Calls the growing partisan nature of the u. S. Senate. Cspans washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up wednesday morning, Oklahoma Republican congressman steve russel will join us to discuss the latest on the deal to avoid a Government Shutdown and the governments waste watch report. Were live from jackson, mississippi, for the next stop on the cspan bus 50 capitals tour. Joining us will be Mississippi Attorney general jim hood to talk about key policy issues his state. Then new York Democratic congresswoman Carolyn Maloney on efforts to avoid a Government Shutdown this week and volatility in u. S. Financial markets. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern wednesday morning. Join the discussion. Following last months false alarm missile alert in hawaii, a house panel looked at the reliability and accuracy of Emergency Alerts. Well hear from representatives from fema and the new york and rhode island Emergency Manag
Out of the system. Which is why weve been encouraged by the fccs latest rules and working with industry to improve geotargeting. The citywide message that went out the following monday looking for the suspect ultimately led to his capture. That was ultimately successful. It would have been more successful, however, if we were able to embed an image in that message as opposed to indicating the public should go to the media to see the picture. And, you know, as you know i live in new york city as well. Were unique compared to some other geographic areas of our country because we have subways. Define difficulties of the alerts effective in the subways . I forget how many millions of riders we have every day. And because of our subway system, that is also a target for potential terrorist attacks. Do you find that the alert system is adequate in the uniqueness of trying to push those messages out to people who might be riding on our subways . If youre able to get Wireless Service in your de
Attorney general jim hood to talk about key policy issues his state. Then new York Democratic congresswoman Carolyn Maloney on efforts to avoid a Government Shutdown this week and volatility in u. S. Financial markets. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern wednesday morning. Join the discussion. Following last months false alarm missile alert in hawaii, a house panel looked at the reliability and accuracy of Emergency Alerts. Well hear from representatives from fema and the new york and rhode island Emergency Management agencies as well as Wireless Technology industry officials. Congressman Daniel Donovan of new york chairs this Homeland Security subcommittee hearing. The subcommittee on emergency preparedness, response and communications will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to review our ability to timely and effectively alert and warn the public in the case of an emergency. I want to welcome our witnesses here this morning on an issue that i
Cyberspace. It is a vast expanse of cyberspace, the fact that it touches everyone and soon it will touched almost everything and changes how people are going to think about it. When the internet was first built, infrastructure was not connected to it and didnt rely upon it. End users dont worry about the underlying security of the code, only that it worked. Governments didnt understand and didnt see why they should care about it. Nobody particularly care that the technologist set up the internet to be governed in a highly decentralized function outside of government based structures and they didnt incorporate strong security. But not everyone cares about these things, at least to some degree. Governments are waking up to the fact that they really need to care about what happens on the internet and how it works. For all sorts of reasons both good and bad. Companies are waking up to this fact and citizens are waking up to this fact. So as a result, what used to be able to be decided on a
Didnt do anything wrong. Just to set the scene here, hallie. This has to do with a meeting that took place two weeks after then candidate trump clinched the nomination. And it was his son, don jr. , Jared Kushner, his soninlaw, Paul Manafort Campaign Manager at the time who met with the russian lawyer with suspected links to the kremlin. Now, as you point out what has become so notable is the fact that don jr. s reasons for having this meeting have shifted over time. First, he said that he met with her to discuss adoptions. Of course, that came after putin controversially suspended adoptions to the u. S. And then, of course, late yesterday changed his story dramatically. Saying that, in fact, he was promised some dirt on Hillary Clinton. As you have underscored, hes tweeting this morning saying, look, no inconsistencies. Ive merely added to the narrative. In a statement over the weekend, he also said that the lawyer was vague and ambiguous and that she had no meaningful information abo