Sen. Rounds good afternoon. The Cyber Security subcommittee meets to assess the role mike rounds good afternoon. The cybersecurity subcommittee meets this afternoon to receive testimony on the department of defenses role in protecting the u. S. Election process. The centw american security, Senior Vice President of Critical Infrastructure protection, operations for a calm. Ms. Heather conley, the Senior Vice President for europe, eurasia, and the arctic and for the of the Program Center of strategic and international studies. Dr. Richard hartnett, had a full andpe Political Science Cyber Command and the director of the Cyber Security project at the Harvard Kennedy school. At the conclusion of Ranking Member nelsons comments, we will ask our witnesses to make their opening remarks. After that we will have a round of questions and answers. There is no dispute about what russia did during the 2016 election cycle. There is clear evidence that russia attempted to undermine our democratic pr
In the middle east and here in congress. Will we achieve a deal and what are the implications of success or failure . Joining me from washington is suzanne maloney, a senior fellow at the center for middle east policy at brookings. And from massachusetts gary the executive director for research at the Belford Center for science and international heirs at harpers affairs at harvards international school. I am pleased to have them both on this program. Welcome. Let me start with the question of the latest hiccup. It seems to me one issue that has suddenly become very prominent is the question of the removal of this u. N. Arms embargo. I have not seen this much focus until recently. Why has that got in all of the attention over the past couple of days . Could this scuttled the deal as a whole . Guest you are right, this is the interesting wrinkle in this stage. There have been any number of issues that have been seen as obstacles and which both sides have focused on in public statements.
Gathered here today literally are the leading experts in a very complicated field. We are lucky they were all willing to come up here and talk about all of the things that make up Digital Democracy and the threat to it right now. You all know what that is. Those are things related to the First Amendment free speech, the Fourth Amendment privacy, to technology and the systems that underpin that and most importantly, our electoral system of democratic governance, which is what was under attack in 2016 and earlier. We are going to talk little bit about that. I would like to very briefly introduce myself. I am the codirector of the Belford Center for science and international affairs. Ive been in cambridge about six weeks now. I just moved up from d. C. In a past life, i was the department of defense chief of staff and a six and secretary and assistant secretary of defense, where i was in charge of all things cyber at the pentagon. This is an issue that really resonates very strongly in my
The wsj office is foreshadowing the distinct possibility more or perhaps all of the people sitting on the council would get up and flee the oped writing a g. O. P. President who loses the Business Class has a big problem problem. These developments come as the administrations desperately tries to change the topic. Could anything else in this our attorney general Jeff Sessions is scheduled to speak in miami about cutting federal funding for sanctuary cities. We are going to listen live. We are standing in miami to speak exclusively with the ceo of the Worlds Largest Carnival Cruise line and that is Arnold Donald. He is here only on fox business. Are all these executives rushing to fly out of President Trumps orbit is it no longer Business Priorities or is it this ceo hurting their company . Do you also asked him about the sanctuary city in which he has listed in the past that following federal rules plus nafta negotiations day one not just farmers but Silicon Valley now hoping to bellyu
The Heritage Foundation hosted a Panel Discussion recently on the current status and future of the Iran Nuclear Agreement. Analysts critical of the agreements current span standing offer their recommendations for what the Trump Administration should do to encourage its enforcement and ensure its intended purpose of preventing iran from obtaining Nuclear Weapons. This is just under 90 minutes. Why is it so quiet . Good afternoon, welcome to the Heritage Foundation and are douglas and Sarah Allison auditorium. We welcome those joining us on our heritage. Org website on this occasion. For those in house, we asked that our mobile devices have been silenced, turned off as we prepared to begin and for those watching online, you are welcome to send questions or comments by emailing speaker heritage. Org and of course we will post the program on the heritage home page following todays presentation as well. Leaving our discussion is jim phillips who is Senior Research fellow for middle Eastern