For more information about the book fairs and festivals that booktv will be covering and to watch previous festival coverage, click the book fairs tab on our web site, booktv. Org. Good afternoon, everybody. We shall get the proceedings underway. When barack obama was first elected president of the United States, he was riding a swell of hope however illusory that hope may have been been across the country that our first black or at least halfblack president would usher in an era of postracial harmony. Seven years later, i think we all know how well that turned out. Obama has healed the racial divide about as successfully as his promised healing of the oceans. Racial unrest in this country has gone from a tense simmer to a raging boil. The left would like to pin the blame for this on what they claim is the rights racist refusal to accept a black man as president. In fact, what has exacerbated Race Relations in the United States is the inherent racism and grievance mongering of the left
Said all those made in dollars and everyone who works in the white house, he also trusted as the president leave something important on his nightly cable to iraq would be the president s daily brief or not but if the president s meeting with his closest advisers in the oval office with the situation room of the cabinet room and he realized he left something important on the nightstand, sometimes theyll have a butler bring it over, so youll have a butler come in with a plate of chocolate chip cookies and maybe some very sensitive document. Right. That would not surprise me. The handling of anything that touches the president or is give the president has that ritual and a particle around it. It would surprise me if many of the butlers another help at the white house were touching the president s daily brief, even in the times was disseminated more widely and passed around. General it was kept within the National Security folded every National Security advisor gives to the president. When
When he gets in the car, he knows what he is going to happen what is going to happen. Tonight, on cspans q and a. Now, Homeland Security undersecretary Suzanne Spaulding talks about protecting the nations infrastructure. She was part of an event hosted by the American Bar Association. It is about 90 minutes. [applause] youood morning and thank for that very gracious introduction. Some of you know and everybody will eventually learn that when you have spent over six decades occupying space, you take on a variety of roles. Way, you it another wear a variety of hats. I will explain to you three different hats that i wear. And currently special advisor to the American Bar Association Standing Committee on net law and National Security, we celebrated by 54th birthday, founded aba president and Later Supreme Court Justice Lewis powell and chicago lawyer. The committee focused on the legal aspects of Security Issues and conducted studies and sponsored programs and conferences and highlights t
Our electric grid. Following the nairobi shooting in the shopping mall, we did a Campaign Across the country to enhance the security and resilience of shopping malls all across this country. That has continued with training exercises and regular interactions. Particularly the attacks in paris, we recognize that the great work we were doing all across the country with owners and operators of commercial facilities we could perhaps taylor more effectively for smaller venues, like the cafes, the smaller venues like the 9. 30 club across the country appeared we went back to our mitigation efforts, and we set fordo we tailor this smaller entities that not have a big, robust Security Operations . So we developed the Homeland Security hometown security initiative, and we developed handouts. Report, plan, train, and , to encourage those entities, to make sure that they connects not only with the federal resources that we can bring to their disposal, which is at the National Infrastructure coord
Starts to spread through the bay area. But here it is. We will show you this morning what the future cast is and how you can plan your day and everything which we will even talk about right now. But there is the northwest. This is our day planner for today. Starting in the noter base spreading north base spreading over the general bay area throughout the day. Bay bridge shot for you. Expect cloud cover even when the sun joins us here. Downtown San Francisco as well. Not a lot in the way of fog going on. We have this system in our back yard. To check in with temps. 50s on the board. 40s toward the north bay. Boy, our temperatures will be subdueded. Mostly cloudy and cool. Late north base showers. That is the Morning Hours. Get to the early afternoon, scattered showers spread throughout the bay area. And were talking full temperatures coupled with that. Evening, scattered showers, and cool. That is if ride home were talking about that may be a little bit in the way of slick roads. Here i