for truth we re seeing is no longer believed every time i do a story about these deepfake videos, what strikes me is the quality keeps improving our research are young, spent hours putting these through algorithms to determine with 99% accuracy whether these videos are real, whether they re fake, whether the voice has been altered face has been altered. who on social media has time for that. and a lot of people don t take the time. which experts say is dangerous, particularly in democracies when people are watching these videos and then potentially using the information that here to make decisions about how to vote will ripley, cnn, taipei all right. and the next hour i ve cnn this morning starts right now cnn breaking news breaking news as we are on the air now this sunday morning as severe weather outbreak is unfolding across several states, right now, we re now getting word from texas but at least five people were killed. the extreme storms left to destructive mark n
[applause] good morning everyone. I would like to welcome you to the National Defense university. I was a senior in high school when nixon did the great linebacker bombing offensive of christmas 1972. Not much better, only slightly. Today i want to talk with you guys about the air wars in vietnam. Given that i was not there, most of you guys were, if i am wrong, please shout out a correction. We have the air boards on vietnam because it is plural. There is no single airport in southeast asia. There are a multiplicity of air wars, disorganized, uncoordinated, not related to one another. No one single guy in charge. Of course, that is part of the problem. What im going to do is talk about the various air wars that existed there. , 8the way, all of them million tons of bombs in southeast asia. That is roughly five times the amount of bombs dropped by all allied air forces in world war ii. Im going to speak mostly about the air war over the north. The reason im going to do that is because
Learn from history. Whats your insight on barack obama because its four dinners with him . Hes a highly intelligent man. He is keenly interested in history and the way in which the president ial institution has evolved and what he could take away from past president ial performances to make his a more compelling and more successful administration. I wish we had, you know, some extraordinary answers to provide him but it costs the nature of history is that its an imper mect humanistic enterprise and he understood this. But we talked a Great Variety of things in those interviews or in those dinners as of course, there were roughly 12 historians. I wasnt the only one there. Principle aids including each time one of his principle speech writers. So to me it was a fascinating experience to be able to, at one point, sit right next to the president at dinner and have this kind of exchange with him. In many ways, it felt like an academic seminars because after all, you know, he is someone who
What is your insight into president barack obama because of four dinners with them . He is a highly intelligent man. He is keenly interested in history and the way in which the president ial institution has evolved. What he could take away from past president ial performances to make his a more compelling and more successful administration. I wish we had some extraordinary answers to provide him, but of course the nature of history is that it is an imperfect humanistic enterprise. He understood this. We talked a Great Variety of things in those interviews, in those dinners. Roughly 12 historians. I wasnt the only one there. ,ome of his principal aides including one of his principal speechwriters. For me it was a fascinating experience to be able to sit right next to the president at dinner and have this kind of exchange with him. Anmany ways, it felt like academic seminar. He is someone who has been a. Rofessor of law it was like being in a seminar with a bunch of colleagues. Did you l
Because after all, he is someone who has been a professor of law. It was like being in a seminar with a bunch of colleagues. That is how i would characterize it. Did you leave there writing things down after you were there to remind yourself . Can you give us an example . You know, when done with this i think we will have more dinners with him. One of my colleagues and i talked a little bit about writing a piece called dinners with obama. I think it will be a very positive piece because he listens. He wasnt intent on giving us instruction or lobbying us for anything in particular. Except that at the first dinner he wanted to know how president s achieved the transformative presidency. How did Franklin Roosevelt do it . Theodore roosevelt, woodrow wilson, Ronald Reagan with his reagan revolution. At the second dinner, because this was in 2010, he was slipping somewhat in the polls and did not have the continuing hold of the publics imagination. That is not unusual. Once president s are