Security and terrorism. She talked of the Hudson Institute in washington d. C. Earlier this week about how the department is adapting as the debts against the nation change. Her remarks are almost one hour. Good afternoon and welcome to Hudson Institute. Hudson is a policy Research Organization dedicated to promoting security freedom and prosperity through strong and engaged Us International leadership. I want to welcome both of our members of the audience and our good friends from cspan as well. One of the most important threats, potential threats in the United States is out of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, chemical, biological and nuclear agents to harm americans. We had this attacked the other day in new york which just imagine how much scarier it would have been had the terrace had weapons of mass destruction. Preventing such attacks are obviously critical to the president and his team and his august 24 speech that outlined a new strategy for overseas. He says we mu
Good morning. Im adam segal, correct the digital at Cybersecurity Program has the council just want to say a few words of thanks and a few words of welcome. First let me thank shannon and lauren and alex for helping put this together and making sure that it runs smoothly. We want to thank pwc which is provided the funding to help us run this as as a number of othr programs in the digital cyberspace policy program. Like many of the other think tanks were doing more and more work in this space, on Information Operations and russian Information Operations in particular. This month we published a cyber brief giving some policy recommendations to liberal democracies and how they can counter russian Information Operations. If you happen to have seen that please take a look. Its available on the website. Also last month we rolled out a Cyber Operations tracker. Thats the website you might is seen when you walk in. It is a list of publicly revealed state Cyber Operations. So espionage, more di
That is the headline of a new article about escalating crashes clashes on syrian soil. We will speak with the author, New York Times Beirut Bureau chief and with canadian a canadian researcher. As the deadly flu sweeps across the United States, will go to austin, texas, to speak with austin city Councilmember Gregorio Casar where the council is set to vote on an historic ordinance for mandated paid sick leave. The infection rate has decreased by 6 or 7 . Getare twice as likely to everybody else sick. Workers fromnt having six sick leave. Amy can they overcome the opposition of a Koch Brothers based lobbying group . All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump unveiled his 4. 4 trillion budget plan monday, proposing deep cuts to education, healthcare, and social safety net programs, while massively increasing the pentagons budget. Trumps plan would slash the department of educations budget by more th
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[applause] thank you. I really get applause when i come out. My name is john henry. That weo the director have standing room only and i said lets not wait 15 minutes to watch the clock, lets get going. Lets to do that. Typical of his character, he is always getting added. Thank you. When we had like this, we starta little safety announcement. This, we start with a safety announcement. ,m responsible for your safety so follow my instructions of i ask you to do anything. Im not worried about the wreck about the director, he has guys with guns. If i have to ask you to leave the room, the exits are behind us. The stairs going down or a twoyear. , wille to lefthand turns go over to the courtyard of national geographic, i will order ice cream and we will sing a song of praise for our salvation. [laughter] just follow me if i have asked you to do something. We are honored that director pompeo agree to be here. Said he people sent was going to be here, i was like, what the hell. It is an enorm