host: howard schmidt is the white house cybersecurity coordinator. he has had one of the most intriguing careers i have ever seen. i would suggest you go to the sitee house wouletb to look at further. he worked as a policeman in chandler, arizona. he worked at the fbi. he was a special advisor for cybe space security for the white house under george w. bush. he was vice chair of the president's critical infrastructure protection board. he served with microsoft as well. that is just a couple of the things. he got his b.a. and mba from the university of phoenix. one of the proposals the president calls for is that this needs to be coordinated from the white house. do you see this as a cyber security czar position? guest: i would not collett all a czar. the turn coordinator is what this about. we have seen similar states around the world do similar things. recognizing there is the defense side, the commerce side, there needs to be people bringing these things together and giving advice, in our case the president, and and other countries the prime minist

we're pleased to be joined on our first week by howard schmidt, assistant to the president, and also white house cybersecurity coordinator. be guest reporter from the "wall street journal." mr. schmidt, if we could start before we dive into the proposals that the obama administration has put forward on cybersecurity, is there a working definition of what cybersecurity is across governments and across the different stakeholders of what it is and what it will entail? >> guest: i think the term that we use and approach in what we now call cybersecurity has evolved over the years. used to be called computer security, then informs information security, then it was information insurance. it encompasses everything from end user devices such as smartphones all the way up to and including government systems and defense systems. so we've pretty much gone around that from a government perspective. internationally, other governments use information security still. they look at issues around computer security. so locally we've got it, internationally it's not the same. >> host: is it a global issu

white house cybersecurity coordinator howard schmidt is this week's guest and she's interviewed about the obama administration's efforts to reduce cyber threats and protect the u.s. against cyberattack. >> this is a weak one in the communicators for week series on cybersecurity, cyber threats and legislative proposals to address the cyber threats. we are pleased to be joined on our first week by howard schmidt, assistant to the president, and also white house cybersecurity coordinator. guest reporter gorman. if we could start before we dive into the proposals the administration put forward on cyber set to become is there a working definition of what cybersecurity is across the government and across the different stakeholders of what it is and what it will entail? >> i think the term that we use and the approach of what we call a cybersecurity has evolved over the years it used to be called computer security than it was information security and information assurance and now we have sort of ) cybersecurity because it encompasses everything from the end user devices such as smart phones

we're pleased to be join on the first week by howard schmidt, assistant to the president. guest reporter is here from the "wall street journal". before we dive into the proposes put forward on cybersecurity, is there raise revenues working definition of what cyber security is across governments and stake holders of what it is and what it will entail? >> guest: i think the term we use in what we now call cyber security evolved over the years. it was information security, then information assurance, and now we are around cyber security because it encompasses everything from end user devices, smart phones including government systems and defense systems. we're around that from a government perspective. intergnarlly, there's other -- internationally there's governments that take information security still looking at issues around computer security, so locally, we got it, but internationally it's not the same. >> host: is it a global issue? >> guest: it is. not only are we paying attention to it within the u.s. government and private sector, but the economics of the world has t

this week, white house cybersecurity coordinator howard schmidt discusses the obama administration's effort to produce cyber threats and to protect the u.s. against cyberattack. the communicators errors 8 p.m., right here on c-span2. with the senate adjourned for the august recess, watch booktv all this month in primetime on c-span2. tonight secrets and myths revealed. annie looks for aliens in her book "area 51" and top military base. >> more from the news media and jeffrey toobin. here's a look at the morning's panel from the newseum. >> credibility, our own survey, we do one every year. we ask certain questions every year since 1997. one of those is -- concerned bias. we've been consistenting getting the last few years about 2/3 of the more american public sees bn news report. now at the same time, almost the same number sees a role for the press' watchdog. if you just ask is a free press important, you get 95%. though sometimes they seem at odds. how do you all deal with that issue of bias? >> it bugs me at npr, that's what i get in terms of what the job was to be the public advo

we have agreed coordinator and howard schmidt at the white house, and i give him high remarks for the things he accomplished with the limited authority that he has had. most of it has been kind of encouraging and the collaboration across the department and the agency's but doesn't really have the authority of going to omb and saying this isn't doing what it needs to do in cyber. we need to take the measures to ensure that they are held accountable. >> jennifer martinez? >> and also, i asked congressman thornberry about the house gop freshmen. very not spoken about how they are against anything that is going to increase spending. and they are saying the budget is going to impact the legislation that's moving through the house. do you see this as a possible issue that democrats are going to have to tackle leader on down the line? >> well, clearly if we don't address the threats to our own cyber networks on .gov or even encouraging the collaboration of the private sector that would be kind of foolish because the damage that can be done and that is already being done in terms of the amoun

tonight white house coordinator howard schmidt dismisses the obama administration's effort to protect against threats and attacks. "the communicators" tonight on c-span2. with the senate adjourned, watch booktv at night. area five, uncensored history of secret top military base. : [applause] >> thank you very much and good afternoon. thank you ar for the kind introductions and thank you for showing that very nice little clip regarding the sanitation workers into the hall of fame at the upper and of labor. i also want to recognize one of my good friends and heroes this year among us and that is none other than president johansson representing the u.s. c.w.. thank you for everything you do. [applause] give him a round. [applause] i didn't see another colleague who is here or i believe will be, larry cohen for also having the foresight to begin this great organization almost a quarter-century ago. [applause] thank you for everything you do. and also to each and every one of you for coming here today and spending your saturday because it means so much that to care. and i just have to say

. >> host: howard schmidt, white house cybersecurity coordinator. thank you for being on "the communicators." intelligence correspondent for "the wall street journal", thank you as well. this has been week one in our four-week series on cybersecurity. next week two members of congress on the legislative proposals, mac thorn berry, republican of texas, jim lang min, democrat of rhode island. >> next on c-span2, british journalists talk about political unrest in syria. then misperceptions about miranda rights a topic at the annual convention of the american psychological association. and later cnn legal analyst jeffrey toobin is among the participants in a discussion in how technology is changing media coverage in the courts. >> history of america's top secret military base. then jennet conant talks about julia child in her book "a covert affair: julia child and paul child in the oss." after that edward lengel discusses the story behind the chopping down of the cherry tree in "inventing george washington: america's founder in myth and memory." booktv