Readers for allowing me to be with someone who has elevated libraries to such an extent. [applause] let me just say, there have been patron saints of libraries, andrew carnegie, things like that, but you are now number one. I finally. Down andrew carnegie. You have. Thats great. So how does it feel to be the patron saint now librarians . Stomach when i started this book, i could not have anticipated that part of it. I was drawn into the story because really wanted to understand what happens in 1986 that this epic fire that close the l. A. Library for seven years, but more importantly, i wanted to understand why i cared about it so much. I have often said that if someone had said to me city hall burned down, i would have thought, thats too bad. And i assume they will rebuild it. But, hearing that a library had burns felt like this deep profoundly personal loss and come i thought why do we feel such a connection to books . Why do we feel such a connection to libraries . That the idea of
Cyber and Artificial Intelligence and two days genius, that would be ben buchanan as our go two guy. Ive been the repeater at one of the schools. Im getting it but i have an analog brain and i thank him for his patients. He is a global fellow and he will discuss his latest book right now called the hacker and the state. Spoiler alert, theyve changed the world. How . He says Cyber Operations are now indelibly part of International Relations and the gap between the United States and other countries has narrowed considerably. From north koreas efforts to hack for cash a Million Dollars worth against the bank of bangladesh to be maligned activity for disinformation to the electric blackouts in ukraine, theres plenty to talk about. Hes a marshall scholar and received his phd from Kings College and he knows everything. Even more important for as a former member of congress, that would be me who try to ensure the Technical Intelligence collection tools were not cumbersome were legal and regul
Wonderful Committee Partners and all these organizations for helping us get the word out. I want to introduce janice and kelly and just minute that i want to ask you to silence your phones or any other noisemakers he might have with you tonight so we can just share everything. I hope many of you have visited gramercy books. We are right down the street. We invite any of you who have not been there before to come in we have been open for just over three years and we have hosted 300 events during that period. [applause] besides being a fullservice independent bookstore we intend to connect the community with authors launching important books and thats exactly what we are doing tonight. You receive a program when he came in and i want to quickly give a shoutout to three other events that are listed there. We have eight events every month per first two legend james ride. His latest novel won the National Book award for fiction. Hes also the author of the 1995 classic the color of water one
Please, please, please. Heres some reaction from members of congress. Arizona senator jeff flake tweets great to see President Trump welcoming Prime Minister nettiana lieu to the white house. Our relationship is strong and enduring. Earl blum naur tweeted astounding just when we thought it wouldnt get worse or more kra oughtic, trump considers onestate solution which is no solution at all. This week end look at russian cyber operations. Panelists include new york times, National Security correspondent david singer who talked about how russia changed tactics during the 2016 election. Because the russians didnt go after the voting machines, that mechanism, appeared to have scanned a number of data bases but we have no evidence that they actually manipulate et had votes so those 3 million illegal votes came from some place else. But because we dont do that, we have no idea in the end how successful or nonsuccessful this was. And youre trying to separate it out in an election where there w
Because the russians didnt go after the actual voting machines, that mechanism, they appeared to have scanned a number of Registration Data bases but we have no evidence that they actually manipulated the votes. So those 3 million illegal votes came from some place else. But because we dont do that, we have no idea in the end how successful or nonsuccessful this was. And youre trying to separate it out in an election where there were other factors. Statements made by james comey, fbi director about Hillary Clintons emails. The fact that secretary clinton didnt prove to be an enormously effective candidate. And so how all of these things mix in is very difficult to tell. And that part of what made the russians so successful here. Because if you think that before they didnt start this operation in 2015 when this all began. Thinking that they were going to get donald trump elected. They thought like most of the people in this room thought, that his candidacy would be over by september or