Introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we have to do something about this. Weve made a number of attempts and quite honestly we made a fair amount of progress. My own sense is the bad guys, the people and often always have
I spoke at length with mitch mcconnell, and there is tremendous spirit to get something done, so we will see what happens, but my conversation was very good with senator schumer. I thank you all for joining us, and i would like to begin by providing an update on what we are doing to minimize the impact of the virus on our nations students. With many schools closed due to the virus, the department of education will not enforce standardized testing requirements for students in elementary through high school or the current year. They have been through a lot. They have been going back and forth. School is open. School is not open. It has been all standardized testing, you know, its we are not going to be enforcing that. O i think you can let people know. I think probably a lot of the students will be extremely happy. Some, probably not. The ones that work hard, maybe not, but it is one of those things. Unfortunate. Very unfortunate circumstance. We have also temporarily waived all interest
A good number of them. Doctors and nurses are working nonstop to kill the sick. Citizens and churches are delivering meals to the needy, truckers are making the long haul, we been dealing with big stores and big chains, walmart has been fantastic in others. Theyve all been fantastic. Theyve made it easier for them to stock in terms of travel and travel restrictions, we are lifting restrictions so they can get their trucks on time. We see very few empty shelves and yet the amount of volume is unprecedented because people want to have what they have to have what they feel they have to have in their also buying and slightly smaller quantities which is good because were not going anywhere. We will be here. I want to thank all of those very Great Companies for working so well. Americans from every walk of life are coming together and thanks to the spirit of our people we will win this war. We are winning and were going to win this war. America will triumph and america will rise higher than
Earlier today, President Trump along with the White House Coronavirus task force held a briefing on the governments efforts to respond to the nationwide outbreak. I had a very good telephone conversation, extremely good with senator schumer a while , ago. We are working on various elements of the deal. The democrats are wanting President Trump thank you very much. I had a very good telephone conversation, extremely good, with senator schumer a while ago. We are working on various elements of the deal. The democrats are wanting something to happen and the republicans likewise are wanting something to happen. And i think it will. I spoke at length with mitch mcconnell, and there is tremendous spirit to get something done, so we will see what happens, but my ank you all, and i would like to begin by providing an update on what we are doing to minimize the impact of the virus on our nations students. With many schools closed due to the virus, the department of education will not enforce st
Electronics association and the intelligence and National Security alliance. Thank you. I was going to try and get you fired up here because the initial plenary session, we were a little bit subdued. So i want you to feel free to get enthusiastic here. We have a great panel coming. Lots of cheer for them. We are going to have a great discussion. So welcome back. Before we jump into this next session, let me remind everyone that for the plenaries here in the maryland ballroom you can email questions to the panel. And pope flee we will have a logo up that says questions intel summit. Org. By the miracle of technology they are going to appear on an ipad with vince. Vince, if you didnt get the word at some point larry is going to tell you last question. Okay . So it is now my pleasure to introduce the moderator of our Defense Intelligence plenary, Lieutenant General vincent stewart, u. S. Marine corps come on, come on [ applause ] retired. Thats the part i was waiting for. [ laughter ] and