now this is a very awkward time for general clapper because the budget isn't formally released. so i'm just going to give him permission to answer some of your questions if he decides to. as has always been the case he is willing to put at risk his own career but i'm not willing to do it for him and so i will give him permission to say i can't answer that because the president's budget is not out. it will be of to him to decide what he wants to do. but i -- a very famous american once said he wanted to judge people by the content of their character not the color of their skin. i know the content of this man's character. we are lucky to have him in service. i want to thank our friends at ibm that targeting is the possibility to bring this public forum to this audience today and we are glad you all here. why don't i turn to you. >> thank you, dr. and stevan. i'm the vice president and practice for public sector strategy and innovation consulting ibm. we are pleased to be the industry partner for this important conference in the series which has gone on for longer than the year and

okay. >> well, thank you very much, general clapper, for that. we really appreciate the remarks and you taking time out of your extraordinary busy schedule to address this. >> i'm director of the homeland security and counterterrorism program here. i want to clarify one thing that my boss gave me the top cover to moderate the question and answer section, and i run a tight ship. this is the informs sharing conversation. this is not the iran conference or the pirate hostage rescue conference or the president's budget conference. it's the information sharing conference. don't want put me on the spot and make me hold a tight spot on what we're talking about. i'll use my prerogative as a moderator to address the first question to general clapper and his extraordinary information in this feel. particularly on the culture of information sharing, how have you seen the community, and not just the intelligence community, but the u.s. government, embrace information sharing over particularly the last ten years, some has to be forced on them by legislation,

in both those experiences with general clapper, i know his commitment to keep the country safe, i know his commitment to information sharing, and i know his commitment to civil liberties. with that, i would like to introduce director clapper and we look forward to a good day. >> it would be nice if i quit while i was ahead here after all that. i appreciate the very generous, very kind introduction. i appreciate csis for this opportunity to kick off, i think, a very important dialogue. obviously, don't need to tell this crowd, information share has been a huge mandate for us all since 9/11. the notion of sharing is an interesting concept. it can be phenomenal, it can be dangerous. it depends on what is shared and with whom it is shared. there was an old eastern saying that thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. happiness never decreases by being sheared. that's a little too farm and fuzzy for you, i also found some words written by a noted harvard professor. collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom. share da

channel or former general clapper who's the head of national intelligence and patrol yes they almost wore out the subjective mood you know it was always if the iranians decide to go for a nuclear weapon if they choose to do so you know it's like going to war in the subjective mood and that's precisely what i was criticized for for saying we did ten years it's exactly ten years ago before you rock going to war and if on a contrived synthetic if i've never seen the like of it now that you said earlier seventy percent of americans believe iran currently has already has made it what you're about i mean what could be behind that misconception i mean i don't think that is totally not factual really good question you have to take five steps back and say what is this whole about is this about a nuclear capability right now it was about is about regime change we haven't changed the regime in tehran in fifty nine years don't you think it's about time that we change the regime in tehran the israelis lost big time when we went into iraq because the big beneficiary of our expected extirpated in i

i want to say a word of thanks to my friend, general clapper. i had nothing to do with inviting him, so i feel completely liberated to say what i really think about him. the witches, he is one of my real heroes. -- which is, he is one of my real heroes. this is a man who has dedicated his life to something much bigger than himself, which is serving his country. he has done a spectacular drop in almost every position that the government has -- spectacular job in almost every position that the government has. the only thing he failed that was trying to be a civilian for a brief time frame. he never liked that very much. when called to come back into service after a very distinguished military career, he went to nga, transformed it, give it the most complicated name in history. but then that led to him being pulled into the defense department as the under secretary for intelligence, and that led to his current role as the director for national intelligence where he is doing a spectacular job at a really tough time. ever since the dni was establishe

i did want to say a word of thanks to my friend general clapper. i had nothing to do with inviting him, so then i feel completely liberated to say what i really think about him, which is he is one of my real heroes. this is a man who has dedicated his life to something much bigger than himself, and that's serving this country. he's done a spectacular job in virtually every position that government has in the area of intelligence and national security. the only thing that he failed at honestly was trying to be a civilian for a brief period of time. he never liked that very much. and when called to come back into service, after a very distinguished military -- called back to come into service, went to n.g.a., traps formed it, gave it the most complicated name in history, but then that led of course to him being pulled in to the defense department as the undersecretary for intelligence. and then that of course led to his current role as the director of national intelligence where he is doing a spectacular job at a really tough time. i mean, we've had

i would like to your take, general clapper, and perhaps director mueller and perhaps anyone else who chooses to speak on the subject, how you can tell us it is the principal national security threat and we have absolutely no bill. we do have a bill, but we have no pervasive push to get this accomplished. not just a legislative map. >> first of all, i don't think there is any question about the potential here. there are two dimensions to this. there is what goes on day in and day out as far as the intellectual property being stolen from us. that is a real threat. then there is the potential, though i think it less likely, but a massive attack as some have described that would basically paralyzed the country or key segments thereof. most likely, proponents of that would be a nation state, like china or russia. that is why we pushed hard to have that report published by the national counterintelligence executive, unclassified, that called out that threat. i think that's an important responsibility to advise all and sundry whether it is administration officials, the congress or the publi

general david petraeus. he was joined by james clapper. taking questions from the senate committee. as the hearing got under way, james clapper signaled that the u.s. is seeking to avoid a violent confrontation with iran. it's monitoring the possibility of a preemptive strike by israel. this is available online at washingtonpost.com. >>> allen furman is described as one of the least popular person on hill. he's retiring after nearly 20 years as the senate apartmepar tarren inspect 1989 we sat down with him about the jobs and the responsibilities. part of our video library. check it out at c-span dot organize. here's part of that conversation. >> mr. president, for a few weeks -- >> the presiding officer of the senate varies sometimes from hour to hour. does that mean you're the primary source of parliamentarian. >> the responsibilities of senators generally are, it's so -- so varied, they really are not expect to be experts in parliamentarian services. we're there to provide expertise as presiding officers change hour by hour. >> back to your job, i forgot to ask, who apoints you to

among those testifying, a former head of the joint chiefs, general petraeus, and james clapper, the directorgence. that is next tuesday here on c- span, beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern. today the senate budget committee did meet. they were not reviewing the budget specifically, but hearing from economists on their outlook for the world and for the u.s. during the hearing, senator kent conrad said that in the upcoming budget discussions, there were be a longer markup than before for the upcoming 2013 federal budget. the hearing today is about two hours. >> i want to welcome everyone to the senate budget committee. i want to start with a bit of the business of the committee, because i know people are asking what is our intention with respect to going to a marked up. i want to make clear to everyone that i intend to go to a marked up in the committee, and i want to do it sooner rather than later. it talked about march 9 as a time that might have a real estimate. since that time that have talked about that and not let that slip, so we just have to wait and see. i will be talking to all the membe

clapper will discuss national intelligence. >> april 15, 2010, i arrived in the hotel lobby in that general my crystal for the first time and he looked at me and said," so you are the rolling stone got rid of don't care about the article, i want to be on the cover. >> michael hastings wrote about the commander of u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan in rolling stone. >> i said i think it is between you and lady gaga. i was trying to make a joke. generally crystal said just put me and lady gaga in a heart- shaped tub. i said this is a different kind of general. >> general chris -- general mills crystal got fired as a result of the article. he will be on sunday night at 8:00 p.m.. 8:00 p.m..

include director of national intelligence james clapper, david petraeus, the head of the cia, the director of the defense intelligence agency, lieutenant general ronald burgess jr., fbi director robert mueller, homeland security undersecretary caryn wagner, and matthew olsen. also at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span3, the senate banking committee hears from richard cordray, the head of the consumer financial protection bureau. >> canadian lawmakers returned to the house of commons monday following their l holiday break. prime minister l stephen harper, the leader of the conservative party and his cabinet team answered several questions about the economy including proposed changes to canada's pension system. last week prime minister harper talked about canada's economy at the world economic forum in switzerland drawing criticism from opposition members. this 45-minute session of question period is courtesy of canada's cable public affairs channel. [applause] >> mr. speaker, canadians are bracing themselves for the deepest round of cuts. cuts, services like the oas and the -- [inaudible] these cuts will hurt jobs and hurt our community. when will the p

general martin dempsey. that briefing is at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span. and here on c-span2 remarks from national intelligence director james clapper on information sharing in the intelligence community. he says that secure and credible information sharing is a beneficial tool for those working to protect national security. mr. clapper gave those comments at the center for strategic and international studies. you could see it at 8 eastern here on c-span2. and this afternoon author jeffrey clemens talks about his recent book, "corporations are not people." he wrote about the supreme court's decision on corporate campaign contributions and is currently working to overturn that ruling. you can see his remarks live at 6 p.m. eastern on booktv.org. >> i do believe that the west for all of its historical shortcomings -- and i'm scathing in my book in discussing these shortcomings because they have to be admitted -- for all of these shortcomings, the west still today represents the most acceptable and workable, universeally workable political culture. >> in 1991 the united states was the only global superpower. today how to restore its status in the world from

general mcchrystal was fired. sunday night at 88 -- at 8 eastern on "q&a". >> the senate intelligence committee holds its annual hearing tuesday on the global threats to the u.s.. witnesses include james clapper, the director of national intelligence, david petraeus, head of the cia, fbi director robert moeller, and officials with the homeland security department and the national counter-terrorism center. live coverage on c-span, c-span radio, and c-span.org on tuesday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> gabrielle giffords resigned from the house of representatives today, just over a year after being shot in the head in tucson, arizona. she entered the chamber with congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz at the house was wrapping up the boat. members gave their real speeches. [applause] -- members gave a farewell speeches. [applause] the speaker: any member wish to change her vote? >> does any member wish to change their vote? the speaker: on this vote the yeas are 338. the noes are 70. 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. the house will be in order. members could take t