Great american historian wilford mcclay. Its a book that comes at a time when questions of who we are as a people, of whether we can have a unifying rather than a divisive story and of how to tell the story of our country in a way that neither sells short our National Greatness nor whitewashes our National Sins are really live questions in our politics, and what may be in what may be an unusual way. This book is clearly intended to speak to that moment. The couldnt be a better time to hear from bill about his sense of how to approach these questions. Mcclay is a national treasure. Hes first and foremost a teacher, holds the blankenship chair at the university of oklahoma. Hes admired and beloved by students past and present. Hes also one of the great writers of American History. His book the masterless self and society in modern america was judged the best book in American Intellectual history the year it was published by the organization of american historians among his other wonderfu
Will come back to the auditorium. Both those president here and watching at home. I am again senior fellow, burried pleased to welcome you to the second panelist of the 2019 Institute Surveillance conference. This continues the theme, focusing on oversight. With respect to two controversial programs. Surveillance on section seven oh two of Foreign Policy and a provision of section 215 that provides for a burried large scale automated collection of phone records. Both of these programs have had some serious complaints. That come to live over the past year. And so we thought it useful to examine how those arose, what the nature of the problems of the discovery is and how the Intelligence Community is responding to them and whether the response is adequate. So the discussion will be headed up by prizewinning port reporter, Charlie Savage. His book power wars is probably the best portrait of nast National Security policy making. In a president ial ministration. I will pass you on to Charli
Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here and im grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with most americans and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by reports from the from the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General. We have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, going to be from the house Intelligence Committee. So even intelligence overseers now are at
Pleased with the way you have opened up senate order and the way you are conducting business there after two years of majority leader . Sen. Mcconnell we had in the first year of the 114, 200 rollcall votes, previous years were 15. We passed massive, fiveyear highway bill that had not happened in 20 years. We did a complete rewrite of no child left behind. A whole variety of things that not going to make the front page of the new york times, but important. There was bipartisan agreement and we got a president ial signature. Did we have differences . Yes, but i try to focus on the things that we could agree on that were worth doing. By any objective standard, we had a very accomplished 114th congress. Mr. Goodman what third of conversations have you had with your friend Chuck Schumer who takes over for harry reid . Sen. Mcconnell we will see, democrats are in a feisty mood these days. Mr. Goodman will they use the filibuster on a daily basis . Sen. Mcconnell they will make it difficult.
What does that mean for the nato, forrussia, for our allies . Your comments and reactions this week to the tweet yesterday. For republicans, 202 7488001. Or democrats, 202 7488000 and for independents, 202 7488002. Many of you already weighing in. Good morning. This is the headline was the front page, trouncing the signaling a security system. More on this in a moment. First my breaking news overnight, reporting on the berlin suspect that has been shot and killed near a milan, italy train nation. The tunisian man sought in primary suspect in the attack on the berlin market this week, killed by a Talent Police Italian Police near milan. He became the subject of a massive manhunt yesterday morning after authorities discovered his personal documents in the cap of the truck used by the berlin attack. His fingerprints on the door. The interior italian minister says many incident took place near the outskirts of the lawn, two Police Officers stopped the magma presumed to be amri. Amen remove