Service in washington, moscow and the united nations. To his right, the policy director for the Norwegian Ministry of defense. He served as director general or Security Policy director for the Norwegian Defense since 1995 and in that capacity really became known as the father of nato Security Policy. Its a delight to have you with us. He also served at nato headquarters and is one of the architects of this project that were working on. And the director here at the Atlanta Council who will speak about the terms in the cyber realm. He served as a policy director at the white house, as executive director at Goldman Sachs asia and u. S. Air force Intelligence Officer in the recently published a fierce domain, terrific history of prior conflict in cyberspace. So with that let me come back to you to kick off this discussion given the world that fred laid out what is the relevance of the meaning of deterrence as we look into the future . Thank you for the easy questions that you have posed to
Quorum call the presiding officer the senator from alaska. Ms. Murkowski mr. President , i request proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Murkowski thank you, mr. President. We are on the measure again, the shaheenportman Energy Efficiency, also known as Energy Savings and industrial competitiveness act. An efficiency bill, mr. President. This shouldnt be this difficult for us. When we talk about the benefits of an alloftheabove Energy Policy, the benefits that can come to us as a nation when we are more resilient with our energy sources, when were able to access our Domestic Energy sources, whether they be our fossil fuels, whether they be our renewables, whether they be nuclear, we all talk about it in good, strong terms because, quite honestly, energy makes us a stronger nation. Abg stows our Energy Resource access to our Energy Resources. Ive defined a good, Strong Energy policy as one that allows energy to be more abundant
Provocative reporting from abc news. Abc has this, i need to tell you that nbc news has not verified it. But what abc is reporting tonight is that the president s Campaign Chairman, Paul Manafort, abc says that hes in talks with prosecutors about not just potentially pleading guilty to some of the felony counts that hes charged with in washington, d. C. For which hes expected to go on trial starting next week, but abc is reporting that hes in talks with prosecutors and the special counsels office about pleading guilty and potentially cooperating with the special counsels office, specifically against President Trump. Now, the reporting on that story has come from multiple news outlets and has been sort of building slowly over the past few days. As i say, abc has this one very provocative advance in that story that Paul Manafort is discussing with the special counsels office potentially flipping and cooperating about the president in particular. Well have more details ohhen that ahead fo
That was an unexpected turn. Well have more on that ahead tonight. Theres also some very provocative reporting from abc news. Abc has this, i need to tell you that nbc news has not verified it. But what abc is reporting tonight is that the president s Campaign Chairman, Paul Manafort, abc says that hes in talks with prosecutors about not just potentially pleading guilty to some of the felony counts that hes charged with in washington, d. C. For which hes expected to go on trial starting next week, but abc is reporting that hes in talks with prosecutors and the special counsels office about pleading guilty and potentially cooperating with the special counsels office, specifically against President Trump. Now, the reporting on that story has come from multiple news outlets and has been sort of building slowly over the past few days. As i say, abc has this one very provocative advance in that story that Paul Manafort is discussing with the special counsels office potentially flipping and
About who is being interviewed, who is in the, and so on. We know this renewed fbi Background Investigation is underway and we understand that at the very top of the list is dr. Christine blasey ford. We reached out to her attorneys yesterday and we were told that she has not yet been contacted by the fbi. Doesnt mean she wont be. Its just she hasnt been yet. Also mark judge, the man who dr. Ford puts in the room. He is a witness but possibly an accomplice. There is leland keyser, fords long time friend who said she had no recollection of being at a party. Then there is also p. J. Smyth. He is kavanaughs friend. Then theres deborah ramirez. She is the classmate at yale who alleges that kavanaugh exposed himself to her. I am told that investigators spoke to her yesterday. And then add to all of that chad ludington. He is a yale classmate of kavanaughs who said he often drank with him. He issued a statement yesterday saying that kavanaugh was not truthful about his drinking in his testim