Cspan is brought to you by youe or satellite provider. The communicators looked at technology and its impact on voting and democracy recently with speakers at the state of the net Conference Held in washington d. C. Heres a look. Host katie harbath, is the Global Politics director for facebook. What does that entail . Guest being the Global Politics and government outreach director means that myself and my team who are situated across the world work with governments, elected officials, candidates on how to best use facebook to communicate with citizens. And then we also help to work on facebooks overall efforts in elections which includes protecting the integrity of elections on our platform whether thats through preventing foreign interference, fake accounts, etc. , but then also helping to teach people how to use their Civic Engagement tools so more people can have a voice in the political process. Host people heard you say what you did, and theyre going you didnt do a very good job
Good evening. Welcome to the william g. Mcgowan theater here at the National Archives. Im the archivist of the United States, and its a pleasure to welcome you here this evening whether youre here in person, joining us on our youtube station or a special welcome to our friends at cspan. We present tonights program, meet the better half congressional partners, spouses and families, in partnership with the u. S. Association of former members of congress, and we thank them for their support. Where are you . Weve been doing this for six years now. Great to have you with us. Look forward to six more. Before we get started, id like to tell you about two other programs coming up next month. Oh, actually, this month. On tuesday, february 6th at noon, katherine kerryson will be here to talk about jeffersons daughters three sisters, white and black, which look into the lives of martha and harriet. And friday february 16th at noon, derek ash and George Musgrove will be here to tell us about their
Read from the ancient and sacred scroll of ester. It is in the scroll we read at first of a certain darkness, a darkness which would come to envelope the entire nation over which ester would reign as queen. It was queen ester who became frightened when the plan revealing a plot to erase the sacred remnants of her people, along with the fundamental teachings of her faith came to light. And yet, it was ester who, when confronted by the impending darkness, was able to bring the plot to an end, allowing her people to emerge from the shadow of this horror and live freely, without fear, celebrating life itself in the light of their new found freedom. And now, standing here today before you on the eve of the festival, we too ask that you remember us for life, instilling within us a greater love of freedom seeking both peace and prosperity for all the inhabitants of this great nation. And yet, dear lord, we would be remiss if we were not to remember those who have sacrificed much, those who ha
Joining us on our youtube station or special welcome to our friends at cspan. We present tonight program, meet the better have congressional partners spouses and families in partnership with use association of former members of congress, and we thank them for their support. Weve been doing this for six years now. Great to have you with us. Look forward to six more. Before we get started i like to tell you about to other programs coming up next month. Actually this month, on tuesday february 6 at noon catherine will get to talk about her new book jeffersons daughters, three sisters, white and black and Young American which looks into the lives of Martha Jefferson and harriet hemings. Friday, february 16 at chris myers ash and George Musgrove will be here to tell us about the book chocolate city, the history of race in democracy in the nations capital. To learn more about these and exhibits consult our monthly calendar of events at archives. Gov. You can also sign up at the table outside
Covered the watergate scandal in the 1970s met recently to talk about the era and how it compares to todays Political Climate regarding the Russian Investigation, the news media and the publics view of government. Media, this is one hour and a half. [applause] hey, everybody. [applause] thank you for being here. Can everybody hear me . Great. We are here about a week and a half after the show ended, season one ended, and i think assumed orat slate could have guessed we would be talking about season one and planning season two. Thank you to all of you. [applause] for being here, but also listening to the show. It is really a dream to be here in the Watergate Hotel with all of you. We have got a great show tonight, our first live show. We have a fantastic lineup of guests. I want to introduce them without clearing my throat anymore. Elizabeth drew, to my left. She covered the watergate scandal as it was unfolding. In the book that washington journal in the book washington journal. To my