Were a Dark Blue suit nixon, who had a real 5 00 shadow, didnt wear makeup. He was ten, pounds underway because hed suffered a serious illness if you see if they if they show a picture of it, he wearing a gray suit and blends into the background. So there was a lot of Showmanship And Kennedy was always a step or two or three ahead of nixon throughout that entire election. One of the amazing things is when you talk about health no one, no prison its an actual canada additionally, unheld more unhealthy than john f. Kennedy, but still the perception was the opposite. Chris wallace it sounds like just an incredible look at an incredible election. Thanks so much for being with us. Thank you for having me all right. A brand new hour of Cnn News central starts now and truly all throughout the day, Hurricane Milton now an extremely powerful cat four Storm Category four Storm And Closing in on floridas gulf coast. Conditions have already started to deteriorate weve seen that with our correspond
Trumps administrations final weeks and as we head into this new political era. Great group. Jeh johnson, the former secretary of Homeland Security and serves as general counsel of the department of defense. He also represents new jersey in a seven state counsel that coordinates covid related reopening. Sue gordon is the former Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the nations secondhighest intelligence post. She served in the Intelligence Community for over three decades in senior positions. Carrie cordero is the robert gates senior fellow and general counsel. She served at the department of justice and in the office of the director of it is a great group. We are going to start with a conversation among us, then move to some audience questions, which you can enter in the q a box on your screen, and we will also have a couple of polling questions we will weave in throughout so we can get a sense of what the audience thinks about some of the topics. Lets start with Homeland
To discuss them with a great group with us, jeh johon is the former secretary of Homeland Security answers as general counsel of the department of defense among other positions. He also represes new jersey in th seven state council the coordinates covid related reopening. Sue gordon is the former Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the nation secondhighest intelligence post and sheerved in the Intelligence Community for over three decades in a variety of senior positions. Carrie corderode is the robert gates senior fellow at cns and organizations general counsel. When she was in, she served at the department of justice and the office of the director of national intelligence. Its a great group. We i have got to discuss today. Well start our conversation among us and then moved to some audience questions which, can enter in the q a box on your screen and we will also have a few questions as we done in our past couple sessions that we will we then throughout so we can get
He tweeted it in lower, sentence case. Thats as close as trump is gonna get to making a concession speech. Hes like a kid slowly realizing nobodys coming to his birthday party. We should never have given him that diet coke button thats hard to give up. This had to put a little crinkle in his tin foil hat. The department of homeland securitys cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency this is one of trumps own cabinet agencies, put out a statement debunking his claims of widespread fraud. They wrote, the november 3rd election was the most secure in american history. And then they took another dig at the boss baby, while we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections, we can assure you we have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should, too. And how did the president react to that statement of reassurance from his own agency . Most fraudulent election in history [ laughter ] [
I richard good afternoon, everyone i am richard fontaine, ceo of the center for new american security. I would like to welcome everyone to the discussion on Law Enforcement, Homeland Security, and intelligence on the Biden Administration. This session pulls together several critical issues, all of which are moving targets in the trumps administrations final weeks and as we head into this new political era. Great group. Jeh johnson, the former secretary of Homeland Security and serves as general counsel of the department of defense. He also represents new jersey in a seven state counsel that coordinates covid related reopening. Sue gordon is the former Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the nations secondhighest intelligence post. She served in the Intelligence Community for over three decades in senior positions. Carrie cordero is the robert gates senior fellow and general counsel. She served at the department of justice and in the office of the director of it is a gre