Are gutsy not only because they want to achieve something but because they want to pave the way for others who are going to come behind. Background sounds. Please welcome the 17th president of the George Washington University Thomas locke. [applause] sued a im going evening everyone and welcome to the George Washington university. I am pleased to you to tonight his if it. Presented in partnership with politics and prose bookstore and the second in the George Washington university his president ial extinguish if it series. We want to series last semester to give our students the opportunity to hear from renowned leaders. Individuals who bring them eliminating dialogue insight and inspirations to our campus. Tonight is an honor to host secretary Hillary Rodham clinton and Chelsea Clinton. Our campus. [applause] is i greeted secretary clinton on arrival i remind her that i traded trace the arc of my career with hers. A being at the university of rochester, i welcomed her to our campus. I
And friend, illustrates the commitment that they have made personally which i think all of us want here at the post are very grateful for. I just wanted to share that with you. Today were going to talk about cybersecurity interference in our 2020 president ial elections. The very Innovative New way of trying to do with that. And avoided talked with two of the people who are most familiar with these issues. First former director of Homeland Security, michael, former director of National Intelligence, james, each knows the cyber in these issues in a difficult political and legal background as well as anybody who has served in government. On this gentleman with the question is on everybodys mind. It involves the question of interference in our elections but this is the complaint that has been raised by the so identified whistleblower who is complaint now before the house Intelligence Committee. This subject of an Intense National discussion going all the way to the issue of impeachment. T
[cheering] its great to be back here. I want to thank president leblanc for welcoming all of us. Our family loves coming here. We were speaking and chelsea was dancing. Not nearly the range we could stay for the weekend to talk about all of them. Its an amazing book and so important to have stories of so many women in one place and people talk about that in a second. So we should get going because we dont have time. The process of the joined by line writing a book or anything else with someone is incredibly rich because of the different experiences and points of view that the coauthor brings to the project and virtual c. And d. If was especially exciting because it comes out of a conversation weve had since she was a little girl talking about people especially women who inspired us. Thats what is so great about iit is the stories are deeply personal. To most of you in some cases across the cultures and generations into geographies and backgrounds its an extraordinary range that youve p
And now on cspan2s booktv, more television for serious readers. John watts discussion on gun control is next from our libertarian conference, freedom fest. [inaudible conversations] all right, well i guess we are having technical problems here but hopefully they will be taken care of soon. I hope you all know who i am. My name is john lott. President of Crime Prevention Research Center bid ive been an academic most of my life. Chief economist at the u. S. Commission and positions that are a variety at different universities. University of chicago, stanford, yale. But im going to talk to you about some of the missed impressions people have about guns and crime. Normally, im a very empirical guy so i would show you lots of graphs and stuff. A little bit stymied on that given the technical issues we have but there are still lots of issues we can go and talk about. So, just off the top of my head, a couple claims we frequently hear about. One is that background checks go and stop about 3.
This critical summit for him. The president will be talking to nine of the 20 leaders. That will start tonight japan time. President trump will be talking trade with japan and china. On japan, the u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer believes he could have a deal, a trade deal in place within weeks, on china and in exclusive phone interview with our maria bartiromo, President Trump says the next round of tariffs on chinese imports may not be 25 . I havent done phase two yet. Now, phase two doesnt have to be 25 . It could be 10 which people can absolutely handle. But our people arent going to pay for that either. And the president argues that Chinese Government is actually paying for these tariffs and the way he says that is the Chinese Government subsidizes their companies to keep the export costs low on to these tariffs. Thats the way he says china is paying for this. This week will go a long way to see if we can have a trade deal in the near term or longterm with china. A sou