Chairman johnson good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, bell honorable christopher miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center, and honorable kenneth cuccinelli, senior official performing the duties of deputy secretary. This is an annual threat hearing. When i look at all the threats that this committee has considered and all the threats facing this nation, i think it is pretty interesting how many hearings we have held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for consent to have my written Opening Statement to be entered into the record. When you consider these threats, for example, i will just go down the list cyberattacks, ransomware, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned right now as we try to develop vaccines. But the hundreds of billions of dollars of Economic Loss due to intellectual
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Venezuela charges 2 americans with terrorism and conspiracy to overthrow the government. Welcome to the program for weeks weve seen lines at the food banks stretching for miles and job centers overwhelmed with people its given us a picture of how badly the u. S. Economy has been hit by cope with 19 but now we have the most concrete figure yet 14. 7 percent thats the Unemployment Rate for april which tripled from the month before to put it another way thats more than 20000000. 00 jobs gone for perspective its worse than the global recession which followed the 2008 financial crisis and it created a new post war record previously set in 1902 when unemployment reached nearly 11 percent so its no exaggeration to say this is the worst crisis for the u. S. Economy since the Great Depression of the 1930 s. When one in every 4 American Workers had no job from washington d. C. Is particle. Its a remarkable statistic 20500000 americans are out of work numbers not seen since the Great Depression a