Welcome, matt, thank you for appearing here. Good to be here with you. Spinal tap thing behind you. Matt it is relegated to the basement and this was the lightest corner i could find. It gets a nine on room rater i want to talk about the walk up to the election, but i think everyone is most interested that you resigned after chris was fired at the Cybersecurity Infrastructure agency. Walk us through two weeks before the election before the firing and what it was like to be cisa. s eisa inside the election was four weeks ago today and we knew that the results process would be protracted because of the mailin voting. So we were gaming out some of the contingencies that we wanted to be prepared for. We get through the weekend and before it was called for biden, it was the day before when politico dropped a piece about a Government Agency that you have never heard of that is countering the president s lawyers claims about impropriety and fraud. That night, i saw at first. I saw it first. I
The infrastructure cyber agency to step down. He also talks about election security. This is held by the aspen institute. This is about 40 minutes. Thank you for having me here. I am excited to interview matt travis. Someone who i wanted to talk to a lot about cybersecurity and other issues. Welcome, matt, thank you for appearing here. Good to be here with you. Spinal tap thing behind you. Matt it is relegated to the basement and this was the lightest corner i could find. It gets a nine on room rater i want to talk about the walk up to the election, but i think everyone is most interested that you resigned after chris was fired at the Cybersecurity Infrastructure agency. Walk us through two weeks before the election before the firing and what it was like to be cisa. s eisa inside the election was four weeks ago today and we knew that the results process would be protracted because of the mailin voting. So we were gaming out some of the contingencies that we wanted to be prepared for. W
Good to be here with you. Spinal tap thing behind you. Matt it is relegated to the basement and this was the lightest corner i could find. It gets a nine on room rater i want to talk about the walk up to the election, but i think everyone is most interested that you resigned after chris was fired at the Cybersecurity Infrastructure agency. Walk us through two weeks before the election before the firing and what it was like to be cisa. s eisa inside the election was four weeks ago today and we knew that the results process would be protracted because of the mailin voting. So we were gaming out some of the contingencies that we wanted to be prepared for. We get through the weekend and before it was called for biden, it was the day before when politico dropped a piece about a Government Agency that you have never heard of that is countering the president s lawyers claims about impropriety and fraud. That night, i saw at first. I saw it first. I said if this doesnt get you fired, nothing w
8002. U are unsure, 202748 you can text us at 2027488903. On twitter it is cspan. Wj. And facebook. It is republicans only for that question. We will open it up tomorrow for democrats only in our first hour of the program as well. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. One of those former supporters and fox opinion commentator opinion writer in the wall street journal. Bases his peace. The headline, this election result will not be overturned. Occasionally change margins in the hundreds but not in the tens of thousands. It has been an unsettling year, at deadly virus claimed almost a quarter million lives, a lockdown demolished personal routines and left us gasping for normality, a sudden deep depression snatched newfound prosperity for families, so why not finish out with a miscast election as the finale . Trump is that mr. Pursuing legal challenges in pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, arizona, nevada, and there will be an automatic recount in georgia given bidens. 29 lead.
Thank you. Thanks so much, anthony, and thank you to the Federalist Society for hosting this debate at its annual faculty conference. Im delighted to be here with two distinguished scholars to moderate this debate on the question should the Electoral College be as you are aware, the constitution establishes an Electoral College for choosing the president meeting in their respective states, the electors vote by ballot for the president and Vice President. Alexander hamilton wrote in federalist 68 that the Electoral College will provide a practicable obstacle 2 intrigue and corruption, he said that it would impose capable discernment for deliberation over the selection of the president. Hamilton thought the system best designed to vent, and disorder. As we head into the 2020 president ial election, debates about the Electoral College once again emerge over the desired voting of our constitutions method. This debate is an important one about our republic and about our constitutional form