Look at the problems there. First i would like to introduce our Panel Including myself. Doctor pills very the foremost china expert in the world. Currently senior fellow and director of the chinese strategy at the hands Hudson Institute. Distinguish policy advisor. I can tell you definitively it has changed the us militarys thinking only a number of years ago. The First American official that revealed what they were telling themselves militarily is quite different than how they wanted to be friends in the world. And then to have a tremendous impact on understanding the military his book is a Landmark Book the 100 year marathon. Is one of the only places with the chinese defectors. And then reveal what is going on. And a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and as a distinguished china expert to spend time as a bomber pilot and has been inside of china as a Defense Attache to track down the inside story of china. His book is called stealth war. Im National Security correspondent for th
The night of the assassins remember it seems a lot longer than a year ago but i wont digress. Last year when i was working on a night of the assassins, i spent a lot of time reading about world war ii and tried to put myself into the shoes of the people i was reading about. I wondered if i had made the choices they made to protect the families and protect myself. But i have found the fortitude, courage. Its where i am now where i wrote my book with a few annoyances in the background and frogs croaking in the pond college hilltop in connecticut. Hopefully there wont be a thunderstorm and it will stay nice. But when i visit here i think i would spend a good deal of my time wishing i could understand what it was like to live through world war ii and find an understanding to convey on the page what its like to live with a constant sense of uncertainty and not knowing whats going to have been mac, what its like to live through a great unknown. But now it is a previously unimagined and all i
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But as you know, im a big fan of yours. Is a huge fan of your first book on google. An audi come back at this particular moment talk about facebook on the inside story couldnt be more timely. And just going to start off. We have lots of places to go with his been going to start off with something timely. Literally this morning as we came to the show you heard about the hacking of twitter. The fact that truth is now going to facebook to get his message out. And facebook is a lot of criticism for a lot of things for the years. I actually wrote a column recently really questioning why Mark Zuckerberg is not fact checked the president s. Tilt your take on this. What is this relationship between facebook and the white house. Free speech and im just going to throw you a question there to start you off. Thank you for doing this is good to connect with you again in a virtual city. So like a lot of things, you cant just tease out one problem the facebook. From his dna and its origins. In the ca
You can watch for her in the near future on booktv on cspan2. Good evening and welcome back. This evening were delighted to have as our guest congressman abler swail well who is eric swawell. Congress mall swail well we are delighted have them with us here this evening am couple of thing opposite housekeeping. I if you have questions and we hope you do theres a little box on the screen that says ask a question. Type your question in there wellle go through those as we move through the event and of course, you can put comments into the chat room. Please use your best manners, and were very glad youre all here four supporting rakestraw books. Eric swalwell. Thank you, michael. Thank you so. You are such a great supporter of independent authors, all around the bay area, and eric i know that michael will do a great job getting the word out about your book. I guess i want to start off asking you a little bit about your reasons for writing end game inside the impeachment of donald trump. The