Also live later today, modernizing security and arms control. Well have a live at 2 00 eastern on cspan two. Later, Stephen Townsend will update on recruiting challenges for the army. Also over on cspan 2. Just waiting for things to begin here. This is a partnership of three organizations. That diplomacy council, Public Diplomacy association of america, and university of Southern California Annenberg Center for communication, leadership and policy. Our program today is quite timely. Very high on the website, always a topic which gets attention. We are grateful to our two speakers today, joining us to ofress this from a base years of research on this. Before it became frontpage news, they were already working on it. Are two speakers are peter , he is senior fellow at new america feloundation. He has consulted for the Defense Department Defense Intelligence agency and fbi. He has been named by the smithsonian is one of the 100 most influential people in foreign policy. My favorite title,
Recruiting challenges facing the u. S. Army. Watch both those events live on cspan2. The Woodrow Wilson center hosts a discussion now on cybersecurity and elections. We hear from cybersecurity officials of michigan, indiana, and louisiana. This is about two hours. Welcome everyone. We study and translates advances and science and tech and impact on foreign policy. Woodrow wilson was no stranger to massive technological change and the policy challenges they created. When he was born, railroads still didnt cross the entire country. When he was in college, edison invented the light bulb. And as a private citizen, delivered the first remote live radio broadcast here from f street in 1923 and a month later president Calvin Coolidge would deliver the first president ial address by radio and on his watch the National Advisory committee for aeronautics was created later to become what is known today as nasa, plus wilson say governor. Gathering on the final day of cybersecurity week to talk abo
Floor. We decide how the bill will be considered, when it goes to the floor, whether it could be amended or not. Sometimes we are the arbiter of jurisdictional disputes between various committees on a piece of legislation. It is a very influential committee, and it is more than about process. It really is about policy. You need good process to get good policy. How do you exert that influence . Well, the way i want to exert it is to have the rules committee become a more accommodating place where good ideas are made in order, where people can debate them on the floor, where the whole process is not rigged. I have been in the minority now for a while and one of my critiques of the republicans was that they rigged the process. They had the closed congress in the history of our country, where good ideas from democrats and even some good ideas they disagree with from republicans were routinely blocked. That has to stop. We need to make it a more deliberative body. Is this a busy time of yea
making of donald trump and james henry. then as donald trump continues his crackdown on immigrants, we look at the shocking case of an asylum seeker from el salvador who is being detained as she battles a brain tumor. free sara now! amy: we will speak to sara beltran hernandez s attorney and amnesty international, which is calling on ice to release the ill woman. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the justice department said wednesday attorney general jeff sessions met twice last year with russia s ambassador to the united states contradicting , sworn testimony by sessions to congress. the disclosure renewed calls for a special prosecutor to investigate ties between the trump campaign and russia s government, and prompted calls from senior democrats for sessions to resign. during his confirmation hearing in january to become attorney general, then-senator sessions was asked by minnesota senat
when he was a surrogate for the trump campaign. david kspeak with johnson, pulitzer prize winning journalist and author of the making of donald trump and james henry. then as donald trump continues his crackdown on immigrants, we look at the shocking case of an asylum seeker from el salvador who is being detained as she battles a brain tumor. free sara now! amy: we will speak to sara beltran hernandez s attorney and amnesty international, which is calling on ice to release the ill woman. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the justice department said wednesday attorney general jeff sessions met twice last year with russia s ambassador to the united states contradicting , sworn testimony by sessions to congress. the disclosure renewed calls for a special prosecutor to investigate ties between the trump campaign and russia s government, and prompted calls from senior democrats for sessions to r