Good afternoon, everyone. Im peter. I have the privilege of introducing our final speaker for today. The assistant attorney general of the United States who run it is National Security division and for the purpose of this conversation also importantly leads the China Initiative at the department of justice. He has kindly agreed to, were going to speak for probably about 25 minutes and then we will take some questions from the audience. So let me start sir with can you give us an overview of what the chinese have been doing and what youve been doing to counter it over the past since youve been in office . Great. Thanks very much. Thanks for the Homeland Security group for having me and for all of youse who are here watching on line or later on. Thanks for spending some time talking about these issues. On the china said let me say what a shift from the first time i was in the National Security division when we were doing all Counter Terrorism all the time to today where were really in th
Everyone please sit down. Know we have people trickling in, but we are starting anyway. Ok. Welcome to the Wilson Center to those who are physically here and those who will be watching us on cspan and by other means. Harman, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center and former member of congress who is proud of her role in helping create the department of Homeland Security. Today we are pleased to cohost ural Homeland Security Experts Group meeting with support from the miners association, american airlines, and mckinsey. It is the group of the best americann the Homeland Security. It was found over 10 years ago and is now rebooted and housed at the minor corporation. Secretary and my dear friend Michael Chertoff and i are honored to be cochairs, and rob walker is the newly minted director. Mission is to offer independence, nonpartisan advice to key government officials as they face hard security programs, raise awareness, and offer solutions. We are nonpartisan and we hope we add val
The big market mover is gold, and this is a classic flight to safety. Its getting closer to 1600 an ounce. Thats a sevenyear high. 1577, up 25 bucks as of now. Price of oil, 63 a barrel. Can you imagine where the price would be if the general had been killed a few years ago, before america became Energy Independent . Got it. Here are the late news developments. The iranians threaten retaliation. Hundreds of thousands marched through tehran for the generals funeral. The iranians say they will no longer comply with Nuclear Enrichment limits contained in the nuke deal from which mr. Trump was already withdrawn. No backing down from President Trump. Oh, no. After the iraqis demanded the withdrawal of american troops, the president threatened to send them a bill for the bases we had built for them and he threatened to respond to any iranian attack by going after cultural sites. This has been hard line trump. In washington, Speaker Pelosi will organize a vote this week to restrict the presid
So its like a fire side chat, we have no fire side we have chairs, but i want you to use your imaginations and thats gonna be it. So if you guys have questions you should, we will give you the last 30 minutes. And many of you have seen john on 60 minutes on this sunday, john is there anything thats on 60 minutes that you could. I think that went pretty well. The way it was edited. On 60 minutes. But there are second case on 60 minutes over the last, year that was a different issue, one chinese and one russian. I think both the kind of activity we are seeing, and also you know the person, its very different from the last time when this was really a counterterrorism situation, 95 , or post 9 11 alqaeda focused responses. So theres has been a shift over the last years. So one of the questions i think we all have, is an espy is required to act on the china prosecution, the China Initiative what do you see, as the goal of an ice tea, in that space, and what do you consider as a success, to
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