Otherwise known as a National Security adviser. I want to welcome all of you here who are able to join us and the audience watching on livestream from the hudson web site but also a special welcome to our cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today and we are to have you here if only virtually and delighted to have everyone who could participatete in this discussio. As i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that we have done here at hudson particularly given the fact that we are less thanan a week away from the election. So many of these issues we are going to be talking about today the question of what americas going to do and where americas going to go from here those issues are going to be decided very soon and so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to understand the guide to what takes place regardless of who it is who will be sitting oval office come january january 21. I want to say a few words about our
Work his previous works of in the year in year zero a history of 1945. Most of which he wrote while he was a fellow 2012 to the envy of his fellow fellows, he displays a betrayal of the world emerging from the devastation and unspeakable horrors of world war ii in europe and asia. Skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, he whatd to know, he writes, those who lived through the war and its end went through, in the long dark shadow of what came before. The wall street journal called year zero remarkable in its combination of magnificence and modesty. The Financial Times described it as elegant, humane and luminous. Amos martin amis has published 25 books, including many collections of stories in novels. Stories and novels. One of the greatest british writers since 1945. 1945 seems to be a theme here. We are extremely fortunate to be able to listen in on a conversation between these two extraordinarily gifted writers, who are also friends. Talk for about 45 minutes th
Albania anyone who travels by train here should have plenty of time and be ready for surprises. Only a few train still run through the country. Move they travel through stunning nature and along a lonely coast. But its unclear how much longer they will continue to run. The routes are slowly being closed down. And before long passenger trains could be a thing of the past. But for now they are still running. At 40 kilometers an hour. The last train. Its 5 in the morning and vladimir she is on his way to work. The 62 year old has been going to work at the train station into this almost every day for more than 35 years. Or lottie is everyone calls him is a train driver and a mechanic and works for albania state we always. Every very maining passenger train in the country departs from and returns to do this. 5 times a week lottie brings passengers to the north south or east of albania. He is one of the last remaining 50 train drivers in the country. Most of the heavy Diesel Locomotives were
But also a very special welcome to our cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today, and were delighted to have you here, if only virtually, and delighted to have everyone who was been ablo participate in this discussion. This i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that weve done here at hudson, particularly given the fact that we are less than a week away from the election when so many of these issues that were going to be talking about today, the question of what america is going to do, where americas going to go from here, those issues are going to be decided very, very soon. And so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to understand as a guide to what takes place, regardless of who it is who will be sitting in the oval office come january january 21. I want to say a few words about our distinguished guest. Robert obrien was born in los angeles and graduated from the university of california berkeley with a law
Separately by russia this data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion so chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy aljazeera as mike hanna has more now from washington d. C. The f. B. I. And the director of National Intelligence holding what they call very Important News conference the details being released indicate according to the f. B. I. That 2 foreign players iran and russia have been actively interfering in this election they do not have any evidence directly connected to russia at this point they say however they insist that iran is behind a series of emails that has been sent to democratic voters undercutting President Trump and attempting to incite a social unrest the f. B. I. Saying that americans should not be concerned about this the situation is being watched but just not to panic if such an email is received for u. S. President barack obama has made his 1st appeara