i also wantu to introduce adam klein as a director of the strauss center and director of the strauss pergamon technology security in global affairs. prior to joining the strauss center he served as chairman of united states privacy and civil liberties oversight board, the independent bipartisan federal agency responsible for overseeing counterterrorism programs at the nsa, fbi, cia, depravity of homeland security, and other federal agencies. i want to talk about why we hear today. dni haines has expressed her concerns that too much information is unnecessary classified or is classified at high a level and that overclassification and inability share information can undermine our national security in critical democratic objectives. .. orm the classification system. we look forward to hearing her remarks into the conversation this evening. please join me in welcoming [applause] >> thank you so much for that very kind introduction. it is truly an honor to be with you today, particularly with senator cornyn, longtime member of the senate select committee, really allowing the committee to

. >> on behalf of the center for national security, the strauss center for international security andhe lbj presidential library i want to welcome you to an evening with the director of national and challenges avril haines. as you know, tonight is one of a series of public programs that we host here at the lyndon b. johnson presidential library for friends of the lbj library. please join us for cnn john and chris whipple author of the best-selling, the fight of his life inside joe biden's white house. we will have more programs to announce to our friends soon. and please join lbj presidential library director mark lawrence has free ongoing series the american presidencies, decisions for war and peace. the next session take place on february 2nd with executive director on his critical acclaimed new book the peacemaker ronald reagan cold war and the world on the brink. you'll find more information on the series lbj library.org. please join me in welcoming alyssa, thank you. [applause] thank you so much america seeker fied in our democracy. as acting chair i'm excited for this conference

bolshoi theater, we diversified it with a huge amount, in general, amazing works not only by the strausshis program, but also by composers who are associated with the new year and who give. here is such an upbeat solemn new year's christmas mood. it has a lot of humor in it. and artists of the symphony orchestra take part in this program. not only due to the fact that they play instruments. and also due to very interesting actions, but i want to keep it. peonies passport dances of belarus were in charge of passing champagne, parse the baton like that, ahuch, i have new year's fanfare direct male school art grand, but only the great philharmonic stage concert is not under the shatkousou chamber virtuosos, what is collected for 24 hours at shatyra's hands from the tvorotitarian polka and polovtsian dances from the opera prince igor at the soloist's guitar and organ yards about the winter court, of course, and new year's christmas hits. they should have sounded uh without them, so here it was interesting what can we find hits to do for our line-up and we are trying to make arrangements for

but thanks as well to the clements center for national security, the strauss center for international security and law, the intelligence studies, the lbj presidential library, the school of public affairs and the public-interest declassification board for cohosting this important conversation on classified information and our democracy. that was quite a mouthful but it's a testament to the breadth and interest and equity is relevant to this issue and the challenge of bringing them to gather. on behalf of the entire intelligence community, i want to tell you how grateful we are to draw on the expertise at the university of texas on all manners of issues including the one we are gathered with this evening and to the members of the public-interest classification board, thank you so much for your efforts to address the classification and a declassification challenge. all of us who work in national security know how challenging this is but also how important it is and we are grateful that you are trying to find ways to improve the situation. given how many cautions have opined on the probl

leo strauss cast his first book for adlai stevenson for example.nyway, he is known for those things and later on, a lot of his feuds with former friends. that is what the book is partly about including walter burns who i knew. he was a colleague. one of a handful of people who knew both men pretty well. i always regretted their feud which turned personal. >> host: what did it start over? >> guest: disagreements about several things. harry jaffa wrote about some scholars especially kendall who had died not around to defend themselves. walter took offense. martin diamond was the other person harry jaffa attacked. important political scientist and conservative. lter took offense to that end came to their defense and then it spun out of control with personal insults, going along with serious arguments. >> host: harry jaffa and walter burns both died, what did the conservative movement lose that they? >> guest: it lost a lot. ... went to the conservative movement lose with them? steven: quite a lot. the fact that they died at the same day at the age of

creator and the young orchestra will play music not under, but on us appreciate the performance of strauss of the dance floor. these are completely different things, different traditions, different tempos, and so on. and of course, in a concert, people still listen, and in order to need to listen. to play well -calibrated phrasing and so on, the sound of orchestras should be on top. you are a few aktau before the great and new year's balleos, astana, and you are already the thirteenth studio to appeal to ward etiquette. this season there will be directors at the chatyry , a quartet, dancing, a venetian carnival, an appreciable fragment of a danitsa’s zapper, aunts ’ love napoy at the stalls and a faetyr will house a living room stage, in addition to a great halloween concert, girls will become heroes, children under a screened viennese ball flavored with intermedes near shakespeare's capital traditional, which goes from point to point. this is a dance program with the audience, our guests, the final of the ball will be. eh, we have this year. i hope very bright, impressive we will be a lig

i like to acknowledge two of my favorite clients karen strauss and routh bornsteen, the lead couple in the state court challenge to prop 8 and their jen rosry and courage that helped protect the 18 thousand cupping but the california supreme court refused to strike down prop 8 and that took the federal case chris perry will tell you about in-more litigation about social security benefits and immigration and the va benefits are still not finalized. every step forward has been hard one by group efforts sharing personal stories organizing public education, changing laws and changing lives by telling the truth. the respect for marriage act at long last removes the defensive marriage act and repplace with affirmative marriage recognition federally and state to state. it shouldn't be needed and maybe it won't be, but if the supreme court does outrageously erase the constitutional protection for the freedom to marry this law will mitigate the harms. f it doesn't override state laws restricting who can marry in state, congress doesn't have that power, but it can require all states and local go

>> yes. >> daniel strauss, so nice to see you this morning. you. >> thanks. >>> quick hits across america now. gunshots at a high school basketball game near oklahoma city. >> we'll go to break. >> the announcers ducked. fans scrambled for cover. a fight after the game led to the gunfire. at least one man was shot and taken to the hospital. >>> federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for patrick crusies. he shot 23 people and wounded dozens more in a 2019 racist attack at an el paso walmart. >>> governor ron desantos banning covid restrictions from mask and vaccine mandates. desantis has banned other efforts via executive order. >>> more on greta thunburerg's arrest. >>> an address to global leaders in davos. (c(cecily) switch to verizon! for a limited time, get t welcome unlimited for just $25/line. (einstein) $25?! (cecily) and it's guaranteed for 3 y yea! (einstein) brilliant! (cecily) well, you would know. (einstein) i'm switching! (cecily) i think the bike's probably faster. (vo) now is the best time to switch to verizon. for

let's check in with the president and ceo of levis strauss and ompany welcome back to "mad money." >> to see you. great to be back. >> chip, i got to tell ya. i was concerned. i know the apparel group is just such a tough group i think you stood out with this number doing better than expected so i got to ask ya, how is it happening? how are you able to stand above the crowd? >> fundamentally, jim, our strategies are working we've been at this for awhile to diversify business and focus on building our prabrands and drivg out size growth in women's tops and internationally and really doubling down on the direct to consumer business. if you take a look at the results, that's what is driving it i think the other big thing, there is a lot of noise about the decline of the denim category and i'm kind of reminded they're the mark twain quote, the news of my death is exaggerated. 40% of revenues are not in denim. we're driving growth in tops we're driving growth in outer wear we have two other brands, dockers and beyond yoga that don't have any denim to speak of and that 40% of the business g

let's bring in senior political reporter daniel strauss.his makes it unclear whether he lent $700,000 of his own money to the campaign, where that money came from. the shouldn't this be enough to trigger a full investigation by the house ethics committee? >> yeah. i mean, look, of the many lies george santos has told, his finances, these fec reports are the ones that really will put into question whether he can stay in congress. he won't say where this money came from, and it's a lot of money. let's be realistic about this, it's not just that we don't know where this money came from and he won't say, it is the pattern of lying and the treasurer, as an example, that he knows something fishy is clearly going on. with the treasurer he replaced the name of nancy marks, a long-time treasurer with thomas datweiler. the important thing about datweiler, he's oftentimes the go-to treasurer for republican congressional committees that need to switch to someone else immediately. there's been coverage in the past about how datweiler has been the person

. >>> more analysis now, let's bring in the new republic daniel strauss.hank you for getting up bright and early for us on a sunday. just right off the bat, your reaction to more classified documents being found at biden's wilmington home? >> i mean, it's not good for the biden team. this is sort of the worst case scenario as the search and this investigation goes forward. it's been pretty clear from the beginning that this white house has sought to differentiate itself from the trump team over the classified documents found on trump's property. the biden team has been working very hard to show that they did nothing wrong, that they cooperated with investigators and that this is far more minor than trump. it's in sort of a comical twist and turns these documents keep showing up. and actually news of this came out the same afternoon that news broke that biden's chief of staff plans to leave in the coming weeks, all of which paints a pretty broad picture of a white house that where there's a lot of changes going on, a lot of confusion happening right now and

one worker at the levi strauss building tells us what it was like inside when there was lots of commotion outside her window. >> and so all of us sort of, like, went outside to take a look. it's a little scary but it seems like there was no broken glass or anything. the good thing it seems no one got hurt. >> reporter: emergency leaders are reminding residents to call 311 when you see trees down or flooding or a landslide. leave 911 alone for more serious issues. terry mcsweeney, "today in the bay." >>> and, of course, fallen trees are a big contributor to the recent power outages. here is a look at the latest pg&e outage map. crews late last night were catching up with about 22,000 bay area customers lacking power. no update yet this morning but almost all power is now restored in san francisco and the east bay. now the south bay has the most outages by far with more than 14,000. the latest break in the rain really allowing some new cleanup across the bay area including santa rosa. first responders were working around the clock yesterday answer storm-related calls including water rescues

leo strauss has been dead for 49 years now and his books are still on the reading list of conservatives so we have a lot of literature we don't necessarily need new. although there's a lot -- there's the impresario of the new thing called national conservatism and patrick mead, those figures are challenging the liberal tradition itself, which is kind of new. the fruit of them the liberalism berkeley was for example. >> host: one of those that you brought up, one of the older thinkers the book patriotism is not enough. first, who was harry jablon? >> guest: longtime philosopher. most of his career at claremont men's college and graduate school. he's known for two things above all. one i want to savor rescuing lincoln but for directing attention to abraham lincoln as a much more serious thinker than a lot of historians treat him and that was the famous book the crisis of the house divided and then more notoriously perhaps the principal author of barry goldwater's speech in 1964 including the famous line extremism in defense of liberty moderations defense of justice is no virtue. that was

belarusian state philharmonic is preparing a festive concert on the old new year on january 14, a straussl take place. it will be played by the state academic symphony orchestra of the republic of belarus, the conductor will be yuri karavaev, the organizers. they promise to immerse the audience in the atmosphere of the new year's ball in the concert program of the famous waltzes, polkas gallops, marches arias and melodies and locked we 'll meet at the philharmonic. and if just good music is not enough for you, catching another announcement of a magical event at the bolshoi theater of belarus on the night of january 13-14 at 14:00 will hold a real ball. the theme of the event in the fairy tales of the new year, visitors are waiting for karaoke with theater stars, exciting quests, dance master classes, a tea ceremony and the creation of a talisman doll, everyone is invited to take a walk along the milky way, visit the gothic hall and hear fairy tales. bolwood completes the score a spectacular show on the street, the audience will be shown a fire and light show, they can’t wait to get into a

one worker at the levi strauss building told us what it was like inside when all of a sudden, there was seems like there was no broken glass or anything. so the good thing is it seemed like no one got hurt. >> reporter: the emergency leaders in the city are reminding residents to please call 311 when you see trees down or flooding or a land slide. leaving 911 alone for more serious issues. terry mcsweeney, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. there's a good chance you've seen the fun videos on social media. people surfing or canoeing in the floodwaters. do you know what is in the water? not just mud. here's investigative reporter. >> reporter: you might think it's just rain water but there is a lot of bacteria mixed in and due to the sheer amount of overflow with the storms, it is more than that. they get about 50 million gallons of wastewater a day. but on new years eve they got 650 million gallons. that's 13 times more and that's because storm water mixed into the waste water which includes raw sewage. andrea poke explains how that happens. >> what occurs in storms like this is that if we

we one levi strauss, he awoke kind of company down today. lauren: they make jeans. we are buying fewer genes. they are downgraded to neutral. they cite deteriorating trends in denim. it continued into christmas. stuart: we get back to our conversation how many pairs of jeans we have. several. the producer said let's move on. lauren: there is no trend for genes. it was the mom jeans, stovepipe. stuart: give me back my bellbottoms. lauren: bellbottoms came back for a little bit. we need a new trend. stuart: we are really telling us to move on. tesla applying for big expansion at the factory in texas. lauren: it is huge, a mile long. they filed for $717 million expansion of that factory in austin. they want to add space for the cyber truck production as well as humanoid robot and semitruck. construction will start this year. blue one tesla stock has come nicely back. last week. lauren: this factory and indonesia. neil: it is a 20% gain in a week. not bad. last one. one reporter is threatening legal action against democrat congressman adam schiff. this is the twitter fi

defobryana , this is the beginning of the 19th century, but the altar itself, which fabian created for the strausschapel, was made in 1423. well, what can i say? thank you lord, i have already returned home. it seems to me there, here are your relatives somewhere. yes, just wait, i'm very beautiful actually. no, i'm a fan there. yes, i draw all the time, but i can't draw. well, in that case, maybe let's go and draw some kind of still life. master classes are regularly held in the museum today, chefs will master the technique of watercolor you when the last one painted a long time ago. i, too, about 20 years ago , let's try watercolor itself. what is it, is it a paint that is diluted with water? this her palette. and we will take, for example, we take another ocher, for example, green warm. we spread the so-called here and we have a drop, a small drop of this one. you need to have time so that it does not dry out and pour it into it. next color. it folds gently and softly . this is not a drawing yet exercises. nothing wrong with the drawing. i 'll tell you honestly. here is ultramarine. here is ult

strauss, national righ history, winston churchill who we talked a lot abhoughts and adventures. aristotle, j.r.r. tolkien, lord of the rings. what he's currently reading, norma stone, hungry:a short history. alexandra lee, machiavelli, his life and times. which of any of those books do you want to talk about? >> guest: i could give you 50 bucks is the problem. i could have given you different titles from churchill and so forth. i will say why most of those, not lord of the rings, i don't like fiction, my critics say i do but nevermind. modern times i like not only because it was a great read but it is a style i try to emulate with my reagan books and others. i call them analytical narrative. is it fair to describe -- you tell a story but then brought some analysis about what it means, not just the facts of what happened and you can go on that way. churchill does the same thing in his history books, he spent two or three pages on th significance of what they meant. that's a style i try to emulate. cs lewis's aon of man is 70 pages long, kind of. on the surface it is about literat

leo strauss's works -- he has been dead for years now and his books are still on the reading list foronservatives. there is a lot of new thought. the impresario of a new thing called national conservatives of conservatism. those two figures are challenging the liberal tradition itself. which is kind of knew very different than the liberalism that buckley for example brick works focus on one of those names you brought up one of the older thinkers, the book patriotism is not enough in part about him and walter burns. first, who is harry? like his longtime professor of philosophy. most of his career at claremont men's college and the graduate school. he is known for two things above all. one for a multi- rescuing lincoln but for directing attention to abraham lincoln as a much more serious statesman thinkers that a lot of historians treated him for that this famous book in 1959 call crisis of the house divided. and then come more notoriously perhaps he was the principal author of eric goldwater's speech in 1964. including the famous line extremism in defense of liberty is no wise moderat

in the last few months you have seen the disas strauss effect of lack of planning and general chaos andrica. it has a massive impact on the economy and just ordinary south africans and have to say some of these images may be disturbing. tens of thousands of dead birds. suffocated when the power failed and surges blew the backup systems. it's the awful impact of a country in crisis. when you saw thousands of chickens die like this, what was it like for you? >> glass of cold water in your face. it was so, so bad. >> reporter: he has struggled with up to ten hours of rolling blackouts a day. he can't hide his anger at the government. >> i'm not asking them to do me a favor. i i will do my job and produce food and wake up early, work on sundays to produce food for south africa. i like what i'm doing. just do your job. you have one thing to do, just do it. just give us power, please. >> reporter: but power is in short supply. the farm they built from scratch now runs at a loss during the worst blackouts. he says diesel costs could sink them. the president himself has admitted corruption, sab

she's also the author of the 2011 book the whole -- deal, robert strauss and the arts of politics james kirchik, who's the author of secret city the hidden history of gay washington. i should show you both of these books that have nice covers he has written about human rights, politics and culture from around the world. he's a columnist, tablet magazine, a writer at large for air and a nonresident senior at the atlantic council. he, the author of the end of europe dictators, demagogues in the coming dark age. his work has appeared in the new york times, the washington post, wall street journal, the atlantic, the new york review of books and the times literary supplement. he's a graduate of yale with degrees in history, political science, and lives in d.c., though, as he told me recently, maybe for long now, there's no dark story to that. it just might be moving soon. so i guess i want to start by asking of both you just to give maybe give a brief overview of your book for the people, haven't read it or read about it yet and also maybe talk about why it was a labor of love for you. i'm g

: will i am scared it's a driver helps me when what we are doing all right on the move on to levi straussnearly 5 percent and denim is still an event. lauren: be scared, no no, people are going back work and it is all trousers and office type ps and cargo from the '90s are back yes and the ceo said that 40 percent of the revenue in the quarter came from non- denim bottoms, isn't that amazing, non- denim and socks are up 5 percent of the increase in renewal cells forecast and the expect strong back in the last half leaders, and i said levi is a so-called he said yes pretty. stuart: just bring back bellbottoms. guest: so the cargo be as i have the '90s my wife told me i cannot wear anymore i can now wear them again. stuart: no because you would not fit into them. guest: until you tell stuart, you're going on a diet. stuart: blackstone, i want to talk about this, the stock is up 3 percent, and the reported earlier today, what are they do so well. lauren: i'm not sure because their net income was 567 million compared with 1.4 billion a year earlier and pick your poison, other metrics fell sha

one worker at the levi strauss building told us what it was like inside when all of a sudden, there was it's a little scary but it seems like there was no broken glass or anything. so the good thing is it seemed like no one got hurt. >> reporter: the emergency leaders in the city are reminding residents to please call 311 when you see trees down or flooding or a land slide. leaving 911 alone for more serious issues. terry mcsweeney, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. there's a good chance you've seen the fun videos on social media. people surfing or canoeing in the floodwaters. do you know what is in the water? not just mud. here's investigative reporter. >> reporter: you might think it's just rain water but there is a lot of bacteria mixed in and due to the sheer amount of overflow with the storms, it is more than that. they get about 50 million gallons of wastewater a day. but on new years eve they got 650 million gallons. that's 13 times more and that's because storm water mixed into the waste water which includes raw sewage. andrea poke explains how that happens. >> what occurs in sto

joining me now to discuss is -- correspondent for the new york times and daniel strauss, senior political correspondent for the new republic. it is great to be with you. we're gonna start with you because we now have the package, the bill they're gonna vote on on monday that tells us a few of the concessions that mccarthy made to these republican extremists in the caucus. what else did he give away to gain the votes that he was able to flip and how does this week and his ability to lead? >> it's an important point that we don't actually know everything he gave away yet. we haven't seen on paper the complete list he gave away. we don't know exactly what matt gates got out of him at the end of the moment in that dramatic moment where between the 14th and 15th vote he -- hidden changes vote but there was a deal that he was going to get enough people to vote present that mccarthy was able to limp over the finish line. but we don't know the whole list. the motion to vacate which would allow any member to force a snap vote to reveal the speaker which means kevin mccarthy if they're starting at

i like to acknowledge two of my favorite clients karen strauss and routh bornsteen, the lead couple in the state court challenge to prop 8 and their jen rosry and courage that helped protect the 18 thousand cupping but the california supreme court refused to strike down prop 8 and that took the federal case chris perry will tell you about in-more litigation about social security benefits and immigration and the va benefits are still not finalized. every step forward has been hard one by group efforts sharing personal stories organizing public education, changing laws and changing lives by telling the truth. the respect for marriage act at long last removes the defensive marriage act and repplace with affirmative marriage recognition federally and state to state. it shouldn't be needed and maybe it won't be, but if the supreme court does outrageously erase the constitutional protection for the freedom to marry this law will mitigate the harms. f it doesn't override state laws restricting who can marry in state, congress doesn't have that power, but it can require all states and local go

so, you know -- >> i heard a story that robert strauss told. he was a longtime national party chairman. he talked about, he had big problems with the vietnam war. he talked about going in to talk to president johnson, and being determined to tell johnson he was on the wrong track. and all he remembered seeing was something like, mister president, you are the greatest man who ever lived. you know? and, he said, he left the oval office, and he was so angry at himself, and he made a vow to himself, that if he was ever speaking to the president again, he would tell him exactly what was on his mind. and he maintained that he kept that. he ended up in the cabinet in the carter years. and he maintained ever after that he stayed true to that. i was in a meeting in the oval office one time, and it was glenn hubbard, one of the economic advisers, that later on became dean of the business school. i don't know about the issue was, but glenn was there, and i was there. so obviously, a speech was being talked about. but i remember there was kind of a loose c

thanks a lot to my agent jonas strauss and let me thank the -- photographs on the cover, many peoplever, so thank you very much alvin for this. thanks also to the late cynthia gray, cindy lauren her parents for allowing our collaboration's to bring this book who is very important to me that these books include these collaboration's. i feel like they were a vital part of my experience so i'm glad that cindy's words, many thanks to my brilliant students and at university of newark, the last place to work. 1 million thanks to the -- collective who was my first literary family into my the amazing calvin caught him. thank you to everyone out there everywhere for the love and critical guidance, the wills dumb and the support. want to dig decorate dedicate this award with all the readers out there and to my ancestors on who shoulders i stand. my lineage and the association between several generations of writers, particularly black, gray and truly queer writers. especially those we lost to hiv aids in the 19 and 1990s. i have the pleasure meeting some of these rioters let me say they were br

maybe strauss no, unfortunately, also the wrong version of ksenia pole, you don't lose anything if youhat you have. uh, they'll take it, so you can at least take a chance. composer, but also wrong version understood. if you want, you can try. i want to ask our teachers if they know the answers to the question, the teacher's room is a music teacher, so we knew the answer, but this beethoven ludwig van beethoven is the correct answer to this question. thanks teacher's uh, on this issue. nobody earns points, let's move on to the second question. name the hero maxim gorky, who, after the verdict, receives a name meaning an outcast, he is polina . this is the correct answer to the question. and what is the work? well, from what in general, yes, quite right, and this young man, who now received the name lara what does the outcast thrown out young man mean, laughed loudly after the people who abandoned him laughed, remaining alone free, like his father . now you will see that a fragment of one famous film will sound like a monument to whom the heroes of the film gentlemen of fortune were look

thanks also to my agent joanna strauss and let me thank the alvin of trust, which allowed us to use one his stunning photographs on the cover. many people comment on the cover of this book and have picked it up just because it's a cover. so thank you, alvin balter balter. for. thanks also to the late cynthia gray, cindy law and her parents for allowing our collaboration to appear in this book. it was very to me that this book include this collaborate nations. i felt like they were a vital part of my portrait making experience. so i'm glad that cindy's is in here, too. many thanks to my brilliant students at and colleagues at rutgers university, which is one of the best places to work. on. a million thanks to the darkroom collective, who was my first literary family, and through the amazing cover column. and many thanks to all of my dear friends out there, everywhere for their love, their critical guidance, their wisdom and support. i want to dedicate this award to all the readers out and to my ancestors on whose shoulders i stand. ancestors lineage and association, including several gen