i am sure you had a great morning and we have a lot more in store for you this afternoon. starting now with our panel writing about war this is something we, as a committee, but about when we put these festivals together to try to have something for everyone in writing about war is something that is very particular and certainly very relevant and in our history and current state of the country in the world. we have some amazing authors who have written about two very different wars. war in vietnam and the war in iraq. one is nonfiction one is fiction. both tell the stories of what it means to be waiting war and to be in war and i thank you will find it a very interesting afternoon. the panel today will be moderated by [inaudible], third-generation of a military family who attended west point and author of the acclaimed novel dress gray about his time there. he s written extensively about the military and with the calmness for the village voice and many other publications and
turn any cell phones or other electronics you may have with you. we have some nice, wright lights this evening because our friends at c-span are fill be ming tonight s program, so i can when we go to the q&a portion of the event, instead of raising your hand and asking and a question, that we make a line in the front because of the filming from c-span. be. he teaches history and engineering at george mason university here in virginia. and at the stevens institute of technology in new jersey. he served for over 35 years in the u.s. navy, u.s. coast guard and department of defense and was an exchange engineer in the french navy. larrie is the author of three books, the birth of naval architecture in the scientific revolution, measure of the earth, enlightenment expedition that we shape our world, and is known book brothers at arms: american independence and the men of france and spain who saved it. so following his talk this evening if you didn t already pick up a copy of h
would still be meetings at the convention with the leading party officials and, you know, the candidate would meet with people and so it was a democratic process in the sense that candidate would meet with people. it was a democratic process in the sense there was consultation, deliberation and so forth, though ultimately the candidate s decision. i think as it s moved away from the convention beginning 1976, it s been a process focused much more on the presidential candidate and the people around the presidential candidate. they still consult with party leaders, talk to capitol hill, talk to governors, solicit input. but ultimately the circle of people in the room when the decision is made tends to be the presidential candidate and a few people close to them. i m going to get our questioners ready, a few more questions and then turn to the audience again. we ve referred to, in terms of the convention, that we might have a different kind of year especially on the republican
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we ve seen an ever growing mosaic of trump associates, there they are, advisers and affiliates who have been drawn into the unfolding congressional and federal russia probes. piece by piece, investigators have been connecting the dots between them and their possible links to russia over the course of the last year. among those with the most clearly defined russian contacts are some of the highest ranking former campaign officials, many of whom currently serve or previously served in the white house itself. so far, four people have been charged with crimes in this special counsel s probe. two plead guilty and two agreed to cooperate and two are under diet. all this comes after president trump said last february he didn t know of anyone aside from michael flynn who had contacts with russia. can you say whether you are aware that anyone who advised your campaign had contacts with russia during the course of the election? no, nobody that i know of. so you re not aware of an