Sector. This is just over one hour. Id like to welcome our online audience and cspan. Meridian is a center for International Diplomacy and leadership and we been working since 1962 try to look for ways to strengthen cooperation on Important International issues and the issues in the secretarys portfolio are some of the most important domestic and International Issues and you will hear more about that later. Our board chair who is a mutual friend of many of you including the secretary on forcefully couldnt be here but sends his regards. Now my pleasure to introduce one of our trustees, the honorable mweghan byer who is a dynamo. She is the head of a fantastic program that brings arts and culture through our ambassadors residence is and beyond to people around the world. She served as president obamas chair of the commission of arts and humanities. She has been active also in switzerland where she and her husband, now congressman don buyer served representing the United States. She launc
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Julia pierson is going to be on the hot seat today. Lisa you have been inside that building. How surprised were you when you found out how far mr. Gonzalez was said to have gotten . I think it has shocked everyone. First of all, as you know the first reports were that he got inside the building at all. And then the first reports were that they apprehended him right inside the door. Now were learning he got all the way past that guard. The guard was not able to stop him, he made it into the east room where events are held, the president often gives speeches in there. And then finally on the way into the green room he was tackled. He was carrying a 3. 5inch knife, and its astonishing he got past all of the supposed layers of security designed to prevent someone from getting into the house. So there will be a lot of very tough questions for Julia Pierson who just took over the top job about 18 months ago. And she truly will face a lot of secureny about this department and what needs to be
Fence jumper into the white house. Members question Julia Pierson about the breach and whats being done to improve white house security. This is three and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. The Oversight Committee access to secure fundamental principles. First americans have a right to know money washington takes from them is well spent and second americans deserve an efficient and effective government that works for them. Our duty on the oversight and Government Reform Committee is to protect these rights. Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers. It is our job to work tirelessly in partnership with citizen watchdogs to bring genuine reform to the federal bureaucracy. This is our mission and todays hearing follows one of the most important parts of that mission. With 1. 5 billion dollars spent by the secret Servi
Protecting the first family in the white house. He has full confidence in the professionals to do their job. April. Josh, i want to ask you a question. Is there concern within the white house that when the leaves, that there is a little bit more of a relaxed attitude, as when he goes to camp davis or somewhere else . I see what youre getting to, and i think this is a legitimate line of angry. Line of inquiry. The fact that the first family was not at home, did that have by bearing on the response the secret service to the breach of the perimeter . This is among the things that will be part of the review that in response toed the breach of the perimeter fence. I will reserve judgment here and refer to the experts youre taking a careful look at this. Again, to the extent that the secret service can release the results of this report, there will obviously be parts they cannot release, but to the extent they are able to do so, they will investigate that. Was the president told himself how