created by cable in 1979 and brought to you today by your television provider. announcer: andy purdy is chief security officer for huawei. he is based in washington dc and he is our guest on the communicators. mr. purdy, what do you do for huawei as chief security officer? andy: my primary role is internal, although i have been doing external things for the past few months, i chair the committee of key parts of the company in the united states that tries to assess and manage and control risk, help support our overall ethics and compliance program so that we make sure we protect huawei, we protect our customers, and we can continue to do business and manage the privacy and cyber security risk. peter: what is huawei s legal and business status in the u.s. right now? andy purdy it is a moving target. we have the national authorization act, we have a pending rule to an executive order. right now, we can t sell to the u.s. government, can t sell to u.s. contractors, and ther
This week we want to introduce you to the newest member of the federal Communications Commission and that is brendan carr who has been a commissioner since augu august. This is not your first time at the fcc. Thank you for having me on. I started as a staffer 2012. Most recently servedlike its been a lot of fun. One of the great things as we have a full slate weve all had experience at the agency before. As a fastpaced and enjoyable. John hendel is joining us. I want to talk about net neutrality. Reverence been looking forward to that. From a high level i feel like you hear a lot of reactions to it. Theres been a lot of fears about this. Whether could being you offerings or if theres anything different on the internet. Excited about was before the agency right now. On tuesday they circulated a proposal and it was released publicly today more than three weeks in advance. I think its great for innovators and freedom on the internet as well. What it poses to do is return the internet to t
Communicators congo a discussion of the communicators, a discussion of telecom in washington this fall. Joining us are three working reporters covering this issues, covering congress, sec, our other agencies. John hendel is with politico. Lydia beyoud is with event driven. And Tara Jeffries is with bloomberg bna. Before we get into these issues, i want to ask you all an opening question to see where we go. The influence today of some of the larger Tech Companies, and here in washington. Is it growing, is it outsized . Lydia thats a great question. We are seeing a pivot. In the trunk administration, away from wellrecognized influence by Tech Companies like google and facebook, towards skepticism. Influence under the Previous Administration is under a different light here. Tara i would agree. I think the trunk administration has not shown the same focus on tech groups and companies that the Obama Administration did. Thankfully, we are seeing conversations in congress about it as well, gi
Host and Tara Jeffries is with bloomberg bna. Before we get into some of the issues, i want to ask you all just kind of an opening question and see where we go with this. Lydia beyoud, whats the influence today of some of the Larger Tech Companies and here in washington . Is it growing . Is it outsized . Guest thats a great question. I think one of the things that were really seeing right now is a pivot from the Obama Administration, and now in the Trump Administration away from such a wellrecognized influence by a lot of the Tech Companies toward a little bit more skepticism. So their former influence under the Previous Administration is definitely in a different light here. What do you guys think . Guest yeah, i would agree. I think the Trump Administration definitely hasnt shown the same focus on tech groups, Tech Companies that the Obama Administration did and, frankly, were seeing some changing conversations in congress about it as well given this nod toward antitrust and monopoly
Historians talks about what life was like for freedmen after the civil war and the overall successes and failures of reconstruction. They discussed Educational Opportunities, land redistribution, and Voting Rights as well as the politics behind these reconstruction measures. This panel was part of the annual lincoln forums symposium. It is about an hour in 15 minutes. The title of this panel may be a little deceiving. If i can read it here. [laughter] Voting Rights for black freedmen. What went right and what wrong. It seems to be couched in the terms of Voting Rights. It is really about reconstruction. I think you all know that and underminesuse what the whole progressive effort to reconstruction is the lack of freed rights for those net and women. We will expand this beyond voting. We just could not get there is a nation with the 13th amendment, with the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It did not give Voting Rights to the africanamericans. And neither did the 14th amendment with its equal