The man that we always count on to put place democracy front and center of everything. You know so well that since citizens united, the last two election cycles that have set records for money spent, including hundreds of millions of dollars from undisclosed sources, the bulk of this socalled dark money spend iingy outside groups that hide their donors go toward negative tv ads. We all know that. Would you recommend changes to the Communications Act to ensure that voters are informed about who exactly is behind these anonymous tv ads . And is there anything in your view that the fcc can do on its own without congressional intervention . I would recommend them enforcing the statute that we already have. If you take a close look at section 317, which has to do with sponsorship identification and which goes back even before the teleCommunications Act of 1934 was written, goes back to 1927, ensuring that listeners and viewers more recently know by whom they are trying to be persuaded wheth
Extensive period of review and there would have to be some sort of high level determination as to why a different decision were to be made, is that the way it would work . Yeah. Under Administrative Law even with deference, the agency has to provide a reasoned explanation for its change in policy. It would require a notice and comment proceeding which is open. I wouldnt the suggestion has been made that somehow it would lead to instant clarity. It would lead to another three to fouryear period of conflict and litigation. Chairman copps . I would say it wouldnt take forever to compile that record. I, and a lot of other people i know, would be happy to contribute to the rationale for that sort of action. Its not really starting. A lot of that information is out there with just a route not taken and now we need to go back and look at it. And the fccs reclassification would be considered arbitrary and cap rishs unless there was a period of comment and refreshing the record and some sort of
Philip breedlove said ukraines defenses can have a major effect on this floor if the us and nato provide ukraine with what it needs to counter russian aggression. He spoke during a virtual discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council about ukraines military strategy. This runs about an hour. Good evening, my name is melinda herring and i am decorated director of the Atlantic Council, thank you for joining us. Today were going to avail the counteroffensive in ukraine. We have five phenomenal experts and were excited about this. Thank you for joining us as well. We have an hour to the other and were going to have a conversation and at the tail and we invite you to put your questions into the chat or tog send us questions on twitter and ill be glad to read them and direct them to the right person. Without further ado welcome max boot who is the Jean Kirkpatrick fellow International Security studies at the council on Foreign Relations and a contributor to the Washington Post. We have general
Your questions into the chat or send us questions on twitter. Without further ado, max boot, the Jeanne Kirkpatrick fellow in Natural National Security Studies and contributor to the Washington Post. General philip dash, former supreme allied commander in europe and a great friend of the Eurasia Center. Senior policy researcher at the rand corporation. Anything she writes is worth reading. We have a National Security correspondent at the wall street journal, fresh back from purse on. We have andre mckee is going to be late, he is the former minister of defense and distinguished fellow at the Eurasia Center and chairman of a great think tank in kyiv called the center for defense strategies. If you are not getting his daily updates, get online and have a look. I want to make the most of our time and go to kick us off. Two weeks ago, ukraine launched its longawaited counteroffensive to retake territory in the south. How much territory do you expect ukraine to liberate . What are the chall
It is not yet available today, mr. Chairman, we do have industry and government involvement on developing those standards. Because we have to develop a standard in order to implement that technology into the network. Well, if you could have heard all of the hearings that we have had, and just to complicate matters, a lot of them dont originate in this country. They are from a foreign country, and that means youve got to work with another government in order to get them to cooperate to go after the guys. So that makes it doubly difficult and longer and longer and, therefore, the development of technology that will help someone identify a number of them who gets spoofed, that would be extremely helpful in the protection of senior citizens, indeed, protection of customers. Because of the vote that is now occurring, i want to say that i want to bring to the table retailers who offer the services to send money, such as western union, moneygram, and the various cards. Were going to have a fu