In my mothers bedroom. Then on. Americas and the war. And why did you so much . Because we knew they were going to lose it. What did that mean for you in hungary . I did not cry then. Cold are you . I was 18. With that interview the late author john lucas in depth that was born 20 years ago. Since 2000, over 230 of the leading nonfiction and fiction authors of our time of appeared on in depth. Milton freedman, alice walker, Colton Whitehead bob woodward, neil degrasse, tyson george wells, just to name a few. So over the next three hours our goal is to review the last 20 years of indepth. But also to ask you a couple of questions, here they are. Who is your favorite indepth gas . What book are you reading now . And who is your favorite Nonfiction Author . And that is what will be talking about. Heres how you can dial in on the 20th anniversary of indepth. 2020 code 7488200. For those of you in the Eastern Central time zone, 202 7488201 if you live the mountain pacific time zone. And you
Listen live on the cspan radio app. Election night on cspan, your place for anunfiltered view of politics. Good evening to the students in our audience and our viewers, welcome to coaldale college, im, vicepresident of the college. The college of course is based in coaldale michigan and we are near the colleges washingtondc campus. Also the puppy school of government. The nations capital. You can find out more about our programs at dc. Hillsdale. Edu. But where in the library with Michael Antone who is a college lesser Research Fellow here and were going to be discussing his new book the face, america at the point of no return welcome my area glad youre here. You might know michael from his previous work, he wrote my election, under certain time, he was working the private sector at the time. He wrote under a pseudonym until he was outed and then you went to work for the Trump Administration in the national securitycouncil. That worked, they saw the election 2016 as an x essential ques
Distinguishing characteristics famously that authors would take fantastic works known to new york publishers and publish them and they would become bestsellers, one of which, my favorite of that was leo damores senatorial privilege about senator kennedy and the truth about leo damore. He was kicked off ticked off. Could you say you are driving. So years later all on the record , no new york publisher would publish this, regnery publishes it. More recently there was a patriotic vote, flags of our fathers which is not flags of our mothers. 27 near publishers turned it down. 44 weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list. So the way things are going in the trump era, i dont know if any of you are still reading the freedom times, but every day somehow on the Facebook Page they aint russia was behind [inaudible] if you visited america in 2016 come he would notice outside of the major cities you couldnt drive a mile without seeing a sixfoot 12 trump signed. In any event, they really have to
Program to what extent it is a threat or not to its neighbors what might reasonably be expected in way of any kind of follow agreement perhaps any agreement is not feasible at this time. And so we have assembled quite a panel and im going to briefly introduce them and turn over the moderateing responsibilities to my director at the south asia center he in addition to directing our south asia center, of course, our iran program is part of the south asia center. He is a true rocket scientist. He managed the program in arms control disarmament in International Security at the university of illinois at champagne overu saw developing projects on south Asian Security issue ors. Hes also worked with Cornell University and he is a true rocket scientist. He had ph. D. With a specialization numerical accusics i dont know what that is. Buts thats brought and then we have a terrific panel. The go to men in washington on all things missiles mike senior fellow for missile selfdefense at the internat
From. [inaudible] its my pleasure to moderate this discussion with a group of folks who are prime movers in the development of the nature posture review. I will introduce them in a moment. We are not calling this a panel. Each group will give us five or ten minutes. We will get some conversation for the group going. Most of you know the group and let me introduce rob the Deputy Assistant secretary for defense for Nuclear Defense policy. Greg weaver is strategic director for staff j5. He runs the Defense Program shop and anita is the acting assistant secretary from the bureau of arms control. Im very pleased we can gather this group and we are looking forward to the discussion. As i said we will start with introductory remarks from each of our guests and then we will go in the following order. Well start with greg and go to phil, anita and rob has asked to clean up today. Thats what well do. Greg over to you. Thank you. When i thought i would do in my brief remarks is give you all a lit