Heading into the heart of the vietnam war. I lived through watergate, joined the National Security Council Staff a few months before nixon resigned. I used to tell people we will be the last few minutes of this recorded event. You can finish watching on booktv. Org. We go live to the House Rules Committee as they meet to work on legislation related to the impacts of the covid19 pandemic on the Postal Service. Post office boxes are being ripped out, shredding machines have disappeared, this is threatening peoples ability to get lifesaving medications and Social Security checks in a timely way. All the while the Postal Service is in need of Additional Resources heading into november. The house acted for more funding months ago but the senate has done nothing, not a thing. The Postal Service, this is an assault on our democracy. These actions call into question whether legal ballots will be counted in states across the country. No wonder there has been such immense public outcry. We see t
Foreign policy series. Mead, senior fellow at hudson institute. It is my pleasure to be joined by antony blinken, the chief Foreign Policy advisor for the biden for President Campaign and former deputy secretary of state and deputy of National Secretary National Security adviser. During his career, mr. Antony Blinken Antony blinken mr. Antony blinken has held a number of distinguished government positions. He was National Security adviser to Vice President biden during the administration but also served as the senate staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008 and the National Security Council Staff during the Clinton Administration. During his time at the state department mr. Blinken played an instrument to world the diplomatic effort to counter ice is pretty worked on the global refugee crisis and rebalance of asia. L role in the dipl efforts to counter and he rebounds asia tony its good to see u thank yo for joining us today think its going to be an i
Committee in january of 2019 and i quote, the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next pandemic where large scale outbreak of contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls from the United States for support. We must ask ourselves what are the warnings and what can we do right now to protect the American People from other threats. Before the unthinkable happens in the future, how can we exercise strategic and precisive foresight to the best of our ability today to ensure are a nation prepared for tomorrow. That same worldwide threat assessment Cyber Attacks is a top global threat with china, russia, iran, and north korea. Raging a silent war capable of shutting down with such Information Systems and critical sectors in america. The report states, and i quote, our adversaries and strategic competitors increasingly use the Cyber Capabilities including
I well and welcome the Hudson Institutes dialogue foreignpolicy series. Im walter need your fellow at Hudson Institute is my pleasure to be joined by a Sabrina Carter the chief Foreign Policy advisers for the Vice President and bank and former deputy secretary of state and deputy of National Secretary National Security adviser. During his career mr. Thomas lane has held a number of distinguished government positions. He was National Security adviser to Vice President biden during io bomb administration but also served as the senate staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008 and the National Security Council Staff during the clinton administration. During his time at the state department mr. Blinken played an instrument to world the diplomatic effort to counter ice is pretty worked on the global refugee crisis and rebalance of asia. His a contributing opinion writer for the near times and the Global Affairs analyst for cnn. Its good to see you and thank
Domestic unrest such as recent protests . Should the u. S. Be terminating many of our armscontrol creeks . Even contemplating nuclear testing. Should the names of confederate leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and the doctors be removed from our Public Places . To address these questions and many more, today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretaries of defense, doctor robert gates and general james madison. As a bipartisan secretary of defense, secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book, exercise of power, american failure, successes and a new path forward in the postcold war. Doctor cates was an officer in the u. S. Air force and spent 27 years in the cia. He served cia director and became the first career officer in cia history to move from entrylevel employee to head of the agency. Secretary gates served as a member of the National Security Council Staff in four different administrat