Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Sen. John McCain, Dep. National Security Advisor Lisa Monaco Interviewed at Aspen Security Forum Today

ASPEN, Colo., July 25, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- WHAT: Upcoming live video from the 2015 Aspen Security Forum, as well as video from previously recorded sessions, are as follows:

Friday, July 24
Herding Cats: Synthesizing the Intelligence Community
James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence
Moderated by: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
Video: https://youtu.be/-1dWq0sxRlY

Saturday, July 25
The View from Capitol Hill
9:00 – 9:45am MT, 11:00 – 11:45am ET
LIVE here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjMYd_ssU6M 
Michael McCaul, Chairman, House Homeland Security Committee
Martha McSally, Member, House Homeland Security Committee and House Armed Services Committee
Moderated by: Anne Gearan, National Politics Correspondent, The Washington Post

Hitting the Security Reset Button: Time to Rethink Our Approach?
10:30 – 11:30am MT, 12:30 – 1:30pm ET
LIVE here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zervRQqHLro 
Michael Hayden, Principal, The Chertoff Group; Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Former Director, National Security Agency
Matt Olsen, President and Co-Founder, IronNet Cybersecurity; Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center
John Pistole, President, Anderson University; Former Administrator, Transportation Security Administration; Former Deputy Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Fran Townsend, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Government, Legal, and Business Affairs, MacAndrews and Forbes Inc.; Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Moderated by: Noah Shachtman, Executive Editor, The Daily Beast

The View from the White House
11:45 – 12:30pm MT, 1:45 – 2:30pm ET
LIVE here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0gS_f3BVW8 
Lisa Monaco, Deputy National Security Advisor and Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Moderated by: Mike Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News

The Chairman Speaks
1:30 – 2:15pm MT, 3:30 – 4:15pm ET
LIVE here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8CwaEUICjo 
John McCain, Chairman, Senate Armed Services Committee; US Senator, Arizona
Moderated by: Lesley Stahl, Correspondent, "60 Minutes," CBS News

The NSC, DHS, and State: Using All the Instruments of National Power to Combat Threats
2:30 – 3:30pm MT, 4:30 – 5:30pm ET
LIVE here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoTf5DPEyjo 
Huban Gowadia, Director, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, Department of Homeland Security
Laura Holgate, Senior Director, Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism and Threat Reduction, National Security Council
Peter Neffenger, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration
Moderated by: Kevin Baron, Executive Editor, Defense One

The Mideast Cauldron: Hotter Than Ever Now?
3:45 – 4:45pm MT, 5:45 – 6:45pm ET
LIVE here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyFCJ7KJtHM 
Tamara Cofman Wittes, Director, Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
Frank Lowenstein, Acting Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
Danielle Pletka, Senior Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
Moderated by: Margaret Brennan, Foreign Affairs Correspondent, CBS News

Law and Order: How will the Lynch Justice Department Confront the Terror Threat?
5:00 – 6:00pm MT, 7:00 – 8:00pm ET
LIVE here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gq7e9mS9go 
There's a new Attorney General in town, and she has her own set of priorities for the Administration's remaining time in office. In this session, Attorney General Lynch will outline those priorities, with a particular focus on what she sees as Justice's role in the proverbial "war on terrorism."
Loretta Lynch, US Attorney General
Moderated by: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News

WHERE: Daily video highlights from the Aspen Security Forum will be posted at http://aspensecurityforum.org/media/video-library/asf-2015/, and event updates will be featured at www.twitter.com/AspenSecurity, www.twitter.com/aspeninstitute, and www.facebook.com/aspeninstitute. Stay engaged on social media with #AspenSecurity.

For a complete list of currently confirmed speakers and moderators and the agenda, please visit www.aspensecurityforum.org. The 2015 Aspen Security Forum is presented by the Aspen Institute Homeland Security Program in partnership with CNN. Sponsors for the 2015 Aspen Security Forum are IBM, Intel Security, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Target.

Please note that we're producing many of these transcripts on a rush basis so accuracy has not yet been verified and the video serves as the authoritative record.

About The Aspen Institute

The Aspen Institute's Homeland Security Program works to heighten public awareness as to the nation's continued vulnerability to terrorism, and to persuade the nation to take the necessary steps to close the gap between how secure we should be and how secure we actually are. For more information, please visit www.aspeninstitute.org/security.

The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues. The Institute is based in Washington, DC; Aspen, Colorado; and on the Wye River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It also has offices in New York City and an international network of partners. For more information, visit www.aspeninstitute.org.

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