Cost. This is about 40 minutes. [ applause ]. Thank you for everybody coming. Before we introduce our event tonight. I want to talk about the flag thats behind me. A lot of people have asked me, thats a weird looking flag. You have to modify it to clean up. Is that the right flag . The last time you saw this flag, it was draped across east village where president obamas last Campaign Speech of his entire career. We wanted it to be here tonight to show that we had good days in the past and today. We are going to have good days in the future. [ applause ] for barack obama, no pressure, senator klobachar. Amy klobachar is the daughter of theschoolteacher. Shes one of the most effective members of the u. S. Congress. Thats not just me saying it. It was reported last year that amy was ranked number one of the 114th congress. [ applause ] she has worked on a lot of cracks on sex traffickers and led last years landmark to combat of the opioid epidemiepi. Her legislative effort is amazing. The
A look now at the future of Missile Defense. The center for strategic and International Studies hosted a discussion recently with former defense officials and Global Security experts. Panelists talked about the challenges of Strategic Missile defense, the threats posed by north korea, iran, china and russia. Former defense undersecretary for policy, james miller moderated this event. Its about 90 minutes. Ready to go, okay, good morning, everybody. Thanks for being here today. Im jim miller. President of the adaptive strategies. I have had involvement with Missile Defense over a number of decades. Starting on capitol hill, House Armed Services committee in late 80s and early 90s and continuing on through my time including as undersecretary of defense in the Obama Administration. We have a great panel here today. You have already met tom karako, senior fellow here in the international program, director of the Missile Defense program and tom will talk about in particular his report Missi
For cybercommand please welcome back admiral rogers commander of cybercommand director National Security agency and several other titles. We are grateful for your many years of distinguished service with your parents today threats continue to grow in scope and severity but the nation remains unprepared to address these threats is a defining feature of the 21st century. As a result the committee is focused on cybersecurity concern of a lack of security we were hopeful without any serious effort from Alaska Administration the new litmus ration would have on within 90 days of the inauguration. Ninety days have come and gone but all policy provided while the executive branchs disheartening this committee has not stood selfhood but has adopted more than 50 provisions to enable the department to defend against threats in cyberspace. Cyberis an issue to require an integrated approach we simply do not have that now. The very fact that each agency of government believes it is responsible for de
I call this hearing of the Senate Environment Public Works Committee to order and would like to defer to the Ranking Member senator harper. I thank the chairman. I apologize to our witnesses, some of them who come quite a distance. The democratic leader and senate is caused for the emergency caucus meeting to discuss the issues leading up to the dismissal of james comey as fbi director and to discuss how we might move quickly to ensuring that a special prosecutor is assigned and put to work right away. And if i have the opportunity, i will come back and perhaps my colleagues i really appreciate the understanding of this and give me a chance to give the opening statement, first. Good to see you all, thank you, this is important stuff. In the lessons that youve learned, challenges that youve faced and what you think we need to know. Im not sure we could have gathered a more knowledgeable or relevant panel. All together our witnesses represent nearly a century of Natural Resource environm
I call this hearing of the Senate Environment Public Works Committee to order and would like to defer to the Ranking Member senator harper. I thank the chairman. I apologize to our witnesses, some of them who come quite a distance. The democratic leader and senate is caused for the emergency caucus meeting to discuss the issues leading up to the dismissal of james comey as fbi director and to discuss how we might move quickly to ensuring that a special prosecutor is assigned and put to work right away. And if i have the opportunity, i will come back and perhaps my colleagues i really appreciate the understanding of this and give me a chance to give the opening statement, first. Good to see you all, thank you, this is important stuff. In the lessons that youve learned, challenges that youve faced and what you think we need to know. Im not sure we could have gathered a more knowledgeable or relevant panel. All together our witnesses represent nearly a century of Natural Resource environm