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
Security and Global Threats with fbi director christopher ray, at National Counterterrorism director chris miller, the talk included Election Security, cyber campaigns from russia, iran and china, extremist or threatened domestic threats. This is 2 hours and 40 minutes. This hearing will come to order, thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, director of the federal bureau of investigation, the honorable chris miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center and the honorable Ken Cuccinelli, senior official performing duties of the deputy secretary. This is the annual threat hearing. When you look at the threats, and interesting how many hearings you held on so many of these things. I want to ask for my Opening Statement to be entered into the record. If you consider these threats, down the list, cyberattacks, ransom, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned about if you try to develop a vaccine, hundreds of millions of dollars of Economic Loss due to
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44 states. Ladies and gentlemen, ronald reagan. Good evening. Im here tonight to announce my intention to seek the republican nomination for president of the United States. Im sure that each of us has seen our country from a number of viewpoints, depending on where weve lived and what weve done. For me, its been as a boy growing up in several small towns in illinois, as a young man in iowa, trying to get a start in the years of the Great Depression and later in california for most of my adult life. Ive seen america from the Stadium Press Box as a sportscaster, as an actor, officer of my labor union, soldier, Office Holder and as both democrat and republican. Ive lived in an america where those who often had too little to eat outnumbered others. Ive seen financial ruin in the Great Depression and also seen the great strength of this nation as it pulled itself up from that ruin to become the dominant force in the world. To me, our country is a living breathing presence, unimpressed by wh
Good evening, im here tonight to announce my intention to seek the republican nomination for president of the United States. Im sure that each of us has seen our country from a number of viewpoints depending on where weve lived and what weve done. For me, its been as a boy growing up in several small towns in illinois, as a young man in iowa trying to get a start in the years of the Great Depression and later in california for most of my adult life. Ive seen america from the Stadium Press Box as a sportscaster, as an actor, officer of my labor union, soldier, officer holder, and as both democrat and republican. Ive lived in an america where those who often had too little to eat outnumbered those who had enough. There have been four wars in my lifetime and ive seen our country face financial ruin in the depression. Ive also seen the great strength of this nation as it pulled itself from that ruin to become the dominant force in the world. To me, our country is a living, breathing presen