I i would briefly walked to the agenda before we invite the speakers onto the stage. First up we have Katherine Brown and jay wang will participate on a paper which is published online today called Public Diplomacy and National Security in 2017. Building alliances, fighting extremism and dispelling this information. Katherine is council of Foreign Relations International Affairs fellow and a visiting fellow with my program here at csis and weve been fortunate to have her for a couple of months leading to his work on Public Diplomacy. She most recently served as executive director of the u. S. Advisory commission on Public Diplomacy. Jay wang is an associate professor at the Usc Annenberg school for communication and journalism, and director of the usc center on Public Diplomacy. The paper theyre going to present to you today emerged from the workshop that we held jointly with jason center back in november. Essentially what it does is indexed and assessment of where weve been with Publi
As we speak to you in the heart of trump tower, you are prepared to move into the white house, what will your portfolio be . Guest it will include some communication, i have been in talks with the president elect about the strategy, something i have done over a number of decades. We have a number of means and opportunities in the white house. Everything from women and girls, office of public liaison, anyway to help with those efforts, i will. General strategy and advice, walking privileges, and the communications operation, donald trump is it is important to him. Host walking privileges. How important is that . Guest it is important to continue the relationship i have with the president elect, one of his trusted advisors am a someone who has the opportunity to speak with him on a regular basis. He would like me to be in the room when it happens and that is how it has been in transition and i expect it will continue to be as he sees appropriate to my service for him. I have found on beh
Secretary sean spicer. Incoming White House Press secretary sean spicer, how are you preparing to take on this job . It is an ongoing process, we have been doing it at 10 30 every day, hiding behind a phone when you do it but part of it is getting used to the battle of taking questions, rapidfire, wide range that exists in practice sessions, something my predecessors suggested, sitting down at a podium, lets pretend reporters ask you real questions to understand what is about to come your way on a daily basis but making sure you look at some hot button issues, sit down with key players who will play key roles in the administration and get a better understanding of the issues and getting used to taking the incoming questions the way they do at the podium. Josh ernest, White House Press secretary. Any advice, anything you touring the office in the Briefing Room and the west wing. The communications director, unbelievably generous with their time and counsel. They share with me the challe
As i mentioned earlier, we will have autographing right on the other side of the elevator, and first thing to that area, thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] you have been listening to pamela paul, editor of the New York Times book review talking about terry mcmillan, dave barry, jay mcirnerny and maria semple. Coming up in an hour from miami, you hear from actors and author Jane Alexander about her book wild things and wild places, but in the meantime we are pleased to be joined at the Miami Book Fair by former Florida Governor and senator bob graham, his newest book is called america, the Owners Manual. You write in your book you thought donald trump was a fad that would ultimately pass. Obviously that part of the book needs to be revisited. The rest of the book holds up pretty well. In a sense the fact that he is not a fad makes the fundamental point of the book which is that there are a lot of americans who are extremely
Service to every city deserves. My honorable friend, as always, speaking on behalf of his constituents. We know it is a place you want to be able to visit frequently and easily. The government is investing record amounts to improving our railways in regard to a particular case to transport ministers working with crosscountry to see how the Gloucester Service can be improved. Order. [inaudible conversations] cspan2 we leave the british house of commons as members move on to other business. You have been watching prime ministers question time aired live on wednesdays at 7 00 a. M. Eastern when parliament is in session. Quick reminder you can see this weekend session sunday night at 9 00 eastern and pacific on cspan. For more information go to cspan. Org and click on series to view every program we have aired from the british house of commons since october 1989. We would like your comments about prime ministers questions via twitter in the hashtag pmq. All day saturday American History tv