Thank you very much. I feel terrific to be addressing this multitude, staggering. I am also reminded that there is an adage about bostonians that they would much rather hear a lecture but heaven and visited themselves. And i think it is in that spirit i got you all to turn out tonight. Okay. Dennis, of course, stolen a lot of my thunder here. I will underscore what i have been asked to say. Here. You really should look at it. It is just marvel. The whole beauty in which of this institution is that these documents are here to touch. There is nowhere else that you can go to actually make contact in this fashion is rare and wonderful and inspiring for writers and scholars. It is number one and two elaborate a little bit, it was years ago making it one ofoutsideand he broughtthe way hehe says take a look. He had helped push hamiltons economic agenda through the house and ultimately rose to become speaker of the house for the election of 1800 they wrested control away from his Federalist Pa
[inaudible] go figure. Level of the attacks only get worse to will only get worse. I fear that they will be able to pull off a significant attack that has real financial consequences. If you just take the Public Information by private security companies, we know that nationstates have been on our Critical Infrastructure truth they are waiting to costeffective capabilities in case of a conflict. We have a penetrative it. We know they were successful. We know they were successful on getting into our financial networks, large financial institutions, not once, but twice. Is somebody at some point is going to decide to flip the switch. When they do, we will have a significant economic, catastrophic event. Actuallys we are just fat guys. That is a losing equation from always. I fear it would take Something Like that to get most members of congress to understand the real threat. That i will say stop the nsa spying on you. Because they dont silently. Because they dont spy on you. We are finall
I think both broad and domestically they are not going to forecast what we are going to be going through as we are traveling home to see loved ones but we are on high alert. Mostly abroad. I think there was significant concerns in thailand, pakistan but, thats the world were living in. Wonder, but at some point that is part of it but when will the enhanced threat end. This is something for the long term. Well, thank you both for being. Tomorrow, a federal budget analysis. That will be part of the discussion hosted by the brookings institution. That is live at 9 30 a. M. Eastern on cspan three. 3. We were also have live coverage it later in the day from the Economic Club of washington dc. That is live at 7 00 here on. Span next, Edward Snowden talks about government surveillance. He also discusses the recent Senate Report. This is from a conference on privacy and Civil Liberties posted by the Cato Institute. This is one hour. While we arrange for him to be able to be heard and to hear u
Congress. Top of the charts the year they were elected was a song coming up Edward Snowden talks about government surveillance at a Cato Institute conference. Then the chair of the House Intelligence Committee mike rogers and former former attorney general alberto gonzalez. In the senate tonight members are debating a 1. 1 trillion spending bill designed to avert a government shutdown. A live look here on the senate floor. Today House Republicans earlier passed a stopgap measure to keep the government open until at least wednesday if need be. Senator barbara mick ullstromky who chairs the Appropriations Committee speaking now about the spending bill, the 1. 1 trillion measure, on the senate floor while leaders are negotiating behind the scenes to attempt to schedule a final vote on that bill. Watch the senate live on our companion network cspan 2. This afternoon former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden spoke Via Video Conference at a Cato Institute conference on govern
Wont happen. Really if the people rule, if the democratic system is answerable enough, if it does not have all of these levers and barriers to the peoples will being stressed, it will express the public will, and that will mean it is a legitimate system of government. Paine asserted. I think jefferson was more careful about this. It will also mean the people comply to be governed with the technical capacity society. One of the fascinating things is this combination of democracy with a technocrat government. The early progressives there were many more mechanisms for direct democracy. People should be able to make their views known through referenda, they should be arresting jesses justices, the constitutional system, i think it is fair to say, is opposed to both of these. It does not trust the people. The constitution does not trust anybody. Lets assume everybody is wrong. What does a legitimate government look like then . I think that is one of the best things about the constitution. I