Please let us know and whatever per whatever appropriate form we have and whether or not wouldnni arab countries follow soon. Could you get that pretty quickly . , we will try to provide a written assessment of that. If in fact enrichment of uranium spread throughout the , would you agree that that would be a very bad scenario for the National Security of the United States and israel if nations throughout the mid east turned to enriching uranium . Yes, particularly if it were for other than peaceful purposes. You think iranians are trying to hold a bomb before we get involved . Made theave not determination to go to that step. Aey have approached this from threshold capability. For the iranians the decision is a political one. They certainly have the expertise if they so chose. Would it take them if they made that decision . Them a that depends on a lot of factors and closed sessions. Gentlemen, we appreciate your testimony, your service. I joined a number of colleagues who have asked
It includes comments by Edward Snowden. Imagine a place of people dedicating their lifes to others. This is an object in a cruel experiment and over us to supervise this is a dictatorship. A kind of north korea like situation. [laughter] welcome. [ applause ] c1 welcome to this extraordinary debate on state surveillance. My name is rudyard griffiths. Its my privilege to act as the organizer of this semiannual series and to once again serve as your moderator. I want to start tonights proceedings by welcoming the north american Wide Television and Radio Audience tuning into this debate everywhere, from the canadian broadcasting corporation, to cpac, canadas Public Affairs channel, to cspan across the continental u. S. A warm hello also to the thousands of people watching this debate live right now on the internet, on theintercept. Com and munkdebates. Com. Its terrific to have you as virtual participants in tonights proceedings. And finally, hello to you, the over 2500 people whove once
Ubiquitous, more and if were not carrying it on ourselves personally, nor were being watched by somebody else who has a reason to do that for us. When it becomes that ubiquitous, when the chair becomes smart, the water glass becomes smart, is it useful to think of that as Information Technology or is this a new state of being and how does hewlettpackard make any money off this . The question is, who controls all of the information, whether its individuals, the government, the companies themselves. I think we have time for one more question. Before we take this one, i want to remind all participants thats meeting has been on the record so everything said will be held against you in a court of law. Yes, in the white jacket. Im emmy with the Johns Hopkins applied physics lab. Can you talk about the educational of policymakers on the state of the science and scientists on the state of policy and how to make sure theres not a gap between the two communities. Good final question. Im less int
Talking hunter, republican from california. You set them back a decade or 2 or three. Hi, janet. Caller good morning. I just cant understand some of these people. It seems like they are just lying. They cant to see that obama is trying to run this country and that is what he said when he got in there to start with. He would change america. I just cant believe that people can see through this man. I am just so disgusted i could go talk in our myself talk an hour myself. I think you listen better than anyone. I appreciate you. Host richard in ohio. Hi, richard. Caller hi, greta. You there . Host yeah, we are listing. Caller i think john boehner did a good job on that. It is very important, because if you look back when the bush , theystrators were there created a lot of the debt that we are in now because of the fact that they put us in a war that shouldnt have in their we shouldnt have been there. Furthermore, the healthcare law , we already had a broken health. Are system from the star
Now on president obama desk. What made it dramatic . What made it dramatic, we knew it would probably pass but in the senate there are procedural hurdles requiring a 60vote threshold to move to final passage. Sometimes they can work out a deal where it just requires a majority vote but ted cruz, a republican in the senate, voiced against using that threshold, moving for 60 votes to move on the bill. That would require at least five republican senators to put their necks out on the line on a bill thats politically hurtful to them. So it was dramatic in a way that we didnt know how many and which senators on the republican side would vote to move forward with this bill. And what was most surprising to us was that minority leader Mitch Mcconnel who is in a reelection fight, facing a primary challenge, was one of those who voted to proceed with this bill. He, of course, is the leader of the republicans in the senate and john boehner, the House Speaker, earlier this week, did the same thing