Their attention on the state of New Hampshire. This is 40 minutes. Joining us from boston is james kendall, thank you for being with us. I want to begin with Governor Scott walker, he was in New Hampshire for two days with nine in events, but only one public event and that gets to a piece you wrote a few years ago that to win the primary you need to go after the activist first. That is what is happening, can you explain. We are 11 months away from voting in New Hampshire and we are from this period that you know called the invisible primary. There are only three ways of knowing if the candidate is winning, losing or and third or fourth. One of them is money which is easy to quantify, you have 5 million or 2 million. You are either in first place or seventh and that makes some sense there and then third it is hard to get your head around. It is organization and what type of campaign are you putting together. Together . In New Hampshire, i took a look a couple of weeks ago these super ac
Future of u. S. Diplomacy. After that, a forum on the effectiveness of alqaeda in yemen. A former state Department Officials from the obama and george w. Bush administrations discuss Public Diplomacy in a tough budget in vermont. The discuss the effectiveness of Student Exchange programs and governmentbacked broadcasting outlets, like voice of america. The George Washington school of International Affairs hosted this event tuesday. This is an hour and 45 minutes. That is Public Diplomacy in action. [laughter] im a professor here at gw and the director of the institute for Public Policy and global communication. You can find us on twitter ip dgc. Were also on facebook. Were hosting a conversation on twitter about this event, hashtag ipdgc. What i will do to get as a rolling here is give a brief introduction and bio for our great panel here, and then get going into the discussion. We have a great with a lot of interesting people in the room. We need to leave time for discussion. First we
I only make that point to say we live in an environment where we are mitigating all these problems. As much as i would love to live in a world where we could simply eliminate them or get to a place where we eliminate them, realistically we are going to be dealing with strategies to mitigate these problems. I want to, before we open it up to questions, get a little more specific on what the private sector should be able to do, and maybe steve you or anyone else jump in on this. Theres been a lot of discussion of active defense, of actions that the private sector could do in its own infrastructure, honey pots, et cetera or moving outside of its infrastructure to try to get back its data. Is this part of what youre talking about as greater private sector role in deterrence, and i guess from others, are there reactions to that specifically . First i would like to say there is the playbook for cyber events. Some of these issues are discussed there and in a way that is very evenhanded to add
Last week Emory University said your undermining of the cdc unforgiveable under President Trump and called his leadership antiscience. Dr. Butler, i believe was quoted saying he was deeply concerned that actions that the agency was forced to take would cost lives. Have you discussed any of that in your conversations today . Do you have any concerns about the allegations . Well, im not going to talk about my discussions internal here within the cdc. What did i come down here to do . I cam down here to thank the cdc for their work. We talked about the most recent data around the efficacy and importance of wearing face coverings. We talked about the Vaccine Planning work around distribution of vaccines and i got an update about the incredible problem that the. C dc is making on making the data submissions from Nursing Homes to the Health Safety network. In terms of the questions that you asked, let me be really clear. The cdc is the premier epidemiological organization on the face of the
This is obviously very substantively important topic under what conditions will the public support military force, and its important we understand and its important we push each other really hard to try and make the work as good as it can. The halflife for any social research is probably fairly short anyway. So its worth discussing it sort of with as much friendly enga engagement as we can. So its hard to understate the importance of John Muellers work in shaping this whole Research Agenda and what people look at. And the importance of casualties in shaping Public Opinion about war. I think sadly sort of inside the beltway policy community has misinterpreted some of his work. Largely the public will immediately oppose war once the body bags start coming home. Im not exactly sure thats what his work se, but that became the conventional view and oftentimes was attached to him. There are several real difficulties in studying how casualties affect Public Opinion. The main way that we study