Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Politics 2008: The Media Conference for the Election of the President Tuesday, October 14 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM Session II A Republican Administration – Speculation on the Next Four Years: The Implications of Party Victory on Foreign and Domestic Policy & the State of the Nation Ronald Kessler, Chief Washington Correspondent, Newsmax, George Polk Award Winner Bradley A. Blakeman, former President & CEO, Freedom's Watch Victoria Toensing, former deputy assistant attorney general David Goodfriend, former Deputy Staff Secretary to President Bill Clinton, co-founder Air America Radio Victoria Toensing is a founding partner of the Washington law firm diGenova & Toensing. She has extensive experience in all three branches of government solving problems for individuals, corporations, trade associations and other organizations. She is an internationally-known expert on white collar crime, terrorism, national security and intelligence matters. In 1997, Toensing was named special counsel by the U.S. House of Representatives to probe the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. She represented "Jane Doe Thompson" in a successful lawsuit against the CIA. Ms. "Thompson," the first woman Chief of Station in Latin America, reported her male deputy for wife beating and disciplined other subordinates for misconduct ranging from public drunkenness to threatening to kill security guards. Thompson sued when she became the subject of an Inspector General investigation fabricated on these subordinates' false claims. As Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Justice Department from 1984-1988, she established Justice's Terrorism Unit. She managed the Federal government's efforts to bring to justice the terrorists responsible for the hijacking of TWA 847, the bombing of Pan Am 830 and the takeover of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. For her aggressive pursuit of terrorist Mohammed Rashid she was featured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine (April 21, 1991). Also in her Justice Department position, Toensing supervised the Defense Procurement Fraud Unit, savings and loan industry fraud, cases dealing with nuclear industry regulation, securities fraud, and fraud and bribery in the banking industry. She was a frequent witness before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. While Chief Counsel for Senator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 1981-1984, Toensing was instrumental in winning passage of two important bills: (1) to protect the identities of intelligence agents, and (2) to protect certain classified information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. As Assistant U.S. Attorney in Detroit from 1976-1981, she developed the argument used before the Supreme Court to support profile searches at airports of suspected drug couriers. Toensing is a frequent guest on national television programs dealing with politics, criminal justice, national security, and terrorism, including C-Span, 60 Minutes, To The Contrary, Face the Nation, Good Morning America, 20/20, FOX Morning News, Canada AM, CNN's Crossfire, Lehrer News Hour, CNN & Company, Today Show, National Public Radio, Nightline, Larry King Live, Court TV, CNBC's Rivera Live! and Charles Grodin. She was the legal analyst for America's Talking for the O.J. Simpson trial and has co-hosted CNBC’s Equal Time and Rivera Live! She was a legal analyst for MSNBC for the impeachment and Senate trial of President Clinton. Toensing is a Senior Fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Ronald Kessler is the New York Times bestselling author of seventeen non-fiction books. Kessler began his career as a journalist in 1964 on the Worcester Telegram, followed by three years as an investigative reporter and editorial writer with the Boston Herald. In 1968, he joined the Wall Street Journal as a reporter in the New York bureau. He became an investigative reporter with the Washington Post in 1970 and continued as a staff writer until 1985. Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com, a web site with an average of 4.1 million unique visitors a month, and of Newsmax magazine, which has a readership of 600,000. His stories for Newsmax have included interviews with President Bush, Donald Trump, Andy Card, Gen. Michael Hayden, Mitt Romney, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Lynne Cheney, Dana Perino, Jim Cramer, Deborah Norville, Robert S. Mueller III, Margaret Spellings, Brian Lamb, Juan Williams, Jeb Bush, Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, and Fran Townsend. Kessler's Newsmax stories were instrumental in bringing to light Barack Obama's association with his radical minister, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Kessler's latest book is The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack, which presents the chilling story of terrorists' relentless efforts to mount another devastating attack on the United States and of the heroic efforts being made to stop those plots. His books also include Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady, A Matter of Character: Inside the White House of George W. Bush, The CIA at War, and The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI. Bradley A. Blakeman, most recently was President of Freedoms Watch. Prior to joining Freedom’s Watch, Mr. Blakeman was a member of President George W. Bush’s Senior Staff having served from 2001-2004 as Deputy Assistant to the President. Mr. Blakeman can be seen regularly as a Republican Strategist in FOX News, MSNBC, CNN, BBC and Al Jezeera. He has also been published recently in US News and World Report, Politico and Newsmax. Mr. Blakeman played a major role in the 2000 Presidential Election as a Senior Advisor and played a critical role in the Florida Recount a role that landed him a part as a character in HBO’s Film “Recount.” Mr. Blakeman is a Attorney licensed to practice in New York and D.C and has been active in Presidential Politics since 1980. Mr. Blakeman has also served as a Presidential Appointee to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council during the George H.W. Bush Administration. Free video chat by Ustream