It is great to have such a large for there on this day election, as we are all sort of anxiously awaiting what happens. It is a genuine pleasure for me to be able to introduce amanda to you. Director ofssociate the National History center. I have worked with her for the past 2. 5 years. I could sing your praises ad. Auseam she is indispensable to the operations and success of the center over the years. For someone who is so young, she had an interesting and varied career. Before she became an historian, she was a pastry chef and worked at a prominent restaurant and got her phd at the university of michigan and a postdoc at yale. At the same time, she has continued her interest in food history. She has taught historical cooking classes. She has a blog called just desserts. She has herto that, mainstay as a historian, her work on the origins of humanitarianism and that has led to the book from empire to the American Revolution and origins of humanitarianism which was published by Oxford
She talks about the motivations and charity work of mid18thcentury north american and british philanthropists and humanitarians. This event was cohosted by the Woodrow Wilson center and National History center. It is just under 90 minutes. All right. It is great to have such a large crowd here on this day for the before the election, as we are all sort of anxiously awaiting what happens. It is a genuine pleasure for me to be able to introduce amanda to you. She is the associate director of the National History center. I have worked with her for the past 2. 5 years. I could sing her praises ad nauseam. I will simply say she has been indispensable to the operations and success of the center over the years. For someone who is so young, she has had a really interesting and varied career. Before she became an historian, she was a pastry chef and worked at some prominent restaurants. Then got her phd at the university of michigan and a postdoc at yale. At the same time, she has continued her
Well discuss all that, but i want to get to Fareed Zakaria and jim shciuttsciutto. Tonight cnn has learned that donald trump is working on ways to limit the power of the direct of national intelligence. This is not new. A recommendation was started from the post 9 11 panel to get better communication with all the agencies which was issued pre9 pre9 11. Since then, a lot of the agency heads have been concerned about bureaucracy. You have this overarching authority in the dni, does it actually shore with the interest of the Intelligence Community. There are lots of talk about how to change this. Now here is donald trump saying does this work well. Now to be clear, our reporting is that michael flynn, who so Donald Trumps National Security adviser is one of the drivers of this, and just so we know the history of this, he was pushed out as head of the Defense Intelligence agency in part by the director of national tleps. So theres some background there. I will say on the other side, ive sp
Standing on principle. Get to your chief National Security correspondent and start with you jim. Learned that donald trump is working on ways to limit the power of the director of National Intelligence. What more can you tell us . First off its not new. Dni, director of National Intelligence started recommendation of the post9 11 panel to get better communication among all the intelligence agencies which was issue pre9 11, not sharing information. Instituted and since then concerned about bureaucracy. Overarching security of the dni, does it serve the interests of the Intelligence Community . Lot of talk to change it. Now donald trump is saying does this work well. Our reporting is that michael flirngs trumps National Security adviser is driver of this. And he was pushed out in part by this director. Theres background there. I will say on the other side spoken to heads of the other intelligence agencies over the last couple of years who have bristled at bureaucracy of having overarchin