The isle. I will yield back the for. The voting to confirm the nominee is the director of National Intelligence. Today i want to discuss congressman radcliffes confirmation as director of intelligence and congratulate that congressman on a job welldone. Witwell done. With this new position comes great responsibility. He will have tremendous power to do good and to be transparent. I would like to remind him that as ive reminded many heads of department before, transparency brings accountability. And the public business ought to be public by its very nature the Intelligence Community is a secretive bunch. They often operate in the shadows and they have to in order to do the job we ask them to do to protect the National Security. However, that doesnt mean when they ask them questions the intelligence communities have a license to withhold information. When Congress Comes knocking, the Intelligence Community must answer. After all they do not appear anywhere in the constitution. The Intell
Broadband be a polluted night sky . We will take a look at a looming debris problem. Facebook plans to create its own crypto currency is not getting love from u. S. Lawmakers area you can now add jay powell to that list. Project libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, Money Laundering, Consumer Protection and financial stability. These are concerns that should be thoroughly and publicly addressed. Facebook has a few billion users. You are looking at the possibility of a very broad adoption and if there were problems, they are associated and any oflaundering the things we were focused on including the company they would arise to systemically important levels because of the size of the facebook network. I think it cannot go forward without there being brought satisfaction with the way the company has addressed Money Laundering and all of those things. The number of concerns i listed at the beginning, data protection, consumer privacy, all of the things will need to be addre
Broadband be a polluted night sky . We will take a look at an emerging debris problem. To our top story, facebook plans to create its own crypto muchncy, libra not getting love from u. S. Lawmakers, in fact, getting skewered. You can now add fed chair Jerome Powell to that list. Take a listen to what he told the Financial Committee earlier. While the project libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, Money Laundering, Consumer Protection and financial stability. These are concerns that should be thoroughly and publicly addressed. Facebook has a couple billion plus users. You are looking at the possibility of a very broad adoption and if there were problems, they are associated with Money Laundering, tariffs financing, any of the things we were focused on including the company, they would arise to systemically important levels because of the size of the facebook network. I think it cannot go forward without there being brought broad satisfaction with the way the company has a
Our program for prosperity and development and americas program. For those of you online, we welcome you. If youre interested in the rebroadcast of this event, it will be posted on the event page immediately following the program. To any of you who follow this, we are delighted you came and invest your time thank you for doing that. A trade website, for continuing coverage. To get things started, director of the Mexico Program richard miles. Richard. Richard thank you. U. S. To director of the mexico futures initiative. Haveay wonder, we will people talking about a possible nafta doomsday scenario. It should it is the Job Description to see the big picture, the whole relationship. Is we want to look beyond trade and examine look happen in the issues and all with these bilateral relationships for one of the parties of nafta. We will probably hear about defense cup test defense quite rich canada, cooperation with both companies on issues like venezuela and haiti, global and most importan
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [indistinct conversations] scott just got the thumbs up. We will begin. Thank you for being here this morning. Welcome to csis. We appreciate you being here early monday morning for this event. My name is scott miller. Im a senior advisor. Three programs working cooperatively. Our program for prosperity and development and americas program. For those of you online, we welcome you. If youre interested in the rebroadcast of this event, it will be posted on the event page immediately following the program. To any of you who follow this, we are delighted you came and invest your time thank you for doing that. We have a excellent lineup today to talk about a subject we hope will provide context. Our programs are doing that on a regular basis. A trade website, for continuing coverage. To get things s