One of the things that i loved about the l. A. Times festival of books way before i was our book editor, when i was driving and showing up early in the morning is that we have all of those panels with four authors who are novelists or authors who are people that dont get to see each other. There is a moment they have saying something they are coming up with at that instant and its that exchange of ideas that can only happen in the moment. Watch our live coverage of Los Angeles Times festival of books all weekend april 22nd and 23rd on cspan 2. This weekend on q and a. I really learned the value and discourse. So the way i interact with people who i dont necessarily agree with has completely changed. High School Students attending the Senate Youth Program where they shared their thoughts about government and politics. I can safely say at the end of this week im sure im uncertain of what i believe and i think thats a good thing. Hard work and fair chance for everybody to reach the top wi
Reminder that this program can. E found on cspan. Org we take you live to George Washington university in the Nations Capital to hear from the nato secretary general. We will be talking about the organizations role in the world after the meeting yesterday with President Trump. It is just getting underway now. Im the president of George Washington university and im pleased to welcome you. When you do have the opportunity to look outside, we have a balcony here with a broad view of the Nations Capital. Excellent symbol of what it means to be the Largest University in the heart of our Nations Capital. It affords an end view of our monument, the monument here. Theike to think of that as monument of George Washington university. And this location is extraordinary. If you do a line from the state , it would white house intersect where we are sitting now. That tells you a little bit about where we are. It tells you about the importance of this location. And it leads towards events of global s
Im the president of George Washington university and im pleased to welcome you. When you do have the opportunity to look outside, we have a balcony here with a broad view of the nations capital. This is an excellent symbol of what it means to be the Largest University in the heart of our nations capital. It affords an end view of our monument, the monument here. We like to think of that as the monument of George Washington university. And this location is extraordinary. If you do a line from the state Department White house, it would intersect where we are sitting now. That tells you a little bit about where we are. It tells you about the importance of this location. And it leads towards events of global significance. I would like to welcome you to todays discussion. A conversation with the secretary general of the nato. We are honored he could make time during his brief visit to washington to come to our campus. Im pleased with knowledge members of the diplomatic unity for being with
You dont have the proof, no one has concrete information or evidence. Charles assad then going as far as to insist that the United States worked, quote, handinglove with terrorists to carry out the attack. Former deputy Homeland Security jim loy. Admiral, how do you respond to this . Well i think we have respond with some kind of a factual, investigatory process that gets facts on the table before we speculate what the outcomes might be in one direction or another. It is disappointing that we had russia veto the resolution from the United Nations Security Council just yesterday. But i think an investigatory, some basis on which facts can be put on the table where judgments can be taken and then options can be exercised going the other way. Charles well, werent those, wasnt there some sort of a factual assessment that led to the Trump Administration retaliation with those 59 tomahawk missiles . Without a doubt, there is very little doubt in the mine of our Intelligence Community that th
He is an economist and also a senior fellow at the George Washington institute of public policy. Dr. Singer, in a recent paper that you coauthored, the curious absence of Economic Analysis at the federal communications position, an agency in search of a mission is the title, you write that the fcc is often an economicsfree zone. What do you mean by that . Guest what i mean theyre not taking economics into consideration making policy decisions. Theyre instead relying on noneconomic evidence, the popular whims and fancies of the day, to reach decisions that have tremendous economic import. Cspan has it always been that way . Guest it hasnt always been that way. That is what the paper is about. We chart ebb and flow of economic influence offer time. Weve been in periods like this before. This is not the first time that economics has been really gated to something well below the 8th floor, but we havent seen something in recent history as weve seen under the wheeler fcc. Cspan you write of