He was on the committee with ted kennedy. In 1988, he founded Podesta Associates with his brother tony. He served president clinton as deputy chief of staff and then whitehouse chief of staff. He was cochairman of president obama in 2008. He is the father of a proud airforce member. So much for biography. Our thanks to the angus ceo who are sitting at the table back there keeping me from the pain of premature requirement. We are on the record here. No tweeting. No filing of any kind while the breck fast is underway. There is no embargo when the session ends. This is one of the last ways of fussy folk waves so if you have a question send me a subtle, nonthreatening signal and i will call on you. We will let the guest make open comments and with that thanks for being here. Thank you, david. I will talk for two minutes and say that a lot has been going on in washington this week. But one thing i have been particularly focused on is the rollout of the proposal to reduce Carbon Pollution fr
With. So this twisted this in the way of getting it implemented. The Court Challenge actually means by the youth action by congress and the action by the next president says states have until 2018 to file plans. Which of those risks are considered the greatest and what are you doing to counter it . We are committing to getting this done. We have a year to finalize this which they are taking comments and we have a request for a number of senators to extend this to 120 days, which they agreed to do that. And so we have heard about this for the last 120 days. And i said when i came into my position in january 1 of the principal things that i need to do is to make sure that the direction to the epa the president gave last summer as part of the overall action plan and that is to propose this and when i said that i didnt really realize that that was a sunday. And we are committing to finishing the roll to create this implementation by the epa. And he noted that some states can move that back
Later was chief counselor of the Senate Agriculture committee. In 1988 he founded the wellknown Government Relations firm with his brother tony. He served president clinton as to be the chief of staff and then as white house chief of staff until 2001. He was cochairman of obamas Transition Team in 2008. He is the proud father of air force captain gabe podesta. So much for prior review. Now to the process portion of our program. Anga a gas alliance is sponsoring todays breakfast. Our thanks to them, for sitting at the table back there keeping me from the pain of premature retirement. Sponsors or not, we are on the record here. No live blogging and no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to what the guest says. There will be no embargo at the end. As regular attendees know the monitor breakfast is one of the last bastions of fusty folkways. Do the traditional thing and send me a subtle nonthreatening signal, and i will happily call on everyone with
That being said, the administration is threatened to implement a lot of their legislation to by executive order which gives them negotiating leverage and we have reports that president obama issued a secret address some of the collaboration between the administration and the private sector. Regardless we will see more action on Cyber Security in the first half. Legislation seems to be a difficult proposition. Go back to that secret directive, will that become public or reviewed by congress . It is difficult to say. It is not something that is reported quite a bit. But it addresses one of the most controversial aspects of the Cyber Security regime. Whether that is legal under current law because there is rules against sharing information with the government. So, again, there is little known about that but we do know that the government is insist ant that there needs to be some kind of rules to change to enable some of rules that are in place to do so under the law. Bendan sasso is with
Stars and bubbles. Through, i wasng just interviewing a lot of different people. 14 or 15 people that i will talk to and say what do you think about this scenario. I do not like anything that is less than a probability of what things might be. That is why you saw me put up three scenarios. I do estimates based on circle size. Lly troublesome one, a confederation in syria. How do you assess them . I do an estimate for the overlaps of how i think they might communicate. I came up with those estimates in terms of not official statements, because i do not care about the official statements, i care about what those supporters are talking about in the online community, who i am reaching out to in terms of experts. I will ask them their opinions because i cannot stay on top of these different groups. Official statements will stay with the oldcard al qaeda, but i look for pushes and pulls in between. Al assessment on ou sharia, based on the foreign fighter numbers. If you read the biggest sect