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ok well we've contacted al jazeera as well as the emergency committee for israel and the hoover institution to comment on why this documentary was never broadcast we'll keep you up to date if we hear anything back. firefighters are tackling a major blaze at a warehouse in melbourne in australia the fire started shortly after five am local time and followed a series of loud explosions smog is causing plenty of problems this morning it is be floating out across the suburbs here in the west of melbourne for much of the morning the reason this is a big worry is because the factory reportedly contained asbestos which authorities warned residents within five hundred meters to leave the area some nearby schools and facilities have also been closed as a precaution. u.s. military drills with south korea which donald trump surprisingly canceled following the north korea summit in singapore back on the table. as you know we took this step to suspend to several of the largest exercisers as a good faith measure coming out of the singapore summit we have no plans at this time to suspend any more exercise

and elizabeth cobb she is a professor at texas a & m university and a senior fellow at the hoover institution. what was happening in 1968? we had the escalation of the vietnam war, the political turmoil with lyndon johnson announcing he will not seek another term in large part because of vietnam and the heightened tensions with the cold war and the soviet expansion into czechoslovakia. >> bad year. it was a year where it seemed like all of these strands seemed to come together at once. north korea became more, you know, opportunistic, trying to actually launch a kind of situation where they might be able to open up a southern front, taking advantage of the vietnam war and the ted offensive and czechoslovakia, which was this moment where like so much of 1968 where it seemed like everything might change for the better and then the cold war comes in and slams it all down. >> explain what happened with the soviet moving into czechoslovakia and why that was such a significant milestone in 1968? >> well, in a way, czechoslovakia had always been so important because it helped to start the cold war a

to be and the now for a further anal siz of theti week's polal developments, i'm joined by hoover institution wan chen, and toms mann from the brookings inn constitution. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> and what apeek. not only and the now withe have a david and pref and compared to other bombshell developments we have had had in the past for. >> if and more relationship -- and carter pige frge. now, what we see is the investigation, and this is part 06 pef and that have to be conditionsed. and i think that's w people focused so much this week. what is the sbrekt involvement. that's why thisnd is people why are so many high provile almostic. >> interesting, they've not talking about it. onlyoe smt you can't convict a president of thef articles improoefment would a -ttwird majority. that means vps has toome around. the count has to come around and it zwroublt and public congress ale hearings on all the suck jekts, republicans have avoided. >> i think it's not true to say there are no democrats that have raised thessue of improoefment. you have a number of members lking agent it because t

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also elizabeth cobbs, she is a professor at texas a&m university and a senior at the hoover institution. >> i want to talk about the intersection of what was happening in 1968. we have the escalation of the vietnam war, the political turmoil with lyndon johnson announcing he would not take another term and the heightened tensions with the cold war as well as the soviet expansion into czechoslovakia. >> it was a year where it seems like all of these seem to come together at once. north korea became more opportunistic, trying to launch a situation where they might be able to open up the southern front, taking advantage of the vietnam war. been czechoslovakia. it seemed like everything might change for the better. than the cold war came in and slammed it all down. >> explain what happened with the soviets moving into czechoslovakia. why was that a significant milestone in 1968? >> czechoslovakia had been important because it helped to start the cold war. when czechoslovakia seemed to start a program of reform, lifting censorship and creating an open government, the soviets came in and shut

america, ayaan founded her own foundation and has worked at various think tanks, including the hoover institutionon whose board of overseers i sit. her focus is on protecting the rights of women and girls from honor violence, specifically against the practice of female genital mutilation. her criticisms mistakenly landed her on the southern poverty law center's list of anti-muslim extremists, which was removed from their website earlier this year. ayaan, thank you for joining me here on "firing line." and it's truly a pleasure to have the opportunity to talk about a new report that your foundation has released, the aha foundation, which stands for your initials, ayaan hirsi ali foundation. and it is entitled "why we hesitate to protect girls from female genital mutilation in the united states." do we hesitate to protect girls from fgm in the united states? >> yes, we do hesitate to protect women and little girls from female genital mutilation. i think we have to say what it is so that viewers understand that we are talking about the removal of the genitals, whole or part, of little girls. and we

university's and elizabeth cobbs, professor at texas a&m university, also a senior fellow at the hoover institution. let's talk about this intersection in the 1916. the escalation of the vietnam war, the political turmoil with lyndon johnson announcing he would not seek another term, in large part because of vietnam, and the heightened tensions with the cold war, and the soviet expansion into check was a voc you. caller: -- into check was a voc slovakia -- caller: bad year. the russians looking at opening thecond firm -- front with tet offensive. and at one point in 1968, it beks like everything might better. host: explain that milestone. way, was so, in a significant because czechoslovakia helps create the cold war. when they began a program of lifting censorship am a creating a more open government, the soviets come in and shut that down and what happens after -- theeonid brezhnev president of 1968, all the wonderful flowering of possibilities for greater has been cut off, and brezhnev says we will intervene any time a socialist, communist government is threatened. host: what was the domino theor

we want to thank elizabeth cobbs from texas a & m and the hoover institution and mark kramer from harvard you and all the guests who participated in this series, we thank you. >>> our look at the cold war in 1968 continues shortly, with a discussion about the start of america first as a slowigan in e 1916 presidential campaign. and how it impacted foreign policy between 1945 and 1968. you're watching american history tv, normally seen only on the weekends here on c-span 3. we're showing these programs while congress is on break this month. >>> in about an hour and a half, a couple of fills from our real america series. they're about life in 1968. the first one on preparing for a nuclear attack and how to survive it, if one actually happened. that's followed by a film on the start of nato after the soviet union blocked off east berlin. these programs are from our series "1968: america in turmoil." watch any time c-span.org on our 1968 page. if you missed any of today's program, we'll show it again tonight at 8:00 eastern. wednesday, american history tv continues with the development of the

some of you may know a colleague of a colleague of mine at the hoover institution bill evers was on thetrunk education team with me on the trump administration who just wrote an eye-opening article on the huge failure of the common core testing system. it just came out within the last week. so what you find is calmer common core had weaker standards at least for california to impose curriculum less than what we had under the old california standards and from what was required in the eighth grade common core is now ninth grade then what happens? now you can't get to calculus as a senior a senior in high school so therefore how are you ready for college especially more selective colleges if you can't get to calculus by your senior year? it was an absolute travesty that they adopted common core for academic and political control now we are told by all kinds of people there was no way we can touch it but there is. we can undo it we adopted it we can repeal it. [applause] there is nothing to stop california to say we will go back to pre-common core. president trump campaigned what did he say

hoover institution victor davis hanson. what a great team. i will start with tammy, what is your take on this whole situation? google in china. >> i love your opening monologue. as a capitalist, i want individuals and companies to become as big and wonderful as they can. one of the luxuries we get when you become extremely successful, google is number four, the biggest tech company in the world. apple is number one. they are still big enough. you gain a luxury of being able to start to make decisions based on some kind of moral footing. the world did this with south africa. the apartheid regime was evil and horrible. the world banded together to isolate south africa, especially with sports but also financial financially, to try to move them away from the apartheid regime. that worked. were now in a situation with a global argument has been made that there are no borders in general. that has helped facilitate the idea that working with china's no big deal. part of the argument for google internally is, we want to be competitive. apple is also

her technology and soon after he joined her board then introduced her to his buddies at the hoover institutionthe think tank on the campus and that is how she got to meet henry kissinger and bill kerry former secretary of defense under clinton. sam nunn, bill frist, and former military commanders and eventually they all joined the board so in 2014 he had this unbelievable board of the men and military commanders who had incredible resume even general matus the secretary of defense. yes. >> but there is something interesting there but they are all smart and successful people but what do they know about biochemistry? >> s right. [laughter] not much. i think a lot of people were impressed with the board and few people stop to think what is george scholz or kissinger or sam nunn know about medicine and lab testing in particular? i think there were about 12 men on that board only two of them had any connection to medicine whatsoever. none of them had any expertise whatsoever in diagnostic. so if you thought about that for a second, that was a major red flag. >> it was either a a hell or a great rea

joining me for reaction is historian and hoover institute victor davis hansen.hank you so much for being here. how far do you think that the hard left will go to try to erase history they don't like. isho it the right way to do it? justry tear it down. >> i don't think they know what they're doing. history is not a mellow drama or psycho drama it is a tragedy. you could have the founder of the ku klux klan a general who is a racist and tragic figure like james long street or the 75% of the household in north carolina than didn't own slaves or the 95% of people, but fought for i think a bad cause. and for various reasons. but all of the complexity is washed away, when we turn history into mellow drama. as a point, 28 years ago ken burns rivetted the united states with a brilliant civil war documentary. it captured everyone imagination and renewed interest in that wonderful film, he had shelby foot, the folky, charmy, southern historian and novelist who tried to get a dispassionate but sometimes sympathetic reason why people fought for a bad cause. at times he sai

joining me is alex stamos, now a visiting scholar at the hoover institution. thank you so much for being on the show tonight. >> thank you, kasie. >> let's start with what happened in 2016. what did facebook know? what, in your view, and how, did they fall short? >> so there's really two different parts of the russian disinformation campaign in 2016. the first was a campaign that was undertaken by the main intelligence director of the russian military which is also called the greu and that campaign was mostly focused on stealing information and then using that stolen information, in particular, e-mails from the dnc and john podesta, to create news stories and amplify them that were harmful to hillary clinton's campaign. the second component was the trolling operation which is mostly done by a group called the internet research agency of st. petersburg. that was a campaign that was particularly on twitter and facebook and aimed at heightening tensions between different groups in the united states. >> do you think that facebook is taking this seriously enough no

victor davis hanson, senior fellow at the hoover institution and eric johnson, attorney and democratic strategist.vi all right, matt schlapp, let's start with you. i've heard conservatives say -- oh, i do they helped us just -- i hope they do really just waste their money.ye but when you see that steyer, it's really steyer, lesser extent soros, steyer has picked this guy out as the person most likely to push forward the socialist agenda in the state of florida. that is not an exaggeration. and by golly, he won the primary. >> it worked, yeah.er >> laura: how serious should republicans take this lurch to the left funded by some of the richest people on the left in america?ic >> very serious. one of the things about our campaign laws, laura, we don't know how much money he spends. you threw some numbers out there, that is what we have to account for with record-keeping. we don't know what they are spending and they are dead serious, they want to spend their billions to really retakei these seats. you are right, it's not just about winning the governor's races or the senate races or house

mcmaster, now a senior fellow at the hoover institution. general mcmaster, while we watch the casket and the honorary pallbearers, we'll be talking about the life and legacy of john mccain. thank you for joining us in this very emotional, very personal tribute. >> well, thank you, andrea, thank you for the opportunity to talk about a real american hero. >> as a lifelong military man, someone who's written about vietnam, importantly, let's talk about the legacy of his service in vietnam, and what he did to heal the wounds from that war. >> well, john mccain had a lot of wonderful qualities. and one of them was empathy. he always tried to understand complex situations and problems from the other person's perspective. and so what he saw is, after the vietnam war, after the disaster of that war and his personal scars associated with it and the tremendous sacrifices he made, he saw that vietnam's interests were aligning with those of our country. he thought, this is the time, this is the time for us to bring our country back to vietnam and to st

extensively about media hypocrisy, when it comes to violent rhetoric, victor davis hanson of the hoover institute. great to see all of you. philippe? >> i don't even know where to start. om.t do you want me to -- >> laura: your laughter is what i was talking about. you are laughing about the america or the supporters? >> i'm not laughing at america. i'm laughing because i see what happens as someone watching this every night. now i understand also, i understand if someone only watches another channel every night. it's very possible that you are not 100% right, you, being fox. and that cnn is not 100% right. there is somewhere in between. but you don't get any of that. there is no comment -- i'm not going to be cutesy about common ground -- but we were talking earlier about different conspiracy theories. there is nothing i could say tou debunk one because i would say, well, here, look at this associated press story, or here, look at this fox story.is there is nothing we all agree upon. so you have, yes, the toxic environment. i don't think it should be on tv anymore. but you also have a president

and a fellow of the hoover institution joins us now.k about with the president had to say. he had an email out there directed as jonathan set up the attorney general but here's what jay sekulow, part of his legal team said. "the president did not issue an order or directive to the department of justice. we'll start with you. >> a ridiculous notion that somehow this was an order. first of all, if the president wanted to fire bob mueller, the president could do it himself, even if you tell someone else to do it for a second of all, the typical type of hyperventilation we are seeing from the left. anytime the president makes a pronouncement about the mueller investigation somehow, it is tied to obstruction of justice. a ridiculous absorption. look, i think it lacks carpet credibility and frankly makes it harder for democrats to make the case that they want to make against the president. this is just rhetoric. >> shannon: one of the top democrats putting his credibility on the line as congressman adam schiff, the ranking democrat on house a

a research fellow at the hoover institution.s the public policy director for the presidential campaign of mitt romney in 2012 and joining this hour from mountain view, california. thank you for your time. >> thank you, george. >> lonnie, people who remember the life and legacy of this man, he was fiercely conservative but bipartisan in his approach. it is hard not to contrast that to the current political environment of polarity. >> no, i think the differences are glaring. you had here a man in john mccain who was fierce in defense of his own principles yet willing to work across the aisle when it required -- when it was required to be done. and he was someone who i think we don't see enough of characters like john mccain in our politics here in the united states today and i think we're worse for it. you look at the people who have expressed their condolences and the sentiments of sympathy coming from so many different people across the political spectrum. you realize the impact this man had. they just don't make them like john

i'm lanhee chen, the david and diane steffy research fellow at the hoover institution at stanford universityi'm just really pleased to be onstage with amy chua tonight. amy is the john m. duff, jr. professor of law at yale law school and acclaimed author. many of you may know her for her parenting advice, but we're not going to talk about parenting tonight. we're going to talk about a subject that, you know, i think is very difficult for a lot of people. obviously, we have a society now

i went into the hoover institution at stanford university 25 years ago. it seems like a long time ago. and i was not actually inquiz -- i was looking at the progressive wing of the republican party. i was writing about kingman brewster who was the president of the yale and became jimmy carter's ambassador to the court of st. james. he was a prominent progressive liberal republicans. he helped found the america first committee at yale university in the summer to fall of 1940 along with a number of students at the yale high school. brewster at the time was chairman of the yale daily news. that was the most visible position on campus which was why the law school people wanted brewster as part of their organization. we tend to forget is what was the press coverage of america first like or isolationism? was it focussed on the midwest? farmers opposed getting involved. no surprise. they were interested in why it was the students at the ivy league colleges. people of english disend, wealthy people. people who had gone to prep schools and parents fought in world

joining me is alex stamos, now a visiting scholar at the hoover institution. thank you so much for being on the show tonight. >> thank you, kasie. >> let's start with what happened in 2016. what did facebook know? what, in your view, and how, did they fall short? >> so there's really two different parts of the russian disinformation campaign in 2016. the first was a campaign that was undertaken by the main intelligence director of the russian military which is also called the greu and that campaign was mostly focused on stealing information and then using that stolen information, in particular, e-mails from the dnc and john podesta, to create news stories and amplify them that were harmful to hillary clinton's campaign. the second component was the trolling operation which is mostly done by a group called the internet research agency of st. petersburg. that was a campaign that was particularly on twitter and facebook and aimed at heightening tensions between different groups in the united states. >> do you think that facebook is taking this seriously enough no

when we get a democrat, he would recede to his laboratory and the hoover institute in stanford. even into the george bush -- era, he got the presidential metal of freedom. he was very renowned, respected, and a listened to elder in the scientific and nuclear arms community. interestingly, he came back to alaska in the late 1980's. it was when reagan was pushing star wars, which was a faith-based missile defense system using lasers. it was something concocted on the back of an envelope, practically. $100 billion later, no such system exists. the one they do have this phony, too, but that's another story. anyway, teller thought why not -- i thinkf these they were missiles, but also a laser component, some laser armament and missiles on the north slope of alaska. because it strategically is a good place. it's white -- right between russia and the u.s. high up in the arctic. also, it is not a warm place that generates a lot of cloud cover. you had a lot of clear days there. for a number of sensible reasons, he thought that would be a great place. he came back to alaska to visit the

more toward that sort of bernie sanders thinking, hoover institution researching fellow, former top adviserny chin. lenny, passion gets people out to polls in nominated contests and even in midterm elections, passion gets you running over broken glass, democrats have that we are told this year, we will see how it pans out and when it comes to democratic party, those on the rabbit have the edge, how do you see it? >> they do, neil, further left at least be able to make the case on the policies that they believe in. i think this sets up quite nicely for republicans in november, what you're going to have is dynamic where you have candidates advocating for things in mainstream, but not for country that i think is still fundamental center right, i think it'll be difficult to make case for redistributed policies, medicare for all, these are going to be nonstarters in a general election but in my mind this is more set-up for 2020, 2018 is interesting but it's more of a set-up 2020 campaign where president trump runs for reelection. neil: you know what, i live in new jersey and we have democratic g

i like what condoleezza rice is doing at the hoover institute. i want her informed.d be making that choice as a president. i want them up to date so they can call and say listen, i'm seeing some of this intelligence. i know the guy over in turkey let me make the call. i think going through that list of sally yates and others right now would diminish the president going at john brennan who is way over here. michael hayden and others come out. their criticism seems measured and thoughtful where john brennan is off the hook and uses terms like i once in a while get my irish up. that's not a good excuse on behalf of the irish and i'm half of an irish person. steve: when you look at that lineup right there, peter strzok, why did he still have it. brian: i don't know he had it. steve: bruce ohr why does he still have it? he will be testifying before congress. you would imagine. ainsley: there is the list. john brennan said he might take legal action to take this to court to prevent others like this list right here you are see the faces from getting security clearances remo

the hudson institute more than any organization in america outside of the government leading the charge sounding the alarm on the fact that hooverins quantum race in the cyber war. russia gets it. america is behind. this is not a partisan race. this san american issue. we have to win it. stuart, three things i would do right now. would i create a cell, special cell in the national security council designed winning quantum raise, coordinating throughout the government. number two, the general keane talks about the tools. department of homeland security has a science and technology directorate. there was a hearing in congress about cyber research. within the directorate. it shouldn't be a rate. science, science security research. they're doing applied research. they're trying to establish and create those tools now general keane is talking about. that needs to be priority one of the department of homeland security science and technology directorate. stuart, as far as the russians are concerned, estonia. that is a little country, why estonia? the russians were hacking into the estonia banking systems in the 1990s. they have develop

and he soon thereafter joined her board and then introduced her to his buddies at the hoover institution, the think tank on the stanford campus, is and that's how she got to meet henry kissinger and bill perry, former secretary of defense urn bill clinton -- sam nunn, bill frist and only former military commanders like admiral roughead, they all eventually join joined the board. so by time 2013-2014 came around. she had this unbelievable board of ex-statesmen and retired military commanders who had incredible resumÉs. >> and general mattis. >> general mattis. our current secretary of defense, yep. >> but there's something interesting there in that they are all really smart, successful people but what did they know about biochemistry? >> that's right. [laughter] not much. >> not much. >> you know, if you thought about i think a lot of people were impressed with this board, and new people stopped to think but what does george schultz and what do henry kissinger and sam nunn and jim mattis know about medicine and lab testing in particular? and i think there were about 12 men on that therano