Interviewing by one of the best interviewers that i know who has his own show from the National Book festival cochair and very generous supporter mr. David rubenstein. [applause]e] enjoy. Thanks for coming this exposure being here. This is a great event. It is hard to believe you have been out of government about nine years so before we get into your book that i highly recommend, a jealously you have been doing since you left government other than writing three bestselling books teaching at stanford and one else . What i consider to be my real profession i started as the assistant professor 25 the appointment was in the of Business School with undergraduates with American Foreign policy for those who have worked in of privatesector and spending a lot more time practicing piano then in the government because that is a great love i am trying to improve my golf handicap. T speaking of the one of the first two women to be elected to the Augusta National golf club that is a goner. I was stu
I left him the reagan library, and he is the most generous person. He taught me how to work in a president ial library system. This book is wonderful. Because it is not just a portrait of a president , its that but not only that but a portraita portrait of ten years well, he was there for a. What i guess my 1st question is, called the gilded age. How much of that prosperity and sense of wellbeing did we have . The leadership of the choices he made. He made . Guest thanks for it is a pleasure to be here and also the organization. Non we bonded over the way to malibu. Going to stand for hours and hours. As you stand on the four 05 that was far more important the part of writing a book was bill clinton as the political figure and that question to the heart of it that is likely read my lips no new taxes that hurt the presidency also created the background for the 90s prosperitys the we see the leadership has an impact but also the superheros is the American People in the ingenuity the extr
Whether the nsa collects any kind of data at all about millions or tens of millions of americans. He said no. But much more often there is just radically misleading information. There are comments made. There is information provided that if a friend or Family Member did that to you, you would consider them to have betrayed you. You would consider them to have deliberately led you down the wrong path. Here is an example, the collection of all the call records. He does keep coming back to that and not the overseas collection. I want to go through all of it. But for a long time the government said, we wont tell you at all how many times we use this power that the patriot act gave us to collect Business Records. Its the Business Records provision. It would its top secret, which means it would do grave harm to the security of the United States if we told the number of times we used it. Then Congress Passed a law requiring them to disclose how many times they used it. They came out one year
Detained by Police Officers there before being released. Other reports backed up by video taken during the disturbances show that some television grews were hampered by authorities from doing their professional duties. This is all unacceptable. And we call for the police to let the journalists carry out their professional mission to report the news in an unfettered matter, otherwise its a violation of the freedom of the press enshrined in the First Amendment of our bill of rights. Also unacceptable. Very much unacceptable is the threat of prison to james risen. This morning a petition signed by more than 100,000 persons was delivered to the department of justice declaring, quote, we support james risen because we support a free press, unquote. Those petitioners, significantly include 20 Pulitzer Prize winners bungled cia operation in iran that appeared in his 2006 book state of war. We are pleased and honored that james risen whos still under threat of prison could be with us today. Th
Event on government and the media. After that association of black journalists mark rogers. New york times reporter james risen was subpoenaed in 2008 to testify at the trial of a former cia officer accused of leaking information on Irans Nuclear program. In august, mr. Risen spoke about freedom of the press at an event hosted by the institute for public accuracy. Youll also hear from former talk show host phil donahue, this is about an hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon. Im myron belkheim, president of the National Press club, i would like to welcome you on a day that is important to our where journalists are once again at the front line, courageously trying to cover news developments in the most difficult of circumstances. Late last night, the National Press club issued a statement expressing its deep concern about reports that at least two reporters from the Washington Post and tthe Huffington Post who were covering the unrest in ferguson were man handled and detained by Police Off