. >> host: this week on "the communicators" we want to interdict tissue to george mason university professorduminda wijesekera, professor what do you do at george mason university? >> guest: i do research mostly related to cyber security and quantum transportation systems. i have a large group of students on radio communications and connected and some railroad security and someone you av meaning unmanned areas so everything related to industrial commission. >> host: i'm sorry what is that word you are using a mac. >> guest: like in buses and trains and so on. >> host: to teach any classes as well? >> guest: yes, i do. i teach different types of cyber security classes in this fall i will teach a class on connected and automated so we have a pretty good selection of guided students and faculty any supportive administration that lift us up they buy day that we are encouraged to do whatever we can to reach out because cyber security and the new areas that are emerging industrially and participate in the best extent we can. >> host: you also have worked at the national institute of standards and

>> host: this week on "the communicators" we want to introduce you to george mason university professor duminda wijesekera. professor wijesekera, what do you do it george mason university? >> guest: i do research mostly related to cybersecurity and its consequences on transportation systems. i have a large group of students with radio communication, on connected, some are railroad security, some on uavs, meaning unmanned areas. everything related to industrial automation, i i apologize, whas that word you are using? >> guest: quakers, like buses and trains and so on. tremont okay, good. do you teach any classes as well? >> guest: yes, i do. i teach different kinds of cybersecurity classes. this fall i'm going to teach a class on connected and automatic quakers. we have pretty good direction of graduate students and faculty and very supportive administration that lifts us up day i day. we are fairly encouraged to do whatever we can to reach out to get cybersecurity and look at the new areas that are merging, both industrially and through karmic initiatives and participate to the best ext

at george mason university. commissioner, served on the commission since september 2018 and who prior to joining the commission served as chief counsel for the u.s. senate commission committee on banking housing and urban affairs. commissioner alison aaron lee, served since 2017. she served on various roles and the sec, and most recently has written, lectured and taught classes on financial regulation and corporate law, internationally. finally, chairman jay clayton,

night, on the communicators, george mason university professor talks about the black hat cybersecurityference in las vegas and the vulnerability associated with electric motors. system andpower electromagnetism in way are -- one where the other. that's how we generate the movingm by essentially and electric where across the magnetic field. it is subject to some kind of interruption, disruption, or a moment that was not expected to be there. >> monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern 2. c-span >> next, q&a, with university of pennsylvania law professor amy wax talks about free expression on college campuses. then senator bernie sanders of vermont campaigns in new hampshire. ♪ brian lamb: amy wax. before i ask you questions about why we asked you to come here, i wanted to go through your background. where are you from?

over offer more on this let's speak to bill schneider who is a professor of public policy at george mason university and he joins us now from washington d.c. mr snyder joe biden has said that he supports impeachment as long as the trumpet ministration continues to be obstructionist but now the president is saying that he'll release a transcript of the call so where does that leave all of this. leaves it up in the air a lot depends on what's in that transcript and whether president from can claim that his conversation with the president of ukraine had no connection at all with the military aid that was due to be sent to the ukraine and was being held up the question was the question will be was there a quid pro quo between the military aid and the request for an investigation so depending on what's in the transcript your take is that they may not be an impeachment inquiry that could be halted potentially. will almost certainly be an impeachment inquiry what we don't know is whether they'll be a vote of whether it will end up in a vote for impeachment you need a majority of the house to vote for impea

announcer: monday night on the communicators, george mason university professor talks about the blackcybersecurity conference in las vegas and the vulnerabilities associated with electric motors. >> an electric motor has a controlled system, a power system, and uses electromagnets. generates the byentum in the moment essentially removing an electric wire across a magnetic field. components of these are subjected to some kind of interruption, disruption, a moment that was not expected to be there. announcer: monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. announcer: next on american history tv, two historians discuss the history of health care policy since world war i. topics include the roots of the modern health-care system, the medical field's transformation into a business, and disparities in insurance coverage. the natural history center hosted this event. mr. kennedy: i think we are going to try to start this event on time. my name is dane kennedy, i am director of the national history center. i want to welcome you all to this briefing on the history of u.s. health care, health care p

. >> host: this week on "the communicators" we want to introduce you to george mason university professor duminda wijesekera. professor wijesekera, what do you do it george mason university? >> guest: i do research mostly related to cybersecurity and its consequences on transportation systems. i have a large group of students with radio communication, on connected, some are railroad security, some on uavs,

is a professor at george mason university and an expert on biological weapons she was born in tunisia and studied in france they had several people from teaching. to the western countries by antibiotics that were available at the time and these were used sent back to the former soviet union and used to develop pathogens that would be resistance resistant to those antibiotics some of the diseases which the soviet scientists experimented with have long threatened mankind lithuanian born raymond zilinskas is a former microbiologist and a director at the monterey institute of international studies nobody thought that anybody with so irresponsible as to be working with smallpox. so there was another contagious from it spreads from person to person and it's very deadly in nature across about 30 percent. but with a weapon as it's probably even stronger maybe 50 percent or even higher for so there was horrible and then the circa one i was really awful was a place where the marburg virus against which there is no vaccine no treatment it's about 80 percent solid and well. ironically it was sovi

is a professor at george mason university and an expert on biological weapons she was born in tunisia and studied in france they had several people from teaching. to the western countries by antibiotics that were available at the time and these were used sent back to the former soviet union and used to develop pathogens that would be resistance resistant to those antibiotics some of the diseases which the soviet scientists experimented with have long threatened mankind lithuanian born raymond zilinskas is a former microbiologist and a director at the monterey institute of international studies nobody thought. anybody with so irresponsible as to be working with smallpox virus so there was another contagious from it spreads from person to person and it's very deadly in nature across about 30 percent. but with a weapon i was probably even stronger maybe 50 percent or even higher for so that was horrible and then the circa one i was really awful was a place where the marburg virus the plants which there is no vaccine no treatment it's about 80 percent. of all. ironically it was soviet cit

sagna been really is a professor at george mason university and an expert on biological weapons she was born in tunisia and studied in france they had several people from teaching. to the western countries by antibiotics that were available at the time and these were used sent back to the former soviet union and used to develop pathogens that would be resistance resistant to those antibiotics some of the diseases which the soviet scientists experimented with have long threatened mankind lithuanian born raymond zilinskas is a former microbiologist and a director at the monterey institute of international studies nobody thought that anybody with so irresponsible as to be working with smallpox. so there was another contagious from it spreads from person to person and it's very deadly in nature crossing by 30 percent. but with a weapon i was probably even stronger maybe 50 percent or even higher for them so that was horrible and then the circa one i was really awful was a place where the marburg virus against which there is no vaccine no treatment it's about 80 percent solid and well. ironi

is a professor at george mason university and an expert on biological weapons she was born in tunisia and studied in france they had several people from teaching. to the western countries by antibiotics that were available at the time and these were used sent back to the former soviet union and used to devil ark pathogens that would be resistance resistant to those antibiotics some of the diseases which the soviet scientists experimented with have long threatened mankind lithuanian born raymond zilinskas is a former microbiologist and a director at the monterey institute of international studies nobody thought that anybody with so irresponsible as to be working with smallpox or. worse and that's a contagious from it spreads from person to person and it's very deadly in nature crossed by 30 percent. but with a weapon has probably been stronger and that maybe 50 percent or even higher for so there was horrible and then the circa one i was really awful was a place where the marburg virus the plants which there is no vaccine no treatment it's about 80 percent. of all. ironically it was so

he's currently serving as the grer george mason's university hayden senator for intelligence, policy,tional security. larry pfeiffer, thank you very much for bhaing here. >> you very her for having me. >> woodruff: so as somebody who has worked in the white house, in the situation room, sat in on a number of phone calls between the presidente f ited states, leaders of other countries, how normally would a whistleblowerstomplaint be handled around something like this? >> osh, i don't know if there's a normal really here. we have phoners conions that are being tranziebed, that a memorandum is being written to capture that transcript and be something as explicit as we saw today, or it could be something summarizing the conversation. so the transcript tod, you know, clearly was pretty explicit in what the president was saying. at one level you hape toplaud the president for putting this very explicit document out. >> woodruff: but yoin ur experience in-- let me just back up for just a second. in record ago it's not recorded. there's no audio recording of these conversations. >> right >> w

. >> tonight on the communicators, george mason university professor talks about the black hat cybersecurity conference in las vegas and the vulnerabilities associated with electric motors. >> so an electric motor has the control system, the power system and electromagnetic in one way or the other that's how it actually generates the momentum and the moment by essentially moving an electric wire across a magnetic field. so any and all of these components are subject to some kind of interruption disruption or moment that was not expected to be there. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> this is american history tv on c-span3 where each weekend we feature 48 hours of programs exploring our nation's past. >>> founded in 1607 jamestown, virginia, first settlement in north america. the summer marked the arrival of the first african slaves and the first meeting of the kbenl sgen assembly which established government in the colony. next on american history tv. a commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the first virginia general assembly. this is part one of a three-part ceremony. >>

al-jazeera washington well bill schneider is a political analyst and public policy professor at george mason university in washington d.c. he says the inquiry could prove to be a distraction from other issues facing the u.s. . the country is intensely polarized you have very strong opinions on both sides and so far there's been a modest movement in the polls should president trump be impeached the number who say yes has been going up slowly it hasn't quite reached 50 percent yet but that's mostly because democrats have rallied to the cause of impeachment we haven't seen any movement at all among republicans the president's own party and unless and until that happens we're not likely to see a big breakthrough in this trial a lot of americans most americans do not approve of president obama's performance in office but at the same time they don't want to see him impeached i think in part because they realize that an impeachment will just absorb all the energy in the political system and it will distract from all other issues including the 2020 presidential campaign no one is going to pay a lot of attentio

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the president this has never happened the girl schneider is a professor of public policy at george mason university he says public opinion the way the term pitch the president is changing. well there almost certainly be an impeachment inquiry what we don't know is whether they'll be a vote whether it will end up in a vote for impeachment you need a majority of the house to vote for impeachment now that's what happened of course with bill clinton democrats have a majority but not all democrats have come on board yet but you could have a majority by just democrats so far no republicans have supported even an impeachment inquiry much less actually impeaching the president think the public is a law and by why president trumpeters doing he appears to have defied the constitution and then his standard procedure is defiance he defies congress he defies the press he defies common decency sometimes in his handling of immigration and now he's defied the constitution and that's something that has to be taken very very seriously until now there was not a majority public support for impeachment but that is chan

. ♪ monday night on the communicators, george mason university professor talks about a black hat cybervegas and the vulnerabilities associated with electric motors. >> and electric motor has the control system, a power system and electromagnetism in one way or the other, that is how it actually generates the momentum in the moment, by essentially moving an electric wire across a magnetic field. all of these components are subjected to some kind of interruption, disruption , or a moment that is not expected to be there. announcer: monday at eight p.m. eastern on c-span two. days is an annual event held in may at the u.s. army heritage and education center in carlisle, pennsylvania. hundreds of living history hobbyists conduct demonstrations and talk to the public about the the theme this year was the d-day 75th anniversary. visit -- uld -- u.s. soldiers who fought in the maritime else of france. 75 years ago during the autumn of 1944.

the discussion with bill schneider a is a political analyst and public policy professor at george mason university joins us now from washington d.c. good to have you with us so how do you see this gandel now that we've hit the think the 1st weekend well where it's a clear danger to the country danger to the president the country is intensely polarized you have very strong opinions on both sides and so far there's been a modest movement in the polls should president trump be impeached the number who say yes has been going up slowly it hasn't quite reached 50 percent yet but that's mostly because democrats have rallied to the cause of impeachment we haven't seen any movement at all among republicans the president's own party and unless and until that happens we're not likely to see a big breakthrough in this trial it seems like democrats are counting on time do you think time will deliver more republicans to the coals. well it depends on what comes out in the hearings and what the inspector general's already has the by what the whistleblower actually says right now there's a surprising thing going o

i see it in my students at george mason university. it conjures up a sort of moral distaste and that goes to the ruthlessness and the inequality and unfairness that they see. they are not socialists. if you ask them, they don't really know what socialism means but they are not for the government controlling everything and owning everything. they are certainly not for that. my students, i ask how many want to go work for the government and i think you and i would be very unhappy to know i never get anyone to get their hand up and then i say would you like to go work for big business, how many would like to do that and nobody put their hand up. who wants to go work at goldman sachs? maybe one person will put their hand up and rather sheepishly. what do you want to do? i am not sure they know. but i would recommend they do. but where they want to work, they want to work at ngos, nongovernmental organizations, they want to work at startups which they somehow think isn't part of capitalism. >> startups have become unicorns. >> not that they

student seminar and did a terrific job, and that's nathan goodman who is finishing his phd at george mason university in economics, and he is a specialist in the economic of "empire. "nathan, happy to have you join us. >> [ applause ] . . >> thank you so much, daniel. so in fiscal year 2019, the u.s. department of defense has a budget of approximately $693 billion, and according to the costs of war project at brown university's watson institute, the united states federal government has spent or obligated $5.9 trillion on the wars in afghanistan, pakistan and iraq from their beginning to fiscal year 2019. now in an important sense we need to remember that these are lower bound estimates. after all, american empire consists of more than the department of defense and the nsa, cia, department of homeland security, all of these are part of the national security state. the dea isn't just enforcing a war on drugs at home. they are waging a war on drugs abroad throughout latin america and the world. the state department and usaid engage in foreign aid programs that large little serve pure till ambition% so t

. >>> tonight on the communicators, george mason university professor talks about the black hat cyber security conference in las vegas and the vulnerabilities associated with electric motors. >> so an electric motor has the control system, the power system and electromagneticism. that's how it actually generates the momentum and the moment by essentially moving an electric wire across a magnetic field. so any and all of these components are subjected to some kind of interruption, disruption or moment that was not expected to be there. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. >>> american history tv is on c-span 3 every weekend featuring museum tours, archival films and programs on the presidency, the civil war and more. here is a clip from a recent program. >> so on march 15th, on that day, george spent the entire day crafting a speech, agonizing over every word that he was going to say to those officers. and that evening, he went to the officers meeting. and as he came in, these were battle trained soldiers. these are men who had served with george throughout much of the conflict. as

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october 10 to the 12th it's the fall for the book festival at george mason university in fairfax virginia weekend tuning for our live coverage of the southern festival books in nashville. on october 19 and 20th the boston book festival will welcome over 300 speakers and will be live that saturday from the wisconsin book festival in madison. which anticipates over 15,000 people in attendance. later in the month look for us in austin during our live coverage of the texas book festival. for more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and to watch our previous festival coverage click the book fairs tab on our website booktv.org. >> tonight on booktv and prime time we attend the black books matter book party. featuring white house correspondent april ryan and author angel rich. mary lane recalls nazi efforts to repress artistic expression in the 1930s. journalist paul toft reports on the cost of the college education and andrew pollock father of a student killed in the shooting at marjory stoneman high school in parkman florida talks about guns in school safety. that all starts to

announcer: monday night on the communicators, george mason university professor talks about the blackersecurity conference in las vegas and the vulnerabilities associated with electric motors. >> electric motors have a control system, a power system, and a magnetic system. in one way or the other that is how it actually generates the momentum. essentially wires cause a magnetic feed. so, any and all of these components are subject to some moment interaction or that is not expected to be there. announcer: >> c-span's book the senate has hundreds of gorgeous photos, andificent says don ritchie senate historian richard baker says -- mesmerizing photographs and establish this book is the ultimate insiders tour. to order your high-quality paperback copy of "the senate" $18 $.95 plus shipping visit c-span.org. i've been asked several times today if i would be agreeing to this diversion or that. the answer is no. >> the framers believe -- >> let us follow the

pfeiffer, director of the hayden center at georg george mason university.>> thank you very much, judy. woodruff: in the day's other news, iranian president hassan rouhani used his speech at the u.n. general assembly today largely to condemn us regional intervention. rouhani denounced the trump w administrationhdrawal from the 2015 iran nuear deal and blasted us sanctions against his country. he said iran would only come to the negotiating table if those sanctions are lifted.ed >> ( transl ): i hail from a country that has resisted the most merciless economic terrorism. the us government while imposing extra territorial sanctions and threats against other nations has made a lot of effort to deprive iran from the advantages of participating in the global economy. this is the of the iranian nation: let's invest in hope towards a better future rather than in war and violence. >> woodruff: but the white house is showing no signs of liftingsa thostions on iran. us secretary of state mike pompeo threatened tougher penalties on the islamic revolutionary guard corps

he has a law degree from the george mason university and is bn government from claremont mckenna.in me in welcoming trent. [applause] i thought we would start by talking about the electoral college and the national popular vote interstate compact which colorado joined this year and you guys correct me if i'm wrong, on the statistics but ugly colorado became the 12th state to join interstate compact, is that correct? >> sixteen jurisdictions. >> even further ahead. i read there were now 181 electoral votes? >> 196. >> my numbers are dated. but when it 96 electoral college votes are possibly joining this interstate compact that only takes effect when 270 electoral votes from the various states have agreed to this interstate compact, which essentially says that the elect doors in the states would not follow the traditional electoral college system, but would instead cast their ballots for the winner of the national popular vote. i thought we would start to talk about that compact and what it means. we have a couple of minutes for each debater to offer his opening remarks and in your

. >> tonight on "the communicators," george mason university professor domingo talks about the securitycus in las vegas and the vulnerabilities associated with electric motors. ingo: so they have a system, a power system, magnificent in one way or the other, that is how they actually generate the momentum in the moment, by eventually moving the electric wires across a magnetic field, any and all of the somermance is subject to malfunction that is not expected to be there. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> this morning, we will talk with journalists around the country about campaign 2020 activities in a number of states, including new hampshire, iowa, virginia, wisconsin, and michigan. as always, we will take your join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: it is the "washington journal" for september 2, labor day, 2019. this day not only marks the recognition of the worker, but also a time when those running for president increase the tempo of their campaigns. we want to hear from you during the course of our show about how you wo

. >> nawaz: thomas lovejoy is an ecologist at george mason university who has been coming to and studying the amazon since the 1960s. >> the amazon actually makes this planet work. it affts the climate. it affects the hydrological cycle. d all these species added up become biological diversity. all have evoluonary histories that go back four billion years. >> nawaz: but the amazon's incredibly rich biodiversity is now under assault from several different fronts. nearly 20% of it has been deforested since the 1970s, cleared out to make way for infrastructure projects, mining and agriculture. that destruction is having a devastating impact on the ecosystem, and many of the rainforest's original inhabitants. species in brazil are now facing the threat of extction. >> as we lose species, the next generation will not miss them. but if you show them, if you bring people to see giant pink dolphins, if they see them, if they relate to them, they care now. we must care now, before they go. nawaz: but the monumental effort to repopulate and regrow what has already been lost in the amazon is slowly

. >> monday night on the communicators, george mason university professor talks about conference inityulnerabilities associated with electric motors. >> it has the power system and electromagnetic system in one way or another, that's how it generates the momentum by essentially moving an electric wire across a magnetic field. any and all these components are subject to some kind of interruption, disruption, or a moment that was not expected to be there. >> monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> earlier today, president trump visited nema headquarters in washington, d.c. after brief meeting with officials there, he urged residents on the east coast to heed warnings from state officials regarding hurricane dorian. >> we ask everyone in hurricane dorian's past to heed all warnings. has just been building out there, it has been moving very slowly. that's a bad thing, the slower it moves, the bigger it gets. our brave first responders have been working very, -- very hard getting gasoline brought in. they've never seen anything like it, the rush to get so much. again the coast guard and

at george mason university. commissioner, served on the commission since september 2018 and who prior to joining the commission served as chief counsel for the u.s. senate commission committee on banking housing and urban affairs. commissioner alison aaron lee, served since 2017. she served on various roles and the sec, and most recently has written, lectured and taught classes on financial regulation and corporate law, internationally. finally, chairman jay clayton, who served in the commission since january 2017. prior to joining the commission, they were a partner at sullivan and, crumble part of the management committee. welcome to you all. before recognizing you for your testimony, i understand clemency man has a brief administrative statement. so without hesitation, you are recognized. >> thank you chairwoman waters, and members of the committee for my fellow commissioners, i each provide our opening statements. i'd like to give our usual disclaimer, which is easy laws will provide our only views and remar

see it in my students at george mason university but they -- it conjures up sort of moral distaste, and again that goes to routhlessness and the inequality and the unfairness they see. they're not socialists. if you ask them, they're don't really know what socialism is but they're not for the government controlling everything, and owning everything. they're certainly not for that. so, my students dish ask them how many of you want to work for the government? and i think we would bowling be very unhappy to know i never get anyone to put their hand up. then i say would you like to work for a big business? how many and no nobody puts the hand up. i say who wants to work at goldman sachs, maybe one person would put their hand up. i ask what do you want to do. >> what but private equity? >> i didn't. i'm not sure they know. but i would recommend they do, but where they want to work, work at ngos, nongovernmentat organizations, they want to work at startups which they thinksen part of capitalism. >> startups become unicorns. >> not they want to get rich. they think that those kinds of compani