in your home who you have loved for decades and you can't remember their name. imagine your family being unable to care for you physically, financially, emotionally or spiritually. imagine that scenario. millions of americans do not have to imagine it. probably most of the people in this room do not have to imagine it because they're actually living it. one of them that i asked to join me in this room today is 61-year-old pam montana. she's right there. she's sitting behind me. i wanted her to come here today because she was just diagnosed with alzheimer's. her diagnosis forced her to leave a successful career at intel. forced her husband bob to quit

his career as well to care for her. they face an uncertain future and a scary one at that. but i wanted you to see -- but i wanted you to see pam, because she is the face of alzheimer's. a woman in her prime, a woman, a wife, someone who had a successful career, who was earning money. this is the face of alzheimer's. and she and her husband, along with all of the people in this room, have come here to capitol hill from all over this country to use their voices, to advocate for increased funding, to tell you what it's like to live like this every single day, 24 hours a day. you know, there are so many brilliant minds focused on this issue, so many forceful advocates, like those of you on this panel, and a 1300 -- and the 1300 advocates fanning out across the

hill today, so many like the ones in this room who can no longer accept when they are told we just don't know what causes this disease or what to do about it. for them, that is plain old unacceptable. and for me, as a child of alzheimer's, it is also unacceptable. and for someone at pam's age, it is terrifying. the statement "we just don't know" needs to be repealed and replaced. it needs to be repealed and replaced with this. we do know, and here is what you can do. because it wasn't so long ago that hiv/aids was a certain death sentence and cancer was pretty much uncurable and now so many of them are curable. nobody who has ever -- science has turned all of that around, but nobody who has ever been diagnosed with alzheimer's has ever survived it. we can and we will do better than that.

when my uncle, john f. kennedy , was president, he challenged this country to put a man on the moon. it had never been done before. today, i challenge you to do also do something that has never been done before, give us the first person who survives a diagnosis of alzheimer's disease. [applause] maria: i'm asking this congress to do what it takes to get our

brilliant researchers back up and working at full capacity in their laboratories around this country, doing what they do best, which is a finding solutions, finding cures. and not only that, until we find a cure or have to do better jobs of educating the public on ways to live healthier lifestyles. we now know that the brain never stops developing, that is new. we need to educate people on the connection between brain health and healthy diet, how they can expand their brainpower with lifelong learning and social connection. this is a priority for the women's alzheimer's movement which is why we have partnered with the equinox sports clubs all over the country with a program called move for minds. we are determined to get this message out to mainstream america, that they can control their brain health, their genes are not their destiny. we also need to get the support

millions of caregivers. -- we also need to get the support to millions of caregivers. we have spoken about them today. the ongoing stress on these families is unimaginable. they need the resources to help them care for their loved ones while also working. and we must also ensure that there is a well-trained professional workforce ready to provide quality care to the increasing number of people with alzheimer's and other dementia, who will need facilities at their home while they grow older. i know you might be thinking this is quite a to do list. i have never met anybody in of never met a woman who wasn't good at crossing off of her to do list. i strongly believe that this to-do list is something we can actually do, even in this current climate, and perhaps more so in this current climate. the american public is desperate to see democrats and republicans work together. they are desperate to see success here in washington and this is a great place to start. i am asking all of you with the

brains that you do have today, to come together, democrats and republicans, and make a commitment. let's do what we need to do to stop the onslaught of this mind blowing disease, because america should be the leader in solving this global medical crisis. we are the greatest country on the planet, and finding a cure for this disease will make us be smartest one to boot. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you so much. maria: thank you. [applause] >> thank you. >> actor ryan philippe joined elizabeth dole on capitol hill earlier this year for a hearing on military caregivers. mr. philippe serves as an ambassador for a group called

hidden heroes. he testified before the senate special committee on aging. ryan: my experience growing up in a military family helped me prepare for this moment. both of my grandfathers fought in world war ii. my dad was in the navy during vietnam. my uncles were both seabees and infantrymen during the same period of time. all of the members of my family who served thankfully returned, but each were affected in one way or another. i have had the opportunity as well to work with countless veterans and those currently listed on various film and television projects and all of this adds to mike deep respect or our vets and understanding that they are our nation's true heroes.

these days, i have been recently working with the elizabeth dole foundation and that's how i learned about a different kind of hero, our military caregivers , hidden heroes. family and friends that care for moyers who return home with physical and emotional scars. we urge -- we ask you for your help and urge you to take action. if you know anything about senator dole, she doesn't take no for an answer. she will hold you accountable. she will hold all of us accountable, because our nation's military caregivers deserve it. over a lifetime of care, caregivers face tremendous challenges and right now there are very few resources to help them. it is up to all of us to fix this. right now they are shouldering this alone. they don't expect or ask our help, but they work they do merits more than just gratitude. we owe them purposeful action and lifelong support.

something struck me and senator -- in senator dole's remarks that i want to emphasize. the military caregivers play an essential role in improving the quality of life of our veterans. and i quote, "the best chance for a wounded warrior to recover and thrive is to have a strong caregiver, yet, this is an emotional and financial toll on the caregivers and their families. we can do better. that's why am here. for starters, i'm speaking specifically about the recently reintroduce the caregivers improvement act. this bill strengthens and expands vital programs to support caregivers nationwide and ensures that caregivers are recognized for their service in tangible ways.

example, if passed, pre-9/11 military caregivers would have the same support as we give to our post 9/11 military caregivers. those caregivers not only need but deserve our assistant. -- our assistance. the v.a. caregivers programs should be available to all for allrs caring veterans, regardless of when they served. the bill also supports caregivers for veterans who have mental or physical wounds. it shouldn't matter whether we can see the scar or not. it also provides assistance with child care, financial advice, legal counseling, and education, which are all top and currently unmet needs. ultimately by signing onto this , bill you will have a positive impact on well-being of our

veterans and military families for a long time to come. as a hidden heroes invested or i have had the privilege of meeting with military families across the country. as i speak before you know, i can't help but to think about megan and her husband matt. megan and matt are high school sweethearts. when you meet them, you know it. they live in connecticut now. they are a young couple. they are in love. yet, they have a long road of head of them. injuries received during combat, matt now suffers from dramatic brain injury. megan helps him struggle with winds that we cannot see, invisible wounds that most of us can't imagine. megan explained to me that she never pictured herself as a caregiver for her husband especially so soon intermarriage -- in her marriage. but matt mead sir. it is a day in, day out, 24 hour responsibility. she is always on the lookout for

things that might trigger matt's pts and also caring for three boys. megan is making the most of things, but she needs our help. there were 5.5 million caregivers that need us and they need you. i ask you, again, members of the committee and all of you here today to give your will support to military caregivers serving our nation. senators, please sign on to the military caregivers services improvement act and each piece of the legislation outlines. to everyone here today and watching across the country's cities and towns, seek out your caregivers and after how you can help. -- and ask how you can help. thank you. >> the final speaker in our celebrity activist program is

"law and order" actress "law and order" actress maresca hartig a. she testified before a bipartisan task force about sexual violence. she is founder and president of the joyful heart foundation. >> good morning. i just want to start by saying thank you for your heartfelt comment and your passion to this work. i am speaking to you today as the president and founder of the joyful heart foundation. i want to thank the task force for making this the topic of your briefing. by elevating this issue, you are sending a powerful message to survivors of sexual assault of their cases matter. they matter. you are demonstrating to law enforcement and prosecutors that we must work to do everything we can to hold offenders accountable and keep our community safe.

you have full statement on record, so i would like to use my time to focus on how far we have come in addressing the untested rape kits backlog. that discussion cannot begin without acknowledging the significant seachange that is ,appening across this country seated by the actions of the federal government. in 2014, congress created the kit initiative to test backlog hits, create multidisciplinary teams to investigate and prosecute related cases, and address the need for victim notification and re-engagement with the criminal justice system. the impact of the grants cannot be overstated. we have heard from law enforcement and prosecutors that the funds as well requirement to

create a team to undertake this systemic reform, are bringing communities together like never before. these focused resources are helping law enforcement get serial criminals off the street, easing the burden on personnel, facilitating community engagement in making neighborhoods safer. we have heard the same feedback from victim advocates. funds are helping agencies already stretched thin to implement reform and catalyze changes. i first testified in congress about the rate kit backlogs back in may 2010 and the national landscape today is very different. then, we had no idea how many untested rape kits were sitting on shelves in police storage facilities and cried lapse. the best guess was an estimated 400,000, but that number is disputed. the reality is, because most jurisdictions don't have a

system of tracking and counting rate kits, we cannot be sure of the number. however, through public records requests, investigative journalism, grassroots advocacy and state legislative reform, we are beginning to understand the scope of the backlog nationwide. since 2010, more than 200,000 have been accounted for and 21 states have passed laws requiring audits of untested rape kits. when i testified in 2010, there were no reform laws on the books. today, that trend has shifted. since january 1, 2017, 71 rape kit reform bills have been introduced in 32 states and 10 states have laws. joyful heart has launched a national campaign to reform legislation

in all 50 states by 2020. since 2010, 30 states have enacted some sort of report. -- some sort of reform. through grants, we are also seeing a change in law enforcement's understanding of the impact of trauma on survivors. jurisdictions now understand this important perspective and are implementing trauma informed and victim centered notification practices that seek to avoid re-victimization and further harm. there is much more work to be done. today, only eight states have laws requiring testing in both current and backlogged kits here -- kits. in most states, the decision to send most kits of protesting is left up to the discretion of an individual. we must reverse that trend to ensure that every kit is tested.

the numbers don't lie. testing all kits solves crimes and saves lives. the survivors legislative district should not determine the outcome of their case or the right to information. [choking up] on behalf of all survivors across the country, i thank you for your attention on this issue and i look forward to continuing this dialogue. i know that you join me in commending the jurisdictions that have taken the initiative and together we are raising the awareness to those who have not. thank you. >> sunday, a conversation with

former director of national intelligence, james clapper, at george washington university. here is a look. times when you have to be tough with people. found large, what i have in my 50 plus years in the intel business if people want to do the right thing. they want to do the mission. they want to do it well. you just have to create an environment where that can happen. leadership and intelligence, ultimately, penn ultimately, is about motivating others to use their intellect. that is one of the great things from a diversity standpoint about the intelligence community. it is about the brain. it doesn't matter what your ethnic group is, your gender, your sexual preference. none of that matters. it is your mind. it is what counts in the

intelligence community. work that youg have the opportunity to engage in. that aconsider leadership laboratory it will be in the book. i mention it in the context of leadership. looking back, the one factor that has changed the intelligence community, the thing that has changed it more than anything else, looking back historically, is technology. like 9/11, yes, that had an impact. we organizations, which i think are highly overrated. yes. but what has historically changed the business of intelligence is technology. i say that in the context of adversary technology, what are the adversaries doing, and our own, to cope with it.

sunday, james clapper talks about his life and career in the intelligence community. we will show you that 630 --ation sunday at 6:30 p.m. eastern, here on c-span. this week, "washington journal" features authors of books published this past year. join us. coming up on friday, hiram guatemala. ullah.oon on saturday, author jessica. "washington journal" authors

series, all this week at 8:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, c-span.org, and c-span radio. >> every month for the past 20 years, and author has joined us for a fascinating conversation about their work through -- their work. we have invited 12 fiction authors to our set. of historical fiction, national security thrillers, science writers, commentators. their books have been read by millions around the country and around the world. if you are a reader, plan to join us for in depth on book tv. it is an interactive program the first sunday of every month that lets you call in talk directly to your favorite authors. it all kicks off on sunday,

january 7, at noon with a book post"h a "washington columnist and the author of thrillers. join us on january 7 or watch it on demand on book tv.org. obviously, "washington journal" has featured authors with new books in 2017. next, we talked to cliff stearns. his book looks at history four years in congress. this is an hour. clark's "washington journal" continues. host: our guests served in the house of representatives as a republican representative from florida, and he is the author of the book "life in the marble palace." this is cliff stearns. good morning. guest: thank you for having me. good morning. host: what was the goal of the book? gu