Get informed straight from the source on cspan, unfiltered, unbiased, wordforword, from the Nations Capital to wherever you are. Because the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Congresswoman nancy pelosi, the former speaker of the u. S. House, was hosted at the emilys in washington, d. C. Vice president harris good evening, everyone. Oh, good evening. Laphonza, you did your thing look at this. [laughter] my goodness, when i look out at this room, i know the future of our country is bright. [applause] let me start by thanking the leader of emilys list, a dear, dear friend to me and so many of us, ms. Laphonza butler. [applause] as laphonza said, we have known each other for so many years, we have worked together. And i have seen, as i hope many of you have, the effort the tireless effort that laphonza puts into her extraordinary role of leadership. And i will tell you, you and we are fortunate to have a leader of emerys
Favorite character was your dad. You are also one of my favorite characters and then there is at the knee. What role did she play . Guest ebony and i met in 2006 toward the end of my sentence. I had two years before i was up for parole. We became really really good friends. A supersmart dutiful woman. At the time everybody thought she was crazy for exploring a relationship with me given that i was incarcerated and i was incarcerated for seconddegree murder. Here is this beautiful model looking recent recent doctor graduate and she falls in love or as we say grows in love with me while im still struggling to get out of prison. We ended up establishing a wonderful friendship that endures to this day. We just celebrated connecting with each other 10 years ago. Host congratulations. Guest thank you. Today she is the mother of my child and hands down one of my best friends. Actually she is my best friend in the world but a super courageous woman, very smart, cares about real issues and work
Allies, israel, arab allies, particularly interested in any coordination and cooperation you have. Im not going to publicly. Obviously. I would only tell you, we have a handful of nations right now, very direct and Real Relationships with with respect to capabilities, realworld operations. One of the challenges i find isi find is cyber like any other mission, we have got to prioritize. I asked wheres the greatest return for us as a department, the ability to execute our mission. Spent almost as much time with the discussion with the team about what we are not going to do as was discussed , still in the midst of building out. You cant do everything. We have identified identified an initial set of foreign partners, if you will, the partnerships that they are generating, the capability of your using the day. And maybe in a classified setting i could get more information. What is the ratio of civilian versus military within the command . We are trying to build about 80 percent military, 20
N our panel. [applaus [applause]. A reminder if you missed any of this conference you can watch it online in the video library. Tonight on cspan2, we have been featuring booktv beginning at 8. Tonight, authors featured on after word will be with us. Tonight, beginning at 8 p. M. Eastern here on cspan2. Yesterday, marked 30 years of gavel to gavel senate floor coverage on cspan2. Our special program featured video from the senate floor going back to the first televised session. Here is a look the senate is trying to make the best use of the technology in the 21st century to remain true. It is difficult to forge compromise. Everybody has to give and that is not photogenic. This indeed is a humbling moment for me. I am honored to serve as majority leader. But i recognize the majority is slim. We have witnessed something that never happened before in senate history. The change of power during a session of congress. Watch that entire program looking back at Televised Senate saturday at 8 p.
I enjoyed reading your book, equal is unfair americas misguided fight against income inequality, it is show thoughtprovoking to read from someone who says inequality is not a problem. Could you start out telling us why inequality isnt a problem . Guest lets start out with what is inequality. Inequality means a gap. We can have a gap because some are getting richer and others poorer but we can have a gap because people are getting richer at different rates. One reason might be that some people are being really productive. The people at amazon who are employing thousands of people, creating tons of value by pioneering some New Invention and he will get richer than me, and say my wife who is a teacher. She is a great teacher but only providing economic value at an a few dozen people at a time. On the other hand, other things can increase inequality that are bad, unjust, take advantage of people. Bernie may doff was embezzling and stealing money through inequality. I say inequality isnt a