[inaudible conversations] hi, everybody. Thank you for being here. Im lilly myer, the Events Manager at politics and prose. Im glad you all came. First a few things before we get started. In case you missed the sign, this weekend is a member sale. All books or 20 off if youre a member. Youre not a member, its a great way to support your local indy book store and get 25 off and the other way to support your local book store is attend a evens. In september were hosting salmon rushdie. I hope youll join us and for those who have never joined us for an event before, a couple notes how things work. Sheing speak and then take questions and then sign books right here. So, when the eventes over, please fold upper chair, the book severalled will thank you very much, and lean it against any shelf and then go to he check out there and come back here to get it signed. For q a, were him inning in cspan is him inning so please ask your questions into the audience mic right there. Im done pointing no
Of the Manhattan Institute. And its, thank you. [applause] its a its a pleasure for me to introduce jason riley today as motion most of you jason is senior peel low a regular columnist for the wall street journal. And a commentator for fox news in his new book, false black power jason offers a critique of civil right leaders an their prior decision power of africanamericans the book also could manies responses to aye ons sergeants from two and glenn lowery. Its a slengder book, but it packs a powerful punch as one blogger noted what make had this is book shine is clarity of logic and accessibility of its writing style as fred made it look easy to dance so does riley express mastery elegance so masm is seems effortless. How did you get to write this . [applause] all right there you go. And its available for just 10. 6 on kindle and now jason may not get rich with this book but hopefully hell open a few minds. Please join me in welcoming fearless and peerless jason riley. [applause] than
Services committee is chaired by texas congressman mack thornberry. Committee will come to order. Last week the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world. Or more accurately the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned and sometimes even disturbed by evidence that is accumulating on the damage inflicted upon our military in recent years and the stresses our forces are under. That damage comes from a variety of factors including budget cuts of 20 , continuing resolutions, the failure to recognize or at least admit and then address mounting readiness problems as well as the shrinking size of the force while keeping the tempo of operations high. Th
Looking for in there that they, obviously, missed at that time . No whats interesting because the head of the fbi office and people in the orlando area say o they have gone back and looked at those files and based on what they knew at that time they dont believe they missed anything. He he was sort of a blow hard. He was talking about support. There was nothing, you know, we have a First Amendment in this country people can say all sorts of offense i have things so that wasnt enough for them to act, and then they are will certainly look at the later interview and 14 where he had contact with an american suicide bomber in syria. Although theyve said to us going back and looking at that file, it was minimal contact. I think internally they are going to have to decide whether or not that judgment that the contact with these suicide bomber was only minimal was a correct judgment or could they or should they have done more to understand that relationship. Were talking with grantng wt commit
Them wereis for chosen as the top entries. Online, andh them of course, you can watch is here back your tomorrow at 7 00 eastern, for clock pacific. Until then, have a great saturday. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] next, a form on the legal issues surrounding encryption. Leaders are at how addressing the opioid addiction. Live inonald trump wisconsin. Then, at 7 00, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation hosted this discussion on encryption issues and policy, and what federal officials and policymakers should do to continue technological advances while continuing to protect the rule of law. This is one hour and 35 minutes. I would like to welcome you to todays event. The goal of todays event is to explore the ongoing debate about cryptography, and how to find the right balanc