Host a lot of documentaries and other serial with the dock vietnam war, why was your version needed . Constantlyill be discussing vietnam for as long as we are a country. Unfortunately, we have spent most of the last 42 years since the fall of saigon not discussing it and so much new information and new access to vietnam with veterans coming forward with their stories and people involved, protests. What this film does, what we tried to do is aggregate all of the most recent scholarship and speak to veterans from the United States and people across a wide spectrum of american views, because we have no political agenda or asked to write. We are umpires. Interviewing people in North Vietnam and south vietnam, and civilians and soldiers to get a ,60 view and a space to finally after decades of rancor and to talk about it, find a way to do it. We had an underwriter in bank of ,merica who was willing to say we want you to take on complicated questions and lets have a national dialogue. We fe
Congressman. Our next guest of the morning is representative garret graves of louisiana and here to talk about what happens when the areas of the country get ravaged by storms. Could you give us yours experience in louisiana and take us back to what you did before you came to congress . Sure. We have a wlabd slachbd surveyi company, so ive spent my whole life in the unique terrain. But a few jobs back, i was responsible for largely restoring the coastal wetlands following 2005 hurricanes. One of the largest projects in u. S. History. And made extraordinary progress helping to improve the resilience of the communities and of the ecosystem in south louisiana. What did you learn about the federal governments role in those situations from the job that you did . It is backwards. The entire parra dichl how we approach disaster is backwards. We end up spending billions following a disaster rather than spending millions being proactive and improving the resilience of our communities. And there
Ken and lynn have made a new tv series about the vietnam war, we talked to them about the program on the washington journal, this is 40 minutes. Nu joining us now or can burns and ling, the vietnam war which airs on sunday, thank you for coming on the program a lot of stuff and information have come out with the vietnam war, why do you think your version was needed out there. I think will be constantly but unfortunately we have spent more so the last 42 years not discussing it. Theres been so much new information, veterans are coming forward with their story and people involved are coming does, forward. What i think it does is aggregate the most recent scholarship and speak to the veterans of the United States and we have no political agenda, but also interview people in North Vietnam and civilians and soldiers to get a 360 view of it and create a space where we cane finally find a way to do it. Fortunately we had an underwriter at bank of america o that was willing to say we want you
Chair good morning, now that our executive session is complete we turn to the issue of data breaches. This is not a new issue. The committee has been focused on the Consumer Impact since before i was elected to the senate. The september 2004 choice point breach was considered to be the first highprofile data breach in the modern era prompted investigations from this committee and state authorities. Choice point was a data Aggregation Company originally as fateby equifax who would have it is represented here today. In terms of the inquiry the major data breaches, we have come full circle. Congress and this committee paid close attention to data breaches big and small. The committee has entertained proposals to strengthen requirements for Companies Across the board and impose federal requirements for companies to notify consumers following discovery of the breach. We are in the air of major data breaches, including equifax and yahoo that we are examining. The yahoo breaches are larger, t
Complete we turn to the issue of data breaches. This is not a new issue. The committee has been focused on the Consumer Impact since before i was elected to the senate. The september 2004 choice point breach was considered to be the first highprofile data breach in the modern era prompted investigations from this committee and state authorities. Choice point was a data Aggregation Company originally created by equifax who as fate would have it is represented here today. In terms of the inquiry the major data breaches, we have come full circle. Congress and this committee paid close attention to data breaches big and small. The committee has entertained proposals to strengthen requirements for Companies Across the board and impose federal requirements for companies to notify consumers following discovery of the breach. We are in the air of major data we are in the era of major data breaches, including equifax and yahoo that we are examining. The yahoo breaches are larger, Equifax Breach