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Plus the dow and s p were set to rebound from what was the worst session since mid may. Despite an improving ipo pipeline blue apron ahead of the nysc debut tomorrow. Senate republicans hoping to get a vote on the Health Care Bill after the july 4th recess that fols the decision to postpone a vote amid gop senators passage of a trump care bill seems unlikely due to political obstacles. Goldman says quote estimates of the potential increase in the uninsured population seem unlikely to improve even after revisions to the bill. Public support is weak and divisions appear to pose too many obstacles people trying to make arguments what could bridge some of these divides. More help for opioid addiction but others argue its just too wide. Theyre pushing back on it, anything comprehensive that would represent an overhaul of the aca and its funny because its echos more reasons to talk about tax reform too were not going to get a big comprehensive reform package so its interesting. Obviously the
Soldiers armies bombs. And this discusses non kinetic forms of warfare do you think the media and society as a whole has an awareness of the importance of permission warfare and use of media and influence operation campaigns or as part of the goal of the book to raise Awareness Among the public. This is the point i make in the book. We are under and in flirt information assault. They are largely in the dark. That includes our government as well as the public at large. As you might recall in a recent hearing that you are the chair of one of the witnesses testified about the russians in their propaganda outlet in an official told them they would have no audience in the United States if the u. S. Media were doing its job properly. In a sense what has traditionally been the role of the American Media that is to provide both education and information has really fallen off. Right now were seen a politicization of the media into general liberal and conservative camps. And they are not really
Bill gurts im so excited to be with you today iwar, iwar, you are National Security columnist at the Washington Times and free beacon and in the introduction you talk about how this book is culmination of many years of experience following National Security, can you tell me a little bit why you published this book on the subject matter at this time . Sure, iwar is a look at the new form of warfare thats emerging in the 21st century. I covered National Security affairs for over 30 years in all over the world covering these and i think its a reflection of the Information Age that we are now looking at this form of warfare which i Call Information warfare and i define that as both the technical cyber that we have seen so much of in terms of cyberattacks from the russians and chinese as well as the content influence type of thing which really emerged in the last president ial election with the russian, cyber enabled operation. These two things, i believe, are going to be the dominant force