former homeland security secretary michael chertoff is among the speakers. you can see that at 6:30 eastern on c-span. congress is back this week. the senate gavel been at the clock eastern for general speeches. house is back tomorrow. it is time for the annual congressional christmas tree to make its way to the capital. -footyear it is an 80 spruce tree from the payette national forest in idaho. the capital christmas tree arrived earlier today, and the tree lighting ceremony will be held tuesday, december 6, 5:00 p.m., west lawn of the captiol. you can watch c-span's coverage of the event. from washington, we go back to new york city again as we looking the lobby of trump tower. officials come and go as potential cabinet and administration members visit. we watched former cia chief david pretorius -- david pretorius make his way up the elevator. conway was there a short time ago. you can watch this live and any time on cspan.org. some news from the recent presidential campaign. "no walkie sentinel-journal" reporter tweeting out that green party presidential

global alliances, and at 6:30 eastern former homeland security secretary michael chertoff on protesting the u.s. from isis terrorist attacks. >>> sunday on book tv's in-depth, we're hosting a discussion on the december 1941 attack on pearl harbor on the eve of the 75th anniversary. on the program, steve toomey, author of "countdown to pearl harbor: the 12 days to the attack" eri hotta and craig nelson with his book "pearl harbor: from infamy to greatness" followed by an interview with donald stratton, coauthor of "all the gallant men: an american silor's firsthand account of pearl harbor." we're taking your phone calls and tweet questions live at noon eastern. go to booktv.org for the full schedule. >>> now a discussion on the benefits of education and job training of prison inmates from the center of law and social policy, this is about 40 minutes. >> hi everyone. welcome. i'm david sokolov from the center for law and social policy for c.l.a.s.p. we're here to discuss reconnecting justice how americans move from incarceration to re-entry. i want to give a warm welcome to the 200 of you

to my right is michael chertoff, formerly secretary of the department of homeland security. their fullght, bios are in your information. i have learned a lot from the say that io have to have learned having problems about the world. i would like to begin with some of the most pressing tactical questions. soon,y 20 which is very inauguration, again in the time of isis. can you talk about the planning that is underway and what you see a the greatest risks between now and then? >> 51 days of more sleep. familiareen some issues in the last 10 years here. this one will be large as well. for a calendar or 900,000 for crowds. we looked at obama's inauguration and kind of picked the middle ground. that was even before we had a president elect. making sure we have the right things in place. the other is that we have a lot express that want to their thoughts. we are used to doing it here and we have quite a bit of that happening. and afterward as well. some of those crowd control measures can keep me up at night , making sure that we give everybody their opportunity to express their r

former homeland security secretary michael chertoff part of the discussion u.s. preparedness against isis terror attacks. c-span live coverage. more as justice clarence thomas remembers his colleague antonin scalia. he's introduced by the justice's son eugene. [ applause ] >> i want to announce that the federal society annual dinner will from now on be the antonin scalia memorial dinner. [ applause ] and to introduce the guest speaker tonight, i am going to call justice scalia's son, eugene. he currently works at gibson, dunn, and crusher. eugene. [ applause ] >> gene, thank you. and i'd like to thank you you, the federal society and so many of you in the room tonight for all you've done these past months to honor my father's legacy and to support his family. i'd like to express special thanks to leonard leo. my father would be deeply touched by this tribute at the conference this week and the naming of this dinner after him. the affection that you all have shown him was reciprocated. my father was proud of the federal society. he manifested this pride occasional

t 6:30 eastern, former homeland security officer michael chertoff. live coverage here on c-span and at c-span.org and the c-span radio app. >> here are some of our featured programs coming up this weekend on c-span. tonight at 8:00 eastern, the state of the black world conference discussing the impact of the 2016 election. panelists include the author of and e there yet" oderator mark thompson, host of sirius xm radio make it plain. >> even when.net together as blacknologist this one, and we have an agenda, we also have to unite with other people, to win. the object is to win. we don't just want to struggle for the struggle's sake. there are thousands of people in our community that are in jail, that have been beat, that are dead. we're not activist revolutionaries because it is fun. my mother and father didn't participate in the movement for medals, for awards, for twitter, for instagram. they did these things because it was necessary. >> the founding fathers and the purpose of government. redshirt turns touting of america is persuasion, the meaning

michael chertoff, executive chairman of the chertoff group. as christopher geldart direct chin -- thank you very much. to my far right, a very long and distinguished public service career but not the most important thing on her resume issues and admin of a senior fellow here at the council of foreign relations. their full bios are in your orientation packet. i learned a lot from the military ms generals in the audience to say that i've learned that problems understanding the world divided into tax goal, operational and strategic. i'd really like to get to the most pressing tactical questions ahead of us and that is dated january 25th which lynn spears had come a change in the presidency again and the time of isis today. professor geldart, you can't talk about the planning that's underway? what you see as the greatest risks and what keeps you up at night question. >> so it will be 51 more days of no sleep and then we will be there. my staff show up at me all the time that i have account down going on counting hours, minutes and days until the a

>> i have great respect for michael chertoff. i do respectfully disagree with him about the direction in which mr. trump has gone. we want to be fair minded and open minded but having said that i think we can begin to make judgments about what direction he's taking. and every single would have been his appointments has been on the outer edges with exception of his new chief of staff, has been on the outer edges of the conservatism. people considered pretty extreme in their views. and i can just tell you that i can't george w. bush actually appointing these people. i can't imagine certainly his father. and ronald reagan nominated --. i think in all of these cases there are things they have said. sessions maybe 30 years ago, he disagrees with or what's being charged of him. but i think the only fair way to do this is consider his whole record. let's look at what's happened over the last thirty years. give it scrutiny. but i think what we do know is that donald trump is selecting people who have extreme views. they really want to fo

we asked the homeland security whoetary michael chertoff, had planned a vacation with his one beginning at 1:00 p.m. january 20-- [laughter] we asked him to stick around for a day. wasng inauguration day, he in an off-site with the incoming secretary of homeland security, in a control center where they could monitor all of the threat information. we asked him, even though his authority would be eliminated as of noon january 20, we asked him to stick around, be there for napolitanosecretary as she takes the reins. it turned out to be important because there was a threat on inauguration day. it turned out to be a credible but not actual threat. intelligencedible suggesting an attack at the inauguration itself, on the mal. prepared.perfectly -- we weren't perfectly prepared. i imagine if that happens in 2017, we would be prepared a lot better than 2009. but we at least had thought about it, had talked with folks, and had our people as well-positioned as we could under the circumstances have a smooth handoff. host: and i note of bipartisanship, napolitano and chertoff both worked as prosecu

years, really the brain trust of the republican party and national security affairs, people like michael chertofftom ridge, brent scowcroft, eliot cronan, all repudiate trump and say he is, in fact, not qualified to be president of the united states. >> surprise. he's talked about patton and mcarthur, rolling in their graves because we just say everything that we're going to do before we do it. you disagree? >> i totally disagree. because there's a political imperative around the attack on mosul, as well as a military imperative. you know, there's an old strategist, widely quoted, war is politics by other means. so for the iraqi government, there was a political imperative from the very onset to say, we're going to liberty the second largest city in our country, now occupied by isis for two years. and say that repeatedly. and oh, by the way, 99.9% of the forces involved are iraqi. back to the historical metaphor. by the spring of 1944, the germans knew we were going to invade france. it didn't take a genius. and they were, in fact, preparing beach defenses correspondingly. in the pacific, in the

. >> former homeland security michael chertoff discussed terrorism preparedness in the u.s. with a panel of the council on foreign relations today. from washington, this is one hour. >> good evening and welcome to this evening's council on foreign relations meeting. the top against domestic security. brickley, i cannot imagine anything more relevant or pressing at this point. as a journalist i am happy to say this meeting is on the it,rd so you can use recorded, and i am sure we will all leap with much more wisdom than we arrived with. if you have a cell phone or other personal device, if you could not only muted but also turn it off that would be fantastic. -- the format, i will guide the conversation for the first half hour or so then turn it over to audience questions for a half-hour. i read these meetings with stalinist efficiency. we will be out of here at 7:30 sharp. the council is brought together with a a distinguished group of experts today. to my right is michael chertoff, formerly secretary of the department of homeland security. to my far right, their full bios a

katie was council advisor to deck cheney and michael chertoff in the department of homeland security. graduate of ucla and harvard law school. july i can't tell can a -- juliette kayyem served in the department of homeland security. she is also today an entrepreneur who is running her own company that gives strategic advice and risk management planning, it's called kayyem solutions. she is an on-air security analyst on cnn, so she should look familiar if you watch tv. she is a podcaster and author of new book called "security mom, an unclassified guide to protecting our homeland and your home" which came out in april 2016. immediately to my left is mayor buddy dyer. he served as orlando's mayor since 2003. he's a really important leader for central florida. if you think about orlando, orlando is not your average city of its size. it is one of the most visited cities in the world, certainly in this country. something like 49 million visitors a year? >> 66. >> i'm off by a lot. 66 million visitors a year for a city that's i think 250,000 in the city proper and 1.4 million in the area. w

to my right is michael chertoff, executive chairman and cofounder of the chertoff group. next to him is the director of homeland security and emergency management agency here in the district of columbia. and to my far right, who has a very long and distinguished but nowervice career, the most important thing on her resume, she is a senior fellow on the council of foreign relations. their full bios are but now the most important thing on her in your information packet. i have learned a lot from the military. i have learned that if you have problems understanding the world, divide it into tactical, operational, and strategic. i would like to begin with technical questions, and that is the date of january 20, which is very soon, the inauguration, the changing of the presidency. again, in the time of isis, our theme today. you can talk about the plan that is underway, what you see is some of the greatest risks, and the what keeps you up in my questions the inauguration. >> it will be 51 days with no sleep. my staff, they joke with me all the time. i have a countdown clock, so

joining us from washington, former director of the cia and nsa, now a principle at the chertoff group, retired general michaeln. thank god for you, general. >> general hayden, now we're going to raise the level of the debate. what do you think about football? what do you think the nfl's problems are? are you a football fan? are you a football fan? >> i'm born and raised in pittsburgh, you bet i'm a football fan. it's not been a good weekend. >> it takes too long, doesn't it? takes too long to watch a game. >> the game has gotten longer overall even though a few years back they shortened halftime from 20 to 12 minutes. >> it's insane. what are you looking for during this transition, general? obviously you had some real concerns about donald trump. what are you looking for in this transition to suggest that it may not be as grim as many republican and democratic foreign policy experts believe. >> i like what jon meacham said earlier, joe, about the power of the ritual and for my tribe, the ritual is getting in front of the president-elect and the vice president-elect and laying out the world as the intelligence

with us now, former director of the cia and nsa now principle of the chertoff group, retired general michaelhat people will need to sort through for the next four years. general, george w. bush yesterday warning of north korea and what lies ahead. donald trump and barack obama talked. barack obama said north korea is the gravest threat you face over the next four years. how bad will things get in the course of the trump presidency? >> it's likely by the end of mr. trump's first term, they will reach seattle with a nuclear weapon onboard. now, will it be effective? what odds are you willing to deal with with pyongyang. >> it's that northwest corner. just because of ranges of the missiles and how far they have to go. >> if they can do that if four years, imagine what they can do in eight. >> over four administrations now we tried to put the brakes on the north korea program. >> why can't we do it? >> they believe and probably correctly that they will not survive without being a nuclear power. >> why can't we put sufficient pressure on china and say you take care of this problem or we're going

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