eastern the former state department staffer stuart patrick debates whether they can be part of the institutions. they discuss sexual harassment in the workplace. with sally quinn of the washington post. and we wrap up our prime time programming at 11:00. they lead a discussion with feminist writers on the election of a donald trump. that all happens tonight on book tv. forty-eight hours of nonfiction [inaudible conversations] good evening everyone. i would like to welcome all of you to tonight's on the record meeting. the senior vice president and director of studies here at the council. it is my great honor and pleasure to introduce tonight's guest of honor elliot abrams now i think it's safe to say that elliott is the appended me of the blogger that we love here at the council on foreign relations. elliott's formal title is senior fellow for middle eastern studies. that only begins to explore his great range and depth on foreign policy. with the practical part of it. they have served in a variety of government positions. they are relevant to our discussion tonight. he was assistant secretary

eastern the former state department staffer stuart patrick debates whether they can be part of the institutions. they discuss sexual harassment in the workplace. with sally quinn of the washington post. and we wrap up our prime time programming at 11:00. they lead a discussion with feminist writers on the election of a donald trump. that all happens tonight on book tv. forty-eight hours of nonfiction

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stuart: bring in patrick tucker, defense one technology editor, an expert on this hacking story here.nd ourselves against these hacks, do we? there is no defense here. i have no defense for my personal information, period, am i right? >> there's a best defense and in this case, that best defense was not something that equifax put in place. the vulnerability we're talking abouter hooks vulnerability with system called apache. as you point out the researcher first disclosed it to apache back in march. he did a great job. he found the vulnerability about it. the company issued a patch. they disclosed the vulnerability in something called the national vulnerability database. it was sitting there for any company, for any cio, to see to implement the patch across the system, across their enterprise. it didn't happen in this case. that national vulnerability database is the first line of defense for every known vulnerability gets reported. that is key. it was ignored in this case enterprisewise. stuart: if i were to freeze my credit, that is the expression i keep hearing, freeze your credit,