what are our priorities? what are some of the things that we're already doing that we want to continue to do and to which are? i'm speaking specifically to agencies and those inside the federal government for which agencies will be held accountable and we will report out every quarter. we're reporting every quarter as part of the president's management agenda. we're reporting a lot more frequently along with our partners at dhs in the things that we monitor. it's important every single day. so why is cyber part of the president's management agenda in the very first goal around i.t. modernization? it's a couple things. as we modernize the system, many of the security capabilities are built in. that's why we're pressing so aggressively to move to cloud. we look at our threat vector. look how much threat comes from e-mail phishing and we have some agencies using systems that are very, very old, that's one of the reasons we're pushing. that's an example. modern design considers security as an integrated requireme

and what are those priorities?nd as goldy said, i want to talk a little bit about modernization and how that relates to cybersecurity. it's a little bit of a chicken and egg kind of discussion. part of the reason that i'm so passionate about modernization and driving it quickly is the way that we become more secure, the way we protect our infrastructure is to have a modern infrastructure. and to not be looking at things that were designed so many years ago, the concepts of -- the basic concepts, like grant said, basic concepts wasn't even envisioned. so i would like to start with the audience participation. and especially in this darkroom where i can't see most of you. how many of you have actually read the national cyber strategy? i will let you raise your hand if you've read the national cyber strategy or the d.o.d. cyber strategy. how many? ok. how many have looked at the i.t. modernization goal and the president's management agenda? it includes all the focus areas for cybersecurity. all right. how many of you j

i'm very excited, we focus on that set of priorities and not sure it is a top priority not just in theechnical community but the leadership of the agency and executive order this year with the relationship of the cios and leaders of the agencies helps us drive that, helps ensure cybersecurity is a top priority for this administration and top priority for my office. it is a priority for each of you. thank you for the opportunity. .. this weekend on afterwards republican senator ben sass of nebraska argues that the country lacks unity and offers his thoughts on how to repair it. also we have coverage of the recent southern festival of books in nashville. with author discussions on civil rights, rural america, the country's political divide race in america and more. and jean marie last guest talks about letters from the public that president obama received in responded to while in office. all that and more for a complete schedule visit book tv.org. they were kept the early lace -- they recount the early life of benjamin franklin. good evening everyone.

military priorities. generally speaking you don't see a lot of questioning of the fundamental priorities. when you will see is questioning of the execution and particular initiative that would be identified as partisan. i think the space force is a good example of that. it was something that even the u.s. military leadership didn't support publicly opposed until president trump i expectedly unveiled it is a plan and now you got a hold military scrambling to come from behind was a proposal to execute that. i think what i would expect to see is a prioritization of making sure that it is not just a blank check for the pentagon in terms of the trump administration's priorities and then a focus on execution of the war is that we are continuing to fight and an increase of oversight in the democratic-controlled congress or everything from personnel issues to reform and waste and things like that. programs seempons to be a flashpoint in the covers. the secretary in his modernization has weapon we he is looking at

perhaps priority changing on nato. what has been the reaction from the pentagon about a pan-european army? have you heard anything yet? reporter: the idea of a european army predates a lot of the current discussion. it is something i know germany and -- germany in particular had been talking about, going back to 2015. it was kind of a meme in the whole brexit debate because a lot of people on the right in the u.k. said, we don't want to participate in a european army, we already have nato. whether that actually becomes a replication of nato or something that draws focus from it, that remains to be seen. it is still very conceptual. i have not heard anything from the pentagon in terms of a response. reporter: i think what you are seeing is the tension between what secretary mattis has been trying to do since he took over the pentagon, which is reassure european partners that the u.s. commitment to the alliance is ironclad, and then the questioning inevitably that is created by the president's public questioning of wheth

with that third priority, the third priority, a combat-ready force. trained and equipped to do the job. so that's the first thing we want to talk about today. because sometimes as we sit up here on the stage and you hear the deputy talk about all the things we have to have and you hear all the amazing capabilities we have to have, the real deterrent of our nation comes from a combat-ready force. it really comes from the 162,000 americans that serve under the umbrella of u.s. strategic command. 162,000 people that come to work every day, and every day that work, location, some places is under the sea, under the ground, operating in the air, operating in space. defending our nation, defending 300 million from the middle of alaska. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines that do the job and day. i want to tell you if you go out now and visit those places, you will find the greatest people in the world doing that job. and you'll find that morale is unbelievably high. unbelievably high. you'll find the best and brightest our nation has to offer and they sti

military priorities. generally speaking, you do not of questioning of the fundamental priorities that the pentagon puts forward. what you will see is questioning of the execution and of particular initiatives that will be identified as of questioninge fundamental priorities that the pentagon puts partisan. is ank the space force good example of that. it is something that the military leadership opposed before president trump unexpectedly unveiled it has a plan. now you have the military scrambling to come up with a proposal to execute that. what i would expect to see is a sureitization of making that it is not just a blank check for the pentagon in terms of the trump administration's priorities. and then a focus on the execution of the wars we are continuing to fight. in oversight in the democratically controlled congress for everything from tosonnel issues to reform waste. particular weapons programs seem to be a flashpoint in the congress all of the time. while that be a battle in congress? the issue of

we have, priorities of affordable housing, priorities of public schools and investments in the university system. looking at public education and creating a new blueprint that provides for empowerment of schools and community ownership of the programs that are so important. i am comforted that our priorities are aligned, in spite of the notion that i can't get along with them, they have passed more than 90% of my budget, and 90% of our initiatives. we are aligned and are very successful in getting those things done. >> thank you very much. >> back to you. >> thank you very much. we will a quick break, but when we come back, the lieutenant governor candidates will join us to answer questions about the state's second-most powerful executive position and its role in serving the residents of hawaii. we'll be right back. ♪ 4 islandrom the kitv news is studios, the hawaii gubernatorial debate. a kitv 4 island vote special. ourwelcome back to gubernatorial debate. we are asking our state's two leading candidates on a question of a variety of important issues. for this certain segment, we are bri

we're not where we need to be, but it is a priority for the department and it will continue to be a priority for us. >> we need to work on this department. we need to work on the department of public health. >> when we get our diversity recruiter and develop a tool kit, we'll share it with all departments, and we'll absolutely reach out to public health. i do think we should think about growing our own workforce and promoting people from within and getting training so they can stay with the city. it will be a more stable workforce for us. they won't leave for other job, and we can benefit from people who have long services at the city. there used to be programs back, i think when there was more of a nursing shortage where people -- we had programs to support people going from, let's say, nurse's assistant to lvn or from lvn to rn. i would like to talk to the department to see if there are resources to support that. >> mr. greg wagner, i want to acknowledge that i know this is not a reflection of you and your priorities. you've been on the finance side of the house and have recently stepped i

so i'm really looking forward to hearing what the president-elect's priorities are, try respond to him, try to tell him a little bit about what president trump's views are and hopefully when president-elect bolsonaro is inaugurated on january 1, the two leaders can get off to a running start. i'm just there to prepare the ground for them. >> you tweeted earlier today about a case involving american families being held in china. is the president -- have you talk to the president about this case? if so, what has he told you? and will he bring this up with president xi? and will the release of the families be part of the trade deal? john: i've talked about people wrongfully held with him on a range of subjects. ypt to get into what his reaction was, i don't think those should be public. this is a matter of real concern to us. i think given that the range of issues president xi and president trump will be covering, it's entirely possible that would come up. >> back to the meeting with president putin and president trump, will president trump condemn russia's aggression in ukraine? does the

in that priority, that this is a shared priority of this board. the west side does not have sufficient transit. it's a problem that we have to fix. so supervisor fewer, know that many of your colleagues hear you and share your frustration. >> chair peskin: thank you for your comments. commissioner yee? >> supervisor yee: also representing the west side, so i feel you, commissioner fewer. we're -- either in my own district, and everybody thinks that we're not doing anything out there in terms of creating housing, that in district 7, we're going to add another 20,000 people. that's in the pipelines. i don't know why people don't understand that you cannot just keep on building and building and not have transportation that's already inadequate. and i've been preaching this, there's some systems that we have out there that could be improved vastly, although, the recommendations that we talk about all the time, to me, it's like band-aids. the muni custom needs to be improved, not just b.a.r.t. it's it's muni. it's one track. when one thing breaks down,

i thank you for making this the top priority for the 116th congress. as one of the first members to be sworn in, i'm proud to stand with my current and future colleagues today in support of h.r. 1 and to the american people, we have heard you. our caucus is eager to restore the democracy and give you the government you deserve. and that work is starting now. thank you. mr. sarbanes: again, thank you for being here. i thank our class of 2018 again and the couple who got here a little bit sooner, for your incredible advocacy on this point. we have been working on the democracy task force for a couple of years and even prior to that. speaker-designate pelosi had made it clear that she wanted to reach out to the country to the people and certainly to our members and get that input as to what we needed to do to restore our democracy. and so we have been toiling away in the salt mines to put together a strong bold package and did it just in time, because the class of 2018 is arriving telling us this is exactly the statement, the package we need to take back

we have, priorities of affordable housing, priorities of public schools and investments in the university of hawaii, looking at public education and create a new blueprint that provides for empowerment of schools and community ownership of the programs that are so important. you know, i'm confident that all of our priorities are aligned. you know, in spite of the notion that i can't get along with them, they've passed more than 90% of my budget and more than 90% our initiatives are aligned, and we have been very successful in getting those things done. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much, robert, chad. we are going to take a quick break right now. when we come back, the lieutenant governor candidates will join us to answer more questions about our state's second most powerful executive position. and its role in serving you, the residents of hawaii. we will be right back. >> welcome back to our gubernatorial debate. we're asking our state's two leading candidates questions on a variety of hawaii's important issues. before our third segment, we are bringing in the lieutenant gove

in terms of budget priorities or in terms of program priorities, but i began to realize with the discussion that it wouldn't hurt us to have a session by which we're discussing all of this. so i basically cooperated, attended, participated. part of one of the concerns that i had was we would do that tweshlly, use some of our facilities, our resources. what happened was it was discussed that we hire a consultant. i verbalized against that. we'd have to come up with $3,000 for administration for this alterna consultant. again, not saying that the consultant can't do good things, but i thought that a fee of $3,000 for the retreat, and we had that in september would at least produce a written product. unfortunately, there wasn't a written product produced one way or another. we know, i know that we, the commission secretary, has a recording of those minutes, and traditionally, when we adopt findings, we, the commission, adopt minutes. at this particular point, i thought that we had all of this in play until the president informed me that he wants to formalize a committee that's charged to put t

looking at the priorities of this congress and looking at the priorities for republicans. jeff flake in a pretty dramatic move here. how do you respond to this threat? >> well first congratulations to liz cheney on being elected the conference chair in the house. i'll be the conference chair in the senate. it's a big day for wyoming. with regard to senator flake we're going to fulfill our constitutional responsibility confirming judges, confirming members of the president's team. we'll do that with or without jeff flake. this seems to be his go-to play right now threatening judges. he did it this past summer on tariffs and trade. now he is doing it in terms of the issue of special counsel. there is no threat to the special counsel. we are going to get these judges confirmed. >> sandra: here is jeff flake in his own words. >> with the firing of the

, will be moving into priority one and priority two pruning. until we get all of the trees. our goal is to have pruned every tree in the city by the end of year four of the program. which is a very ambitious goal given the deferred maintenance that we are dealing with, but we brought on a lot of contractors and we are stepping up in house as well. i do really want to emphasize that we cannot meet the schedule if we continue to divert resources to address individual trees that are not emergencies. while it is frustrating for property owners who now the city is responsible for trees, to wait sometimes months and sometimes even a couple of years to prune that tree. we will only get through everything and get to a consistent and regular maintenance cycle if we can stick with the efficient grid pruning that we are trying to stick with. if people have what they think is an emergency, they should absolutely call 311 and the urban forestry inspectors go out and inspect trees. they will assess it and we will absolutely divert crews if there is an emerge

well, to life where your work, priority placement. please help our dedicated teachers stay in san francisco. please don't do the american thing and spend a lot of money to bring people here while the troops need your help. one great teacher -- >> thank you. >> -- can affect the lives of thousands of students. >> thank you. >> thank you. [inaudible] >> is it -- >> that's it? okay. can you hear me now? okay. my name is iris weiss. i'm a special education teacher, and i taught for ten years at washington high school. i have two children, 4.5, and i have a baby at home who's nine months. and i, like everybody else has spoken, would like to stay in san francisco and we're doing our best to make it work with -- with the child care and preschool and school and so when zula was ready for preschool, it was really difficult to fill out those -- we had to apply to so many preschools, it felt like applying to college. i actually had to write essays to some of the private schools. it would be nice if that wasn't a necessity if there was an assuran

, the bold legislative priorities i am hoping to see out the gate.very appreciative and see merit in the initial discussions to prioritize voting rights which is so important in light of what we are seeing in florida and georgia right now. campaign finance reform. all these things i think will help strengthen and restore the american's hope in democracy. gun violence remains one of my top priorities. >> i am sure it does hers as well, but you diverge from her. your position, i believe, diverges from hers on a couple issues, namely the future of i.c.e. and impeachment about president trump. so what do you want to know -- what will you do about those differences of opinion? >> i work with many people that we are not in 100% of alignment on every policy issue and priority. we all want to get this country moving in the right direction. again, we are emboldened in that we are walking in a democratic majority and i am excited to get to work and see what we can accomplish. i would also add i am considering this in the context of a larger slate of leadership

mcconnell: you know what my top priority is. the two supreme court appointments, overall number of judges, and we are not through doing those this year. the president has done an excellent job of picking young men and women who believe the job as judge is to follow the law and we intend to keep confirming as many as we possibly can for as long as we are in a position to do it. it will still be my top priority in setting the agenda here in the senate. next congress as well. >> will you revisit your marks and a congress? sen. mcconnell: democrats have made it perfectly clear that they are not interested in dealing with entitlements. they are in a position to say no so i do not think that will be on the agenda. i have no idea. i never thought about that. we have a conference rule related to earmarks on the senate side. >> will pay 10% middle-class tax cut be on your agenda next congress? sen. mcconnell: well, any effort on the tax side would clearly have to be negotiated on a bipartisan basis. we will just have to see -- i assume n

for us it is a priority to make sure we are restoring hope in our democracy. reshaping government to make sure it works for people and that we are reenergizing the american public to believe in a system built for them, and to get to work, on the campaign trail, the legislation that will transform the government and our democracy. >> talk about the historic nature of women and colleagues now? the number of women in congress? [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> coming up at noon eastern today a look at the future of house conservatives, republican study committee chair mark walker and incoming chair mike johnson talk about the future of the conservative house caucus. the american enterprise institute will host the discussion. live coverage begins at noon eastern. when the new congress starts in january the democrats will control the house and the republicans the senate. new congress, new leaders. watch the process unfold on c-span. >> this weekend c-span cities tour takes you to riverside, california. with the help of spectrum cable partners w

i'll talk to roy about his party's priority. we have been following this story closely from the beginning. investigations into misconduct in the top levels of the fbi and doj. the chairman of the house devin is here. he has been spear heading those investigations. he will join me next to discuss what happen happened to the problems. all of that plus rexerox from our panel right now only sunday morning futures. >>> we begin with house republicans prepyring for their new role as minority. you know, me now with an exclusive interview. wisconsin congresswoman liz doctor,heney. good to see you this morning. thank you for joining us. >> glad to be with you. >> can eye walk us through your priorities. >> first of all, we have a lot to be with focused on. we have living through the economic boom and we have to make sure we do everything necessary to prevent the democrats from reveersing course on that. they made it clear that's what they want to do. we have to work with the white house and colleagues to make sure they didn't happen. the

but this is priority now. the justification given in april for not giving it on - - bringing it to the floor nothing to see here. nobody was fired special counsel mueller was not in any danger and that is not the case now the attorney general has been fired and the oversight to the investigation was taken away from rosenstein the deputy attorney general and given to someone who has not been senate confirmed that has expressed open cost still one - - hostility to the mall investigation. >> thank you senator i appreciate the ongoing partnership with my colleague. we just called for unanimous consent vote and the majority leader objected. i appreciate there are many colleagues most of the other party who say there is nothing to worry about no reason to be concerned special counsel to complete his investigation as senator flake has said, i cannot agree more but just one week ago the president compelled the resignation of his attorney general, his closest ally in his campaign and the reason he fired attorney genera

what do you believe are now the top legislative priorities with divided rule? >> first, we have to finish this session and we have a number of items. we have to finish the farm bill, funding the government. the one issue that leader pelosi and i discussed this morning is where there could be a possible bipartisan agreement would be something on infrastructure. there will be a lot of other things. i'm not putting you all down. but when we do things together it almost never makes any news. even in this current situation where we have republicans control of all three branches. i have a long list here of things we did on a bipartisan basis from water infrastructure, the best appropriations process in 20 years, airport infrastructure, fda authorization, on and on and on. there are plenty of things we worked together on and i have to tell constituents who think we all hate each other that the senate is a pretty collegial place and even though we had big differences over things like taxes and judges, there were plenty of other things we did together and no reason that

on the public feedback broadway folsom was the biggest priority. is that going to be adopted or your recommendation to the mta commission? maybe the priority thaw commissioner makras was talking about. >> we will share that with my full. we don't have a full picture to say that is the priority segment. if will the other segments to be implemented sooner depending on how other projects happened and opportunities to coordinate. there are a couple criteria i would like to see and study before i would adopt that as number one priority. >> thank you. >> this is a no-brainer for me. this is a society problem. san francisco is third in the world in congestion. moscow, new york and la. one death is too many. any fatality is too many. a city with the congestion on the embarcadero is second to none. on top of that, we have people that are so short with patience they are unhinged. road raid. i understand what victor was talking about. that is true. we have an opportunity to get behind this, to take this forward and to u in the end we will be looking at as out

specifically, secretary azar has identified four priorities that he's determined to make progress on. one is addressing the high cost of prescription drugs, and i'm certain that you've seen in the media most recently many of the actions that we're taking in that regard. we're not done yet, and candidly, i suspect that it will be some while before we feel that we've got the improvements that we're looking for. we know that the cost of prescription drugs are higher for our u.s. consumers than they are in any other developed country and we're determined to make them more affordable for the american consumer. we also know that it's essential that we impact the opioid crisis. it's something that is touching every corner of every community in our country. it's -- it would be rare for us to not know of either a relative, extended relative or friend in the community who's been impacted by the opioid crisis. and so we have a bold agenda that's designed to tackle that issue. many of you may have heard from our head of cmmi who joined government about the same time i did. adam has responsibility