so you know, these guys likee cato and them. they are going to find reasons to say something bad. >> laura: was cato also against prison reform? >> we're absolutely for it. i am for lower taxes on investment and equal treatment. we should have lower taxes for investment across the board. the reason citiesre like detroit are poor is because of bad policy, high regulations. high property taxes. if detroit lowered its property taxes, it would get more business investment.t. l you don't need the federal government. >> laura: great panel. actual substance. liberals are always talking about safe spaces. some left-wing judges want to provide them to dangerous illegal immigrants who are walking out of the courthouse. i'm going to explain this next, plus melania called the media opportunists out. wouldn't you know, they proved her right. howie kurtz is here to tell us how. stay there. touch shows how we really feel. but does psoriasis ever get in the way? embrace the chance of 100% clear skin with taltz, the first and only treatment of i

that's why cato has lured you here today. but even aside your your generous contributions to he cato institute, money is the root of libertarianism bus money is a token of value, value is a token of property. property has value because it is personal. public property, compare. your bathroom, publication restrooms. your garden, public parks, especially after dark. your car, public transportation, especially in the city. property has value because it is private. and private property is the root of libertarianism. first and for most, being our private personal property in ourselves. i open me, you own you, they own they. without ownership of ourselves we cannot be individuals. without individuals the basic principles of libertarianism are impossible. no individual no individual liberty no individual dignity, no individual responsibility. second, and just as important, is our private property ownership of what we produce with our individual liberty, what we create with our individual dignity, and what we nurture with our individu

it will be live from the cato institute here in washington, d.c. that event set to start at about 9:00 it will have 45 when he gets underway on c-span2. right now a part of the conversation from yesterdays national judicial college conference in washington. they hosted answers depends on the effective verbal attacks on the judiciary branch and on the press of democracy. one of the speakers was judge robart. >> i'd like to turn now to judge robart and cad details about your experience actually being subject to an attack by president trump. particularly i'm sure as a judge you get criticized all the time. was it different and how was it different? if you could reflect on the consequences that you've seen from your perspective in your experience. >> well, i certainly have had my share of criticism. i'll take you back to late january 2017. the president was sworn in probably the 20th of january. he unveils executive order and i'm from seattle and of a lot of software companies so in my chambers is referred to as travel ban 1.0. the state of washington

i'm very pleased to welcome you all to today's cato book forum. the subject of which is the book "borrowed time: two centuries of booms, busts, and bailouts at citi" by james freeman and vern mckinley. i'd like to begin our discussion today introducing our panelists starting with the authors. james freeman immediately to my left is assistant editor of the "wall street journal" editorial page and the office of the journals best of the west column and newsletter. vern mckinley, to his left, is an attorney, financial analyst, policy analyst and author whose specialty is international central banks, operations in deposit systems and policies. christy ford chapin is an associate best of 20th century u.s. political and economic business history at the university of maryland baltimore county and also a visiting scholar at johns hopkins where she's working on her own book entitled flexible finance, finance capitalism and the evolving culture of risk. finally, gary stern, was present and ceo of the federal reserve bank of minneapolis from march march 1985

report by the cato institute, a conservative think saudi arabia was ranked 149 at 159 countries for freedom and human rights. , the saudis have funded schools mosques, and preachers who support an extreme form of islam. mr. president, in saudi arabia today, women are not treated as second-class citizens, they are treated as third class citizens women still need, in the year 2018, the permission of a male guardian to go to school or to get a job. they have to follow a strict dress code and can be stoned to death for adultery or flogged for spending time in the company of a man who is not their relative. year, a saudi activist, a leader in the fight for women's rights in saudi arabia was kidnapped from abu dhabi and forced to return to the country. she is currently being held without charges. same is true of many other saudi political activist. the human rights watch recently reported that imprisoned women activists have been subjected to torture, including electric shocks and other forms of physical and sexual assault. further, as every member of the senate knows, or should know, there is no

building alternatives one of the few places in this town that is called out as exception is a -- is the cato institution. is it as simple as that. is as simple as creating more institutions like this. is not impossible what's striking about this book is that there are 70 cases in which the impulse to go along is nearly overpowering. we try to replicate that. the second question is somewhat related. i'm in a take in a different direction. and that is with the chance for speech. the top talk about trade-off. in every bomber built. as it is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed. many of you probably know the speeches but you should know as will his first speech as president. because, you will recall it was absolutely savaged during his presidency for suggesting that that there was such a thing as opportunity to cost. for suggesting that we have to be concerned with such trade-offs because it was close minded and the sub session with the fiscal balance and things like this was his worst sin. i reread that section today in preparation for this session and it reminded me where is the natur

>> the cato institute held its 2018 surveillance conference earlier this month. this portion of the fit future journalists and have addressed concerns for the personal physical safety and how they verify the information they gathered. gather. it's one hour and 15 minutes. >> [inaudible conversations] >> known in the hallway but it feel the best way to encourage people to make their way back in is to forge ahead. i am once again julian sanchez, still a senior fellow at the cato institute. i am also for my sins a former journalist, so i have taken the liberty to make myself a a moderate of our final panel of the 2018 cato surveillance conference. i am very pleased to have with me to talk about the effect of surveillance on journalism and how journalists respond, spencer ackerman who is senior national security correspondent at the "daily beast," has previously worked at wired and was part of the pulitzer prize-winning team to report on the edward snowden disclosure at the guardian. to his left, you're right, olivia martin was a cybersecurity train at the freedom of

this was part of the cato institute's 2018 surveillance conference. it's an hour and 15 minutes. >> i feel like the best way to encourage people to make their way back in is to forge you a head. i'm julian sanchez. a senior fellow at the cato institute. i'm also, for my since, a form journalist. up to so i have taken make myself the moderator of the final panel of the 2018 cato surveillance conference. i'm very pleased to have with me, to talk about the effect of surveillance on journalism and how journalists respond, spencer ackerman, who is senior national security correspondent at the "the daily beast." has previously worked at "wired" and was the -- part of the pule itser prize winning team that reported on the snowden disclear use -- disclosures at the "guardian." to his left, your right, olivia martin who is a cybersecurity trainer at the freedom of the press foundation. rob mahoney, who is the deputy executive director of the committee to protect journalists, and jack gillum, o is a data-focused reporter for probublica and has worked at "the wa

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this is part of the cato institute 2018 surveillance conference. it's an hour and tep minutes. >> good morning, and welcome to the auditorium of the cato institute, my name is jewelgen sanchez, i'm a senior fellow here and it is my great privilege to welcome you all to the 2018 installment of of our annual conference. we began the conference in 2013 as a one-off focused on the nsa, and inspired by the enormous amount of information coming out as a result of the snowden revelations and the following year i decided it made sense to have a dedicated full-day conference on surveillance so this is the fifth year we'reve running it under that name. i recall a year or two in the excellent national security report charlie savage asked, well do you think as the snowden information peters out and that story vanishes from thehe headlines will there be enough to talk about every year in the domain of surveillance, and i'm -- i wouldn't say happy to say, but i can confidently say that it doesn't look like we're running into the problem of being short on subject

technology and surveillance experts will attend this year's cato institute surveillance conference. it is an all day event starting live at 9:00 a.m. eastern. and, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg will speak at an event marking bill of rights day. she will attend a naturalization ceremony at the national archives as 36 people become u.s. citizens. you can watch that alive at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> n

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i spoke at the cato surveillance conference in 2013. i think it's important to sort of go back because we tend to lose sight of some of the gains we made in transparency here. when i spoke in october of 2013, i believe, it in this room, we were in a position where we could not disclose, we could not even acknowledge we received foreign intelligence surveillance act demands from the united states government. full stop. so when we talk but it or when i talk about it here i had to be very careful about speaking about demands that we might receive, assuming we may receive any. that's the predicament we were in at the time. constrained in terms of our ability to speak about accurate and truthful information in terms of the aggregate national security demands we received. even one month later, when our director for law enforcement and information security, rick, testified before the senate judiciary committee, he was there on behalf of the world's largest internet company, advocating support of legislation that would enable us to speak truthf

the news by many newspapers in which the africa is owned by a politician in this case wilson cato play the country's minister of commerce the paper is quietly seen as taking an editorial in soft approach to the current government and by the looks of things to the friends of former government says well . we dropped the largess off at the news newspaper about five hours of an hour just waiting on his call to find out whether or not says it is going to publish the story he said it's a ghost of the story then great if not then there is a plan b. in the way. moments later david confirms that he said it's a hazard checked the story so we head across town to meet. rush hour traffic means that we reach our destination of the night for the offices of the day observer. to ensure that he gets coverage david has and not for the first time he says taken his story to the competition. a last minute editorial meeting this cold in the story gets the green light it moves through layout and into print within twelve hours a four month investigation built for one use paper winds up in the front page of an

edging ever closer to the 29th of march adline without a deal and without even an agreed plan ande cato deal. this, mr. speaker, is aal constiturisis, and the prime minister is the architect of it. laura k.: the timetable has made plenty on all sides cross. >> the meaningful vote on her deal before the christmas recess. there is no reason to delay. let us have a meaningful vote thes week. >> i hy do not think that businesses and employers and our constituents will understand why this house is going on holiday in two weeks when we should be having the meaningful vote this week. >> is it a reality that e is -- given the reality that she is not acting in the national interest, but in her personal interest, and neither her party nor the country will forgive he . >> she were to go along to the eu now and tell them in the face of intransigence to get stuffed, ethe british people would right behind her. heura k.: after a couple of hours, you can seerime ministers slipping out on the left. she might have thought today's haranguing was over. but just before 6:00, he was up again. she had to sit

i'm very pleased to welcome you all to today's cato book forum.the subject of which is the book "borrowed time: two centuries of booms, busts, and bailouts at citi" by james freeman and vern mckinley. i'd like to begin o

space cato institute has studied figures for the border state of texas it found conviction rates for immigrants were much lower than those born in america out of seven hundred eighty five homicide convictions in two thousand and fifteen only seventy six were migrants some u.s. commentators argue immigrants have a higher criminal resprayed than americans however dancer shows that's not true in fact the arrest rate for migrants is actually lower more on this now let's cross over live to john hendren he's live for us from washington d.c. so chose a good time to shut down the government other two sides now actually talking at least. the jews' eyes are talking there's opposed to be meeting today but they've decided not to go forward with anything until they've got an agreement from all of the leaders that is the leaders of the senate the leaders of the house and from president trump and this was foreseeable the president a few days ago had signaled to his press secretary they was willing to accept a government funding bill that didn't include money for the wall but he got enormous blowbac

based cato institute has studied figures for the border state of texas and found conviction rates for immigrants were much lower than for those born in america out of seven hundred eighty five homicide convictions and twenty fifteen seven hundred nine with offenders born in america just forty six with the illegal immigrants and thirty five immigrants some u.s. commentators argue immigrants face fewer convictions but are arrested for more crimes but the data shows the arrest rate is actually lower than for people born in america for more on this let's cross live to john hendren in washington d.c. john there's already a partial government shutdown in place but nor make is it you back on capitol hill for more discussions is there an end in sight. well right now it's at an impasse we've got members of the senate and the house all agreeing to meet again around noon local time here today but these senators have agreed that they're not going to move forward with anything until there's a global agreement you may have seen that in the story so the president is going to have to get together wit

also, experts will attend this year's cato institute conference. it is live at 9:00 a.m.eastern also on c-span2. and supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg will be at an event marking national bill of rights day. people from several countries become u.s. citizens. you can watch that live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. 50 years ago, apollo eight became the first man spacecraft to successfully orbit the moon. american history tv marks the milestone with special features. starting sunday at 9:00 a.m. eastern, we are live from chicago's museum of science and industry, home of the apollo 8 castle, with author robert thurston taking your phone calls. history,"on "oral commander frank gore went. history" interview pilot james8 module lovell. on american history tv on c-span3. >> house minority leader nancy pelosi had her weekly briefing with reporters. much of her di

and surveillance experts attend this year's cato institute surveillance conference, starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg will speak at an event marking bill of rights day, and will attend a naturalization ceremony at the national archives as 30 people from 26 countries become u.s. citizens. you can watch that live at 10:00 a.m. eastern, on c-span. >> sunday night, on q&a. party hadrican nazi 20,000 supporters who came to a rally at madison square garden, in the middle of new york, stormtroopers giving the nazi salute with a swastika next to a picture of george washington. that rally was for george washington's birthday. there was a very active american fascist movement in the 1920's and 1930's, earlier than people think, associated with the phrase america first. >> university of london literature professor sarah churchwell looks at the history of the terms america first and the american dream in her book "behold, america." sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> coming up on c-span, an update on federal spending bill negotiatio

decriminalizedl drugs many years okay, society is far from falling off a cliff, if you look at drug use rates, a catonalyze those, they have not gone up. if you move smog ou something of shadows into the market, people are not looking for fentanyl. they are being put in our cocaine supplies, because it easier to conceal, so much meree to 10, hav poe potent. >> knee-jerk react is we have to stop it. to stop the supply. but we really have not had the kind of honest discussion about demand that we have to. and it is interesting. as you point out inverse often times happens. i will be curious to see what that sort of logic actually bleeds into government, do you foresee marijuana being reclassified or rescheduled in coming year? something has to shift. you know, regulatory situation is un10abltenable with investmen cash, california having fully legalized the product. national prohibition is not working, no one think its working. so really up to congress to make the shift, and so, we'll see, but, i don't see it chairman -- changing in short-term. kennedy: maybe it will happen quickly. >> thank you. kenned

you are a distinguished fellow at the heritage foundation you have been at the cato institute. >> and you are on the board and a contributor at cnn. you have been everywhere. [laughter] . >> and again with the laffer curve and was our reagan economist. so it is really my pleasure to be here to talk with you. you and the head of the council of economic advisers in my opinion are the happiest word - - warriors of the free market out there. i agree. and with these very happy warriors i have known you for a very long time that is one of your distinguished features. >> look as a free market conservative are naturally optimistic and my whole mentor's philosophy to love the free market said is true and it's so much doom and gloom because of climate change or we cannot grow faster and incidentally trump is an economic optimist people will flourish the rising tide lifts all boats that is what attracted us to trump. >> i will share a small story i met you at about party in the nineties or early nineties having breakfast at the intercontinental it was like meeting a rock star. and i remember you

cato e institute senior fellow, michael tanner.ring wealth to america's poor, welcome. >> thank you. kennedy: talking about how government is making people poor. what is the driving force as far as government in terms of property here. >> -- poverty. >> government gets in way of people participating in the economy. way that get out of poverty not to collect a welfare chuck well- welfare check. it is to have a job support the economy, government gets in the way that on regulation, type of jobs, and education system does not prepare system, and criminal system locks them out. kennedy: two point, one on over criminalization, you take fathers from families, you increase poverty, but interesting you point out, people who have a higher edition education make more money but government run schools are under performing doing such a disservice. >> it is special that people be repaired for new economy we're going into. days you could drop out of high school and go to factory and get a job and support your family are gone. no matter what donal

matt: what is a cotto sating -- a cato saying?retail revenue has picked up slightly, they say that is in line with guidance for the year. generally the market will not be upset by that. current trading not what it is about. international licensing deals and what happens in the future. business isng the about the future. they are going to have to do more of those deals to maintain the share price. take you very much. you can get all the latest stock stories by checking out first go. the open is next. ♪ >> less than a minute from the open of equities trading. let's look at what the markets are indicating. let's look at the euro and the pound. spikes as we see dollar weakness across the board. the euro is gaining some ground. also seeing asian equities across the board, rowling overnight. the nikkei is closed 1%. 300, what ithe csi has been doing overnight. here ecb ftse futures have been down between gains and losses throughout the session. there is not a lot of movement. futures have now come up. dax futures open up early these day

wealth to america's for takes a closer look at this problem and the author and senior fellow at the cato us now. thanks for coming on this morning, you would think with unemployment these numbers would go down as more people have jobs. >> no doubt overspending reduces poverty rate but what it doesn't do is enable people to take control of their lives to be self-sufficient and support their families and become what they can be. in his custody poverty where we make sure people don't starve but we don't let them grow. rob: teach them to fish, that idea. >> we need people to get into the economy and become full participants and become self supporting, fully actualized human beings. jillian: quality over quantity. doesn't apply to this? we mentioned at the beginning, either too many? do they need to be streamlined? do they need to be fewer that will be more impactful? >> absolutely. we tend to solve every problem by throwing money at it, telling which programs work and which ones don't, we have different rules, eligibility requirements, people in the same situation can have different benefits

whistleblower at the cia and we are very privileged and pleased to have him here as a scholar at the cato institute to introduce our speakers. i'll turn it over to patrick. >> thank you for that introduction and comment and i'll drop the check off in your office after we're done here. my thanks to all of you who are here with us in the auditorium and those viewing on-line. i want to go over a kick add-min items. make sure you've got your cell phones at least on vibrate and if you have an apple watch leak i do or other devices hanging around, make sure they're on silent as well. we will do some q & a here towards the end and i'll repeat this, just make sure you wait to be called upon, wait for the microphone so everybody can hear you especially our panelists and ask you to announce your name and affiliation, not that we're taking names, but we like to get a sense of who is here and what theirs interests are. and julian gave us a good intro, i want to kind of amplify on that just briefly. for over a year, president trump has made extraordinary claims about the alleged political abuse of sur

you cannot do cato institute and which year was that? that?guest co.around 1999. >> host: in 2004 committee were on the eri

. >> i'm from the cato institute but i really like the way that scott frame this as navigating choice avoidance that is clever framing. because i want to press you l a little bit more on the one hand if the united states upresses the allies to choose we don't like the answer but you also said that beijing presses their allies they will not like the answer. salon technology and market matters with the north american market matters and then to advise the policymakers to force the allies. l we are reasonably confident. >> and with that criteria. anybody care to volunteer? . >> let's go to the very patient lady on the left. >> thank youou for your presentation i want to talk about close us partner that is taiwan particularly in night where the party seems to get that review kit is debatable how much is tied into the china policy but that is a factor. so the calculations when it comes to theal china competition? i'm interested to hear your thoughts. >> i think bob is right i think xi is overstepped. and 1 percent structural in my view but just in the last week that india put out the invest

this has a huge legacy because today, lusciousbe call them libertarian, the republican right, the cato in the two plus two appropriate douglass because he was a staunch proponent of self-reliance. raising themselves by their own institutions in their own hard work and their own thrift and so on. but every black leader in the night can century to speak of was a proponent of self-reliance. sometimes the ways this gets portrayed today in political discussion, the way douglass gets appropriated now drives me a bit crazy because to do that you have to ignore his entire life as a radical abolitionists. but it's good news because douglass has become a little bit like abraham lincoln. everyone wants to have him on the side. everyone wants to claim douglass on our side. but would douglass do with this. what would they think of the me to movement. [inaudible] >> i thought that might not come out tonight. >> before we go to questions, you do something. you are so attentive to and not. say a word about anna. .. .. they fell in love in baltimore. he escaped from slavery in late august, 1838. and an

technology and surveillance experts will attend this year's cato institute surveillance conference. it is an all day event starting live at 9:00 a.m. eastern. and, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg will speak at an event marking bill of rights day. she will attend a naturalization ceremony at the national archives as 36 people become u.s. citizens. you can watch that alive at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. , a hearing on mandatory spending practices at federal agencies. referred to by some lawmakers as backdoor spending. from a house oversight and government reform subcommittee, this is an hour. >> the national debt recently reached $21.3 trillion. there is a debt clock in new york that is running at an extremely rapid rate. the american people pay for that debt with interest. last year the government paid $371 billion in net interest. in 10 years, debt held by the public will increase and the net interest will nearly triple. this is unsustainable and unacceptable. we need to get the nation's fiscal house in order. congress has the authority and responsibility to do so. artic

you cannot do cato institute and which year was that? that?guest co. around 1999. >> host: in 2004 committee were on the editorial board of the journal if you are of a contributor at cnn. beware that fox news before and give them everywhere. you were a reagan economist, and he is the president of so is my pleasure to be here to talk with you today. you and the head of the council of economic advisers are in my opinion the happiest warriors for the free market. just i agree you are this happy warrior. few are optimistic anyou are opa true leader, and i've not known you for a long time, and this is one of your distinguished features. >> guest: look, i think that we as free market conservatives are naturally optimistic. we think things are going to get better. the mentor in this whole philosophy is life on earth gets better when you allow people to act freely in the free market and that is certainly true. but the rest is so doom and gloom coming together because of climate change or we can't grow faster than 2% growth. incidentally, i think that trump is

. >> good morning and welcome to the auditorium of the cato institute. my name is julian sanchez, and am a senior fellow here, and it is my privilege to welcome you all to the 2018 inastonishment of our annual surveillance conference. we really began the conference in 2013 as a one-off focused on the nsa, and inspired by the enormous amount of information coming out as a result of the snowdown revelation. in the following year it made sense to have a full-day conference on surveillance. this is the fifth year running it under that name. i recall a year or two when charlie savage asked do you think as the -- from the headlines there will be enough to talk about every year, and the domain of surveillance. and i'm -- i wouldn't be happy to say, but i can confidently say it doesn't look like we're running into the problem of running short on subject matter for a conference any time soon. before i introduce our first panelists i want to suggest people coming in and out during the course of the day. but i'm pleased to say following our conference. ajays want t

you've been at the cato institute, you've started a club for growth, and in which year was that? >> stephen: it was around 1999. >> veronique: until 2004. you are a contributor at cnn, a regular -- on fox before. you've been everywhere, and. >> stephen: i'm everywhere too. >> veronique: your co-author arthur laffer if you are in the world of taxes everyone knew of the laugher curve, he was a reagan economist, and the president of laffer associates. so it's my pleasure to be here to talk with you today. you and the head of the counsel of economic advisers kevin hasett you are in my opinion the happiest warrior in the free market. i agree. i believe they belong to that club too but you are this really happy warriors, optimistic, true believers, and i've known you for a long time and this is one of your distinguished features. is it okay one of the things i've always loved. >> stephen: we think things are going to get better. julian simon was my mentor and his whole philosophy that earth gets better when you love freely and love free markets. and that's true. the left is so doom and

because today's, let's just call them libertarian, the republican right, libertarian right -- the cato institute right loves to appropriate douglass because he was a staunch proponent of self-reliance. of blacks raising themselves by their own institution and their own hard work. and their own thrift and so on. but every black leader in the 19th century to speak of, was a proponent of self-reliance. it is not unusual. but sometimes, the ways this gets portrayed today, and political discussion, the way douglass gets appropriated now, it drives me bit crazy because to do that you absolutely have this life of radical abolitionist. but it is good news because douglass is become a little bit like abraham lincoln. everyone wants to have them on their side. everyone wants to claim douglass.he is on our side, no, he is on our side. what would douglass do if this? i get asked this all the time what would he think of different movements and donald trump -- i thought that might not come up tonight! he would say, no. i'm not going there. >> you do something so wonderful and beautiful in the text.

here at the cato institute thank you for being here and also to the conference staff here who has donesuch a terrific job organizing our events keeping us on track also to those of you watching online and c-span.

pakistan security analyst at the cato institute she says trump's request for pakistan's help is a positive development. we have already seen something like this happen before earlier this year when president try very publicly criticized baucus than for not doing enough and that the same time asked pakistan to bring to the negotiating table so this is something similar that's occurring right now the only difference is that president trump has personally reached out to prime minister hahn which i think ultimately indicates president trumps personal desire to end the war i think absolutely box on can do something to end the war in afghanistan the main thing that they can do is to help and the taliban to the negotiating table box on has had a very longstanding relationship with the it has its own complications with its relationship with the taliban but ultimately out of all the stakeholders involved in the war baucus on is one of the only countries which still has a somewhat positive relationship with the taliban and so i think the way that the u.s. war could potentially and in a way it which

the news by many newspapers in west africa is owned by a politician in this case wilson cato pay the country's minister of commerce the paper is quietly seen as taking an editorial soft approach to the current government and by the looks of things to the friends of former government says well . we dropped the largess off of the news newspaper about five hours of an hour just waiting on his call to find out whether or not says it is going to publish the story he said it's a ghost of the story then great if not then there is a plan b. in the way. moments later david confirms that he said it's a hazard checked the story so we head across time to meet. rush hour traffic means that we reach our destination of the night for the offices of the daily observer. to ensure that he gets published david has a not for the first time he says taken history to the competition. a last minute editorial meeting this cold in the story gets the green light it moves through layout and into print within twelve hours a four month investigation build for one use paper winds up in the front page of another. th

the news by many newspapers in west africa is owned by a politician in this case wilson cato play the country's minister of commerce the paper is quietly seen as taking an editorial the soft approach to the current government and by the looks of things to the friends of former government says well . we dropped the largess off at the news newspaper about five hours of an hour just waiting on his call to find out whether or not says it is going to publish the story he said it's a ghost of the story then great if not then there is a plan b. in the way. moments later david confirms that he said it's a hazard checked the story so we head across town to meet. rush hour traffic means that we reach our destination of the night for the offices of the daily observer. to ensure that he gets coverage david has a not for the first time he says taken history to the competition. a last minute editorial meeting this cold in the story gets the green light it moves through layout and into print within twelve hours a four month investigation built for one use paper winds up in the front page of and. the

. >> we are going to leave this and you can find it online, c-span online, cato conference on surveillance and privacy in washington, d.c. up next flash top, short presentation by single speaker, we will hear from a representative on rating the creep factor of network appliances. >> tracking what people do in a

and thanks to cato for putting on this excellent conference. as julian said the focus of my talk is the range of challenges that law enforcement faces and accessing digital evidence separate and apart from the encryption related challenges. and this talk through the report i worked on with co-author will carter under the auspices for the center of strategic or international studies. oh cis. the debates about encryption will continue but it is and was more emphatically more so our view in working on the report that encryption and debates about encryption have taken up so much of the lime light there are a range of other challenges that law enforcement faces that need to be dealt with. and they can be dealt with relatively easily, and they need to be dealt with now. and so, as -- and these challenges will continue no matter what happens with respect to encryption. no matter if in fact there ever were a clear decription mandate there would be other ongoing challenges that need to be dealt with. so as our title low-hanging fruit indicates these are

. >> the third question is to andre killinger now from cato and the red tie. [inaudible] my question your dimension, but what is more expensive to stop installation or stop the russian military sheep spending the two baltic sea. >> who wants to take back? >> it's an interesting question. >> so i'll take that. the prospect of russian military defense of the pipelines in the baltic sea. you know, it would be a significant new violation of international law. it would be in the area that nato controls and is much more present in. i think i would expect russia to be much more cautious in the frog oiling operation, but i wouldn't rule it out. i think nato has many more cards in its may be something we can come back to later, many more cards in the deck. putin has a really weak and. not a completely empty hand because the russian military is much stronger and has assets and capabilities it didn't used to. but i wouldn't expect that to be -- that's not on the top of the list of my top 10 worries of a russian military move would put nato in a bad place. but a agree wit

i would like to show you the cato institute study from 2014 all immigrants are less likely to be incarcerated the nativeborn americans relative to their share of the population. there is one of public policy institute of california study that also showed that the foreign-born make up about 35% of the population of california and only 17% of the adult prison population. it will be helpful if you start putting out some basic facts about the actual facts related immigrants and crime. i will conclude by quoting from commerce and will nerd who said essentially in a washington post op-ed that building a wall would be most expensive and least effective way to secure the border. i yield back. >> executive orders can direct a law enforcement official to change their prosecutorial discretion with the executive or saidresident signed despite the fact that families are choosing to come here illegally and are breaking u.s. law is the policy of the united states to keep them together. florez, we are not able to keep them both together and prosecute them so the result of that is we do not prosecute families

. >> i'd like to have your staff show you the cato institute study from 2014 that showed all immigrants are less likely to be incarcerated. there's been a public policy institute of california study that also showed that the foreign born who make 35% of adult. population in california constitute 17% of adult prison population. so just be helpful if you start putting in some basic facts about the actual facts related to immigrants and crime and then i'm just going to conclude by quote iing from the congressmano said essentially in a "washington post" opt et -ed th building a wall will be the least effective way to secure the border. >> executive orders can direct a law enforcement official to change theirs process tutorial discretion. the executive order was not to reverse the policy. it said despite the fact the families are choosing to come here illegally and breaking u.s. law, it's the policy of the united states to keep them together. because of flores, we are not able to keep them both together and prosecute them. so the result of that is we do not prosecute families that choose to