Trumps war on the fbi. To start by giving brief introduction, josh is a supervisor or was supervisor special agent with the fbi, involved in highprofile terrorism and kidnapping investigations, he managed the bureaus Interagency Communications in response to crisis incidents as he describes them, overseas he was on multiple diplomatic and operational assignments, he has been awarded the fbi combat award four times for work embedded with military special operations and cia teams abroad, he is presently a cnn Law Enforcement analyst, many of you have probably seen him on cnn. Hes a team member term member, excuse me of the council in foreign relations, teaches National Security law at usc, he received masters from John Hopkins University and much more important from our perspective here in austin, graduate of the university of texas. [cheers and applause] [laughter] most relevant to his book is that he was james comeys special assistant. The book, again, cross fire hurricane gets its nam
Legislation if necessary and im sure some legislation will be necessary. Rose on the same subject, we continue with david sanger and Michael Isikoff. L of this down on paper, give is it to congressional committees, perhaps make part of it public, before president elect trump gets sworn in and is able to come in and say Nothing Happened here. Rose we continue with an update on the trump transition and begin with Major Garrett of cbs news. Trump offered giuliani the position of attorney general and homeland security. Giuliani turned him down. Sources very close to the transition tell me, focusing entirely on secretary of state a position he wanted and coveted, but in the end trump would not give him. Giuliani sensed that and pulled out before suffering the indignity of sometime next week someone else getting that slot. So in every way this important political figure who revolutionized new york city and who was the biggest if not the most conspicuous exponent of the trump approach to the
Why are you making that announcement today . John well, obviously, one of , the situations that brought this to a boil is the allegations of russian in russia interfere not only in our elections, but in other elections around the world. That undermines, obviously, the fundamentals of democracy, if they are able to succeed. But more importantly, charlie, testimony before the committee by our military and civilian leaders in defense have all stated that cyber is one of the areas where we do not have an advantage over our potential adversaries. We not only dont have an advantage, in some instances, they have an advantage. These hearings will be focused on the overall issue of Cyber Security, and obviously, their ability or inability to effect the outcome of elections in democratic countries would certainly be one of the issues, but only one. Charlie but you are saying youll have your own investigation at the Armed Services committee. John my understanding among not whether is its they are
Legislation if necessary and im sure some legislation will be necessary. Rose on the same subject, we continue with david sanger and Michael Isikoff. L of this down on paper, give is it to congressional committees, perhaps make part of it public, before president elect trump gets sworn in and is able to come in and say Nothing Happened here. Rose we continue with an update on the trump transition and begin with Major Garrett of cbs news. Trump offered giuliani the position of attorney general and homeland security. Giuliani turned him down. Sources very close to the transition tell me, focusing entirely on secretary of state a position he wanted and coveted, but in the end trump would not give him. Giuliani sensed that and pulled out before suffering the indignity of sometime next week someone else getting that slot. So in every way this important political figure who revolutionized new york city and who was the biggest if not the most conspicuous exponent of the trump approach to the
Historical dimension has gone short shrift ever since the awful of vents of the holodomor in the early 1930s. We have a wonderful panel for you today. I do not think i need to name all of them. Bios of here on the each, people well prepared to discuss this very serious topic. More things. Ay two one, this event is timed in part to something very unusual, a fulllength regular movie, bitter harvest, coming to you later this week. You may have seen it advertised over the weekend. It is well worth seeing. It keeps your attention on a very difficult subject. It is not a documentary. It is a fulllength feature film which seems to be the way to catch peoples attention in this postmodern age. I did not need to be reminded, you can follow us at fu rtureukraine. I will introduce Timothy Fairbank who will be moderating. Tim . Sorry i knew i would make a mistake. [video clip] there have been always those who are trying to take our free freedom. Ukraine must be talked about. [indiscernible] i must