donna hopkins, any last words? guest: i have a common 3 we have great empathy for the fact that poverty is a crushing problem in africa. i think the people who would excuse piracy on the basis of poverty do great disrespect to the millions of proud and productive smalleomalis for tryg to deal with their situation in ways that do not involve the extortion of other human beings. the proceeds from piracy do not helping alleviate the poverty of these nations. piracy is adding to the poverty of the nation because it suppresses international development. suppresses tourism. it is discouraging humanitarian aid. the united states government is aware and we're doing a great deal to try to address it. host: donna hopkins with the state department, thank you for being with us. in just a moment, we will talk to andrew mccarthy the national review. he has a new book, "the grand jihad: how islam and the left sabotage america." we will take your calls. first, a news update from c-span radio. >> president obama's first high- schoo

host: coming up, david drucker, at 8:35, donna hopkins. and drew mccarthy who wrote "the grand jihad." thanks for being here today. we'll be back tomorrow. . [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> our guest on "newsmakers" this week is the agriculture secretary tom villsak joining us by connection from iowa i, his home, where he just hosted a rural summit. let me start with your midwestern summit on the economy. tell us, you've got some big goals for communities and the agriculture economy. can you give our national audience a sense of where you're leading this effort and why. >> sure. the summit was an opportunity for us to educate america about the important role that rural america plays for all of us. it is the supply of inexpensive affordable quality food, it is the supply of water that we drink and rely on. it helps to make us energy independent and at the same time it's a substantial percentage of our military comes from these small towns. so it's important

donna hopkins, from the state department bureau of political military affairs, examines the threat posed to maritime security and what v administration is doing to prevent it.3 book, "the grand jihadis." "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern on c-span. national security agency director general keith alexander is in charge of the u.s. cyber security command, he talks about cyber threats and the work of his new command at the center for strategic and international studies in washington. this is one hour. >> good morning, and welcome. i am john hamre. this is a session that i have been bugging general alexander to come here for about seven months, when it first became clear he was going to be the head of the new cyber command. it was not clear to members of congress, and this took a hell of a lot longer than it should have. it was obvious that he was the right man at the right time, a time when we very much need this. now, this is going to be far more dramatic, i think, for nsa than than for the nation. "no such agency," it used to stand for, and this is an agency that does so many cruc

host: joining us for the first time is donna hopkins, the head of the bureau of political military affairs. specifically focusing on maritime security. not many people get up in the morning and go to work saying that my job today is the fight pirates but that is a large part of what you do. guest: it is. not myself, there are lots of people who are consumed with contemporary piracy. by and large we try to deal with crosscutting, pressing issues without any other bureaucratic home. piracy counterinsurgency issues. ples without residence in the state department in terms of bureaucracy. host: wheyo are dealing with issues like piracy you are obviously working in tandem with the pentagon, correct? guest: yes, but also internal to the department we also work with the bureau of economic ergy affairs. we work with boeotian of environmental science and reonal bureaus we're in this case piracy is a pressing iue. crosscutting in that there are lots of different activities going on. humanitarian aid toastern africa is being terribly undercut by the pirates. host: why has it somalia become a pop -- fo