[inaudible conversations] thank you very much for being here and i particularly want to thank chairman barrasso because he allowed us to have the subcommittee hearing and for me to chai chair if this is a discn thats important to all of us that are here and so many of our colleagues. Information is power today, and we see it all over the globe when its used improperly it is used as a weapon. Democracy requires wellinformed electorate to function properly but to undermine the principle through socalled Disinformation Campaigns designed to mislead voters and in doing so delegitimize the democratic elections. Actors like russia systematically exploit the media and to distort the truth to an unsuspecting populace with regards to the coronavirus and this information is being spread is a high degree and anonymous and again if left unchecked it could be devastatingly effective. I established this organization it could help lead to the global disinformation effort and work with International P
Thats important to all of us that are here and so many of our colleagues. Information is power today, and we see it all over the globe when its used improperly it is used as a weapon. Democracy requires wellinformed electorate to function properly but to undermine the principle through socalled Disinformation Campaigns designed to mislead voters and in doing so delegitimize the democratic elections. Actors like russia systematically exploit the media and to distort the truth to an unsuspecting populace with regards to the coronavirus and this information is being spread is a high degree and anonymous and again if left unchecked it could be devastatingly effective. I established this organization it could help lead to the global disinformation effort and work with International Partners. The Bipartisan Legislation within the state department is now the law and to get it up and going we will hear more about that today but we are pleased that we are making progress. They lead, synchronize
Tremendous unity in the republican party. Were working on a lot of different things. Weve had some good updates on the virus thats working out smoothly. Tremendous people. Its a tremendous task force. They have done a great job. Not a gad jood job, a great job. Its about 600 cases, about 26 deaths within our country. And had we not acted quickly that number would have been substantially more. We just had a meeting with system mu lus and youll be hearing about it soon. It was a great meeting. Theres great unity within the republican party. [ talking at the same time ] they seem skeptical [ inaudible ] on a payroll tax holiday, is that the right approach . I was just with the republican senators and there was they were just about all there. Mostly all there. And theres a great feeling about doing a lot of things and thats one of the things we talked about. And what about the idea of [ inaudible ] were going to see them. They came in chopped up. A lot of them are things that you wanted to
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