eastern on c-span, on-demand c-span.org or listen live wherever you are on the free c-span radio app. k.t. mcfarland, it s such a pleasure to speak to you today about your revolution: trump, washington and we the people . i m going to get right into the idea of revolution . you say in the book america has been through viciously divisive period s before, some far worse than the one today. with the hindsight of history we can see them as inflection points that transition period s between all and old system that is broken down and a new one. are we at an inflection point ? absolutely, we re right in the middle of it and the best example is in 2016 in the republican primary there was a real civil war in the republican party at the establishment republicans represented by jeb bush and others get the nomination, didn t get the support of the american people who got it, it was the revolutionary donald trump. the democrats are doing the same thing right now, they re having a civ
george w. bush administration justice department official john you and award-winning offer shall be steel, up first here is a portion of a 2013 interview with george scholz, secretary of state during the reagan administration, he talked about his book issues on my mind. issues on my mind, you write when it comes to terrorism we must think hard about the oral l stakes involved if we believe in our democratic values and the way in our life we must be able to defend them, passive measures are unlikely to suffice and more active defense and deterrence must be considered and given the necessary political support. you see if you have a law enforcement approach. when we find out who did it and we tried them in the u.s. courts and make them guilty with her in this appeals they go to jail. well what does that accomplish? a certain deterrence but in the meantime the terrorist act is taking place. when a terrorist act like 9/11 can kill other people. if you know something that is co
The Reagan Library in simi valley, california. Thank you and welcome to panel six, assessing the rebuild, will we have the strategy and resources to rebuild the military in fiscal year 19 . On this panel we will evaluate president trumps desire to rebuild the military, and we will look at the problems they see as. Like to introduce our distinguished panel. Honorable eric adelman at the income for secretary of defense for policy from 20052009. Independent gun, a former ambassador to turkey and finland. Ms. Marillyn hewson, chairman, president and ceo of Lockheed Martin. She joined lockheed 30 years ago as an engineer and rose all the way to the top. In 2016 Fortune Magazine for can magazine identified her as 50 of the most powerful women in business runs will dr. Kathleen hicks, director of International Security program for csis. She was appointed to the National Commission on the future of the army by the president pictures a former principal undersecretary of policy at the pentagon.
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] welcome to panel six, assessing the rebuild. Will we have the strategy and resources to rebuild the military and fiscal 2019. On this panel we will evaluate president trumps desire to rebuild the military and we will look at the problems facing us. I would like to introduce our distinguished panel, eric ellma ellman, former undersecretary of this defense for policy from 2005 2009. Hes a former ambassador to turkey and finland. Miss marilyn houston who is the chairman, president and ceo of Lockheed Martin. He joined 30 years ago and rose all the way to the top. Fortune magazine identified her as number three out of the 50 most powerful women in business around the world. Kathleen hicks, director of International Security program for csi s. She was appointed to the National Commission on the future of the army by the president. She is a former principal undersecretary of policy at the pentagon, and then we have general robert noller, th
Have steve coll with us to talk about his new book directorate s which is just out this week. In fact this is the first time steve has had an opportunity to do his kind of standup talk about the book. Steve is a legend in journalism for this prodigiousness, the clarity and incisesiveness of this process. His ability to perceive the big picture and his skill at presenting grand narrative of something. He spent 20 years at the washington post, including stints as a financial reporter, foreign correspondent, a head of the sunday magazine, and for six years, he was managing editor of the paper. After leaving the post a decade ago, he served as president of the new america foundation, then took over as dean of columbia universitys journal jim school. He also continues to work as a journalist on the staff of the the new yorker magazine, and along the wail he was written revealing books about very big, important subjects, including americas involvement in afghanistan, the bin laden family, an