And great set of speakers today, along with acknowledging additional support. I am here for the next 30 minutes with brandon wales, the acting director of cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, for what i hope is going conversationnating about the election, about the covid pandemic, about the state of cybersecurity and infrastructure security and Critical Infrastructure across the country. Brandon, thanks so much for joining us today. Brandon garrett, thank you so much for the invitation. I am very happy to be here and talk about the important work our agency is doing. Is december 3. It is hard to believe that exactly a month ago on november 3 we were sitting down as a country to watch the first Election Results role in. Roll in. It feels like as a country we have lived about 25 years in the last month, and i would imagine for you, it has actually felt somehow longer than that. Byanted to start off today taking you actually back three thursday after the election. They put ou
I am going to put you up first. Thank you all for being here today. We appreciate your time and your interest in some of our concerns, and the purpose of this is to convey our concerns that the department of justice, we are waiting for them to give us some kind of admission they are actually investigating the multiple allegations of improprieties in this 2020 president ial election. We have a keen interest in that, but we think all American People do as well, and we want to call attention to our efforts to communicate with the department of justice and attorney general barr to have him include us in the information he has us appears to be investigating. We will hear from several of our members today. The first one we will hear from is congressman ralph norman from south carolina. Ralph . Rep. Norman the bedrock of our republic is open, transparent, Fair Elections. And that is wet, as andy alluded to, we encourage the doj, we are encouraging an open transition of examining everything, a
Perilous time for the 2020 census. Troubling, there were reports indicating career officials at the Census Bureau warned the trump about significant problems that will delay the delivery of census data to late january or early february. After these reports became public, the director of the census, dr. Steven billingham, issued a Public Statement confirming problems were found, but provided no details. These developments were particularly troubling because they were not reported to our committee before we write about them in the press or before the census director made his Public Statement. Committee has jurisdiction, but nobody from the Trump Administration informed us about these problems or delays. For these reasons, the committee wrote a letter to the Census Bureau november 19. We asked for documents career officials prepared describing these data problems and the resulting delays. We also requested documents repaired for the department of commerce, including the commerce secretary
Addition to the pandemic relief and fighting the coronavirus, what else should be a priority. Republicans, one line, democrats, one line, independents and others,. One line you can also send us a text. Include your name and where you are texting from. And onter, cspanwj facebook. We will hear from a couple of members of Congress Later in the program. We will ask them both about the status of a potential pandemic relief bill. We will also show you some of the highlights from last nights cnn interview. First, a piece from page of washington journal using data from johns hopkins. The whole front page, if you go online, you will see the interactive map showing the spread of the virus across the country. The april 17 spring peak, july 25 at summer peak, the low point between the summer and fall of september 19. So far, in the fall, the fall peak to describe, two weeks in november, over 2 million cases. Over 12 million cases. The bottom line is how the surge engulfed. They write today, about
Agenda and bios of her speakers are available at aspen institute. Org. I would like to thank them for helping organize these conversations and let us talk with a great and diverse set of speakers today along with acknowledging the American Association for their additional support. Im here now for the next 30 minutes with Brandon Wales sampras charity Infrastructure Security Agency for what i hope its going to be a fascinating conversation about the election, about the covid pandemic, about the state of cybersecurity and infrastructures charity and Critical Infrastructure across the country. Brandon thanks so much for joining us today. Thank you so much for the presentati but im very happy to be here toalk about important the important work that our agency is doing. Today is december 3. It is hard to believe exactly a month ago on november we were sitting down as the country to wah the first Election Results roll in. Feelsike we as a country with about 25 years in the last nth and i wou