brian: i want to ask you about academia. one of the funders, nicholas brady, was a senator and secretary of the treasury. [video clip] mr. brady: i will support the constitution of the united states. i come from 30 years in the banking business. and though you don't hear the term anymore, i was always taught the best loan you could make was a character loa one that looked beyond hard numbers and took a leap of faith and counted on the character and strength of the individual involved. brian: do your students pay any attention to the fact that this man comes from the republican party, paid money for this course, does that matter? has he tried to steer you in a certain direction? mr. gaddis: no. we had one piece of advice from nick when the money came and the endowment was set up. i asked him, mr. brady, thank you for your generosity. what should we do with your money? he said, teach common sense. that is all he ever said. it was wonderful advice. so that allowed us huge leeway in setting up the course. he has never tried to t

a pleasure to see all old friends from the intelligence community, from the think tank and world of academia and other agencies around town. and even some media friends i have made over the years, so thank you for having me today. in the interest of time i'm going to cut right to the chase, and try to identify a core question. and give you my thoughts on that core question and hopefully frame the discussion that we have on the panel, but also during the q and a. so, the core question i have been thinking a lot about is what exactly is putin going to do in the next six years, now that he has won reelection? does have a strategy? what does he really seek to achieve during this timeframe? i'm not even going to get into whether he is running again in 2024. some of you may have seen that story out of of chechnya. their already floating balloons for a story that somebody might want to put in the constitution for 2024, that is a whole -- what's to amend the constitution for 2024, that is a whole subject unto itself. i'm going to focus on the next six years. so if i look -- by the way, i think every

i was treated well in this country when i go to into academia, and our students need to be prepared for the world. host: all right. in some other headlines, the "washington post" reports that president trump's now former attorney met with russians at trump's tower. at trumpohen met tower in new york days before the inauguration with a russian billionaire who was sanctioned this year by the u.s. government. host: charlie is on the line calling from roslyn heights, new york. charlie, do you think that college commencement speeches have become too political? caller: no, not at all. the conservatives have been political since the beginning of time in this country, and when the liberal progressives start speaking up and getting more political, all of a sudden they say it is more political. i think it is good to educate the students of reality and the world, just like the other speaker said. i think there is some confusion as to be in a progressive and be at a liberal is. it is not just being a woman or a black -- that does not mean you are a progressive. just because they are a woman or a bl

concur over the last two years we've made a lot of progress in promulgating such advice to not only academia with respect to the threats to other nations dates who are producers in the proprietary data we will continue to do that and work with associations and i would concur with your point the private sector leadership of the ceo level needs to be more active in the obtaining security clearances so that it can get done in a more effective and efficient manner. >> i want to pick up on the vice chair man's point with respect to zte specifically come and thank you for the visit we had in our office i thought it was helpful. in 2012, the houston solutions committee issued a nonclassified bipartisan report on national security issues posed by the chinese telecom companies, and one of them was zte. the report concluded the risks associated with zte provision of equipment to the u.s. critical infrastructure could undermine american national security interests. do you agree with that report? >> i do. >> now they recommended that the united states should be viewed with suspicion by continued penetra

e promulgated such awareness and threat to not only academia and industry with respect to the threat to china and other nations who are stealing our proprietary data and trade secrets. we'll continue to do that and work with the association. i concur with your point. the private sector, leadership that is at the c.e.o. level needs to be a little bit more active in terms of obtaining security scleernses so that information that is classified can get to them in a more effective and efficient manner. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to pick up, mr. evanina, on the vice chairman's work to v.t.e. specifically, and thank you for the visit we had in our office. i thought it was very herphepful. now, in 2012 the house intelligence committee issued a nonclassified bipartisan report on national security issues posed by the chinese telecom companies. one of them was z.t.e. senator wyden: the report concluded the risks associated with z.t.e.'s provision of equipment to u.s. critical infrastructure could undermine american national security interests. do you agree with that bipartisan report? m

but also we can outsource to academia and journalists to help us in our research about the down stream consequences of these acts. we're going to continue working with facebook and the other social media companies and hope to make further disclosures about the organic con fent which in many ways far surpasses what was done in strictly advertising. the task in minimizing that to protect personal information is more substantial at that so that's going take longer -- substantial so that's going take longer. ms. pelosi: i'm sorry, we have votes. reporter: are you asking congressman cardenas to resign because of the sexual assault allegations? [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018]

become ak that we have little more closed minded and academia that we were in the past. that is probably not the students. students are always -- they always think they have the truth. look at the three of us, we are bald. it means we went to school during the vietnam war times. you are a little younger, ben, sorry. terrence: don't get him mad. ben: class of 68. edward: there was no more tumultuous time than that. the difference was where we thought we knew everything, there were people that pushed back. that was true among the faculty, among the media, and intelligentsia. i think right now, the one thing i would say we have to worry about is that those other three groups are not pushing back perhaps as hard as they should. terrence: thank you. mr. secretary than mr. chairman. , if we areink optimistic, it has to come from the young people. all the issues we talked about today were about whether it is the national debt or whether it is our political system, or some of the issues we didn't talk about like climate change and environmental risks. these are generally -- gene