among them the hudson institute. rebecca heinrichs is senior national security fellow there and her take how the u.s. must respond is coming up. melissa: president trump is sounding off on the news of michael cohen's plea deal and conviction of former campaign manager paul manafort. we're live from the white house with latest on that. >> the idea of an impeachment, frankly a sad attempt by democrats. the only message they had going into the midterms. with liberty mutual new car replacement we'll replace the full value of your car. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty ♪ where we're changing withs? contemporary make-overs. then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander with a double palm grab. who has the upper hand now? start winning today. book now at lq.com. (sighs) i hate missing out missing out after hours. not anymore, td ameritrade lets you trade select securities 24 hours a day, five days a week. that's amazing. it's a pretty big deal. so i can trade all night long? ♪ ♪ all night long... is that lione

so i think it makes sense for hudson institute to be in their gun sights and i hope the hudson institutes not discouraged and they keep fighting on this. i'm a democrat and they're republican but i think there's room for real bipartisan national security progress going after these international thieves and crooks who like to seek shelter in our system. >> so this is no coincidence that they went after this hudson institute you see as something that is a threat to vladimir putin and russia? >> i think the hudson institute's kleptocracy initiative is a threat to the circle of crooked oligarchs who surround and support vladimir putin and to vladimir putin himself. you saw from the panama papers and paradise papers how much they use foreign shell corporations and the anonymity allowed in rule of law world to shelter their ill-gotten gains so this is an important priority for them. >> does this show to you that the russians in the intelligence services there are on the attack for the 2018 midterms? >> i don't think there's any doubt about that. they'll try to keep some faint level of plausibl

held by the hudson institute, this is an hour and a half. welcome, gentlemen. on behalf of the hudson institute, please be welcomed to our conference from nicaragua this afternoon. latin america has advanced in leading dictatorial regimes. starting the 21st century, democracy was prevalent in the while military dictatorships had shrunk into oblivion, or so it was believed. well, that was that. today, democracies are still vigorous and prevalent. remain a few open wounds that each day calls for increased attention and action in the hemisphere. countries.ar, two nicaragua and venezuela. they are back to murdering and jailing their citizens. caracas and managua have become the killing fields of latin america. how sad. in nicaragua, for weeks, hundreds of young men have lost their lives in public demonstrations. cities.ua and other realseek democracy, democracy, not the dictatorial hammer. we are fortunate to have with us three outstanding speakers to discuss with us the maladies of nicaragua and the reaction of organizations to the tragic picture of this nation. t

the hudson institute. so, it could be that the russians are listening and to try to send a message along the way. but the boldness of this even after the specificity of that remarkable indictment, which you may recall had intercepts of conversations between individual russian officers of the gru, deciding what they were going to do in 2016 is interesting. it's also interesting that microsoft has found a way right now, it looks like, to get into this sort of cat and mouse game with the gru. they went to a judge. they got a special master appointed so that when ever they see one of these fake sites that's meant to imitate a microsoft site, they can go to the special master, take control of it and then basically put it out of business or make it public. that's fine, but the problem is that the united states, as you suggested before, needs a far more comprehensive way to go at this. and it's not clear to me that we should have individual companies responsible for countering in the immediate moment these kinds

fake web sites that were set up to steal logon information from visitors to think tanks the hudson institute and the enter national republican institute have their websites copied microsoft says it's part of a russian plot to influence november midterm elections deny the allegations and is accuse microsoft of taking part in what it calls a witch hunt chairman thomas who joins us live now from washington d.c. . they are using the word witch hunt which coincidentally is also what donald trump often tweets when he talks about the russian mr case and what else do we know about what microsoft is saying. right well actually there i mean we do have to remember that since these allegations have surfaced over the last over the last year a lot of technology companies technology experts or something sprung up and it's a very lucrative business to talk up the russian threats and and say that the russians are attacking all of our systems are and often when we also evidence we don't necessarily get it but this actually happened last week microsoft in the announcing it today because they are doing some mar

and the hudson institute. [speaking spanish] i would like to thank these three gentlemen because there are very few people who are nicaraguan who are aware of what is going on in my country. fewerre that can do -- they did a big work of the analysis of the situation. thank you. the current dictatorship of ortega was founded upon two deals. in 1998, one saw the party the economy of the political parties as well as the institution alley of the national assembly. he agreed to give all of that in exchange for his freedom. big businessmen in the other deal were willing to negotiate democracy and the right to govern in order to exchange political favors and guarantee a good economy. what was happening with the big as mrs., they were it's changing democracy and leaving people -- --h the democracy, they were what was happening with the big businesses, they were changing democracy and leaving people hang to dry. in leo of the agreements in 1998, the sandinista party started to consolidate their power. they were patient

. >> im nina shea you're at the hudson institute. on behalf of the hudson center and on behalf of the working group on christians and religious pluralism, and also on behalf of our sponsor today, the religious freedom is to to, i welcome everyone. thank you all for coming. we are here to observe the solemn commemoration of religious genocide in iraq four years ago. it was today, exactly today four years ago that isis attacked the city population. it was to eventually take over 6000 women and children into slavery, killing that up to 10,000 men. it was masquerade are still being uncovered. forcible conversion was also common. three days later, the ultra- brutal terrorist group went on to attack the christian town and continue to siege the mountain on august 7 that president obama initiated airstrikes to defend the minority. the christians of course had been attacked with isis and turn mosul in children in july and all the minorities would continue to be brutalized for august. until the area was firmly under the control of isis khalid s

the hudson institute is running a superb initiative called the club talk or see initiative which tries to protect from the safety of shell corporations and anonymous vehicles and those that find shelter in the rule of law country like the united dates. that is a significant threat to your business model. >> just last month rosenberg announced a novel modification of the immunotherapy approach that led to the complete regression of widely metastatic rest cancer universally fatal form of a disease. >> you wrote a book that is about politics and political science. >> the most important thing in terms that it is born out of frustration with my interest and academic background in economics with the global economy today there are deeply structural long-term problems the global economy has to contend with. and with that jobless underclass with the debt overhang and income inequality. these are long-term structural problems those charged with regulatory and policy environment and short-term in their frame. >> one of the big issues will they be able to afford to stay we have huge homeless popul

thank you to the hudson institute for hosting this great event . i'm a comparative scientist which means i study the politics of countries within countries, not necessarily the relationships, that but my focus today is internal dynamics of nicaraguan politics and what has happened historically up to this moment and how that compares to things that they might see around the region physically venezuela which the ambassador has already referred to. so comparative political scientists, our main focus of study is democracy and democritus space and samuel b huntington proposed an idea call the third wave of democratization which referred to the democratization of a number of countries across predominantly latin america, eastern europe and parts of asia after the colonization of the 1960s and 70s and unfortunately what political scientists today, what we are seeing is what some of us are calling the third reverse wave of democracy. we've seen a lot about this in the press. in countries throughout the world including the united states where public attitude

the targets include the hudson institute, a washington conservative think tank and the international republican institute. nonprofit pro-democracy group board includes senator john mccain pap short time ago testimony from state department officials at the senate foreign relations committee hearing punctuated where the attacks are coming from and who they support. >> the threat from russia evolved beyond being simply an external or military one. it includes influence operations, orchestrated by the kremlin in the very heart of the western world. as the recent facebook purging reveal the russian state promoted fringe voices on the political left and right including group whose advocate violence, storming of federal buildings and overthrow of the u.s. government. >> joining me now, the "new york times" reporter who has been covering this story. good to see you. thank you for being with us. first, how did microsoft detect the hack and do you have confidence they're good at this? these types of hiacks can be easily be detected? >> basically caught the fake websites as they were created an

fake web sites that was set up to steal log in information from visitors to think tanks the hudson institute and the international republican institute had their web sites copied microsoft says it's part of a russian plot to influence november midterm elections moscow denies any involvement she had returns in washington has more. microsoft says russian hackers set up several domain names which were removed last week by microsoft pretty quickly they say without any damage being done but these domain names resemble other web sites that people are familiar with users all familiar with they end their web addresses with words like senate group senate services hudson org. or go to the international republican institute dot org it's where phishing campaign trying to get users to log on to these web addresses and enter their credentials they think they're communicating with the senate or the right wing think tank but in fact by giving their credentials to hackers the russians deny any involvement this is what a kremlin spokesperson said we do not know what hackers they're talking about we don't know

the fake websites that was set up just to log in information from visits as to think tanks the hudson institute and the international republican institute had their web sites copied and microsoft says it's part of a russian plot to influence november's midterm elections moscow denies any involvement afghan forces have launched a fear is sarah sultan kabul after rockets were fired at the presidential palace jury deliberations helicopters targeted a house in the afghan capital from where the fighters launched their assault i suppose says it was behind the attack president's ashraf ghani is was speaking in a live broadcast when he was interrupted by the rockets could do we think it kate if they think that with rocket attacks this nation will surrender they have to think again it is a brave tough nation as always ready to defend its independence and islamic tradition but israel is racing to reach peru before new regulations come into force on saturday which mean they will need passports went to the country more than two hundred people defied similar new rules in ecuador on tuesday walking across th

lied this afternoon at the hudson institute here in washington, d.c. for a panel discussion on the current political climate in afghanistan. panelists are expected to discuss the trump administration's policy towards the region, the ongoing war between the taliban and afghanistan, and possible peace talks expected with the taliban month in moscow. less coverage is expected to start just a moment. [murmuring] >> we have an expert at the federal grudging process, he works with congress on that issue and other issues. if you have questions about the federal budgeting process, now would be a good time to call in for this segment of the washington journal. give us an overview of how the budgeting process is supposed to work over the course of the fiscal year. guest: every year the president is supposed to put out his budget, his blueprint about how things are supposed to work. april, they are supposed to have the budget resolution in congress, and by early summer, they are supposed to be working on their appropriation bills, which are supposed to be wrapped

. >> im nina shea you're at the hudson institute. on behalf of the hudson center and on behalf of the working group on christians and religious pluralism, and also on behalf

. >> we have the news of the russians trying to cyberattack among other things, the hudson institute, which is important because the hudson institute is running a superb initiative called the kleptocracy initiative which tries to of shellrom the safety corporations and other anonymous vehicles foreign crooks and the people who lived foreign countries from finding shelter for what they stole in rule of law countries like the united states. if you are an oligarch, the kleptocracy initiative is a significant threat to your life and business model. >> thursday, at 8:00 p.m., the house, energy, and commerce committee on the status of the toy for century cures act to help facilitate medical innovations. >> last month the team led by stephen rosenberg announced a novel modification of an immunotherapy approach that led to a complete regression most likely a cure of widely metastatic rest cancer in a woman with deviously universally fatal forms of the disease. onwatch and prime time c-span, c-span.org, and listen on the free c-span radio app.

in the afternoon, the current political climate in afghanistan , hosted by the hudson institute.ive coverage thursday at 2:00 p.m., also on c-span. the c-span bus is traveling across the country on a 50 capitals tour. dear is on its 39th stop in honolulu, asking folks what is the most important issue in hawaii. see the one of the big issues is will the have a place to live? to afford toable stay in the home of the birth? we have a huge homeless situation right now. we are looking for ways to take them off of the streets, to affo stay in the home of the but the problems will just get worse if we don't take care of it now. honolulu,d from hawaii, born and raised. one of the important issues i feel we are facing in hawaii is trying to manage work-life balance. i work full time. my husband works full time. i work a part-time job. we have three young children and are trying to take care of everyone. >> for hawaii, we need to continue to promote our spirit, which is in itself a life form. it means kindness, unity. humility, and patience. if we can all promote and live within this spiri

at 2:00 eastern, a discussion at the hudson institute about the war in afghanistan and possible peace talks with the taliban. on c-span2, live coverage of the senate as they work on an 800 57 billion dollars spending package for departments of depends -- defense, labor, and education. sunday night on afterwards, economist dan discusses her book -- "education chaos." chairman ofd by the the economic advisers. >> you wrote a book that is quite a bit about politics and political science. >> the most important thing in terms of motivation for writing a book is born out of frustration. i write my interests and academic background are in economics, but if you think about the global economy today, there are a whole host of deeply structural, long-term project -- problems the economy has to contend with and i imagine we will get to them in a moment. shift, concerns around product heavy and debt overhang, and income inequality, something that when i did my phd was never discussed and is one of the top three big issues on the policy agenda. structuralong-term problems, yet the people charged wi

hudson institute and international republican institute. both critical of president trump's advances to vladimir putin and also toward russian foreign policy. we have to point out that apparently no evidence that these domains were used for successful hacking or spear phishing attacks. this is months after deputy attorney general rod rosenstein indicted 12 russians for election campaign and meddling. we know a few days later, president trump seemed to side with the russians instead of the intelligence services while at the helsinki summit with putin. now president trump gave an interview to reuters where he would offer russians sanctions if they work with u.s. with russia and syria and ukraine. this got back to russia and this seems to be a fact that the russians believe it is them who will take the lead role and the u.s. that needs to follow at least in syria. finally, right now, i'm at the russian largest arms expo to showcase the stealth fighter jet. another way russia wants to challenge the united states. >>> thank you, fred. imagine yo

at 2:00, a discussion at the hudson institute about the war in afghanistan and possible peace talks with the taliban. on c-span2, live coverage of the senate as they continue work on an $857 billion spending package for the departments of defense, labor, hhs, and education. announcer: sunday night on after discusseseconomist her book "edge of chaos: why democracy is failing to deliver economic growth and how to fix it." she is interviewed by the former chairman of the council of economic advisers during the obama administration. >> you wrote a book which is a lot about politics and political science. why did you do that? >> the most important thing in terms of motivation of writing the book is born out of frustration. i talked about this in the book. and my academic background are in economics, but if you think about the global economy today, there are a host of deeply structural long-term problems that the global economy has to contend with. i imagine we will get to them in a moment. demographic shifts, the impact of technology for the jobless underclass, concerns around productivity an

this time it's republican political opponents of president trump, the hudson institute and international republican institute and david gregory, the president as we heard from jeff mason a moment ago is subconsciously still equivocating here, saying i'm not sure it was the russians, if it was the russians. >> yeah. look, i think this is the same story with president trump. he cannot focus on the threat from russia without seeing it as a way to delegitimize his presidency. i just don't think he can get his insecurity and his egoout of the way to focus on it as a president of the united states should. and the reality is what that means is that the intelligence community can be doing its work, the fbi can be doing its work. if you look at the reporting "the new york times," companies like microsoft are working with the federal government to keep the radar up, to detect this, to report it out. the news media is reporting this out. so we have a heightened sense of awareness. imagine how much more effective it could be if you have the president of the united states in the rose garden, all the

russian hackers built two other imposter sites, one for the hudson institute, and one for the international republican institute. both are conservative groups that have broke within the president, and both have very hawkish views when it comes to russia. cnn's fred pleitgen is in moscow for us. fred, the kremlin response today, i suspect, was deny? >> reporter: i would say it's even more than deny. the kremlin spokesman was in a conference call with reporters earlier today, and he didn't just deny these new allegations, he basically said that the russians had absolutely no idea what all of this is about. they say that so far, they believe that not enough information was provided for them to even issue a denial, and they say a lot of the players that are involved in this, they don't even know if these players exist or who they are. i want to read a little bit of the statement that was put forward. he said, quote, our reaction has already become traditional. we don't know which hackers they're talking about. we don't know what is meant about the impact on elections. it was interesting because

we take you live to the hudson institute in washington for their discussion on the recent civil unrest and protests in nicaragua. >> democracy was prevalent in the hemisphere dictatorships have shrunk to oblivion. or so it was believed.

one of the think tanks is hudson institute.the president and ceo of hudson kenneth -- i should saul him ken, ken weinstein. thank you for joining us. an important think tank in washington. tell us why you think you were targeted by the russians. >> we do a lot of work on russia, ukraine, missile defense, national security. in particular, an initiative that's gone out to expose the impact of the immediate circle of vladimir putin and his cronies who have robbed his country of wealth and tried to store it overseas in the west and we have done a lot of work and this kind of work we're doing is having a direct impact. people in moscow see it. we have been big backers of the act and know that -- see the impact of the work we have done. >> tell us how it came to your attention. microsoft, give microsoft a lot of credit. tha they were discovering this and how did they inform you? >> i was enjoying the last day of vacation on sunday and microsoft sent an e-mail that it was urgent and needed to talk to the top cyber security expert. got

i'm husain haqqani, leader here at the hudson institute. welcome to hudson. for the last four decades, afghanistan and its citizens have lived through civil

. >> the hackers created websites that mimicked the hudson institute and the international republican institute. microsoft said users were secretly redirected to webpages where their passwords and other information was stolen. >>> facebook now using a system to predict the trustworthiness of its users. the company calls it a reputation score. users are scored on a scale. facebook says the ratings system was created over the last year to help fight fake news. the company says it is not meant to be an absolute measurement of trustworthiness. >>> a change for an iconic treat on supermarket shelves. animal crackers are being released from their cages after 116 years. you may not recognize the packaging of the classic cookie. the colors look right but the animals on the box are no longer behind bars. they are now free to roam. the package redesign comes after an animal rights organization called for e soh b brothers giving a new meaning to the words family business. >> reporter: they are two of the newest police officers, the vargas brothers. they came up working the fields of california s

stopped fake web sites that were set up to steal log information from visitors to think tanks the hudson institute and the international republican institute had their web sites copied microsoft says as part of a russian plot to influence november midterm elections moscow denies any involvement she returns in washington as more. microsoft says russian hackers set up several domain names which were removed last week by microsoft pretty quickly they say without any damage being done but these domain names resemble other web sites that people are familiar with users all familiar with they end their web addresses with words like senate group senate dot services hudson org. or go to the international republican institute dot org it's where phishing campaign trying to get users to log on to these web addresses and enter their credentials they think they're communicating with the senate or the right wing think tank but in fact by giving their credentials to hackers the russians deny any involvement this is what a kremlin spokesperson said we do not know what hackers they're talking about we don't know wh

and the good news is both with respect to those sites and the hudson institute and the international republican institute, there is no evidence that these attacks were successful. we were able to transfer control of these domains, we believe, before they could be used. but there is no longer in our view a reason to think that this is just aimed at one side of the aisle or the other in the united states. >> brad smith from microsoft, thank you so much. thanks for bringing this to us. we'll continue to follow of course your efforts and the efforts you're calling for around the country to be on the defense and on alert. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> coming up, drawn the swamp? senator elizabeth warren will join me to talk about the regulations she's talking about to keep money out of politics and this alleged hacking attempt from russia. stay with us. insurance that won't replace the full value of your new car? you'd be better off throwing your money right into the harbor. i'm gonna regret that. with liberty mutual new car replacement we'll replace the full value of your car. ♪ libert

one of those is the hudson institute.se are conservative but they haven't always been in line with the white house policy, particularly when they say there should be harder sanctions against russia and they've spoken out against some human rights abuses in russia. they say people can come on to these websites, think they're reading materials published by these think tanks or think they might be supporting them when they're being led to things that are controlled and being published by perhaps the gru, that same group that was involved in the hacking attacks that mueller laid out in his latest indictment. so they are really using kind of classic phishing software here in some ways and leading them into places where they might kind of be going under a guise of one of these conservative think tanks. we heard the senators say the white house needs to do more about this. this is a red flag that shows midterm interference could be just as dangerous as 2016 interference. the white house, you know, we've seen people from secretar

i'm from the hudson institute. thank you for a very fine panel. i want to just thank dr. fair for putting the imf issue on the panel. my question is you, hussein and your colleagues brought up these issues that do not say too much about it, but there is this kind of change in administration that made that part of his campaign, but the religious parties themselves have declined. i was wondering what is your sense of how that plays out. >> which one of you want to take that? >> i would take a briefly. it was very ferociously aligned with some of these nasty elements. she went into the coalition in the 90s with the ssd, which was a vicious anti-shia organizations. she, her father and even her son has been going on and on about the 10,000 year war in kashmir. this is for domestic purposes. the army is the one that calls the shot on these issues where i think iran is most dangerous. it is on things that affect pakistanis in a campaign wrapped up is basically very pejorative incendiary things about amenities. what i thought was even more appalling about the trade pole breaking

names the websites created with those domain names they think they're communicating with the hudson institute or. in fact not communicating their credentials to hackers but apparently microsoft shut all this down before any any damage was done we got a response from the kremlin this isn't translation we don't know what hackers they're talking about we do not know what is meant by influence on elections we're here confirmations from america that there was no influence elections who exactly are they talking about we don't understand what the proof the basis for them drawing these kind of conclusions such informational proof is lacking or the broken translation of a translation of this. is interesting that i mean there is a little bit of irony here there because the the international republican institute right wing thing is quite overt about influencing elections around the world they do it the right wing groups they try and pick political candidates that the right wing in the u.s. the establishment wants to when they pour millions of dollars into social media campaigns and so on so there's a bi

why are the russians attacking the hudson institute.he hudson institute more than any organization in america outside of the government leading the charge sounding the alarm on the fact that hoover wins 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 co

a panel at the hudson institute in washington reviewed the election results and talked about what they mean for regional politics. this is an hour. >> good afternoon. good to see a full house here at hudson. i am the director for south and central asia at the hudson institute. our discussion on pakistan elections and the prospects of it. on july 25th, the first election since the restoration in 2008. the results were foretold with the environment by allegations of blatant meddling by the country's all-powerful military and judiciary as well as restrictions on the media but the result was a disputed plurality. he is being identified as pakistan's next prime minister and potential savior by with the support of the younger generation of pakistanis, with the politics of corruption. with no prior experience of government he is being painted as i can do leader and as a pakistani politician he has been presented to the world as financially corrupt that many of his views and frequent u-turns on different issues are coupled with the circumstances of his success, questions about his potential co

i'm husain haqqani, leader here at the hudson institute. welcome to hudson. for the last four decades, afghanistan and its citizens have lived through civil war, instability and an unending terrorist insurgency. it's been a year since president trump announced his afghanistan and south asia strategy. seventeen years after american-led international forces went into afghanistan in the aftermath of 9/11 to eliminate al-qaeda sanctuary provided by the brutal taliban regime, there is talk once again about the need for a peaceful end to the conflict in afghanistan. in the last six months, the president has twice announced these -- for talks with the taliban. the taliban accepted the cease fire at the end of ramadan, but this time around they rejected the talks. this is a round of talk the taking place in moscow sponsored by the russian government which the united states today announced it would not be attending. the afghan government already has no intention of attending them on grounds the future of afghanistan needs to be determined in a mutual process, not one

welcome to the hudson institute. today we have a panel on the situation in iran appeared we will at the protests, the sanctions, the regime. >> and a research fellow from the foundation of independent democracies. mary m is the cofounder and codirector of the new learning institute for iranian civil society. to the left is a senior fellow at the center for strategy and security atlantic council. they have a book coming out called temperature rising, iran's revolutionary guards and wars in the middle east. thank you all for being here today. we will run this like a sunday morning roundtable. we'll talk about iran, and then we will go back and forth. you will not hear opening dialogues, we'll have a live conversation. we hope to cover all of these topics and hopefully educate the administration on what to do and what not to do and how you can go for. i start with today's new york times article, where the supreme leader's throwing president romney under the us -- bus. blaming him for crossing red lines. it is an interes

uncovered hackers with ties to the russian government creating fake webs e websites posing as the hudson institutend the international republican institute. the report says the hackers have targeted conservative think tanks that are pushing for continued sanctions against moscow. >>> michigan's top public health official will stand trial for manslaught manslaughter for two deaths. nick lyon waited too long to alert the public. two men died from the disease caused by the city of flint switching its drinking water source in 2014. they say he knew of the outbreak but waited a year to inform the public. he denies any wrongdoing. >>> the epa is releasing a plan to roll back restrictions on coal fired power plants imposed by the obama administration. it would allow states to relax pollution rules for power plants that need upgrades. the plan could set up a lengthy court battle. >>> drinking milk at breakfast may do a body good after all especially for diabetics. drinking milk in the morning is better than water when it comes to controlling blood sugar levels later in the day. high protein milk had a gre

i am the director here at the constant institute. -- hudson institute. i would like to talk about the prospects after the election. the result was a disputed pakistan regarding the pti party. he has been identified as pakistan's next prime minister and eventual savior by his supporters. he won with the support of a younger generation of pakistanis. the prior experience of government -- he was painted as a can't-do leader. he was presented to the world as financially corrupt. the circumstances of his success has raised questions. he has also adopted hyper nationalist positions. he has showed sympathy for religious extremists. electionelieve this will make little sense in pakistan's representation as a crisis state. those who are optimistic say this may be the birth of the new pakistan. pakistan a problems have deep roots. addressing that requires a shift from the narrative that has brought the country to its current state. to discuss the context of this , and what to expect moving forward, we have a knowledgeable panel. a professor at the georgetown unive

russians trying to cyberattack among other things and institute , which is important because the hudson instituteis running a superb initiative called the autocracy initiative, which tries to protect from the safety of shell corporations and other anonymous vehicles, foreign crooks and the people who foreign countries from finding shelter for what they stole in rule of law countries like the united states. if you are an oligarch, the quick autocracy initiative is a significant threat to your life and business model. >> just last month, a team led by i'm age dr. steven rosenberg announced a modification in a new therapy approach that led to a complete regression, most likely a cure of widely metastatic breast cancer in a woman with previously universally fatal form of the disease. >> "we few" essay at memoir by special forces nick brokhausen by his experiences in vietnam or conducting reconnaissance missions in vietnam, laos and cambodia. he talked about the book and answer questions at the academic archives in washington. this is an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> at afternoon and welcome to t

fake web sites that were set up to steal logon information from visitors to think tanks the hudson institute and the international republican institute had their web sites copied microsoft says it's part of a russian plot to influence november midterm elections moscow denies any involvement our correspondent she had written sees in washington with more. microsoft says russian hackers set up several domain names which were removed last week by microsoft pretty quickly they say without any damage being done but these domain names resemble other web sites that people are familiar with users all familiar with they end their web addresses with words like send that group senate services hughson org. or go to the international republican institute. it's a swift campaign trying to get users to log on to these and web addresses and enter their credentials they think they're communicating with the senate or the right wing think tank but in fact by giving their credentials to hackers the russians deny any involvement this is what a kremlin spokesperson said we do not know what hackers they're talking a

this was hosted by the hudson institute. it is two hours. >> i direct the center for religious freedom here at the institute. of the working group on christians and religious , onrization -- pluralism behalf of our cosponsor today, the religious freedom institute, i welcome everyone. thank you. we are here to observe a solemn commemoration of religious didn't just -- genocide in iraq four years ago. agotly today four years to eventually take over 6000 women and children into slavery, killing 10,000. mass graves are still being uncovered. forcible conversion was also common. , the days later isis terrorist group went on to attack the largest christian and continued its siege. president obama initiated thetrikes to defend minority. the christians had been attacked mosulr when isis entered in june and july in the minorities would continue to be untilized through august the area was firmly under the control of isis by the end of the summer. the caliphate was announced. there had been a mass exodus. these communities are diminish

, which is important because the hudson institute is running a superb initiative called the kleptocracy initiative which tries to protect from the safety of shell corporations, foreign crooks, and the people who lived -- loot foreign countries from finding shelter for what they stole in rule of law countries like the united states. if you are an oligarch, the kleptocracy initiative is a significant threat to your life and business model. it is not at all surprising that this attack should be against hudson. i want to salute hudson for their work. we have had them in this subcommittee and i think it is terrific work. we stand with them against this attack and i think senator graham's focus on sanctions against the oligarchs is the exact right way to solve this. if you want to deter vladimir putin, knock him right in the oligarchs. we have cyber challenges across 16 different critical infrastructure sectors. most of which is owned and operated by the private sector , often by companies to lack the resources and capabilities of the federal government. we have to solve this. former cyber co

richard weiss the rector of dissenter for political military analysis and the hudson institute in tehran mohammad marandi head of north american studies graduate program at the university of tehran and also in washington d.c. via skype christopher preble vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the key to institute a well a warm welcome to all of you richard wise let me start with you it seems that really do preferred foreign policy to of the trump administration these days sanctions and tariffs. yes i would agree with you the u.s. administrations have always used sanctions economic and other to promote their goals but in terms of the range of commonly employed tools at the one end being a large scale military force such as the u.s. is the answer rock and diplomacy such as the previous mr ations of news and various occasions drones special forces and so on sanctions have been particularly popular with the last two administrations that has a bomb ministration which is them extensively to put pressure on countries primarily for national security goals and now the problem mi

that was two to three weeks after dan coates had warned publicly at the hudson institute that the red lights were blinking and it was the most important urgent warnin since the 9/11 prewarnings about terror. we'veteen told, t the senate intelligence committee has been told the russians arin our electronic grid, our infrastructure, to say nothing of the propaganda, false and malign information that was outlined at least alleged in the mueller indictments. so the fact that the president has not led a meeting or signaled the importance of this and k dpsying it, out on the campaign trail, and contradicting them, is sding a signal it doesn't matter. until i shows that it matters to him, it's not going to get fixesn robert: it just the president, paula. where was attorney general jeff sessions? paula: a great question. under previous administrations the administration would be actively involved in this. from the outside from the timeer attorney g sessions took over i've asked sources within the national security division, it was clear, russia not a priority. then he had to of course recuse

conservative think tanks, one being the international republican institute and the other the hudson institutewebsites that were designed to look legitimate. microsoft said it has no evidence these hackers were successful in their attempt but this is scary considering what happened in the 2002 presidential election. jillian: apple taking preorders. >> reporter: that is the rumor. they are saying german wireless carriers preparing for september 21st as the official launch date for the new iphones, preorders will start around september 14th with an official announcement from apple. we should know media invites at the end of august so we will find out when the exact date for the unveiling is. time for the good, the bad and the ugly. an american hero gets a high school diploma. the 90 when-year-old with a graduation ceremony more than 70 years in the making. >> the nypd, the military story, how he never got his high school diploma. >> reporter: he was supposed to graduate in 1945, he joined the nypd after the war. >> a crocodile spotted floating on a pool in florida, very comfortable. this citing

this is hosted by the hudson institute. our live coverage gets underway at 12:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. debatesof journalists's whether freedom of speech protects offensive speech. they host this event. live coverage begins at 1:45 eastern. >> wednesday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, former president barack obama delivers the annual nelson mandela lecture in johannesburg, south africa. >> we do not have to abandon our unique national identities. is this tribal heritage? he did not stop being proud of being a black man and being a south african, but he believed proud of youre heritage without denigrating those of a different heritage. >> on thursday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, youth activists address the u.s. mayors. >> i cannot explain the feeling you have during a school shooting. the feeling of anxiety, not being able to do absolutely anything. there is only one other place where i felt that, the united states congress. it might sound like a funny no joke.ut it is i have spoken with legislators across the board. , and not oneors single person is confident that one thing can be don

senate build services senate email and hudson org which is which would presumably refer to the hudson institute a right wing think tank and my dash ira right. dot org international republican institute another right wing think tank we have this response from the from from the kremlin microsoft this is evidence of a crime then widening its attacks ahead of the twenty eighteen mid-term elections although didn't provide any further evidence for that this is what the kremlin said we do not know what hackers they are talking about we don't know what is meant by influence of elections we hear confirmations from america that there was no influence on elections who exactly are they talking about we don't understand what the proof of the basis for them drawing these kind of conclusions such information proved is it lacking there is one interesting irony here is that institute think tank whose name i couldn't pronounce the international republican institute is a great reminder of how the u.s. pioneered election of difference because they the international public attitude is a think tank that was really o

hudson institute and international republican institu institute. both are conservative, but critical of the trump advances to russia and critical of vladimir putin's foreign policy. we have to point out it is unclear, or there is no proof, any of the domains have been used for any sort of successful attacks. this is big enough for microsoft to come out with this statement and we expect to get more information later today. all of this, christine, comes only about a month after attorney general rod rosenstein indicted 12 russians for hacking into the dnc in the 2016 election and the hillary clinton campaign. we also know that a few days after that indictment, president trump seemed to side against his own intelligence services at a summit with russian president putin. we had the interview with president trump where he offered russia sanctions relief if they worked with the uk and u.s. and syria. i was in syria with the russian military and they certainly seem to believe they are going to be the ones to take the leading role as far as solving the issu

charles: we had news coming in this morning about the russians attempting to hack the hudson institutebe a badge of honor. the russians are pretty active here and they are singling out conservative institutions. >> it's been great about basically bringing to light what putin's russia has done with our program at hudson. and identifying iranian and chinese activities. the russians put up a mirror website to fool people to think they are on the hudson's website. but while some push hih commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clearly better money management. metastatic breast cancer is relentless, but i'm relentless too. mbc doesn't take a day off, and neither will i. and i treat my mbc with new everyday verzenio- the only one of its kind th