Todays public hearing will be followed by a classified briefing tomorrow afternoon. This Committee Last held an oversight hearing on section 702 in may of 2016. Beat ofen, the drum to terrorist attacks against the United States and other countries, particularly our allies, has continued. This has been a month after the hearing, terrorist attacks in killing 50htclubs, and wounding 53. Terrorists have detonated bombs in new jersey and new york, injuring about 30. Last month, Great Britain suffered its worst terror attack in over one decade, and a suicide bomber killed 22 and seriously injured many more in a concert in manchester. Many of the dead and wounded, as you know, were children and very young people. Underscore the first responsibility of thatnment is to ensure those who protect us every day have the tools to keep us safe. When i said government, i should have said the United States government under our constitution. These tools must adapt to the technological landscape and the e
Tarun good morning, everyone. Welcome to brookings. My name is tarun chhabra. Im a visiting fellow here. Chopra. Im a visiting fellow here. Im delighted to welcome all of you here for an event on americas global image, cohosted by both brookings and the Pew Research Center. As many of you are probably already aware if you tpwhransed at this newspaper or checked your social media accounts this morning, pew released its latest edition of the Global Research study, with this years survey covering 37 countries and more than 40,000 respondents, all conduct theafed inauguration of President Trump, between february 16 and may 8 of this year. And the findings are news worthy, particularly during a week in which the white house is hosting the Prime Minister of india on thursday, hosting the president of the republic of korea, and a week ahead of President Trumps travel to germany for this years g2 summit where he will which will feature 0 heads of state and government in numerous bilateral meet
Tarun good morning, everyone. Welcome to brookings. My name is tarun chhabra. Im a visiting fellow here. Chopra. Im a visiting fellow here. Im delighted to welcome all of you here for an event on americas global image, cohosted by both brookings and the Pew Research Center. As many of you are probably already aware if you tpwhransed at this newspaper or checked your social media accounts this morning, pew released its latest edition of the Global Research study, with this years survey covering 37 countries and more than 40,000 respondents, all conduct theafed inauguration of President Trump, between february 16 and may 8 of this year. And the findings are news worthy, particularly during a week in which the white house is hosting the Prime Minister of india on thursday, hosting the president of the republic of korea, and a week ahead of President Trumps travel to germany for this years g2 summit where he will which will feature 0 heads of state and government in numerous bilateral meet
It is so great to be here with you. Im very excited about the book and i guess we could start with the biggest question of all, which is why were you compelled to write the book that is titled beyond trans does gender matter . Guest sure. Im happy to be here to talk about the book. I was inspired by a very strange kind of policy that we have in the city of philadelphia bridges or Public Transportation authority and does require everybody that bought a monthly pass had to have a gender marker either f4 female or m. For mail on their past, and this created a loan of six identity discrimination within the city and in particular, one transgender woman a friend of mine and an activist in philadelphia brought a lawsuit against the company for gender identity discrimination because when she offered her pass she was turned away and the individual bus drivers if you cant use this because in my opinion, you are not a real woman. Then she brought back a pass with a m sticker and they said you are
The stuff we worked on, and all of a sudden, everybody seemed to want to show up. This is just fantastic. On a personal level, raise your hands if you were on the committee staff. This is pretty amazing. We said goodbye to each other 43, 44 years ago, and when i got ready to do this, i called jim hamilton, who was my boss back then. I said, i mean it, ill have it in tomorrow. He said, gordon, you better have it in tomorrow. Its like no time has passed. When we broke up i dont know how many of you remember this sam dash had a final meeting. He said this has been the most important thing that has happened in my life and im sure will ever happen in my life and will ever happen in yours. Im thinking of 21, 22 years old. I hope something happens. Looking back, it becomes very real. Then, the truth was solid. Something you worked on. You found it. In the intervening years, it became more and more relative, and now, it is like water or air. I think its important to come back in this room toge