A professional musician discovered her love of drumming on a beach in bulgaria as a child. And since then has dedicated her life to music, we caught up with her as a solar performance in vienna. The. This is one of germanys rising stars in the Classical Music world, german bulgarian percussionist v vi. See me fast for me, life and very, very big energy that brings the most intense emotions from inside of us already and her young age. Shes reached the pinnacle of her career. She performs around the world as a soloist. Here in viennas concert house, shes rehearsing for a piece for percussion by austrian composer friedrich sir in the beginning, it was challenging for need to find the connection to this music because its very, very intense. Um, and quite aggressive also. My 1st impression was a cause of some kind of must clean energy, must calling aggressiveness that, that i dont really feel how, how i will stand on the stage and, and interpret this music with all this convincing and depre
[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. There are thousands of federal buildings across the country that not only serve as workplaces for federal employees, but also host daily visitors who come to access important federal services and help keep our government functioning efficiently. These facilities face a range of security threats that put both people and property at risk. And of those threats are only continuing to grow. Threats related to domestic and International Terrorism and even disinformation are rising and according to the department of homeland security, can endanger our federal personnel and Critical Infrastructure. Todays hearing will focus on what actions are needed to secure the 9,000 federal facilities overseen by dhs federal protective services. The facilities host the mold of bold ofthe civilian and federal employees and are visited by 1. 4 million americans each and every day. Currently the federal facilities are secured through a twostep proces
[ banging gavel ] this hearing will come to order. Good morning. We are meeting today to consider the nomination of kirstjen m. Nielsen to be the next secretary of the United States in Homeland Security. I want to thank her, her family. Our senators making introductions later on. I certainly want to call out mrs. Karen kelly, general kellys wife. Shes here also. Showing her support for the nominee. And i know ms. Nielsen will introduce her family in her Opening Statement. Americas facing enormous challenges. Our National Debt exceeds 20 trillion and theres no serious effort being made by either party to significantly reduce the 30year projected deficits that are currently expected to exceed over 100 trillion. Our enemies are on the rise. Russia continues to destabilize its neighbors and is partnering with iran to increase both countries influence in the middle east. The Iranian Nuclear agreement did modify irans behavior. For the worse. North Korea Remains determined to develop the cap
Security and terrorism. She talked of the Hudson Institute in washington d. C. Earlier this week about how the department is adapting as the debts against the nation change. Her remarks are almost one hour. Good afternoon and welcome to Hudson Institute. Hudson is a policy Research Organization dedicated to promoting security freedom and prosperity through strong and engaged Us International leadership. I want to welcome both of our members of the audience and our good friends from cspan as well. One of the most important threats, potential threats in the United States is out of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, chemical, biological and nuclear agents to harm americans. We had this attacked the other day in new york which just imagine how much scarier it would have been had the terrace had weapons of mass destruction. Preventing such attacks are obviously critical to the president and his team and his august 24 speech that outlined a new strategy for overseas. He says we mu
Good afternoon and welcome to hudson institute. Im ken winestein, president and ceo of hudson institute. Hudson is a policy Research Organization dedicated to promoting security freedom, and prosperity through strong and engaged u. S. International leadership. I want to welcome both of our members of the audience and our good friends from cspan as well. One of the most important potential threats facing the United States is that of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction chemical, biological and nuclear agents to harm americans. We had this attacked the other day in new york which just imagine how much scarier it would have been had the terrace had weapons of mass destruction. Preventing such attacks are obviously critical to the president and his team. In his august 24th speech that outlined a new strategy for overseas. He says we must prevent weapons being used against us and around the world. For that matter. We have done a lot in the Homeland Security space. I should note that