Authors experiences covering terrorist groups around the world. Many of these authors have or will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our web site, booktv. Org. Host and fcc commissioner Mignon Clyburn is our guest on the communicators this week. Welcome, commissioner. Thanks for coming back, we appreciate it. Guest its great to be back. Host this is the first time in your service on the federal communications economies that youve commission that youve been in the minority, and its been about five months. How is that different than the previous eight years . Guest very interesting. I often think of myself playing offense and defense. And so, you know, playing the entire field has been a little exhausting but exhilarating at the same time. I havent changed. The things that i care about in terms of consumers being first and foremost in our minds when it comes to policy and when it comes to my interests, when it comes to serving them, that has not changed. But youre right, thin
Fcc commissioner Mignon Clyburn is our guest on the communicators this week. Welcome, commissioner. Thank you for coming back. This is the first time in your service on the federal medications that even in the minority and about five months. How is that different than the previous eight years . Very interesting. I often think of myself playing offense and defense. So, playing the entire field it has been a little exhausting but exhilarating at the same time. I havent changed. The things that i care about in terms of consumers have been first and foremost in our minds when it comes to policy and when it comes to my interests and when it comes to serving them. That hasnt changed. Things are different, youre right. Theres been a couple of more than a couple of two ones. The essence is the same. We will get into those issues in just a minute but june 30t june 30th, is coming up and is a significant date because thats when your commission and. Well, if i were to look at the calendar, one wo
From a hole in the ground. Yet here i stand. This was closer than many people anticipated it would be. Votesow, not 50 of the are in, but we are not going to win the race and that is ok to read we have conceded the fact will have mcconnell the votes to win. Thats the conversation we wanted to have. This is not what drew us to this race. I want to start, first of all, by analogy my family. Whooduce, for those of you have never met them in person. This is my beautiful wife. [applause] i shouldnt have turned around like that. That was a big mistake. I was doing great, actually. Until i turned around and looked at her. I am so blessed by an extraordinary wife. An extraordinary mother. Somebody who has poured herself into this in ways that have truly been above and beyond. I am blessed by nine beautiful children. Awesome children. Attentive, well behaved. Able to act as if i am still interesting when they have heard the same thing 400 times. They are extraordinary. [applause] this is jonah
We are now live with Condoleezza Rice and former chancellor of new york city Public Schools. They will discuss americas Education System and its impact on security. It is part of a event hosted by the excellence in foundation for education. Right now we are listening to introductory remarks. The first africanamerican woman to hold that post. Shes a former National Security advisor under president george w. Bush. She is also the cofounder of the center for a new generation, which is an innovative afterschool enrichment program, and she is the coauthor of numerous books, including two bestsellers. She is an undergraduate degree from the university of denver, a masters from notre dame, and a phd from the university of denver. Mr. Klein and doctor rice are going to be discussing a report that they have authored, which has been published in march of this year by the council on foreign relations. Among many things, this report notes that while the United States invests more in k12 Public Edu
The next 30, 40 years, so maybe that helps. This is a very complex issue. It has to be resolved. There has to be a happy medium there. Whether or not it is because these ceos are boring abroad for certain things or not, that is up for debate. Im certainly not one who will take a position on that because i dont know enough about it to make that call. There are a lot of very smart people out there, who we should respect, they are very good at what they do and they are still debating about what the Proper Solutions to this is. All right now, this is why were seeing such a huge amount of debate going on in d. C. And in board rooms across the country. Washington, d. C. Host there have been reports that secretary geithner will play a role in these talks. Guest the Economic Team is in place right now. This is obviously a very Critical Role for the administration and for the American People as a whole. With tim geithner, a lot of people have said he is one of the reasons why things are as shak