Journal on the coal industry and impacts on both the people environment and the regulation of that industry. Nick mullins joins us now, an creator of the blog, the thoughtful coal miner and a miner with history of mining in his family. Ow far back does that history go . Guest well, it goes back to my grandfather in the 1920s, who worked in areas of virginia for virginia iron and coal company. Host what is the thoughtful miner . Why did you get it started . What do you write about . Caller well, the thoughtful coal miner, my way of speaking rhetoric that comes from both the industry and environmentalists to find common the two. Tween speaking specifically to miners asues and trying to help give voice and like i say, keep the at the same time, working to get the truth out there. Host what do you do these day . You are a former coal miner, how long did you serve in the mines do now . Do you guest i worked in the Mining Industry for about four years, years underground, decided to do that b
Mines are for that etal how much countries are developing how much steel we need to make buildings. Host Manuel Quinones is our first guest this morning. Special phone lines today. We want to hear your comments coal miners and family members of coal miners, 2027488001. Otherwise, lines are split up regionally. ,entral and eastern time zones 2027488000. Mountain pacific time zones, 2027488002. Lets talk about the power plants themselves. Where will you find coal power plants in the United States . Guest they are all over the country. You have a lot of coalfired power plants in ohio and indiana and missouri. Western states, youve got Southern States it really runs the gamut. If you look at the ohio valley area, an area that has been historically coal heavy because it is easy to transport, you have rivers and rail and a lot of mines nearby, but really, it is distributed across the country. Theres a lot of states that have tried to move away from coal. A lot of states have been moving away
The research focuses on the intersection of technology, policy, business losses wider ramifications of key technological trends and development. He testified before congress more recently on drums, privacy and intellectual property and also the broad for the Global Agenda Council and cybersecurity. John is going to go through the basics of sections of a note to and sort of like a onetoone introduction and for the rest of our program today. John, welcome good thank you for coming today. I realize theres probably some countrys top experts on seven of two of the room and perhaps people who know a little more. If youre one of the countrys top, you will learn nothing in the next 25, 30 minutes. The goal of this portion of the talk is to make sure we are all starting to think foundation. Im not going to argue in favor or against section 702. I am going to lay out the same place. My understanding is programmatically this one goes until 12 45 in the without much for you and will come back and
D. C. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to this special splitedition of today on a thursday morning. So glad youre with us. Its a big day here on capitol hill. Matt, youre back in studio 1a and the stage is set for some consequential testimony. This is the political version of mustsee tv. Millions of people are going to stop what theyre doing and watch from home or from their workplace. But what does it take, savannah, to be one of the lucky one toss actually get a seat in that hearing room . Well, you have to be an early riser, thats for sure. I can show you a live shot outside the hearing room in the Hart Senate Office building. People are already there. It will be filled with lawmakers, with staff, a lot of reporters, but also spectators willing to wait in line. Well take you what we think will be happening here today. This hearing gets underway, 10 00 a. M. Eastern, former fbi director james comey will begin his testimony before the Senate Intelligence committee. Hes going to be
Making the best possible policy decisions and i think thats a concern as well. Matt olson, thanks very much for joining us. Thanks, everybody. Thank you. [ applause ] this is a recent discussion held by Stanford Universitys Hoover Institution on the future of section 702 of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. It gives the Government Authority to monitor Internet Activity on nonu. S. Citizens to gather foreign intelligence. Its said to expire in december unless congress renews it. This panel is about an hour. Were about to get started again. Theres still a lot of seats in the front too, so i encourage people to fill in as much as possible. Im russell walden, the senior manager for external affairs here at the Hoover Institution. We will focus on the law and Civil Liberties, section 702. Im going to do a very brief introduction of our panel and turn it over to our moderator. I start with julian sanchez, a serve fellow at the cato institute. Alex abdo is the senior attorney with co