Will leave time for questions. Some of you have questions you want to ask our allstar panel. Secondly, in previous sessions at the festival, we have heard very interesting ring tones. [laughter] want to hear those interesting ring tones. Silence your phones, but if you want to take pictures, tweak them. Tweet them. We will take questions at the end. The microphone will be passed around, so if you want to get attention of the microphone, look around as we move to that portion of the program. Im david, the chief operating officer of and i worked in the cia both before and after september 11, so revisiting the terror issue from a different perspective. I am here to bring out the best expertise from our panelists. Bobby chesney is one of the cofounders of law fair, who served on the Detention Policy Task force. It is now the chair in law in World Affairs at the university of texas, where he also directs that center. Mary mccord has been the acting assistant attorney general for National Se
Hearing. The chair is roger wicker of mississippi. This hearing will come to order. Good morning. Today, we will discuss with the technology is doing to remove violent and extremist tenth from their platform. This is a matter of serious important to the safety and wellbeing of our nations communities. I hope we can engage in a collaborative discussion about what more can be done within the jurisdiction of this committee to keep our communities safe from those wishing to do us harm. Today, we representative on the Worlds Largest social Media Companies and Online Platforms, we hear from this Monika Bickert, head of the Global Policy management for facebook, and mr. Nick pickles, policy director of twitter. Mr. Derek slater, Global Policy director, and Senior Vice President of program for the anti defamation league. Over the past two decades, the United States has led the world in the development of social media and other services to allow people to sites like google, facebook, and twitte
Richard thank you. Lets begin. I want to welcome everyone to hudson. My name is richard price. Today, we are honored to talk about an important report and an important subject, that is congressional efforts to oversee the u. S. Nuclear security efforts. We are specifically going to talk about a report, copies of which are outside, by the partnerships to secure america and the Arms Control Association, blueprints for a new generation. I want to particularly welcome the cspan audience for joining us. To make everything easier, if people could silence any cell phones you have now, that would be helpful. The report and other work we have been doing with partnerships to secure america and the Arms Control Association has been continuing over years. It is an independent project, but we collaborated with these two organizations, doing two events on the hill, congressional briefings on the Nuclear Threat and tools of the trade, how do we encounter the threat, and Global Security architecture .
Congressional oversight of Nuclear Security and arms control. Speakers included representatives from the Arms Control Association. The Hudson Institute in washington posted this two our event. Two hour event. Thank you. Lets begin. Toant to welcome everyone hudson. My name is richard price. Talk, we are honored to about an important report and an important subject, that is congressional efforts to oversee the u. S. Nuclear security efforts. We are specifically going to talk about a report, copies of which are outside, by the partnerships to secure america and the Arms Control Association , blueprints for a new generation. I want to particularly welcome the cspan audience for joining us. To make everything easier, if people could silence any cell phones you have now, that would be helpful. The report and other work we have been doing with partnerships to secure america and the Arms Control Association has been continuing over years. It is an independent project, but we collaborated with
Over the next 60 minutes we are going to be traveling around the globe visiting some of todays most fragile states and hotspot regions as we discuss americans ary agencies to tackle these challenges. Luckily we are joined by an allstar lineup of experts who will serve as our tour guides. Stephen hadley serves as the National Security advisor to george bush and assistant secretary of defense for global strategic affairs. Today is the principal at one of the countrys leading consulting firms. Democratic former congresswoman from california and president of the Wilson Center which supports Research Driving the conversations on Foreign Policy and National Security. Is the president of the u. S. Institute of peace, a leading institute for solutions for preventing, mitigating, and resolving violent conflict around the world and previously served as the assistant administrator or democracy conflict and humanitarian affairs at usaid. Michaelnt general recently served as the director of the dir