Its critical that we allow telework to minimize the number of people in federal buildings. With that, mr. Chairman, i yield back and i look forward to hearing from our witnesses today. Thank you. At this time i want to proceed with testimony from our witnesses. Let me do a quick introduction of the four of them. Joining us remotely is Michelle Rosenberg and the Strategic Issues team where she is on capital issues and she served for over 20 years on gaos tenured team. Shes been recognized with Health Care Team awards including two Meritorious Service awards and shell be testifying first and joining us remotely. Mr. Keith waington is with the u. S. Department of troilgz. Has been with the Department Since 1991 and in hiscurrent position he provides leadership and oversight in the areas of Human Resources, security, audit relations, acquitions and gras and transportation and facilities and space management. Maybe you can lead nasa for us next since we need a new director for nasa since yo
Cybersecurity and cisas cybersecurity and infrastructure Security Acting director and we will have with us today i think hes joining a little bit later. Senator warner is the vice chair of the intelligence committee, representative will hurd whos the Ranking Member of the subcommittee on intelligence modernization and readiness and on the house intelligence committee, and representative underwood, from the subcommittee on cybersecurity, infrastructure , protections, and innovation. And i thought we would start where we just ended, which is we just heard from the cybersecurity and infrastructure cybersecurity agencys acting director from the department of Homeland Security. And the reason why we have an acting director is that the president fired the director , chris krebs. And maybe ill start with representative underwood and then turn to representative hurd, but to see what do you make of the firing of our lead cybersecurity officials. Well, thanks for having me. Hi, everybody. Really
Going to talk with. Homas schwartz he directed as an author and editor. Professional awards. Today we are going to take a to the time ofme Herbert Hoover. Tom, i want to make sure we can hear you. Are you with us . How are you doing today . Obviously the library is closed. How is everyone doing . The staff is doing well. They are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. Great. We have lots of questions. I will sign off. I will let you get into your program and i will pop back in when we are ready for q a. Have at it. Enjoy. Thank you, patrick. So, you see the exterior of the hoover president ial library museum. We are the smallest facility. We were founded as a quaker community. Hoover was our first quaker president. How did hoover get in . He predates roosevelt. This is the hoover tower at Stanford University. Herbert hoover was with president wilson in versailles
About the 2020 election. Welcome to Washington Post live. Im david ignatius, a columnist for the Washington Post, and its my pleasure to welcome christopher krebs, the former director of the cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at dhs, and it is fair to say, one of the heroes and protecting the security of our 2020 election. Welcome. Chris thank a lot. David lets begin with your story. You began preparing for a secure election back in february. And i remember talking with you in august for a column at a time when President Trump was warning about the danger of fraud because of mailin voting. You told me on the record interview back then this election would be slower to tabulate because of all the absentee votes, but it would be safe and secure. In august for a column at a time when President Trump was warning about the danger of fraud because of mailin voting. Took you told me in and on the record interview back then this election would be slower to tabulate because of all
It could be given to americans in the next three weeks. And in the battle for the white house today, new data shows just how poor a performance joe biden had in the november election as compared to the number of votes he received. And how many questions now surround the election of 2020. Biden won 212 few or counties than barack obama back in 2012. 212 fewer counties. Yet supposedly he gained more than 13 million vote than did the former president. 13 million more votes while not coming close to the number of counties. How could that be possible . Well, thats a central question, and there are many central questions that go to the integrity of the 2020 president ial election. We will be asking many questions here tonight. Well be exploring what happened and whats likely to happen from here and what really happened on november 3rd and beyond. President trump today acting as if the republic depended on it, pressing republican lawmakers to point out those anomalies and irregularities in th