From the Houston Institute in washington starting at 12 15 p. M. Eastern. Recently our campaign 2016 made a visit to pennsylvania during the primary stop in a growth city college, slippery rock, university, washington Washington College and Jefferson College where students, professors and local officials officials learned about our resources covering the campaign trail. Visitors were able to share their thoughts about the upcoming election. Are best ended the week in warrington, pennsylvania where this it a middle school. A special thanks to our cable partners, comcast and armstrong cable for their help and coordinating the community visits. You can view that when he documentaries at cam. Org. Coming up next on cspan 2, a conversation on smart homes, homes that have lighting, heating and appliances controlled remotely by phone or computer. We will hear about the benefits of smart home since privacy and Security Risk from the Atlantic Council in washington. This is about 90 minutes. [in
The continued building of our virginia class at the rate of two a year at some point will child finally with the ohio replacement program. In my view, we need to continue building those two virginia class submarines every year. The New York Times story thats been mentioned to you in the course of this morning is only the latest evidence of the increased emphasize of our adversaries on undersea warfare capability, not just the russians but the chinese. I think in the course of that, article 1 of the comment from one of our military leaders was we are back to in a sense the cold war competition undersea. I would like to know your views and, general richardson, if you want to comment, youre welcome to, whether this program continuing our building of two virginia class submarines every year with the ohio replacement are important, in fact, vital to our national defense. Yes, senator. I defer the numbers et cetera to the services responsible for that. But i can say personally i think we hav
Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much, adam, and thank you everyone for coming here. I look out in the audience and see all kinds of friends and colleagues out here. I so appreciate you coming, im going to sippingle out one person from the voice of america, alan high, who is great history from voice of america kept me from making an error in the speech im about to make. I need to thank him right now. Second, id like to acknowledge my predecessor as the director of the voice of america, david ensor, who has been as helpful and warm to me as any human being can be in helping prepare me for this big job. Please to acknowledge david ensor, who is now at the atlantic council. [ applause ] so as adam says, if you want to know my biography, just flip the page over and read it yourselves, but id like to tell you a couple things you might not know. Im of an age that i was part of a movement that cheap airfares and curiosity about the world sent all of us out around the globe. You know, migration
Announcer from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today at 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Im savannah guthrie. And im willie geist along with Natalie Morales and dylan dreyer. As you begin your shopping today, its the last minute thought that counts. Pretheapd you put a lot of thought into it. Others doing some walking, space walking. The Urgent Mission underway to wrap up much needed repairs to the International Space station. Tom costello is in washington to take us through whats happening right now. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Just minutes ago, mission accomplished. Well take a live look at Mission Control and ill show you videotape from a few minutes ago when they took the spare pump module and slid it into position on the International Space station. Thats it. It looks about the size of a double door refrigerator. It is huge. And this, of course, replacement pump th
This is gps the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. Im Fareed Zakaria. We have a great show for you today. First up, we will talk about womens undergarments. Seriously. Spanx founder sara blakely is the worlds youngest selfmade female billionaire. Her story is an only in america story and it is an amazing tale of entrepreneurship. You dont want to miss this. Then, a big question that affects us all. For the first time in history, a majority of human beings now live in cities. What does that mean . More skryscrapers and congest 8 . More detroits . We will look at the upsides and the downsides of an ever more urban world. We have a terrific panel that has some surprising ideas. Also Les Miserables. It turns out that the book by victor hugo is the alltime favorite novel of a middle eastern leader that the west counts as an enemy. I will explain. But first heres my take. We are watching a season of discontent in the world of young democrac