Second the committee is discussing conducting this hearing in compliance with house regulations. It is being broadcast live on the committees website. Because of the threat posed by the pandemic remains ongoing, we are meeting remotely to ensure the safety of our witnesses, members, staff and public. While we wish we could return to all standard in person events, health and safety protocols dictate we find alternate means of carrying out obligations. Ok so, let me remind members of a few remote hearing procedures. First consistent with the regulations the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for on using themselves when they seek recognition or been recognized for their 5 minutes. Because there are sometimes delays, i would ask members and tonesses to allow some time ensure the last speaker has finished. Members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. If you need to step away, leave your camera on. If you encounter tech
The coronavirus, author chris recentlypoke about his released book the spy masters the c. I. A. Director in the future. By the brookings institution, this is about an hour. Hello, im director the intelligence of the project for institution and today were having a program on covid19, how well he Intelligence Community anticipates the worldwide pandemic which is now covering world. Ire im very happy to say that my chris whipple, he is the author and published a a few years ago called most recently publish spy masters which is a book about how policy directors shape history for the future. Its the first book that looks modern directors of. Entral intelligence they have s how interpreted their jobs. In the ve time Later Program to talk about all of and to purchase well be e book, [indiscernible]. Were going to focus today, at least initially on the pandemic. The Intelligence Community it ppears actually did a fairly good job of warning and pandemic was coming. Should i ask you, chris, to g
Good afternoon, im bob costa, National Political reporter at the Washington Post. Today im joined by ambassador john bolton, President Trumps former National Security adviser, and he is the author of the room where it happened, a white house memoir, ambassador bolton, welcome. Thank you, thanks for having me. Lets begin with the opening of your book. It has a detailed recounting of how you joined the Trump Administration. Why did you join the administration in the first place given what you wrote in the book about the president s behavior who was largely known beforehand . I had the honor to serve in prior republican administrations in state department and Justice Department and i felt that it was a time of great challenge for the United States. I thought that the prior 8 years of the Obama Administration had seen a lot of misguided policies that had weakened our National Security posture and and i hoped i could make a contribution. I was obviously aware of many of the things that had
Next on book tvs afterwards, historian Neil Ferguson discusses his book kissinger, the idealists. It looks at the early life of Henry Kissinger. He is interviewed by Carla Anne Robbins of the council on Foreign Relations and National Security prep best threat root college. Welcome professor and thank you for doing this. This is the first of two book authorized under the prep as you say that not only has this book been written with her kissingers cooperation it was written with his suggestion. How did that happen . Authors ought to be nervous of it because it advised that he had some control over it. When he suggested this to me which is number than ten years ago i said, yes i will be willing to do this but one condition, i have a completely free hand and you have to accept that if you ask me to do this and give me access to your private papers, i will write what i think is the truth. Which is incidentally the basis for which i have written the previous book. So he agreed to that. I thi
They rolled piece over keys overtop of us. They rolled cap and trade over the top of us before obamacare. It did not get through the senate because of the super majority required before here you read pulled the trigger on the nuclear option. They rolled cap and trade over the top of us. Because it has been blocked legislatively value now you have , barack obama deciding that he has Constitutional Authority to make applause on his own. And to direct his minions to do whatever they decide to do to impose this agenda on us. I have long spoken about the constitutional violations. Here is the one that is the clearest to me. When barack obama stood up to the podium after a beating on them religious community because there was a requirement to provide sterilization even through church organizations. And therellion evasion through church organizations. Barack obama took a two week beating, and he went up to the podium like this and said, now i am going to make an accommodation to religious org