Im a columnist at the washington post. Thank you for joining us this morning for a panel entitled Homeland Security challenges. We have a very distinguished panel with us today in first we have the former secretary of Homeland Security the honorable jeh johnson and mr. Frank cilluffo the director of the center for cyber and Homeland Security at the George Washington university my alma mater. We have congressman Kathleen Rice representing the Fourth District of new york and also the ranking democrat on the subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence and last but certainly not least the honorable Kenneth Wainstein who served served as the home and security adviser to president george w. Bush. Now i have prepared an extensive introduction for todays panel but those plans were tossed in the garbage when President Trump issued a series of official statements this morning that are extremely relevant to this panel. You might also call them tweets and the tweets are directed at one of ou
[applause] good morning and welcome to the National Press club. I am from the new Jersey Advance Media and star ledger and past president of the club. Columnist george will once said the late senator Daniel Patrick of new york wrote most more books than most senators have read. Newt gingrich has written more books than senators have read and now there are four more house members. We will speak for 20 minutes and then questions from the audience before signing the book. If you have not purchased the book, please, do so now. Proceeds benefit the journalism institute, the clubs nonprofit that does training and helps the club on freedom of press issues. Before beginning, please turn off or silence your cell phones. I would like to acknowledge the members of the head line team responsible for organizing the event. If you are in the audience stand to be recognized. Mr. Martin, mr. Matthew, larry ruso, heather, bill pierce, bill lawsuit check, frank and staff liason, lindsey underwood. Thank
Department and nato. Id like to call the hearing to order. Thatd committee convenes its second open hearing of 2017 into russian interference in the 2016 u. S. Election the 12th open hearing this year. To date our open hearings have largely focused on the domestic impact of russias dealings. Todays hearing will hilet russias intersfeerns in the european elections. Senator burr we hope to gain additional understanding of russian efforts to undermine Democratic Institutions worldwide as the committee continues its inquiry. The Intelligence Committee assessed in january that moscow will apply Lessons Learned from its campaign aimed at the United States president ial election to further influence efforts worldwide. It further assessed that russia sought to influence elections across europe. The director of National Intelligence copse echoed those words as recently as may when he testified before the senate that russias seeking to influence election in europe, including france, germany and
Canteens, rifles, army belts, and our helmets we were issued french helmets, rifles, ammunition, canteens. 8 00 p. M. , who would surprise winning historian thed mccullough talks about founders, particularly john adams, viewed slavery, and persevered in the shape face of hardship. He grew up on a farm where they had no money. His mother was illiterate. His father could sign his name, maybe could read, because there was a bible in the house. That was the only book. Day,hey worked hard every from childhood on. But because he got a scholarship to this Little College in cambridge called harvard, and, as he said, discovered books and read forever, he became the john adams that helped change the world. For our complete American History tv schedule, go to cspan. Org. Diplomats and experts from the u. S. And europe testify about russian interference in u. S. Elections. This hearing is two and a half hours. Today the committee convenes it to russians interference of the 2016 your selections in
Economic condition and possible fed actions in the future. You look like nervous. Im much more nervous, like yeah. Yeah. At work it will be eight or nine days away, but it can happen any time. I hope so. Im better than that. Lets talk about schedules. The committee will come to order without objection and they declare a recess of the committee at any time. All members will have five legislative days within which to submit extraneous material to the chair for inclusion in the record. The hearing is for the purpose of receiving the semiannual testimony and the board of governors on the Federal Reserve system on Monetary Policy and the state of the economy. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. Since we last convened to take chair yellens on Monetary Policy, headline remains low as does inflation, but the headline Unemployment Rate still rests too much on an incredibly low Labor Participation rate and regrettably high disability payment Participation Rate.