Charlie mitchell is the author of a new book. Cyber in the age of trump. The unraveling of Americas National security policy. Before we get into the essence, what gives you a background in cybersecurity . I used to be editor of roll call. I worked at inside washington publishers. We do deep dive coverage into policy areas. Cybersecurity kept popping up. This was in 2012 or so. We looked at taking a deeper dive into it. We started investigating this and decided to start a new publication called inside cybersecurity that focused on the development of cyber policy. That wasnt that long ago, but it really was the stage of creation for a lot of this. I think president george w. Bush was the first one who started getting into cyber as a major policy area. It exploded under the Obama Administration. Cutting across so many issue areas. We decided to create something that would give readers an idea of where the policy arc was going. We covered it through the Second Obama Administration into the
Moderated byill be four broadcast political reporters. Good evening from that tbw studios in olympia. To all of you watching across the state, from spokane to ocean isla, to walla walla, lets bring in our two candidates, and come at it governor jay inslee and police chief lauren culp. Tonight, i need an affirmative you can hear us from the studio . Yes. Yes. Wonderful and we want to let viewers know at home the candidates are alone in those rooms and upstairs from us here in the studios. There are no Campaign Staffers allowed in there, no members of production crew are in the rooms with them they also were not allowed to bring in notes or cell phones or computers. It is just them in their and the candidates to have screens where they can see each other. They can see us, the moderators. And they can see that digital time cues. Im going to go over the format for tonights debate, different from last weeks president ial debate. We begin with Opening Statements. Questions will be asked abou
during a call with house gop leader kevin mccarthy while the capitol was under siege on january 6th along with congressman the three had been facing trump s wrat. republicans in two of those states, arizona and wisconsin, set to make their picks for statewide offices in the next few weeks. arizona today and wisconsin next tuesday. amid a rift between donald trump and mike pence that dates back to january 6th. the washington post reports, quote, two gubernatorial candidates in arizona and wisconsin backed by trump will face-off this month against those endorsed by former vice president mike pence. who split with trump after refusing pressure to reject the results of the 2020 presidential race. but make no mistake, this year s republican primaries have been shaped in large part by who donald trump is endorsing. and competition for his endorsement took a surreal turn last night when trump endorsed eric in the missouri primary. just eric, no last name, you know, like beyonce
endorsed the big lie that donald trump should somehow still be president. again, that s a lie. so let s get right to it. you know who i m talking about, steve kornacki back at the big board. where do things stand right now? the biggest story of the night this one, kansas. constitutional amendment that would say the constitution in the statet of kansas does not provide for the right to abortion goes down tofo defeat, goes down to defeat, overwhelmingly. this is a tremendous surprise what happened here. a lot of people did not see the fact of no winning coming nor the magnitude of it. ite will be significant politil repercussions from this result. also the potential here just in terms of you see where the no vote, a lot of energy in the suburbs ofin kansas city. democrats have been saying, hey, that s the area that those are the kinds of voters who will turn out in november, too, for f democrats. we ll see if that happens. this is the biggest headline of the hour certainly. a
whirlwind visit to taiwan, meeting earlier today with the island s democratically elected president, in defiance of provocative live fire drills from china s military. and also this hour we ll talk to kentucky governor andy beshear about the search and rescue efforts as the death count rises from this week s historic floods. i ll speak to senator kirsten gillibrand about the passage of new medical benefits for burn pit victims finally. and we are on sinema watch, waiting for that 50th democratic senator to signal whether or not she will support the democrats new compromise bill to cut prescription drug costs and combat climate change. but we begin with politics. joining us now, nbc s dasha burns in kansas. nbc s vaughn hillyard in aarizona. and nbc s yamiche alcindor in st. louis. the dream team. dasha, first to you. this amazing turnout. the defeat of the amendment, the kansas state constitution. it s now becoming a rallying cry for democrats and abortion rights supporters