Without further a do, but like to introduce secretary michael chertoff, the cofounder of the chertoff group. He was the secretary of the department of Homeland Security. He took that job at a very difficult time and frankly, remade the organization and brought it up to a status where it was extremely effective. I say that as having been the department of defense counterpart to dhs during my time as deputy assistant. I have the opportunity to work extensively with the secretarys folks and quite a few rather interesting events both natural and manmade. He is also a former federal judge for the u. S. Court of appeals for the Third Circuit and was a federal prosecutor who conducted the investigation of the 9 11 terrorist attacks. With that, i will ask secretary chertoff to join us. [applause] steve. K you, good to see some familiar faces in the crowd and veterans. One of the things i did when i was secretary of Homeland Security is i was engaged in expanding the visa waiver 2007, 2008ch in
Four. I am neither the first or the last. The point that i wanted to reflect was that this is a tradition in the history of. Ociety people have to put themselves on the line. People have to take risks. Citizens have not just an , notest but nomination just believing in idea but standing for it in challenging the government when it goes to backfire. If we see our constitution being a violated on a massive scale by we have been demanded our officials to smirnov that they will protect becomes diffusion against all enemies not just foreign but domestic as well, we have a duty to stand up and do something about it. I tried my best to do that. I will hope that others will do the same in the future. I hope that will have no need for something as dramatic as we have seen in the last year. The last one, i have lost track of. Sorry. Are you working on a tool to protect journalists . That is still an area of active focus. I am doing a lot with the freedom of press foundation and doing other thing
Congress. Top of the charts the year they were elected was a song coming up Edward Snowden talks about government surveillance at a Cato Institute conference. Then the chair of the House Intelligence Committee mike rogers and former former attorney general alberto gonzalez. In the senate tonight members are debating a 1. 1 trillion spending bill designed to avert a government shutdown. A live look here on the senate floor. Today House Republicans earlier passed a stopgap measure to keep the government open until at least wednesday if need be. Senator barbara mick ullstromky who chairs the Appropriations Committee speaking now about the spending bill, the 1. 1 trillion measure, on the senate floor while leaders are negotiating behind the scenes to attempt to schedule a final vote on that bill. Watch the senate live on our companion network cspan 2. This afternoon former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden spoke Via Video Conference at a Cato Institute conference on govern
Other ways includes markets. Other ways includes everything we do in society. There are ways to pursue what were after. Obviously our political system well, maybe not its not obvious but our political system would work better if more people participated. I think they want fewer people to vote, which is nuts. And shouldnt be what they want. Thats not to say that if everybody wotevothed we would know what if everybody voted we would know what everybody wants. It is a way of answering some very important questions about what our government should look like. I think more people should be involved in offering those answers. People in public life should want that, should want more people to be involved and more people to be voting and that should be everybodys goal this democracy. I would just add so that. Its partly why its critical why some of the market based ideas are critical for people being able to express their differences. If you have no voter turnout in one party wins and they want
Right now, it is south jersey seeing the steadier snow showers. Quickly moving through the Atlantic City area. Now into cape may and farther. Farther to the west the reading area seeing snow showers. And berks county getting very light snow. Theres more off to the north and west so thats a possibility during the day today of some more scattered light snow showers. But look at the temperatures. Below freezing north and west. More likely to keep it sticking there. 34 in philadelphia. 37 degrees in wildwood. Dover is also 37 degrees. Not all that cold for this morning. But youll see a few snowflakes at times. The rest of the day is just going to be cloudy. 34 degrees at 9 00. The hourbyhour forecast coming up in less than ten minutes but first to first alert traffic reporter jillian. Good morning, bill. We have a number of accidents that continue to increase. Route 3 Westchester Pike out near 352, we have an accident blocking there. Take strauss mill road. And in this case, wires brought