Its hard to imagine anyone more suited to the topic of a career in intelligence than mr. James clapper. Its a great treat to have him here this evening. As you can see from his background, hes had over five years of experience in the Intelligence Community, in the military side, on the civilian side, inside and outside government and overseas as well and maybe its not listed in his bio but maybe someone can ask him a question to tell you about his 2014 visit to north korea to rescue a couple of americans who got caught up there. I first met mr. Clapper in the 1990s when i was a baby bureaucrat in the pentagon and he was head of Defense Intelligence agency. I was, i confess, a little bit scared of him when i first encountered him but my boss, ash carter, and the rest of the pentagon civilian leadership held him in such high regard and respect that we were all grateful to have him part of the team. Most recently, i logged many hours with mr. Clapper in the white house situation room disc
They can build. Watch our coverage of the 2017 baltimore book festival saturday starting at noon eastern on cspan2s book tv. We are joined by representative marsz i cap tore democrat from ohio serving the 9th district, also a member of the Appropriations Committee and here it talk about amongst other things the state of renegotiation of nafta. Good morning to you. Pleasure to be on your program. Thank your listeners for listening. Talk about the state of nafta, renegotiations. Whats the purpose of the federal government at this time and what do you see happening with that . Well, the president during his campaign talked about the renegotiation of nafta and it is under way. For our region of the country, this is a very prime issue. I have a map here showing how many of our great lake states have lost jobs and how many jobs ohio since 1993 has lost over 34,900. 35,000 jobs to outsourcing and to low wage platforms and michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, indiana, i mean this whole region wa
It at a successful 100 day. Between 13 Congressional Review Acts, pieces of statutes new york laws north regular layings, between then syria reaction, the afghanistan moab, the response to north korea, the budget, andd especially because of justice gorsuch, he want the first 100 days. Like to win more but he won the first 100 day jazz. Host what is important or significant thats too low but he has broken out of the starvation years of theme department of defense so Mick Mulvaney is not nope for being a defense spending. He is a budget hawk and says the deficit is a bigger National Security problem than the prc or russia. Was a little afraid he would undercut defense. Still not what needed to be. No enough money for a 350 ship navy but going the right direction. By the time it gets through the house and senate and after thehe shutdown, which is coming,. Host you think we center. Guest Chuck Schumer wants a shut down, going to cause a shutdown, because his base demands a shutdown, and hi
And because it had incidents in sment and now incidents in may. And today is not a regular day of class here. Its actually a study day. Students are preparing for final scams and many that we talked to said that this incident is hurt pull full and unwelcome. University officials confirming that these bananas hangingy strings in the shape of nooses were found in at least three locations on campus. And the words harambi and aka written on them aka referring to alpha, kappa alpha these published in the Student Newspaper and happened on a day when the University First he black female sga president took office and she is also a member of aka. And there was a meeting last night at the black Student Alliance media not allowed to be con campus to attend that. Students provided us with pictures it was very well attended. Many we talked to feel more could have been done after the prior ips dmept s were trying to come up with a list and letter to accepted to 5d mrtion letting them know all studen
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