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in the treasury department during the clinton administration. mr. brooks: thank you for ms. sandberg: thank you for inviting me here today. mr. brooks: we have been the keyboard to this conversation for a long time. in 2006 and we were both interested in philanthropy. i had written a controversial book about who gives more to charity, conservatives or liberals? she came to a talk that i gave and she said, that is one of the most interesting people i have ever met and it is great that we are going to meet again for this particular conversation. i have got a lot of questions and so does our audience. i want to get right to it. you are kind of in the deli of the political beast. you are kind of in the belly of the political beast. one month ago, facebook was in the middle of something that had flared up in which people had asserted that the trending topics at facebook had been either manipulated or had done something to suppress conservative views. i do not want to get ....
needed human editors. so for example without that, , every day at noon, lunch would be trending. we needed human touch to get it right. and dinner around 5:00 or 6:00. mr. brooks: every day, that s weird. [laughter] ms. sandberg: breakfast, lunch, dinner. we had an ex-contractor on the team you accuse us of having a liberal bias. that is a pretty important accusation and when we take seriously. it is also one that rang true to some people. because there is concern that silicon valley has a liberal bias. we did not find a liberal bias but we still took steps to be more rigorous in our approach to running the editorial team, putting a stronger guidelines. there was a list we used to validate sites. we got rid of that. there is no list we are relying on. we also had a meeting where we had a full range of conservative voices. and as you remember, we did not just talk about this topic, we talked about how they were using facebook to get their voice out. this really matters t ....
ms. kelly: ok. your testimony continues, quote, d.h.s. works with our federal, state, local, tribal, international partners, particularly canada and mexico, to address transnational threats. what types of help or information does canada and mexico provide that the u.s. would not otherwise have access to? mr. vitiello: so they at c.b.p. and it s true with other federal law enforcement is we help identify the criminal networks that are responsible for human trafficking, gun smuggling, illicit financing. what we do is we try to understand amongst ourselves with them and ourselves what the threats are and how to combat them and then help identify by network which are the most problematic criminal enterprises? ms. kelly: do you feel these partnerships have improved over time and you re getting more and more information or there s more of a comfort level with these other agencies? mr. vitiello: so it ebbs and flows as it relates to the international engagement. i think in c ....
stronger and stronger for the benefit of the mutual security of the world. thank you all, and god bless. [applause] policyc s conference also involved a conversation with kevin mccarthy steny hoyer. they are in interviewed by frank sayesno. mr. sesno: well, good morning, everybody. very nice to wake up with 18,000 friends in the middle of washington, d.c. i have had the great privilege of joining aipac for several years now in several stimulating discussions. and while the topics of those discussions have varied, there has been one thread that has remained the same and that is this commitment to bipartisanship when it comes to this issue and this is what we re going to discuss and see and visit this morning. so in that spirit, i d like to welcome our next two guests to the policy conference stage, two leaders in congress who exemplify what it means to stand on this issue together and across party lines. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming house majorit ....
presidential transitions. and sunday, at noon on in depth we are live with tom hartman who has authored several books including the crash of 2016, rebooting the american dream, and threshold. join the three hour conversation. on american history tv on c-span3, steve ony explores the murder of mary sagin and the arrest and lynching of leo frank. and the federal energy administration documentary looks at fossil fuel in the united states. next, a forum on national security. we will hear from free program members of congress freshman. bill kristol is the moderator and posted by the foreign policy initiative hosted good morning, i am the executive director at the foreign policy initiative on behalf of all of us at the team here it is a pleasure to welcome you to our sixth annual forum, the strength to lead. the foreign policy initiative was established in 2009 as a non-profit organization dedicated to educating policymakers about the importance of american leadership ....