guest: i think it isn t all that different from the way we ve seen him view the presidency of the last three and a half years. he is making it very partisan. he came out a few hours ago talking about the democratic mayor isn t doing enough, and how important the national guard is. i think he s making it a partisan issue where in the past a president would reach out and be compassionate and bring people together instead of divide them. so i think that is something we have seen in both the pandemic and the recent protests. host: how did your book, about, what is the genesis of it? guest: i d written a book called the residence and a couple other books about the white house, and i ve always been fascinated by what happens behind the scenes on inauguration day. to me that is such a dramatic day when one new family moves in and another moves out. the public is looking at the front of the capitol. as you know, the swearing-in ceremony that we all watch, but really behind the
now four former national .ecurity advisers susan rice and tom donnellan and condoleezza rice and stephen hadley talk about threats posed by russia, china, and north korea. welcome, everybody, and this is pretty much what the essence of the aspen institute has been and should always be about, and what our nation should be about, a notion of very dedicated people of both parties coming together and trying to find common ground. it is under the auspices of the aspen strategy group. i want to thank joe nye, who is cochair with secretary condoleezza rice, with her first year on the job. [applause] isaacson: we also have stephen hadley and tom donlon, the first time four national have beendvisers together. it shows what aspen can do. you notice that susan rice is missing. she will be here in seven minutes. she is just on her way from the airport. just like bob gates last year, always a buddy who wants to make a dramatic enters. let me turn it over to a person everybody knows, nic
adviser tom donnellan. i m pleased to have both of them here. tell me briefly and then we will turn to some other issues and come back to the report how this came about. the president looked at what the challenges were and things that have been addressed in the first seven years of his term and determined there were a number of challenges that continued. essentially what this was was a preparation of a transition memo for the next president. , the director of national intelligence, has for the last three or four years in each of his presentations to the congress on what the major threat facing the united states are has ranked cyber security number one. and it s just not the case that this country has treated it as the number one threat. andave far more resources emphasis in mind share and attention to counterterrorism, which is appropriate, but in terms of a whole range of your under focused on the cyber security challenge. charlie: what did you do? withi was honored to ser
appreciate it. we thank you both for your expertise and knowledge to share it with us. and with that, the meeting is adjourned. thank you. thank you. thank you. the house oversight committee is holding a hearing on how the obama administration is sought to win support for the nuclear agreement it s coming after new york times profile of deputy national security advisor ben rose, in which he talked about efforts to over change. today s hearing is entitled the iran nuclear deal. . we take this up and deal with the situation as we get going and there are three the article, a aspiring article who became a goo rue. talking about how the white house would not this is from senator mark kirk and the senator john and without objection i would like to enter these three into the record. it s one of three countries that are still on the state sponsors of terrorism. and i think it s important that we have some clarity. there are some issues that are outstanding. it s one of the mo
[inaudible conversations] welcome. my name is a gene healy. i m a vice president here at the cato institute and i ll be your moderator today. thank you all for coming out to the first cato event of 2016. today, we are going to spread the new year s cheer and take the chill out of your bones with an in depth look at remote-controlled executions, the creeping surveillance state, and the seeming permanence of the imperial presidency. so merry new year. our focus today is the extraordinary new book by charlie savage, power wars: inside obama s post-9/11 presidency. charlie has been with the new york times since 2008, and he has been the indispensable reporter on executive power issues since well before that. in 2007 while with the boston globe he won the pulitzer prize for his work on the bush administrations signing statements. is 2007 book, takeover, the return of the imperial presidency, was named one of the best books of the year by the washington post, slate and es