ok, this is from patrick tucker. at the security summit last year on this very stage, emil rogers asked the audience if any of them had suffered any kind of "compromise of their personal information." what was that event and how are you hacked? [laughter] patrick, where are you? badger, i apologize. that is not one i will go into. [laughter] i will try shawn no. so this is from sean. are you there? all the way in the back. how specifically wl the nsa contribute intelligence to the nations cyber threat center? the cyber threat intelligence center is designed to act, if you will, as a kind of central and politico -- analyticum as a one-stop shop, much as the national counterterrorism center has overall responsibility for bringing together all the efforts of the intelligence community and the counterterrorism set. seatacctic will do the same thing. justin duncan, are you here? is there any effort underway to leverage clear and retiring or exiting military members to act as trusted agents to bring classified indicators a

and joining us now patrick tucker. about a 2012 study out of wisconsin where researchers took bird flu and manipulated it and took it easier to transmit it through humans. >> this is a gain of function research where you are looking at a deadly pathogen and figuring out exactly that. what could happen to make it more deadly. that is to say it is gaining the function of lethality. at the time at the university of wisconsin and the researchers of netherlands undertook the study they had the full backing of the united states government and a bunch of different grants but when the results were published and they showed that changing the protein profile you could get this virus to exist and reproduce in the lungs of mammals, moving away from birds, all of a sudden it was a tremendous controversy and they placed a morityory um on the findings and in october of 2014 we now have a moratorium on that research, on gain of function research. >> and patrick, you say deadly pathogens is not something that terrorists or you call the

and this is from patrick tucker at the billing-ton cybersecurity summit last year on this very stageadmiral rogers asked the audience if any of them had suffered "some form of compromise in their personal information or their personal system" and he acknowledged that "my hand's up there with you." what was that event and how were you hacked? so patrick, i apologize -- patrick, where are you? patrick. i apologize. that's one i'm going to have to go under. okay. i'll try shawn now. this is from shawn lingas. shawn, are you here? all the way in the back. thank you, shawn. did i pronounce your last name correctly? what is it? lingas. so shawn asked how specifically will the nsa contribute intelligence to the nascent cyberthreat intelligence center that the dni is standing up. ctech, it's referred to by its acronyms, the cyberthreat intelligence center. ctic is designed to act, if you will, as a kind of central analytic hub for intelligence on cyber that has been generated across the federal government, across the intelligence structure. and the kind of act, if you will, as a one-stop sho

ok, this is from patrick tucker.e security summit last year on this very stage, emil rogers asked the audience if any of them had suffered any kind of "compromise of their personal information." what was that event and how are you hacked? [laughter] patrick, where are you? badger, i apologize. that is not one i will go into. [laughter] i will try shawn no. so this is from sean. are you there? all the way in the back. how specifically will the nsa contribute intelligence to the nations cyber threat center? the cyber threat intelligence center is designed to act, if you will, as a kind of central and politico -- analyticum as a one-stop shop, much as the national counterterrorism center has overall responsibility for bringing together all the efforts of the intelligence community and the counterterrorism set. seatacctic will do the same thing. justin duncan, are you here? is there any effort underway to leverage clear and retiring or exiting military members to act as trusted agents to bring classified indicators and i

ok, this is from patrick tucker. at the billington cyber security summit last year on this very stage, emil rogers asked the audience if any of them had suffered any kind of "compromise of their personal information." -- information with their personal system? " what was that event and how are you hacked? [laughter] michael rogers: patrick, where are you? patrick i apologize. , that is not one i will go into. [laughter] michael rogers: i will try shawn now. so this is from sean. are you there? all the way in the back. do you pronounce your last them correctly? lingas? i apologize. how specifically will the nsa contribute intelligence to the nations cyber threat center? the cyber threat intelligence center is designed to act, if you will, as a kind of central analytic hub that has been generated across the federal government and the structure. the kind of act, if you will, as a one stop shop much as the , national counterterrorism center has overall responsibility for bringing together all the efforts of the intellige

we will talk with tucker carlson about the media landscape. and they conversation with patrick howley about the republican agenda in congress and the race for presidential nomination. washington journal on c-span at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> this sunday on q and a senior editor andrew ferguson on the gop presidential candidates for 2016 and what voters are looking for in a candidate. >> they want somebody who looks like he has stood up for them. i am amazed at the degree to which primary voters on both sides are motivated by resentment. and the sense of being put upon. those people really do not understand us. here is a guy who understands us and is going to stick it to them. that happens on both sides. hillary clinton will give her own version. i do not think that was actually true 30 years ago. resentment has always been part of politics, obviously. but the degree to which it is almost exclusively the motivating factor in committed republicans and democrats. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific. >> next, a conversation with freshman congressman will hurd of texas. he previ

we will talk with tucker carlson about the media landscape. and they conversation with patrick howley about the republican agenda in con

tucker carlson. then we will talk with patrick howley about the 2016 presidential nominations.washington journal," live from the daily caller on c-span. >> here are some of our featured programs for this weekend on c-span networks. on c-span2's book tv, on saturday 10:00 p.m. eastern president of americans for tax reform grover norquist says americans are tired of the irs. sunday night at 8:00, author susan butler on president frank when roosevelt and soviet leader joseph stalin and their unexpected partnership beyond the war. saturday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span3, on lectures in history, university of virginia college at wise professor jennifer murray on changes from the reconstruction era to present. in some afternoon at 1:00, we are live from appomattox courthouse commemorating the 150th anniversary of the correct -- the confederate surrender. next, a conversation with freshman congressman will hurd of texas. the is the first african-american congressmen to represent texas since reconstruction, and previously served in cia. this is 25 minutes. congressman will hurd from

caller and talk with tucker carlson about the changing media landscape. and then a conversation with patrick cowley -- howley. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. ♪ host: good morning. it's thursday, april 9, 2015. we begin our program discussing the boston marathon bomber trial and a 30 guilt or -- guilty verdicts ended by the -- handed down by the jury yesterday. the jury is now set to decide whether so car tsarnaev should be put to death. and we put those questions to you in the first hour of our program. should the boston marathon bomber steve the death penalty? the numbers are on the screen. massachusetts residents have your own line and we especially want to hear from you. a very good thursday morning to you. we want to start with some of the headlines, starting with the boston herald this morning. "marathon bomber tsarnaev guilty : evil did not win that day." the boston globe headline "guilty on all counts." now the real question, should he die? the jury found him guilty of all 30 federal counts against him and there is a rundown of the charges, including the 17 dea

coming up, we will be live with the daily caller and talk with tucker carlson about the changing media landscape. and then a conversation with patrick cowley -- howley. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. ♪ host: good morning. it's thursday, april 9, 2015. we begin our program discussing the boston marathon bomber trial and a 30 guilt or -- guilty verdicts ended by the -- handed down by the jury yesterday. the jury is now set to decide whether so car tsarnaev should be put to death. and we put those questions to you in the first