j. william fulbright. he always knew this was going to be the path he was going to take, and he gained a lot of experience before running for office himself. before the clintons were married and bill was living east of town, he decided he would run for congress. he talked it over with the dean of the law school, who gave him his blessing and promised his support, and he had decided to run against john paul hammerschmidt. he had actually asked several other people to run against hammerschmidt, a very popular republican in the third district, and nobody else wanted to do it. they wanted to run for other things, and he finally decided maybe it should be him. everyone thought he was fighting a losing battle, and he knew it, but he said he didn't think it would hurt his future chances with other offices. he lost to hammerschmidt, but by only about 6000 votes, which was pretty remarkable for a newcomer against a very broad republican district. he often says that losing that congressional election enabled him to

as the senior harvard university fellow with a phd in international political economy and william j. fulbright fellow at harvard university presidential scholar and would robles an in public service for what else is there to say and she's here today to speak on his fascinating book digital world war islamist extremists and the fight for supremacy. the floor is yours. [applause] thank you. i'm absolutely thrilled to be with you today to talk about something that i am very passionate about and that is thinking about the information battlefield. it's either not well understood or thought of in terms of how to keep the u.s. safe and we think about the national security. i want to start off with a story. for my work i did a lot of work with, and what of interviews. my background is on data and the data driven approach. so i built a database of approaches to the defectors and i wanted to think carefully about what our the reasons young people are either attracted to this type of propaganda and what are things that really sort of makes somebody get up and either buy ama ticket or join online to suppo