I would like to call this hearing to order. Admiral, welcome. I would like to welcome admiral rogers, director of the National Security agency. Mike, as you know we typically hold hearing in close session so we can review your classified programs. Given the sensitive nature of the programs and the need to protect methods which intelligence is gathered that position is understandable. Today, we want to take time to insure the American People have an opportunity to learn more about the nsa, the mission you workforce is tasked with and what you are doing to combat the increasing cyber threat to the nation. Cyber threats are top priority for the Intelligence Community. Attacks are increasing in scale, scope, and complexity and severity of impact. The office of personal management suffered from one of the biggest Cyber Breaches our government has ever encountered and there are count less other recent examples of attacks in the public and private sector. While the nsa typically works in secr
And then click share and send by email, facebook, twitter or google . Searchable, easy and free. Created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. Taking you live to the National Press club in washington, d. C. For discussion on the Second Amendment and with paul helmke, former president of the Brady Campaign to prevent gun violence. He will deliver remarks here. He is addressing the political debate surrounding and legislation. He is currently professor at indiana universitys school of public and Environmental Affairs, crazy served as mayor of fort wayne, indiana. This is live coverage here on cspan2. Before we proceed with his introduction would like to thank mr. Richard heller who is responsible for our getting him you. They dont see eye to eye. Mr. Heller [applause] it was his lawsuit that overthrew the d. C. Gun control law which was a landmark decision. Anyhow, thank you and by way of him, we have mr. Helmke here today. Paul is a former mayor
Many of us gave him that opportunity. Many of our activists who are part of the leader of the coalition now they actually formed a forum. They were willing to take bashar on his promises to reform the country introduce it into the modern world and so on and so forth. Unfortunately theres a crack down in the damascus spring and then there was another moment after the assassination of hariri but the damascus situation and early on in the first 40 years i remember very well and i follows minute by minute. We were accepting the argument that they were an old guard and the regime etc. Etc. But after 50 years in power he became fully in charge. The system is highly centralized highly personalized and he immediately reverted to his fathers way of first saying you have external challenges that take precedence over domestic reform and second you were not going to introduce political reforms but introduce economic and he talked about the chinese model but nothing was meaningfully introduced to g
I see the challenges that the issue of gun violence presents us in this country and how hard it is to solve that issue particularly i know living in the beltway for five, six years, you do develop a beltway mentality and think its always about fighting here, and you dont realize there are a lot of opportunities, should be a lot of opportunities to find Common Ground on many issues, including gun violence. So thats kind of the perspective im coming from too. Identify talked to elected officials, gun owners, friends and others in the state and, hopefully, have a few ideas that might be interesting here today. I just want to acknowledge real quickly my old friend martin chavez, the former mayor of albuquerque, good to see you. As well ascare line brewer caroline brewer. And we have a couple representatives from moms demand action for common sense i cant remember the official title, but moms demand action to end violence in this country, so thank you. Actually, when i started the semester