Includes author interviews with Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg on her book, my own words. The heartbeat of wounded knee. Sharon robinson talks about her book, child of the dream. Rick atkinson author of the british are coming and Thomas Malone founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book, super mines. The National Book festival Live Saturday august 31 at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on the tv on cspan2. In a short time ago President Trump sent out several tweets about china, the chinese ebony announced in response to u. S. Tariff hikes on chinese goods. China will impose additional tariffs on u. S. Goods worth about 75 billion starting september 1. Resident trump tweening our country has lost stupidly trillions of dollars for china over many years. They have stolen our intellectual property and rate of hundreds of billions of dollars a year and want to continue. I wont let that happen. We dont need china and frankly would be far better off without them. Vast a
Thank you, everybody and im very pleased to be back here with some friends and colleagues in the telecom industry. What we hope to do here is further discuss what weve discussed a moment ago but first let me introduce this group of experts. First we have the former head of an tia a former senior staff around the House Intelligence Committee and among other roles the executive director of the policy coalition. To my immediate right, chris who i think i worked with in cybersecurity and communication5 years. He has a vast folio and at t the small start up company you may have heard of. Just about every Security Policy issue that the Company Faces and also the chair of the policy coalition. To my immediate left, john hunter who is a technical expert on standards, please correct me if i used the terminology wrong. A combat veteran who started off his career as a officer in the marine corps. John had a some combat experiences that directly pertained to some of the issue as we are talking abo
This first portion is just under three hours. The Senate Committee on health education, labor, and pensions will come to order. Today is a busy day. Very important votes will be taking place. Democrats will be meeting in their caucuses, so people are going to be coming in and out. I also think that this hearing is important enough that we extend the time for questioning from the usual five minutes to seven minutes. Let me begin by welcoming the ceos of bristolmyers, chris verner, we thank you for being here. The ceo of merck, and the ceo of johnson and johnson for being with us this morning. Thank you very much. There is a lot of discussion in our nation about how divided our people are on many issues and that is absolutely true, but on one of the most important issues facing our country, the American People, whether they are democrats, republicans, independents, conservatives, progressives, could not be more united, and that is the need to substantially lower the outrageous prices of
Democracy at work. When citizens are truly informed, our republic thrives. Get informed straight from the source on cspan. Unfiltered, unbiased, wordforword. From the Nations Capital to wherever you are. Because the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Executives from the Telecommunications Industry discussed implementing the 5g spectrum and National Security concerns. Thank you, everybody and im very pleased to be back here with some friends and colleagues in the telecom industry. What we hope to do here is further discuss what weve discussed a moment ago but first let me introduce this group of experts. First we have the former head of an tia a former senior staff around the House Intelligence Committee and among other roles the executive director of the policy coalition. To my immediate right, chris who i think i worked with in cybersecurity and communication5 years. He has a vast folio and at t the small start up com