Our second president john adams said liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. President ,or as Thomas Jefferson, said life and liberty go together. Light and liberty go together. One reason the center was established is to inspire citizens of all ages. We do that every day through tours and Public Programs and educational programs. One of our contributions to achieving the Civic Education goals is our partnership with the we the people program. We are delighted to share lessons on the role of congress and our constitutional system with students from the washington dc area. Our Education Team supports this partnership, but i want to give special thanks to the Education Program manager, larin lauren. Ren [applause] established the program that gives students an idea of what it is like to be a member of congress. We try to stay current with our programming and are always updating a developing and doing our part to strengthen the we the people program. Than
I want to focus on an issue ive been working on, which is the issue of Insider Trading. It erodes faith in our Capital Markets. It rewards insiders at the expense of often Retail Investors and is a real problem. What our witnesses know well, but the American People may not, is that there is no statutory prohibition on Insider Trading. The s. E. C. Can and does prosecute insider training through their antifraud and antimanipulation authority, but the case law that shapes this Insider Trading law is far from a solid foundation. Decisions can radically alter the landscape of what is unlawful almost overnight. Im a believer that if were going to prosecute someone for a crime we should put the crime into a statute. Im grateful both for the support and cooperation of the commission as well as the support of chairwoman waters and chairwoman maloney as well as the cooperation of the Ranking Member. We continue to work with my colleagues to refine the bill i want to give thoughts on some ideas
I want you to know that charlie cook made the ultimate sacrifice tonight. He has tickets to the game. He gave them to his son so he could join us. [applause] to his son so he could join us. [applause] small price to pay. [laughter] we thank you doubly for that. Also wantsed to mention that we have a couple of exciting programs coming up. Two more exciting programs coming up. Senator Sherrod Brown joins us november 19 and susan rice, former National Security adviser on january 14. As john mentioned, there is no better place for political junkies to go to know whats going on in american politics than the Cook Political Report. Charlie cook, the editor, the founder, publisher, and theyve been very good to the hill center, by the way. Charlie was here a few years ago. Jennifer duffy and david wasserman, who cover the senate and the house for charlie have been here with us. And coming into 2020, we are already in the middle of it, we thought it was a good time to have charlie took back and
Homeland security adviser to president obama. At this event hosted by the Texas Tribune festival. Thank you, evan. I thank all of you for being here. This is at the university of texas. A couple of quick reminders. This will be 60 minutes total but we are going to leave plenty of time for questions. We already know some of you have some questions you want to ask our, no kidding, allstar panel here. Secondly, in previous sessions at the festival, we have heard some very interesting ring tones. We would not like to hear any more of those interesting ring tones. Please remember to silence your phones. If you do want to take pictures, take videos, et cetera, and tweet them, yes, tribfest19 is how youll do that. Well take questions at the end. The microphone will be passed around. If you want to get the attention of the microphone, please look around as we move to that portion of the program. Quickly, im david priess, chief operating officer of lawfare. I worked in counterterror at cia both
And huge policy fight with the bureaucrats saying, oh, we cant say economic aggression, but when you are reading the report you understand why. Watch book tv every weekend on cspan 2. Next, remarks by the libyan Prime Minister on the relations of his country and the u. S. He spoke to the John Hopkins School of advanced international studies. It is about an hour and 20 minutes. Welcome, mr. Chairman to the house of international studies. Im daniel seuer, i am pleased to welcome you to the Global Leader in the study and practice of international relations. Mr. Prime minister, i first saw libya in september of 2011 when i made my way to benghazi and tripoli. The early days of the revolution, and unguarded in your two most important cities. Despite the molecular violence, spirits were high after i returned to International Carter center. And shortly thereafter, libya democracy has changed and you will give us a glimpse of what happened behind the scenes and deepening our understanding of l