. >> reporter: at marriott headquarters in bethesda, maryland, researchers are working to replace hotel rooms that once looked like this to smart rooms that start off looking like this with a few voice commands, lights, tv, the room springs to life. >> we start to understand preferences. >> reporter: everything in this room is essentially wired. >> if i would like an icebox of a room to sleep and i'm not in the room, the room knows no one is in here. >> reporter: guests can go to their personal private -- personal profiles, request other updates, set a workout schedule, and all that data including your location and those voice commands can be saved for future use. >> when you have these smart hotels, they have a token on your phone so they know where you go, what type of coffee you order, what you order in the restaurant. >> reporter: eric cole is a cyber security expert and security expert -- advisor to obama. >> the problem is, huge violations of personal privacy. >> reporter: like marriott, hilton is also in on the technical revolution. both chains now offer perks like electronic key

first one is from john in bethesda, maryland, republican line. go ahead. caller: good morning. i just have to disagree when you lay all the blame at mcconnell's feet. when you look at what harry reid did to the senate, he put the filibuster rule in play. he was a disaster for the country, because he would not pass any budgets. he stonewalled both the democrats and the republicans when president obama was trying to get things passed. he has been an unmitigated disaster, and his chickens are now coming home to roost. guest: well, you're making the point that many republicans do make, and i do not believe senator reid was a successful leader. teamnk the reid-mcconnell failed the senate starting in 2005 until 2007. however, the difference is in it years, --or the obama is senator reid, for the obama years, was trying to enact their program of an elected president and reelected president. mr. mcconnell only had to oppose, and he did with rate effectiveness. -- great effectiveness. if you look back at how other minority leaders functioned, they functioned so as to oppose the presiden

this is where the magic happens. >> at a marriott headquarters in bethesda, maryland, researchers areoked like this with smart rooms that look like this. with a few voice commands, blinds, lights, tvs, we start to understand the preferences. now, everything in this room is essentially wired. >> if i like an icebox of a room to go to sleep and i'm not in a room, the room knows through its sensors no one is in here. >> guests can go onto their personal profiles and put in workouts. at least one marriott shower now uses smart glass technology so guests can jot down their thoughts on a fogged up mirror and have it e-mailed to their smartphones. all that data including the location and voice commands can be saved for future use. >> this will grow with interaction and collection of more data and all of these are built with an intelligence system that learns with customer interak and gets that much better. >> if you're a guest talking to yourself in a room, you can get yourself in serious trouble. >> theoretically, but you have to ask specific questions. they have a toke about on their phone

this is abby silverman from walt whitman high school in bethesda, maryland.hy was it important to be here, what do you want this white house to hear? >> we just want you guys to listen to us. we're here for everyone to have a voice. >> you have a couple of friends here, have you guys had a strong feeling about guns before, was it parkland, tell me why you came. >> no, it really started with sandy hook and we just felt we don't feel safe in school anymore and this is a problem. schools should be a place where we should be able to go and feel safe and not fear something might happen. >> president is not here in the white house today, do you think your message will still be heard? >> yes. >> what's your name? >> patricia. >> patricia, thank you very much. lot of the students from bethesda, maryland and virginia areas as you mentioned. afterwards, they plan to stay here for a little bit. i think we're going to send it -- kevin butler agreed to break your silence. why did you agree to come today in. >> to make suhuure there are stricter gun laws. there are plenty

when i was going through rehab or going through the hospital at bethesda naval hospital we decided to because it was pretty beat up. it wasn't going -- there weren't good projections for its health either. eboni: i can't even imagine, luke, the news of knowing that you will be losing both your legs below the knee must feel like. if you could share a bit about that and at what point did it become clear to you that yes, maybe, this horrific loss is indeed the case, but there's this awesome thing i'm really really good at, and it is going to take me to the next phase of my career. >> yeah, i mean, when you join the military, especially when you join the infantry and the marines, you know there's significant risk of either getting injured or even dying. but nobody ever really thinks that it's actually going to happen to you until it does. and i remember being in the hospital at bethesda naval hospital one night, and i remember looking down and they still hadn't taken my left leg yet. it was just the right leg. i remember looking down i said you know, this sucks but -- there's one of two w

. >> so, today's special guest was born just up the beltway in bethesda, maryland, with pool water in her blood. her mom, who is here with us today, was top 20 rated collegial swimmer in the 200-yard freestyle. [applause] >> yes. >> her older brother, michael, also here today, you saw him, was a competitive swimmer in high school, becoming a top ten finance issuer in the 100-yard freestyle at the national catholic high school championships. pretty good. so this is swimming family. the day katie turned 21, just two weeks ago, she didn't do what many of us did when we reached that milestone. instead, she competed in and won the 1600 50-meter he free. so what she did after that, we wish her a belated happy birthday, she will at the end of the luncheon receive a coveted national press club mug to put among her medals. she has set world records in the countries and. she attributes her rapid rise and dominant to relentless focus on setting goals and then work, work, working to make them real. she practices with male swimmer. she is now preparing for the 2020 tokyo summer olympics, among gre

and jackson monroe, a 16-year-old sophomore at bethesda high school and he wanted to help bring people together. thank you for being with me. let me start with you. you lost a brother two years ago. you live in chicago where violence is unfortunately a way of life for a lot of people who live in chicago. so your concern -- your fear is not necessarily violence inside of the school, it can be around the school. it is the idea that you and fellow students are sometimes confronted with violence around you. >> yes. on a daily -- we also have to watch out our backs. it is just a fear factor for everyone living in chicago. >> what do you think -- what brings you here? why are you here and what message would you want to give to everybody around the world who is watching this, but particularly lawmakers in america? what do you want to change? >> it is a big thing happening right now inside of the country and i'm one of hundreds of chicagoans that has come here for the march tomorrow that is going to make awareness of everything we're trying to get. so saturday is the awareness and sunday is th

nancy altman of bethesda, maryland. the speaker pro tempore: the chair announces on behalf of the speaker and majority leader the senate, their joint appointment, pursuant to section 3044-2-b of the bipartisan budget act of 2018, and the order of the house of january 3, 2017, of the following member to the joint select committee on budget and appropriations process reform as co-chair. mr. womack of arkansas. the speaker pro tempore: the chair announces on behalf of the speaker and majority leader of the senate, their joint appointment pursuant to section 30422-b-3 of the bipartisan budget act of 2018, and the order of the house of january 3, 2017, of the following senator to the joint select committee on solvency, multiemployer pension plans as co-chair. the clerk: mr. hatch of utah. the eaker pro tempore: chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir. pursuant to the section 30442-b-3 of the bipartisan dget act of 2018, public law 115-123, i am pleased

first one is from john in bethesda, maryland, republican line. go ahead. caller: good morning. just have to disagree when you lay all the blame at mcconnell's feet. when you look at what harry reid did to the senate, he put the filibuster rule in play. he was a disaster for the country, because he would not pass any budgets. he stonewalled both the democrats and the republicans when president obama was trying to get things passed. he has been an unmitigated disaster, and his chickens are now coming home to roost. guest: well, you're making the point that many republicans do make, and i do not believe senator reid was a successful leader. teamnk the reid-mcconnell failed the senate starting in 2005 until 2007. however, the difference is in it years, --or the obama is senator reid, for the obama years, was trying to enact their program of an elected president and reelected president. mr. mcconnell only had to oppose, and he did with rate effectiveness. -- great effectiveness. if you look back at how other minority leaders functioned, they functioned so as to oppose the president

initiative kicks off next monday and tuesday, 12 and 13 march at the intelligence community campus bethesda. we look forward to conceptualizing, implementing and ultimately accomplishing the revolutionary change. we look forward to updating the committee on our progress. the cda have committed a transformational overhaul in at least three areas. first revamping the fundamental approach from policy framework for the current standards are built on decades of layered incremental changes and are not fundamentally changed since 1950s. we accept the ambitious goal that by the end of 2018 we will identify and establish a new set of policy standards that transforms the u.s. government's approach to betting. our objective must be to ensure protective workforce against government and industry who protect vital national security information with which they are interested. overhauling the enterprise process that is slow and overly reliant on fieldwork and does not leverage advancements in technology and availability of data. finally, we must modernize information technology. we must leverage today's te

bethesda, maryland, good morning.r: yeah, i don't understand the argument being put forward here. that, i ollow-up on appreciate what was said. i think more speech, not less helpful. and you know, the american washed, so t brain f there is an argument put out there by whoever, whatever their ntentions are, whatever motivations are, it doesn't speech, so ch is what is the argument here? an agendaussians have and so what. i mean, the american people can this out. guest: that's a good point. isean, the key question here certainly americans have a right to free speech. whatever they ay want, foreign governments do not ave a constitutional right to free speech in america. if they want to engage in american politics, to run an ad support of a cant candidate th, is illegal. investigation, r the russian government decided it was going to try to put its finger on the scale and weigh in and tell americans who to vote for or not to vote, try to keep them at home. illegal. again, foreign governments have way to influence our poli

initiative kicks off next monday and tuesday, 12 and 13 march at the intelligence community campus bethesda. we look forward to conceptualizing, implementing and ultimately accomplish revolutionary change required across the clearance enterprise. in addition we look forward to updating the committee on our progress. we are committed to transformational overhaul in three areas. first, revamping the fundamental approach in policy framework. the current standards are built on decades of layered incremental changes and have not been changed since the 1950s. we have set the ambitious goal that by the end of 2018 we will identify and establish a new set of policy standards that transforms the u.s. government's approach to vetting its workforce. our objective must be to ensure a trusted workforce across government and industry who will protect vital national security information with which they are entrusted. second overhauling the enterprise business process, the current process is slow, arduous, overly reliant on manual field work and does not leverage modern technology and the availability of d