Cairncross whos the ceo and president of the millennium challenge corporation. After a long wait, we have a fully installed that something of applause. Why do we give our friend a round of applause. [applause] congratulations. I think you get the prize for sort of saintly patience and diplomacy, and i think really, really glad you were in this job. I think its really important that Government Agencies have Senate Confirmed leaders so its really important you have, youve you been entrusted with this role. So i wanted to give you a chance to share some of your reviews with our friends here about how you see the future of the mcc. But before we do that, maybe not to just give this group, i think everyone probably in this audience if theyre here in mid august knows all about the mcc, but maybe just so were all on the same page if you might just do sort of the mcc 101 from your perspective. What is the mcc . How does it work . Then i have a couple of softball question for you we can take fr
Administrative bloat in running universities. The ideological faculty. University enrollment is starting to decline because of demographic reasons and of course the whole of the issue of the Overland College dispute where the gibsons bakery was awarded 44 million in damages which was a very exciting thing and as people in the college are beside themselves. I think one of Charles Cousins went to over land and totally turned her into a marxist. So i am steve is a fellow at Governmental Affairs at berkeley and i hired steve back in 1991 he was our second hire. Lisa sawyer who was there when i joined pri. He and steve was a Ronald Reagan distinguished professor at pepperdine and a first conservative professor in a university of colorado bolder, 20132014. I think one of the most exciting things about steve, hes behind powerline. If you dont read powerline you should. The best things are the pictures. And every weekend we are laughing over the pictures. If you dont get it, you will. And one
Eveningsd the overall discourse into about eight 50minute podcast and also a radio broadcast, because of that were going to do bits of production right in front of you. You will see me saying things like, i will be right back. And i will not go anywhere. I will still be right here. And there will be times when we take breaks and i will ask for your spontaneous applause for atmospherics or when i introduce he debaters, etc. I will let you know ahead of time when i will be making that kind of request. If i need to do that, i will say put your hands together. Lets do that right now. Lets have one more round of applause. [applause] lives where true privacy can be found exist oddly enough on our smartphones, which are designed so when you put the phone on lock, no one can get past its encryption, not even apple with the iphone or google with its pixel. Which is great, right . But not if you are in Law Enforcement and you have reason to believe a bad persons phone contains secrets that can s
Overall evenings discourse about a 50 minute podcast and also a radio broadcast, and because of that we will do bits of production in front of you. You will see me say things like that i will be right back, but i wont go anywhere. [laughter] i will still be here. The other part of it is we will take breaks and i will ask for your entirely spontaneous applause, for the atmospherics. I want to introduce the debaters, etc. I will let you know ahead of time i will be making that request. We dont have an applause sign. It is going like this. If you see that, play your hands together. Lets do that right now. Lets have one more round of applause. [applause] in a time when Companies Like amazon and google and facebook are piling up mountains of data about us, the one place left in our digital lives where true privacy can be found exist oddly enough on our smartphones, which are designed so when you put the phone on lock, no one can get past its encryption, not even apple with the iphone or goo
Speaking of the applause energy, again, because ultimately we reduced the overall evenings, speaking of the applause were going to do bits of production in front of you. You will see me say things like i am john dobbin john nvan and i will be right back but i wont leave. And i might ask for your applause when nothing is happening, just for atmospherics. I wanted to let you know ahead of time. We dont have an applause sign. But lets start the evening with one more round of applause. Thank you. [applause] in a time when Companies Like amazon and google and facebook are piling up mountains of data about us, the one place left in our digital lives where true privacy can be found exist oddly enough on our smartphones, which are designed so when you put the phone on lock, no one can get past its encryption, not even apple with the iphone or google with its pixel. Which is great, right . But not if you are in Law Enforcement and you have reason to believe a bad persons phone contains secrets