now we kick off the weekend with "wired" magazine's andy greenberg on sandworm, a group of hackers working for russia's military intelligence agency that was responsibling for the world's largest cyber attack. >> hi, everybody. thank you for coming. my name's allison bane bridge, and i'm the host for this evening. i want to welcome you all tonight as well as c-span. in case you're wondering who that is, it is c-span recording this event. it's my honor to host this incredible, crucial and terrifying conversation that we're going to bear witness to tonight. we're so fortunate to have book passage. we consider it more than a bookstore. for 43 years we have served as a community center where we host nationally acclaimed authors like we have tonight, local authors, we've had panel discussions recently about race and immigration. we do lots of classes and so much more, conferences. so if you haven't received our latest newsletter to see what's coming up for the next month and a half, please make sure you grab one when you go up to purchase the book at the end of the night. it'll tell you what's

it is an eye-opener by andy greenberg, who wrote the book "sandworm," and you really should come. he's just phenomenal. peter bergen has a new book on trump and his generals about national security and the national security state and how it morphed via the generals who were so powerful in the first years of the trump administration. that is on december 17. i invite you back for both of those. my concluding remarks are a couple things that weren't mentioned tonight. one is the issue of the constitution. i think that is going to become a really important point of debate. not a point of let's have the religion of the constitution. but a point of debate. i think something that wasn't mentioned -- balance of powers. this was seen as a discussion within the executive. i think that we didn't have enough time. i think thinking about the balance of powers is the next thing we have to talk about and what that means. whether that means we revise the constitution or we don't revise the constitution. a third thing is, in terms of going forward -- i think you all touched on these cultural disco

and it is an eye opener, by andy greenberg. he is just phenomenal. and then peter bergen has a new book on trump and his generals about national security and the national security state, and how it morphed via the generals who were so powerful in the first years of the trump administration, and that is on december 17. so i invite you back for both of those. so my concluding remarks are a couple things that were not mentioned tonight, sort of concluding remarks, but one is the issue of the constitution. i think that it is going to become a really important point of debate, not a point of have the religion of the constitution, but the point of debate. i think something that was not mentioned, balance of power. this was all seen as a discussion within the executive, and i think we did not have enough time, but i do think thinking about the balance of power is the next thing we have to talk about. we have to talk about that and what that means. -- this is my plea. forward, and ing think -- i think you all touched on sort of these cultural discomforts, wh

now we kick off the weekend with "wired" magazine's andy greenberg on sandworm, aup