Conference because we have an urgent task before us, to be ready, to be ready to advance Progressive National security Foreign Policy agenda on day one of the new presidency. Should we be so lucky in november. It is very obvious theres a lot of repair work to be done after donald trump. To show how bad things have gotten and what danger might lie ahead. No small task for the erosion of National Security institutions, the credibility of commitments around the world to the rampant corruption across our Foreign Policy. Today is not really about trump. Not we need to be ambitious about advancing an affirmative agenda that advances our interests and importantly reflects our progressive values and unify the American People across generations and a video of the role of the world. It is and to build a 100 a plan for National Security that was released later this year. Our goal today is to have a substantive and Interactive Exchange for all of you across a number of areas including ending the w
On monday, february 3rd, cspans campaign 2020, your unfiltered view of politics. Former National Security adviser susan rice joined a panel with Obama Administration officials to discuss the National Security priorities, progressive government should focus on during his first 100 days in office. Good morning. Welcome to the National Security conference. It is wonderful to see so many friendly faces, former officials, advocates, Congressional Staff. Thank you again for joining us this morning. It feels like a big Family Reunion which is nice to have but it is more than a reunion, more than an average think tank conference because we have an urgent task before us, to be ready, to be ready to advance progressive National Security Foreign Policy agenda on day one of the new presidency. Should we be so lucky in november. It is very obvious theres a lot of repair work to be done after donald trump. To show how bad things have gotten and what danger might lie ahead. No small task for the eros
It steadies the hidden laws that organize our systems from living organisms not only visionary and insightful little so beautifully written im so excited to hear more tonight and before i let him take over just a . Word how we will run things then us signing in the back where books are also available for purchase thanks for being with us tonight and please help me to welcome. [applause] thanks for coming on such a beautiful night. I was warned it could be a sparse audience because of the beautiful weather much i also would enjoy. So actually i think we will read something from the book of like to tie back to the subtitle of the book this is something my publisher put together. Isnt that cute . [laughter] so it is a pretentious subtitle so i will read this little bit and you can see with the book is about a little bit and then i will give a short presentation. This book is about a way of thinking and asking Big Questions. A book about how some of those major challenges and issues rangin
[inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order and without objection the chair can declare recess. A moment of silence for the victims of white supremist hate crime in buffalo, new york. The subcommittee has focused intently on that threat in open and closed hearings. Its utterly devastating to see more victims of this violence. Buffalo, our heart breaks for you. [moment of silence] with that, i ask my colleagues to join pardon me, we will now turn to the business of this hearing. More than 50 years ago the u. S. Government ended project blue book, an effort to catalog and understand sightings of objects in the air that could not otherwise be explained. For more than 20 years that project treated unidentified anomalies in our air space as a National Security threat to be on monitored and investigated. In 2017 we learned for the first time the department of defense had quietly restarted a Similar Organization tracking what we now call unidentified aerial phenomena, or uap
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order and without objection the chair can declare recess. A moment of silence for the victims of white supremist hate crime in buffalo, new york. The subcommittee has focused intently on that threat in open and closed hearings. Its utterly devastating to see more victims of this violence. Buffalo, our heart breaks for you. [moment of silence] with that, i ask my colleagues to join pardon me, we will now turn to the business of this hearing. More than 50 years ago the u. S. Government ended project blue book, an effort to catalog and understand sightings of objects in the air that could not otherwise be explained. For more than 20 years that project treated unidentified anomalies in our air space as a National Security threat to be on monitored and investigated. In 2017 we learned for the first time the department of defense had quietly restarted a Similar Organization tracking wh