On the director domestic policy studies at aei and i am delighted to be with you today to join by a group firstterm mayors facing challenges our studies are pretty interesting im glad you are tuning in and you will enjoy getting to know each one of them. The new generation mayors and cities i am excited because we have mayors literally for weeks on the job just got started a mayors doing interesting things dealing with challenges during this challenging time with the pandemic and urban unrest and other challenges that flow from those things. I want to dive right in and hear from them and what they are doing for Public Policy and the future of our cities but let me do a quick round of introductions. The mayor of miami was selected in 2017 i guess the longestserving mayor of firstterm mayors and previously served as the commissioner for district four at the age of 431 of the youngest in the country the first miami born mayor of the city and has a lot going on we look forward to hearing f
Tonight at eight eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Standard john cotton one members of the bridge about buying g5 equipment from the Chinese Company while way. The arkansas republican join former House Intelligence Committee chair mike rogers and retired Brigadier General Robert Spaulding who predecease her on the National Security council under the trump administration. They answered questions from the British Defense subcommittee on china for about two hours. Order, order. Welcome to this Defense Select Committee hearing to consider the International Response to the uk government decision to allow while we to continue to operate its 5g network and implications of the gibbous decision for information sharing across the alliance. Also to discuss International Ambitions and the role of 5g technology and within this specifically look at Cyber Attacks and the distal silk road. Our session date is divided into two parts and id like to welcome senator tom cotton joining us for part on
Will come to the hearing to have differences with. I think that will make up the American Public on the reliance of supply chain of Critical Materials do you consider that our response to the decision to allow huawai with a 5g network that theri government decision crosses the alliance. And with and this specifically looking at cyberattacks. We are divided into two parts really want to be dependent on the Chinese Government when everything goes wrong my argument is probab that the same and then Brigadier General problem that you have another democracies is that intense would join us for part number interest in the telecom two. Thank you very much for your time today your ex military the house of representatives before being elected senator industry dont want to see change and quite frankly they but the commentator on Us Foreign Affairs and are not capable to deploy that particularly the us and china urelationship and you and i have known each other for many type of network that we try
House of representatives before being elected senator. You are a regular, to use for the first and particularly on the u. S. And china relationship. For transparency, you and i have done each other for many, many years. I think prior to you entering politics so thank you very much indeed for your time today. Can i just say on a wider note we are very conscious that we meet during a challenging time for the u. S. Following the tragic death of george floyd. Our thoughts are very much with those impacted by this tragedy. The u. S. Is not alone in needing to do more to tackle the underlying issues but our thoughts and prayers are very much with those who are directly affected. Could i invite you to say a few words as an opening statement, then well move into questions. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you, mr. Chair and thank you for this kind words about some of the strife on our streets today. Of course we all want justice for george floyd and we are all deeply disturbed by that horrifi
Telecom companies such as Cisco Technology t. Mobile and motorola prosecutors are saying that while always death of intellectual property resulted in the company obtaining nonpublic intellectual property about robotics cellular Antenna Technology and internet router source code you get all this well heres the problem earlier this week the big wall we story which 1st appeared in the wall street journal d was not about intellectual property theft no instead its similar to around claims that since at least 2009 while way has been able to covertly access mobile phone networks around the world using back doors designed for use by Law Enforcement u. S. Intelligence agencies claim that while way has built equipment that secretly preserves its ability to Access Networks through these interfaces without carrier knowledge though these officials still have not provided details of where they believe while we was able to do so now this is important because these 2 stories are actually completely un