this is about 90 minutes. >> we're very happy to welcome to our stage david schanzer.e is the associate professor of the practice for public policy at duke university's sanford school of public policy. he's director at the triangle center of terrorism and homeland security and adjunct associate professor of public policy and also in the peace war and defense program at unc. he is also director for strategy and outreach at the institute of homeland security solutions, based here in north carolina. professor schanzer did his undergraduate work in government at harvard and received his j.d. from harvard law school, where he also served as editor for the "harvard law review." prior to his academic career, professor schanzer worked as a law clerk for the department of justice and for the honorable norma l.shapiro at the u.s. district court for the eastern district of pennsylvania. he was a trial attorney for the department's civil division, counsel for senators william cohen and joseph biden and special counsel for the u.s. department of defense. he has also served as the l

please extend a warm welcome to professor david schanzer. [applause] >> thank you. you to the bookstore, of great addition to our top of th community. thank you to the audience for coming out on a warm north carolina afternoon. hope i will have a chance to share some ofy ideas with you and your ideas with me as well. our topic today is the war on terrorism, national security, and the 2012 elections. while i am going to be talking abouthe candidates and their ideas, i am not here to represent one candidate or the other. you heard my background as a kind of no little bit about which way eileen politicay. that is ok. which way i leaned politically. that is ok. i want to -- look a little bit at the kind of back and forth of the campaign and tried to analyze how the candidates are going to make their case on these national security issues. i guess you're tempted to start of the beginning and ask the question, is national security and terrorism bonn to have much of a role in this campaign? i guess one could answer that question and say, not much. it is all going to be abo

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. >> thank you, professor schanzer. we have three more series coming up. june 27, discussing civility and public discourse. on july 11, talking about gender issues in the elections. and on july 25, we will have daniel talking about network politics. thank you for coming and for c- span host: caller: [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> at 9:30 eastern, a forum looking at progress in afghanistan. and on c-span 3, vice president joe biden speaks to the annual meeting. >> coming up and 45 minutes, a discussion of the supreme court ruling on the 2010 health care law. pettitte o'clock 30, the american association of state highway and transportation -- at 8:30, the american association of state highway and

please extend a warm welcome to professor david schanzer. [applause] >> thank you. thank you to the bookstore, of great addition to our top of the community. thank you to the audience for coming out on a warm north carolina afternoon. hope i will have a chance to share some of my ideas with you and your ideas with me as well. our topic today is the war on terrorism, national security, and the 2012 elections. while i am going to be talking about the candidates and their ideas, i am not here to represent one candidate or the other. you heard my background as a kind of no little bit about which way eileen politically. that is ok. -- which way i leaned politically. that is ok. i want to -- look a little bit at the kind of back and forth of the campaign and tried to analyze how the candidates are going to make their case on these national security issues. i guess you're tempted to start of the beginning and ask the question, is national security and terrorism bonn to have much of a role in this campaign? i guess one could answer that question and say, not much. it is all