notice the date of this of this map. i really need to update my slides, but you will see my powerpoint skills are not great. this map is from 2001, which means i have to apologize to any kosovars or macedonians or south sudanese in the room whose countries are not there. the story that i'm explaining today is of that very large unintended consequence that essentially took an american strategic problem and ended up making a new map of the world, by which these independent nationstates coming from empire themselves formed a collective that nobody really saw coming at the outset of the broader superpower conflict. the cold war starts kind of a bipolar confrontation, but in this telling, it evolves into a multipolar conversation by the time all is said and done. the book used a range of public diplomacy case studies to trace the three major constituent parties of the third world project. as these three strands fused into a broader identity, a kind of a racial solidarity or transracial solidarity, and developments of poverty,

in terms of regulation of oil. what that means for government regulation. we see in the interwar period, u.s. oil is going through fits and starts and difficult circumstances. nevertheless, as we are proceeding today, we will see that despite the fits and starts, the u.s. sees its oil initiatives expanding rapidly. that will accelerate into the 1940's. i gave you an outline just so you are able to follow along. on the back, just some framing questions to consider. these are questions we can use to help guide discussion on wednesday, which we will use to follow-up the lecture today, first being how and why did matters, politics and people of faith become essential to the development of american oil in the mid-20th century? what were the competing visions of the nation's oil and the nation itself that came to define the petroleum sector at this crucial juncture? how did the politics of oil's warring sectors create the role of the u.s. in the world, and to what ends did this competition play out, both short-term -- an

the continuation of the new 's concentration of power of the social and economic life, the continuation of american involvement in global affairs, and the collapse of traditional judeo-christian morals, especially sexual standards often characterized as victorian. that is what we will start talking about today, the culture of the 1950's and leading toward the 1960's and the cultural revolution. historians have paid more to the 1960's cultural revolution. but it had the seeds planted in the 1950's. i will describe what the old culture was like. sometimes referred to as victorian, anglo-american culture of the 19th and into the 20th centuries. the little piece that i gave you from william o'neill's book on america in 1945 describes the cultural assumptions of americans of this generation. victorianism is today considered conservative in that it is kind of a derogatory term, considered puritanical, old-fashioned, retrograde, but much like the term liberalism, victorianism was actually liberalism of its day. it was in advance of premodern cultural patterns. much as liberalism was a progress

of the pristine image of robert e. lee and the lost cause mythology written after the war. former confederates, it was in these out all field moments where lee became the marble man, his personal understanding of honor, and command responsibility dictated to him that he was literally the last line of defense for virginia and for the confederacy. here lee presented the final measure of a general officer, personal sacrifice to save the army, to save virginia, to say the confederate cause combat even if he could not do that, to do everything in his power to try. thank you very much. [applause] mr. meyers: i will take a few .uestions if you have any please come to the mic if you have any questions. don't be shy. the very first image i put up -- there were several images created from, and they notice the blockade images and they were sent to one of the german states to edward valentine who was then in the process of creating a bust of lee. yes, sir? opinion, wasan , his personality, his character, who he was as a person and

>> first of all, one of the things that has happened in the last couple of decades is that members of congress don't have personal relationships anymore. the work in washington is very short. you like your district constantly so you can raise money or help raise money for other people belong to your political club, which is all parties are. because of that it is really hard to sit down and do with the -- what they do. they have none each other. what one member of congress knows about another member of congress, is that they belong to the enemy team. that has of the bearing on what is changed in the interim. i think there are others. i think today most members of congress are so driven by the systems we have put in place about how you get elected -- in my book a talk about sore loser laws which most people don't know about. thataws in 46 states mean the hard-core most ideological, most partisan can control who has access to the ballot. as norman mentioned, redistricting. asis not as big a problem some people think because it does not affect the senate or it i have not noticed the unite

those are some of the types of things and then along with the bending of this capture of the justice sector, the legislative sector, you have the hollowing out of other government and institutions. i mention congress kind of strives both of those, the environment industry so there is a ministry here but it is remarkable to see how environment over site is, it is been gutted. >> does that look familiar or sound familiar? >> yes. >> yeah, i know, absolutely. i want to be clear that somebody who looks like corruption and it is always important to be context specific and to understand that each country is very different and we actually get a lot if we start to make easy comparisons. as an americanist, there are some things that's hunting in which sarah is saying about laws and about hallowing out. so not the same but there is an echo in the united states, we have the growing privatization of laws. and this is largely done through arbitration agreement that people must enter into in order to have an employment relationship with companies. you don't have the protection of the courts. the j

of viewses of the u.s. australia a longtime ally of the united states. in the middle east, consistently high ratings for the u.s. in vir call chally all our surveys and israel, even if views of the u.s. president fluctuated a bit over time. negative ratings in the middle east something we've seen consistently. president obama came into office hoping to turn around america's image in the region, gave a famous speech in cairo in 2000 to kick off those efforts. didn't see a sea change in the obama presidency in terms of views of the u.s., it's certainly very negative in this year's survey especially in turkey and junior dan. africa is a region where we've typically seen mostly positive views toward the united states. that was true during the bush era when there was a rise in anti-americanism in many regions. he was pretty popular there. his policies were relatively popular there. the u.s. continued to get good ratings there. the same was try, maybe even more so, in the obama era. even though there have been de

there are pockets of support for some of these.pulling out of the iranian nuclear deal popular in israel and jordan. they are certain places where some of these policies are embraced but on the whole we see. widespread local opposition to the policy proposals that we tested on the survey. we also asked about their characteristics both positive and negative and whether people associate those with president trump. we read them this list some positive and some negative and you see the negative characteristics people tend to say yes i would describe donald trump in that way. majorities around the world als say trump's and tolerant and relatively no -- low numbers say he cares about people and isis qualified to be president. four in 10 say he is charismatic a bright spot in terms of trump about the world is his pledge o being a strong leader. we do see majorities around the world say they associate the term strong leader with him. that's in places where therear ratings were. negative like france for 54% example. i think 54% dare say tha

well, one of the results of the shaping of consciousness is the following kind of really strange idea. it goes like this: if you give corporations a chance to make profitits, then good thihings will happen. so, for example, we have to create a profitable business climate because then businesses, sayay by cutting their taxes or by dederegulating them or by allowing them to do all kindnds of things, then good things will happen to the rest ofof us. there''s s a simple lol problem here. if you cut the taxes of business, thenen they hahave moe money because their taxes are lower. what they do with that money is t their decisision. and their decision is governed by making as much money as possible. that might mean that they will create a job, ok, but not h here. in a place where the wages are much lowewer--say, in asisia--wh might be nice for them but isn't particularly good here. or they might lend it to a a government o or theyey mighy the stock market. or they might do--i don't know-- let's see. what did they do over the lastst 30 years? the most impressive things big corpororationsidid

some of the -- some of the briefs are signed by a large number of people.o there's a brief circulating. it comes to you and you got to decide whether you're going to sign it because somebody else wrote it. and my colleague, a constitutional law professor has an article saying we should be skemntical about signing these things. in part because they're not our work, we don't know all the authorities that are sited in a brief and we're signing as scholarers. and i struggle with that. and sometimes i've just said no because i feel i don't know enough. and you got to leave it at that. so let me open up to the audience. we started a little bit late. so we might go a few minutes over. but this is a hot and provocative topic. historians have refused to participate in litigation, they have participated and i say almost never emerged unscathed as the panel can attest. some of you may have done this, have questions about it. do we have mics in the audience by the way? i think we do. so questions. all right. oh, sorry, go ahead. >> [ inaudible ]. >> it's just asking th

a couple of days left of the current heatwave, plenty of sunshine, very high levels of uv, this was theind the front. to the south, the hot air. wales, much of the midlands, at east anglia and southern counties of england, another hot and humid day with temperatures into the low 30s. could be enough to trigger one or two late day storms although many of us will have a dry day. fresher and cloudy conditions in the north—east. fine weather for scotland. a fresh fields of the weather. similar conditions for northern ireland. showers working in from the west. these could be thundery but perhaps not too much in the way of heavy rain. probably coming down in some fairly big blobs though. uncomfortable night's sleep ahead for sure. marvellous. temperatures at10pm, 25 for sure. marvellous. temperatures at 10pm, 25 degrees —— for sure. of us. it stays very warm across england and wales with plenty of sunshine. some thundery bursts of rain across the northern half of the country. these are the temperatures we are looking at wednesday afternoon. probably the hottest day of the heat wave. if we see

"soldiers of the army of the valley, i have the mortification of announcing to you that by your mistake a serious disaster occurred." early deflected all blame at the time, it feels his fall from grace. troops bristled against the radical, -- ridicule. "i cannot commit that the commanding general is irresponsible for the struggling battle,"n in insisted a cover in men -- "if he doesn't know how to stop it, he is unfit for his position." meanwhile, desperate at petersburg, lee stripped early of most of his men, leaving a diminished army to face a final defeat at waynesboro on march 2, 1865. early's woes that winter had been compounded by sheridan's actions targeting the valley crops, livestock and slaves under general grant's orders, which we heard about this morning. the destruction of civilian property sparked fury in some shenandoah residents, such as sarah and fife who said "oh, how the mighty have fallen." general early used to be a very great man. and yet, lee still spoke highly of early, calling him 'an officer of great intelligence, good judgment, and undoubted bravery." lee tact

i am not convinced of either of them. bragg'sis that personality and his inability to get along with people can be explained by more monday and things which i see in people that i meet on a regular basis. [laughter] you know what i mean. i'm not sure we need to dig too deep in freudian analysis in order to understand why someone acts like an sop. ob. there is no doubt that he suffered at the end of his life from the effects of malaria poisoning. guest: i read that robert e. lee a type of malaria pre-civil war that would revisit lee particular during the end, he did not campaign -- it disabled him. >> that is interesting. i know nothing about it. what you're describing, a type of malaria that is serious enough to recover on a regular basis and cause fevers and those kinds of things and incapacitate you, seems to be clearly what bragg had. guest: thank you very much. he talks about carbuncles appearing on his hand. big blister. that came from treatments he took for malaria which had mercury in it. yes it. guest: i'm andy o'

because freedom of labour, movement of labour, is one of the pillars of the single market.is cannot have full access to the single market. and the desire in the uk is to have an a la carte menu, to pick that and the other, but within the eu itself, there are rules. within the scope of those rules, it makes a difficult simultaneously do have full control over immigration and at the same time be a member of either the single market or the european economic area. is that you look at the choices that the uk want to make and the choices available from the eu, they might be contradictory. you have just come from the united states, where you've witnessed, as we all have, donald trump's impact on america. let's leave aside all the legal issues, russia, investigation issues — let's just talk about donald trump and economics. his message is one of america first, an embrace of the idea of protectionism when necessary for americanjobs. the building of walls, where necessary, to stop people coming into his country. it is the very antithesis of this small l liberal, open economics that w

all of that out of an abundance of caution, of course. that has opened up. you can tell how somber it is as this administration monitored this breaking news. >> and that phrase kristen used, abundance of caution. we're probably going to be hearing that and using that through the first part of this day. and a lot of that is until we learn more about the gunman in this case. is it a lone, in police parlance edp, an emotionally disturbed person who acted alone for whatever motive he might have felt. because the fear is that there is more than one, that's it something perhaps larger. and so you want to keep your prote protectees, the bigger members of washington out of marm's way until we know more about that. a former congressional aide is with us who saw the shooting. david, take it from where you were first aware that something was going wrong. >> i live about a mile and a half west of the field in alexandria. was on a run going down monroe and i was basically right next to the basketball court, which is here adjacent to the baseball diamond. i happened to gl

the amount of dollars we spend and the lack of competitiveness we have in terms of some of our more traditional government-purchased space assets is both a waste of taxpayer dollars and candidly we have an architecture overhead that is not modern enough to recognize the threats that russians, chinese and others pose in terms of the ability to jam our satellites, the ability to use laser beams and other things that's in a sense in many ways it's almost as if our defense and the intelligence community, nobody ever saw a james bond movie. we built these large, bulky platforms in the sky with the assumption that america would always dominate space. that dominance, it's unfortunate because our adversary changes, it's coming to an end, and we need the competition from the commercial industry quite honestly to push the i.c. and push the defense toward smaller, more resilient and more flexible platforms. and while i share the chairman of the armed services committee desire to get us off this russian hardware, we do need this transition. i think the amendment that has been put forward by the senator fro

in terms of the role of the chief of staff, i think all of us would agree on, is that a really effectivechief is also going to be very good at enabling people to do their jobs. the chief doesn't try to do it all himself, and the same way a president can't, so cannot the chief. so the chief has to identify people that he or she, that time will come, when we have a woman chief of staff, form the team, form the team that you know and that you have confidence in, that you trust, and embolden them to do their jobs. >> >> rose: back to the power thing, i mean, one of the things that seems to me gives the chief of staff a lot of power is often you have the last word with the president. you know, the last sound in his ear, before he makes a decision and i mean that came up i think -- it is sometimes said when you had dick cheney around and colonel co-- colonel colonel around. >> colin powell around who might have been -- >> first of all the chief of staff has to have peripheral vision and know where all of the people with great tunnel vision are. [laughter.] and that helps to make sure that any

aware of the substance of that call. and there was a memo prepared because of concerns about that call. will you comment at all? >> i stand by the comments i made to you today, sir. >> so you will not confirm or deny the existence of a memo? >> i stand by the comments i made to you, sir. >> i think it will be essential, mr. chairman, that the other individual who served our country, as well, with great distinio who is no longer a member of the administration, has a cha to relay his version of those facts. again, i understand -- >> yes, sir. >> -- your position, but i hope you'll also understand the enormous need for the american public to know. you've got the administration saying there's no there there. we have these reports and, yet, we can't get confirmation. i want to go to you, director coats. when you appeared, you said, and i quote, if called before the investigative committee, i certainly will provide them with what i know and what i don't know. i have great respect for you. you served on this committee. i rememb

in terms of over sight, there's ap kind of host of mechanisms that kind of range from mechanisms internal to an element of the intelligence committee out to grelgs committe committees and beyond. the inspector general of the department of justice and the specter general of each element, they can review concompliance. at least twice a year the attorney general and dni assess compliance with respect to minimization procedures. twice a year they select a report, and once a year and it just happened a couple of weeks ago, dni publishes a report, basically a tranceparence report that identifies a number of information, including section 702 orders, search terms, queries, and so on. they do this every year, and like i mention said, just a month or so published that report for a calender year, 2016. so these are examples of some of the over sight mechanisms that are built into the wall. another form of oversight or disclosure is that fisk rulings are redacted and then published by the officer of director of national intelligence. so there's a tumbler.com. many of you may have seen this, i've see

extended the life of a lot of children. in the last year or so. that's a milestone. >> and a hat tip to the foundation who have been incredible supporters from a flilen tlopic perspective. >> absolutely. >> how many children or people, because they become adults more and more, are affected by cystic fibrosis. >> in the u.s. about 30,000. >> world side and people of northern european background. >> lupus. it's difficult i know. >> it's difficult. this project i mentioned has a focus on lupus. what they have been doing which is very advanced the look at kidney biopsies with -- it's one of the major consequences is affecting the kidney. and what they are doing is looking at the im,500 sells to see what's going on. not such a bunch together but one sell at a time. >> this is brand new. this is single sell biology. they are discovering types of immune cells. they are rather rare, you look one at a time you can find them. right now i can't tell you but this is another example where industry working with academia doing the project

our freedoms like freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion define us as a nation and no evil should never be allowed to distort those premises. ever. and i'm hoping although i'm worried honestly that this hearing will undermine that. i am concerned the president's budget proposal has taken its eye off the ball in terms of our fight against this evil extremism and the violence that it foments. i'm worried that it has slashed homeland counterterrorism measures like the viper team that it provided an extra layer of security at our airports. it also calls for the complete elimination of the law enforcement reimbursement program which provides financial assistance to local law enforcement agencies to help secure our airports. it would reduce the port security grant program to transit security grant program by more than 50% all soft targets for these evil criminals the urban area security grant initiative which helps prepare high density urban areas on how to respond will be cut by $150 million. the president's proposal would zero out complex coordinate it terror attack gra

mental health for example 95% of community mental health centers, and these places take care of 90% of our country severely mentally ill are not-for-profit. there charity organizations that would never turn away a patient that has no insurance and a lot of people who do those services are here today and i want to thank you for what you do for our patients and our health care system. granted sometimes you may not get the highest -ranked hospital in the country to take care of you if you have insurance but there's always a place for care in america. this is true before the aca and it's true today. i suspect it will be true in a new health care program announced in d.c.. however it's also true and very possible that a major procedure could bankrupt you and our system or that an uninsured person will be taken enduring the crisis but can't afford her band of care. again this happen before the affordable care act and it still happens today. we must continue to strive towards an industry and we are. another fallacy is that they large pharmaceutical companies are the primary reason for instabi

of the universe type of people.e: masters of the universe. jeffrey: you know what i was going for. masters of the universe. you look at -- donald trump looks at the org chart and says the fbi director works for him, but that fbi director is a pain in the neck. if he works for us, we can get rid of him. this is what happens when you enter the presidency without sufficient knowledge of or respect for the norms of governing presidential behavior. not the laws as much because legally -- charlie: the norms. what is the accepted behavior on the part of the president? jeffrey: paul ryan is right. he couched it in a benevolent way. lack of experience, learning on the job. but at a certain point, there have to be people around you who say, mr. president, in the post-watergate american reality, presidents do not get to fire the f.b.i. director because they do not like him. and you do not fire and f.b.i. director who is investigating you. charlie: and you do not go have meetings with the russian foreign minister. jeffrey: in t

view of the rule of law. the likelihood of a liberal vote on a ddd panel is frequently 30 to 40% higher than the likelihood of a liberal vote from a judge on an rrr panel. that is to say a d judge on a dd panel shows phenomenally liberal voting patterns and r judge showing conservative voting patterns where phenomenal shows how they vote in aggregate. what makes the startling finding in my finding that the d in ddr panel, if you're with me, the d's have the votes, if it involves whether the epa greenhouse regulation is lawful, they can do what they want, they have the vote. why is it that the dd's show more moderate patterns than the dd voting panels. i think it's about information at least in part. what are they hearing? a d on a dd panel, that's boulder and what makes statistics not expected is that what we are observing is legal professionals, judges answering not a political question but a legal question and even so the selection to random draw into something like an information cocoon produces more syste

we begin the discussion, it's worth a word on the concept of the rule of law, the concept of rule of law goes back to the greeks and it's meaning has evolved over time. but eventually what it's come to mean is basically a fundamental way in which society prevents the situation in which there is an oligarchy or dictatorship. you have to understand that it has several requirements. both officials and their agents are accountable under the rule of law. second is that laws are protective of the fundamental right of citizens, including among others the rights to the freedom of speech and the freedom of press. a third is that laws are made in an open and public manner and that they are fair minded. and the fourth is that the enforcement of law as done by independent tribunals, by adjudicators who are independent of the forces that be. with that, i will begin by asking our commentators to talk a little bit, before we turn to the more meaningful issues for their perspective drawn from their backgrounds. neil is one of the nation's leading supreme court advocates, he's argued 34 cases before

he has all sorts of early records of the development of new york state, early families of new york statehe really cared and was interested in this. he had amazing naval history books. he also had an enormous number of books about american history, international history. he had a collection of all his speeches, which were bound. he would give them as christmas presents -- even to his wife. merry christmas, here are my speeches. him him him he had an enormous collection of natural history books. he was a birder from a very early age. he used to collect and stuff birds. you can see a number of them at the home in springwood. he had the complete set of audubon birds of america, but a range of other natural history books, because he was deeply interested in how natural history worked. he planted 250,000 trees on this property alone in hyde park. he described himself as a tree grower. there is a very funny story, during world war ii he had a christmas tree farm and they would sell christmas trees. winston churchill came famously and spent christmas at the white him and spent christmas at the w

of them at risk of famine. this is u.n. emergency relief coordinator stephen o'brieien addressingng the united nationos security councilil late last momonth. >> yemen now has the ignominy of thing the world largest food security crisis, with more than 17 million people who are food insecure. 6.8 million of whom are onone sp awaway from famine. crisis is not coming. it is not even looming. it is here today. ordininary people arare paying thehe price.. it i is important to bear in m d portage richmond cholerara are intercononnected. weakened and hungry peopople are more likely to conontract cholea and less able to survive it. accocording to e estimates, 1500 cases are projected for the next six months. in addition, to the broadly 6060,000 current sususpected cas since last april with 50500 asassociated deaths. the scare e of the latest outbrk is, as well isis being depressinglyly protectable, a didirect consequce o of the conflict. and had the parties to the conflictct care of, the outbreak was avoidable. juan: t

despite billions of dollars of taxpayer investments, the implementation of state of the art air traffic control technology is not where it needs to be. so this administration has taken a bold step and joined many of our counterparts world wide by separating air traffic control operations from the oversight functions of the f a, a. this administration's proposal will create a separate, nongovernmental, nonprofit cooperative to operate our country pfs air traffic control system. the new entity would be a fully capitalized, financially self sustaining entity funded by users of its services. all surplus revenues would be reinvested back into the system. because just because it's not profit, doesn't mean that it doesants accumulate surpluses. mie mindful that the key to any organization's success is its employees, it proposes that the new entity honor existing labor agreements and that employees transfer from the faa would be kept whole in terms of pay and benefits, although they would no longer be federal employees. this will accelerate new technology which is so critical to managing the na

each one of those sponsors of terrorism. what the pit falls might be of doing so. what are the american people missing because they know they are bad actors so what are we missing that we need to know about that's deleterious to designating these obvious sponsors of terrorism for what they are. >> i think you noted the muslim brotherhood which had up to 5 million members has become somewhat segregated with the number of organizations within muslim brotherhood committing to commit themselves to violence and terrorism. we have designated the organizations. at the top of the chain there are elements of muslim brotherhood that are parts of government. there are members in turkey that are parts of government. and so in designating the muslim brotherhood in its totality as a terrorist organization, i think you can appreciate the complexities this enters into our relations with then the government of bahrain, the government and other governments where muslim brotherhood has matriculated to become participants and in those elements

born out of the very dragons teeth of war.st from the seat of europe's own destruction. 1945, and the end of another european war. who has won, when in fact all have lost? more civilians died in fighting in, by the millions. but they always were spared the aftermath. much is gone forever. and what is in its place?and the aftermath , near existence. an undamaged roof made a palace. a loaf of bread, a banquet. one long line of with -- what a europe to grow. what a europe to grow up in. pridek market or even was for sale to the highest bidder. iraqi and of self-respect and human values hearkened back to the jungle. but it order that the wheels could turn again, some had to put their faith in others. they had to trust and sit around the same tables defined the means of putting europe and the whole world to right. it was evident the europe of 1939 was gone forever. the annexation of the baltic states, the huge advances of the red army place enormous areas of eastern europe under soviet domination. marshal stalin was probably the mi

of the office of regulatory affairs. fema serves as the principal adviser to president and secretary of homeland security and emergency management including the response coordination center and more generally against response to all hazards responsible for management of those of a homeland security to provide an annual estimate of those resources needed for those capabilities to respond to that catastrophic instance 20 percent of the overall budget but there isn't much to that's we appreciate your willingness to take cattle and. to the deputy director of a windy that ruled that individuals -- differs from administration but to assist to carry out the budget across the executive branch part responsible for budget development and execution. the general counsel, legislative affairs and economic policy and to ruth have personnel management and from my own standpoint literally with our children's future is $129 trillion see you have some real challenges ahead of you as well. so finally treated as part of the reduction act to

power was in favour of development of russia.nteresting that... nobody is above criticism, of course, but... interesting that you point to the polls, of course his poll ratings have been outstandingly high for some time, 70%, 80%, but one also can look at the facts on the ground, exercising hard military power in the middle east, and, of course, in neighbouring ukraine, in ways that have isolated russia, have brought international sanctions upon russia, thanks to its invasion of crimea. we also can talk to an economy which appears stalled, stuck in low growth. we can also talk about the sense in which russian economic development has in many ways stalled. now that isn't a record that many leaders would find easy to run on. listen, you know, everything can be judged in comparison. the president is executing the huge military power, and, you know, there is nothing special involving the execution of the military power for the russian president. and from the point of view of any questions you ask, i am open to discuss anything, but,

i can't think of one we left out but we're doing a pretty quick survey of areas of challenge and difficulty in the world for us. maintaining u.s. international engagement and how do we uphold the liberal rules based on the international order. >> the utility of multilateralism. a word i now you have opinions about. a need to promote human rights and democracy. the consequences of president trump's proposed bucket cuts and the importance of maintaining a bipartisan foreign policy consensus. and to imlum nate those wur going to take a quick romp throughing north korea, china, russia, terrorism and nato. ready for some fun? >> i'm delighted to be here with this great audience. but especially with you, because you are exactly what a senator should be in terms of delving into the most difficult subjects and ed muskie's desk is a pretty good place to be. so thank you very much for asking me to do this. >> let me be clear, it was also joe biden's desk. >> that's also okay. >> that's pretty wonderful. so if i might just start, secretary, albright, in washington we talk a lot community about the lib

of u.s. strength and resolution to the preservation of peace and security is one that resonates through decades of u.s. foreign and national security policy. now, if applying such traditional reasoning, it sounds a bit not novel today only because it comes on the years of policy as articulated in the 2010 review in which the united states prioritize reducing the role of nuclear weapons over maintaining strategic deterrence. over strengthening regional deterrence and over sustaining a safe secure nuclear arsenal. i think you'll find this peace through strength idea runs through all the presidents comments about nuclear weapons as well as for how we are approaching our current policy reviews. this recurring theme is one that represents and shows a deep commitment to reducing nuclear dangers and is anchored in appreciation for american strength and resolve and a strong popple policy can play in national security and stability. it's built on the understanding that nuclear and conventional strengt

one thing that i'm proud of, i am proud of freedom of the press, i'm proud of what you do everyday. i said that in private to the folks i work with closely at pentagon. i hope you're equally proud that the united states military remained a political during a difficult political season. i'm certainly proud of our men and women in uniform. i can't think a single case where an ctive duty member has violated is our ethnos. making sure that record maintains in the future as senior u.s. military officer in the country, i think our men and women look to me as an example. and so i would never answer a question like that. so thanks. [applause] >> just a reminder, those who may be watching. not everybody in the room is a journalist. we asked for a bit of decorum from colleagues and hole your applause. united states is providing thousands of weapons and heavy weapons to kurdish groups which have been regarded as terrorist organizations by turkey. how do you guarantee these weapons will not be turned against your 65-year-old nato ally fighting against iceland? gen. dunford: we are very focused

of agreement on one country, two systems, of this degree of autonomy and independence that hong kongthat the fear is, as the president arrives, that another 30 years is an awful long way, and the idea that they are going to get that far is feared by many. that's right. let me just remind you that i believe the president and the first lady are walking down the red carpet from plane onto the tarmac. they will be greeted at the current and former chief executives of hong kong, at any moment now. we expect him to be giving his speech. a lot of attention on his choice of words, because he is china's most powerful leader since deng xiaoping. and absolutely, as you say, a lot of questions about what happens after 2047. that is when, in theory, this one country, two systems framework will expire. some of the protesters arrested last night in that area behind me, they support so—called self—determination, which means allowing the people of hong kong to have a say in their future. they are not ruling anything out, not even giving people the choice to say we wa nt giving people the choice to sa

there are many millions of people who will not get to the path of totality because of time, because of money, lack of resources, transportation, there are lots of reasons people cannot travel. the eclipse will be just as magical for them if we can provide them with the materials they need to see the eclipse safely and use this as a teaching moment. this is an opportunity to reach out to youth across the country entities them astronomy. take a look at the map, you will see most of the continental u.s. -- it will see a 70% partial equips. 70% of the sun will be obscured by the moon. find the place where you live on the map. maybe you live in detroit. atlanta, new orleans, the parts of new mexico? all of you will be able to experience this partial -- at the astronomical society of the pacific, we are particularly interested in reaching andrserved communities children who represent communities underrepresented in science. we want to make sure that these kids are fully engaged in the eclipse so that they might decide to become an is from owner -- astronomer like i did. what we have is some

roosevelt made a lot of use of this during world war ii. one of the things we look at is fdr's attendance at key wartime conferences. he went to a number of compasses -- conferences during the war, but arguably, the two most important was the tehran conference and the yalta. he met with winston churchill, joseph stalin, and of course, roosevelt. long before the end of the war, fdr is already rethinking about the postwar period. so, in november of 1943 when he journeys to tehran, he is -- he has several important things on the agenda, one of them is trying to ensure that his partners in the allied coalition will sign on to the idea of a postwar organization, becomes the united nations, that he hopes will hope to turn the outbreak of another world war. another document on display is actually a little sketch that fdr made at the tehran conference in 1943. this is in his handwriting. in this drawing, you can see in fdr's own writing, a broad sketch of what he thought the united nations might be. it starts on the left with this little circle mar

out of an abundance of caution. if they are closing it down, it might mean they haven't caught the suspect or they're suspecting there is another suspect, another accomplice who would be on foot. >> nbc's matt bradley on the scene, on the northern side of london bridge which is closed down. thank you for standing by. to get you up to date in terms of what we're watching. matt giving us what he is seeing live on the seasonable. also, we have reports from our mo abbas with our london bureau. the activity is still ongoing. just starting our coverage in the last 30, 35 minutes. what we know at the moment. we can confirm not all the details. we're only getting reporting from reputable sources about what has happened at london bridge. it is 11:00 a saturday evening. closing both directions of traffic on london bridge. if you've been there, you understand on a saturday night, in the start of the summer. it would be quite busy. places to eat and to walk and to talk with family and friends. the report, a white van involved.

the national association of secretaries of state and the secretary of state of indiana. michael haas, the midwest regional representative to the national association of state election directors. and the administrator of the wisconsin election commission. steve sandvass, executive director of the illinois state board of elections. and dr. j. alex halderman, professor of computer science and engineering, university of michigan. thank you all for being here. collectively, you bring a wealth of knowledge and a depth of understanding of our state election systems, potential vulnerabilities of our voting processes and procedures and the mitigation measures we need to take at the state level to protect the foundation of american democracy in january of of this year, then secretary of state, secretary of homeland security jeh johnson designated the post election as a critical opponent of u.s. infrastructure. the dhs stated that the designated the election infrastructure as a priority within the national infrastructure protection plan. it enabled the department to prioritize our

whatever it may cost it doesn't come within millions of dollars of the amount of money that's already been spent by the foreign government going directly into the hands of trump property. and there is a painfully simple solution to this. put it into blind trust, release your tax returns and be transparent which is not being done. and unfortunately, there is so much that his over-the-top partisan, completely, on the democratic side and republican side. it all gets sort of blurred just so much noise and one-sided criticizing the other. this is different. and i'm sure my republican colleagues will not have to be given this offer to tell me why i'm wrong and why this is different why there isn't something uniquely wrong about a president actually personally profiting. but this is a problem and i know we are not going to address it in this bill but i do think it is something we should address more broadly in that the president can address. he can be transparent and release the tax returns and business records, divest himself or go into blind trust as all presidents and vice presidents have

some of them come from character, some of them come from a paucity of information, and some of them come from haste, but you make a lot of mistakes. you don't see there are consequences until you are out of the battle, till the war is over. and you can read what the other side said the other troops on the other side of the trenches or the files in north vietnamese records or in the kremlin library you don't really know that you misjudged it or made a mistake, presidents or staff assistants to the president you make a lot of mistakes. and if you let the mistakes eat away at you they will destroy you. but you learn certain things, that is you're happier if you are trying to report the truth than if you are trying to conceal it. you have more fun, you feel better at night. if you're trying to find the truth instead of trying to cover it up. when i became press secretary against my will by the way, the president went through two or three press secretaries. he said, "i want you to be press secretary," i said, "mr. president i don't want to do it, "thank you anyway." the second time didn't do

in charge of the of washington dc. there's actually militia that maryland and virginia militia that are brought to washington to help protect the capital, but you also have yard workers, sailors, and marines who are basically drafted into the effort to help defend washington. by the way, latrobe gate, just oh, out of the gate and of the -- up the street, guess what's up there? the barracks. what barracks? the marine barracks. the whole reason why the marines are there is because of the washington navy yard. this gate is the oldest u.s. marine guard post in the world. that's the reason why the marines are at the barracks because of that guard post right , there. we will get back to that in just a second. back to the war of 1812, the british are making their way onto the city. the militia is sent out first to a place called bladensburg. it's at bladensburg that the militia are routed by the british, they are sent packing, and the sailors and marines are sent over the navy yard ridge, today's 11 street ridge. -- bridge, t

you thinking of getting out of what ships? i mean, is it -- can every the one get another five years or is it much more nuanced across classes? and, you know, what are sort of your best case, middle case, worst case scenarios for how much time you can bring that 355 goal closer to the present? >> yeah, so, the answer to the questions, yeah, i think it applies to all the ships that have vertical launch. we're not going to go back to some of the earlier burks, but i think where this study has looked at, basically, i think from ddg from-53 and 54. it will apply to all the cgs with the exception of yorktown and gates. how much service life can you get out of them, you can cert n certainly get at least five more years. i think we've taken a look at it. i'm convinced on the navsea side of the house, extremely low risk. frankly, we kind of looked at it from the -- i think you can at least get it out to its next dry docking, which in many years is more than five years beyond. with relatively low risk and relatively low cost. the key i

other sites of conflict of interest. but some of those levers we don't hold, and that would require other systems systemically to do those reductions. >> how do we discover so we can help in that. >>> i think it would be fine for you to give us a summery what those current administrative responsibilities and where they are -- >> terrific, that would be helpful. >> and the national report pubblushed an issue, it's a bit lengthy but we could consolidate it. >> not to increase your administrative burden while we increase others, but we need the help. >> in termsf the very real concern of not having dupeication between different funding agencies, we're concerned about that. we also have much better tools now of doing analytics of what's in the portfolio ear the department of energy's efforts. and we're looking at those with increasing intensity now to pea able to identify if there are unintended dupeications. sometimes it's good to have some efforts going on in different ways. certainly with nsf, we have ways we can coordina

to bring all or most of it or some of it makes a lot of sense from the point of view of time management and money. we spend a huge amount of money renting choice downtown real estate here in the city. we could avoid much of that, i think we would realize 5 to $10 billion in savings oefrn the years. it takes me a half hour from where i sit most of the time, to meet with cvp or ice or whatever. and a half hour to get back. sometimes i do that 2, 3 times a day. it kills either my time management or their time management. i do the best i cannot to inconvenience the people that work for me. it would be an advantage to be in one place. frankly, as i've gotten smart on that particular location. there are some worker issues that we need to sort out, and we can do that in terms of access to transportation. it would be a cost savings as well as a time savings, if we were to consolidate much of the headquarters in one location. >> there are two pieces of funding, one is for gsa. the other is for the department of homeland security. one is for infrastructure. one is a fit out. the gsa piece is fund

she is an elected member of the royal society of canada. here's a sampling of the praise. in review library journal says barrett presents a new neuroscene tick explanation of why people are more swayed by feeling than facts. she offers intuitive theory that goes against in the popular understanding and that of traditional research. emotions don't arise, rather, we construct them on the fly. furthermore, emotions are neither universal nor located in specific brain regions. they very by culture and real from dynamic neuronal networks. scientific american says talk about freshness of ideas. and "wall street journal" says it's fascinating. and one says their selfie of the brain is brilliant. help me welcome lisa feldman barrett. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you so much. it's -- thank you for the lovely introduction. it's very special for me to be here to talk to you about the book this evening because this is actually our home book store. we live in newton and have been coming to news tonville books since it was in newtonville. and then friends and family here as w

that is one of the main points of controversy. night, that by 8:00 that the city is becoming widely engulfed in flames. what we call main street today which was richardson street then, was the percent or -- the epicenter of a lot of the fires. one of the other problems is the drunkenness of the union soldiers. a lot of the country planners and merchants had sent their alcohol to the city of columbia for safekeeping, and the stock piles had been looted and rated and freely passed out. raided and freely passed out. there was a breakdown in the city. officers of all grades were drunk on duty. ises are going, the looting going, and there are many accounts of union shoulders going to different buildings. some of this was intentional, such as the story with the first baptist church of columbia. according to local history, the came shoulders -- soldiers because it was the largest structure for that type of seating capacity in the city. they had initially held the succession -- the secession committee there. this was widely known. they st