Are all follows at the kennan institu institute, so we wanted to get them all together. Alan cull son, the moscow correspondent for the wall street journal for a decade and a half, sergei, who has a show and elena, a special investigative correspondent. So its a really, really good group of journalists. I encourage you to join us on thursday mortganing. Let me start todays event, russias war against terror. Elena had just published this book. The evolution of terrorism in russias north caucuses and we have copies for sale up front and she will inscribe it for you and write a comprehensive plan for dealing with terrorism on the front cover. Im kidding. Thats chapt ir 3. So, elena is associate professor of International Security studies in the college of International Security affairs at the National Defense university. Thats a Government Security Oriented University in case that didnt make it clear. Her publications including this latest book have appeared foreign wide including in jour
Electio elections. Later treasury secretary jack lou on the upcoming debt ceiling debate. Every five years, the departments of agriculture and health and Human Services issue dietary guidelines and nutritional information to the public. Next the House Agriculture Committee hears from tom vilsack and Silvia Burwell about the process. This is two and a half hours. Good morning. Lets go ahead and get started. Trent, will you open us with a prayer please . Dear heavenly father, we ask that you bless this committee. We ask that you bless this government. We ask that you bless all those who lead this nation. Amen. This Meeting Committee of agriculture regarding the development of the 2015 dietary guidelines for american will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for being here this morning. It is no small feat to get two of the secretaries of two of the most important agencies in government to sit at the same table at the same time, so i thank you secretary vilsack, secretary burwell,
And look at you in the eye and try to figure out who you are. And see most importantly if you understand their challenges and problems. We see a lot of National Polls but we dont have a National Primary. Iowa, New Hampshire, south carolina, you move right along and there is no surprise that we consider New Hampshire to be important but not the exclusion of all other places so we are building out our infrastructure. And in the business of the primary and National Poll and all of that what is most important, and i run a lot of political campaigns, if you build a stage with no scaffolding the stage can collapse. We have seen that. As you build the stage, you have to build the scaffolding so you have a solid foundation. That is how i have done it. I am having a great time. I show up and you are like thank you for coming. Why wouldnt have . Someone is like you will do this and that and i said i dont care what you do. Lets just have fun. In the republican primary there seems to be establishm
Alien and sedition act. What is the view of those both of them on this . Some people thought we were about to be overrun by french revolutionaries and the a were influencing people in america. There were rumors that cities would be burned. It was terrorism they were anticipating. For example, the opposition party, the Democratic Republican Party was very enthusiastic about the french and some of the ideals of the french revolution. Jefferson in particular. This is where they begin to go in different directions. Also, some of the press is very vehement in their criticism of the administration. So they muzzled the press and said that this is probably the thing that john adams is most criticized for. Abigail, i believe, supported john. Abigail was even more vehement during i think she is even more conservative than john during that time. The upshot of this, the people who were breaking the alien and sedition acts you could be jailed. It was said that the press made things up. He had no st