And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Pleased to welcome Oona Hathaway to this program, she is an International Law professor at yale law school, and she coauthored the book, how we plan war. Welcome on the program. Thank you for having me. I want to start at the obvious place, President Trump on his way to asia shortly. High expectations, low expectations . What do you make of the trip . Well, i think that everybody is kind of holding their breath to see what is going to happen. I think many are worried about what might unfold. Were all hoping that there are no missteps. But one never knows with President Trump. What is there to worry about specifically . Well, its a very fragile region, a region where there are a lot of animosities. Where is there is historical differences, where the moment of course we have the tensions on the korean peninsula, where it has everybody scared and rightly so. Its a very delicate place and he is not known for being d
Csp csp cspspan. Or cspan. Org. Next, a look at hacking attempts by russia which may have targeted as many as 21 u. S. States. We heard yesterday from the person in charge of Cyber Security for the Homeland Security department janet manfra and other intelligence officials. From capitol hill this is a little over three hours. Hearing is in order. Today the committee convenes the sixth open hearing of 2017 to further examine russias interference in the election. This is an opportunity for the committee and the American People to drill down on this vitally important topic. In 2016 a hostile foreign power reached down into the state and local levels to touch voter data. It employed sophisticated cyber tools and capabilities and helped moscow to potentially build detailed knowledge of how our elections work. There was another example of russian efforts to interfere into a democracy with the goal of undermining our system. In 2016 we were woefully unprepared to defend and respond and im hope
Professor of law at stanford law school. His scholarship focuses on Voting Rights, political parties, Campaign Finance, redistricting, and elections administration. He served as special master for expert to craft districting plans for many straight and senior director for the Election Administration and his current work examines changing technology on political communications, campaigns, and Election Administration. Broadly that is what he will be talking about here today. With that, lets welcome nathan. [applause] thank you so much. It is an honor to be here. And it is an honor to be on this panel. We have a lot of people following me. My role is to set the table and they are going to break the china. I will talk about the issues and they will dive deeply into it. Obviously,ig topic dealing with the question of how the internet affects democracy. I want to focus on three questions. Want to focus on three questions. The first is what are the unique challenges that the internet poses fo
Professor of law at stanford law school. His scholarship focuses on Voting Rights, political parties, Campaign Finance, redistricting, and elections administration. He served as special master for expert to craft districting plans for many straight and senior director for the Election Administration and his current work examines changing technology on political communications, campaigns, and Election Administration. Broadly that is what he will be talking about here today. With that, lets welcome nathan. [applause] thank you so much. It is an honor to be here. And it is an honor to be on this panel. We have a lot of people following me. My role is to set the table and they are going to break the china. I will talk about the issues and they will dive deeply into it. Obviously,ig topic dealing with the question of how the internet affects democracy. I want to focus on three questions. Want to focus on three questions. The first is what are the unique challenges that the internet poses fo
A website as cspan. Work. Of attacks on cspan, a look at a history, current state and future of the internet and it is fluent on democracy. The white house chief digital officer for technology and journalist and former assistance security,or national participated in this discussion at the aspen ideas festival. Of thank you for comment. This session will break down into three parts and in each part we wont how who the question, cap we will talk about the question, can democracy say the internet . We will talk about bots, leakers, facebook. Whether democracy in which media and organizations has moved, everything moved online more weather we can survive or just. Ld. A will start with nate, professor of law at stanford law im going to start with nate persily. Nate is the james b. Mcclatchy professor of law at Stanford Law School and his scholarship focuses on Voting Rights, political parties, Campaign Finance, redistricting and Election Administration. He served as a special master or expe