[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations taking place] [inaudible conversations taking place] [inaudible conversations taking place] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] and once again we are live at the Wilson Center waiting for comments from chuck hagel talking about the Nato Alliance as tension heightens between russia and ukraine. Russias military move quote shatter the myth that the end of the cold war meant an end to insecurity at least in europe. Speaking in washington he says the european nato members need bolster their expense effort because they will test the 28nation lead alliance. We expect remarks to get underway in just a moment here at the Wilson Center. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] morning. Good morning. Morning, everyone and welcome to the Wilson Center. I am jane harmon the president and ceo. I am delighted to introduce our first event this mornin
Free the palestinians. Expect to be ready for a state in two years. That was meant to say, if we are successful and somehow become ready, in the sense of being able to govern ourselves effectively and handle obligations responsibly and seen this way by the International Community and, therefore, effectively answering the questions that were really put forward in 2001 and 2002 and 2003 and all that. If we were able to do this and reduce this whole issue to occupation period, not occupation but the idea was that this was going to be Strong Enough to bring about the transformation necessary to settle the solution. What the problem wasbility inspiring ourselves to get ready for statehood in three years and tell the people beforehand. The idea was not to try to say, we took a test and passed it without announcement. But to preannounce the. That was an important part pof it. To go out and say and this is what we did in august of 2009, two years we expect to be rae t ready for statehood. We a
Sort of returned back to how we used to do things, going through the private phone carriers where that data exists. And i think that will give a little more ease to peoples privacy, you know, concerns out there. So i think those reforms are good. I mean, i think nsa will tell you it may impact them a little bit. Overall, with respect to mr. Snowden, i cant tell you how much damage he has done to the National Security of the United States. There is a classified document in the capitol that ive read, and it hits us on almost every level that im not allowed to go into, but causing billions of dollars of damage to us, compromising our National Security, particularly with respect to russia and china. And so hes not a hero in my book, hes a traitor, and i think the nsa has done great work over the years protecting americans. Its one reason we havent had a major attack since 9 11. And finally on oversight, i did introduce a bill with adam schiff. The Intelligence Committee is one area where t
What would be acceptable in congress in a short period of time with the structure that we have. So the agility that tom talked about is critical. You need organization on the executive branch side, but you also need a fully armed partner on the congressional side, and i dont think we have that. Governor thompson . As to the rapidly evolving technology, we all understand that. And what is useful today may not be useful tomorrow and things we cant even imagine now may be coming along. Im sure they will. But what were looking at is a framework within which government in the private sector can accommodate each others interests in preventing cyber attacks. Does the military of the United States or nsa possess knowledge, experience that can be useful to the private sector, to our banks, to our utilities, all of whom can expect some kind of cyber attack because its happened before. Well, the answer to that is yes. Do we have a framework in the United States where the military, the nsa, other
Packed, which is why Trump Campaign workers were caught on tape removing social distancing stickers from seats at the event. And while turnout for the rally fell way short of expectations, thousands of people still showed up at the indoor event, and we now know that at least eight members of the campaign advance team on the ground tested positive for the coronavirus, and dozens of secret Service Personnel at the event were later told to selfquarantine, and just this week we learned that a trump surrogate, who attended the event tested positive for the virus. Former 2012 president ial ka candidate her main caher man ca, this week the 74yearold was hospitalized with the coronavirus. Just days after the tulsa rally, the president went to a mega church in phoenix, arizona, another coronavirus hot spot and spoke to a group of largely unmasked people indoors, and this past weekend the Vice President , the head of the Coronavirus Task force went to a church in dallas, texas, another state str