julian sanchez studies the civil liberties with a focus on national security and intelligence surveyillancesurveillance. he covered surveillance before this covering policies. he wrote for the democracy in america blog and an editor for reason magazine where he is remaining contributing editor. he is a founding editor of the blog just security. he studied philosophy and political science at new york state university. and the director of herbet center where he coordinated international trade and policy. and focused on u.s. china trade agreements, globalization, u.s. manufacturing and trade remedies like anti-dumping regime and wrote a book about the topic even. he has testified before variety congressional communities and he is a frequent guest on numerous tv programs. his articles have been in the wal street junior, los angeles times, usta today, chicago tribune, forbes and national review. these are our scholars. each speaks in term for 7-10 minutes or so. and after which we will open it up for q&a. let's open it up for mark now. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, peter. it is an honor to be with my