You. Thank you. Pedro joining us for the conversation, tim starks and john donnelly. To you gentlemen, thanks for joining us. Tim starks, you start the questioning. Tim as you know, the big story of the past week or so has been this global out of the wannacry ransomware. Im wondering, twopart question, is there anything that congress can do on that front to confronting ransom ware specifically . And because this was apparently caused in part by a leaked nsa hacking tool, is there Anything Congress can do to refine the process for when the government discloses vulnerabilities to companies . Rep. Langevin first, i dont think that theres Anything Congress can do right off the bat that i can think of that would prevent this type of situation from happening. Really, its up to individuals and companies to patch their systems, to make sure that their Software Updates are updated. That they download their security patches. And that they turn on their automatic updates. I would say to anyone li
You. Thank you. Pedro joining us for the conversation, tim starks and john donnelly. To you gentlemen, thanks for joining us. Tim starks, you start the questioning. Tim as you know, the big story of the past week or so has been this global out of the wannacry ransomware. Im wondering, twopart question, is there anything that congress can do on that front to confronting ransom ware specifically . And because this was apparently caused in part by a leaked nsa hacking tool, is there Anything Congress can do to refine the process for when the government discloses vulnerabilities to companies . Rep. Langevin first, i dont think that theres Anything Congress can do right off the bat that i can think of that would prevent this type of situation from happening. Really, its up to individuals and companies to patch their systems, to make sure that their Software Updates are updated. That they download their security patches. And that they turn on their automatic updates. I would say to anyone li
The author of corruption in america and shes also an attorney on the imam newlands lawsuit filed against president donald trump. And mom you want. Corruption as an operating system, what does that mean . What am i talking about . Exactly. Would you mind, so we have a picture, but fundamentally what im talking about here is not corruption as some nasty practices that some members of government indulge in in some countries, a lot of government officials might indulge in. But the way we normally think about it is sort of like i dont know, like a disease, right . That kind of creeps in and infects the tissues of government. What ive been seeing, and honduras turns out to be a really clear example of it, is a network, right . And a network that crosses boundaries, that we think of as separating different sectors of activities, like the public and private sector, right . Here we are americans, we love to fight about which one, the public with a private one is more pernicious, or worse for yo
First talk about this special election in georgia, because thats going to dominate a lot of the political talk in the days ahead. Caller thats very true, steve. It seems people are concerned that democrats arent thrilled about john ossa, but they feel like theres a lot of energy on the democratic side. Theyve lost a couple of elections they wanted to win. So its a real test in this most expensive congressional race ever, whose side pulls it out. Host any indication from early voting on what that could preview tuesday night . Gerry i think theres been a ton of early votes that is sometimes hard to read the tea leaves, but usually more turnout helps democrats, and so we have seen record early voting, and that could be an indication that ossoff has a good chance of winning on tuesday. Host lets talk about the president s week ahead. Hes spending his first weekend at camp david. What are some of the ighlights . Gerry melania and barron are joining him at camp david. Hes previously said tha