the george mason university hayden center for intelligence, policy and international security host ofhis event. >> we are going to talk about people inside the executive branch whose job it is to make sure that intelligence activities are conducted in a legal, moral, and ethical manner. i am one of those are noxiou

the george mason university hayden center for intelligence, policy and international security host of this event. >> we are going to talk about people inside the executive branch whose job it is to make sure that intelligence activities are conducted in a legal, moral, and ethical manner. i am one of those are noxious hosts. i will ask everyone to stand up for an moment. please stand up. up.d stand up. thank you. i would like you all to raise your right hand. fantastic. i want you to look around at your colleagues and friends and such here. fantastic. now you can all sit down. when you look across the room here, you saw people standing with their right hand up. what i would like you to know is that is what every single member of the united states intelligence community does at their first airport. they stand up, raise their right hand, and they swear and earth. -- does atar an their first day of work. they stand up, raise their right hand, they seawear an oath. that oath is to protect and defend the constitution of the united states of america. it is bear true and faith and allegiance

we are honored to have him on the george mason university faculty and to be hosting the michael hayden center. we all wish michael a speedy recovery so he can get back to the public square. he is such an important powerful voice in the sphere of public debate and discourse during difficult times so i would like to introduce the executive director of the michael hayden center who has a message as well, larry pfeiffer. >> welcome, everybody. appreciate the turnout. it is cold outside and people have a lot of competing priorities between holiday priorities, shopping and whatnot. thank you for coming out. general hayden is sorry he cannot be here tonight. general hayden suffers a serious stroke in late november. he is very hard, working hard at recovery as we speak at elevated -- rehabilitation hospital where he will be spending part of the holidays working hard to get back. looking to extend his and his families, thanks to all of you and everybody watching on television. thanks for all the prayers, concerns, well-wishers, notes, cars and all walks of life, strangers from across the united

hayden himself. he's been an absolute gem in the classroom as he has been a public servant throughout all of his life. we're very honored to have him on the george mason university faculty and to be hosting the michael hayden center there. we all wish michael of course a speedy recovery so he can get back to the public square. he is such an important and powerful voice in the sphere of public debate and discourse during some very difficult times. so i would like to introduce the executive director of the michael hayden center, who i believe has a message from michael as well, larry pfeiffer. larry? [applause] >> thank you. welcome everybody. really appreciate the turnout. i know december, it's cold outside and people have a lot of competing priorities, between holiday parties, shopping and whatnot. so thank you very much for coming out tonight. general hayden is obviously very sorry that he can't be here tonight. i know many of you know, for those who don't know, he did suffer a fairly serious stroke in late november. he's very very hard -- working hard at recovery as we speak at rehabilitation hospital where he will be spending unfortunately part of the holiday

hayden center for international security this is 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening everybody. thank you for coming to the national press club. i serve as dean of the charter school at george mason university. we host the michael hayden center for intelligence policy and international security. welcome this promises to be a wonderful program. if you don't know one of ten schools of colleges at george mason 2000 student strong with 11-degree programs in arlington virginia and fairfax virginia and among those programs and international security studies us news and world report ranked as number three in the country. we have a very diverse faculty that makes us quite unique that has been michael hayden himself an absolute gem in the classroom as he has been a public servant throughout his whole life we are very honored to have them on the george mason faculty in to be hosting the michael hayden center there we all wish him of course a speedy recovery to get back to the public square. he is such an important and powerful voice in the sphere of public debate and discourse during difficult times. i would like to introduce the executive director of the michael hayden center who i believe has a mes

mason university where several former intelligence and national security officials discuss accountability from the intelligence community. we'll hear from former acting cia director michael morrell. it's hosted by george mason university and the michael hayden center. this is live coverage on c-span2.