Because it is definitely the last thing we want right now is for anyone to be watching this and think oh, no it is going in the wrong direction we hope 24 hours later since last night it thinks at least trending in a peaceful direction than what we were seeing. Will israel retaliate for saturdays strikes. Seeing wider conflict is ahead and that america could get dragged into it. Also tonight, pretrial tantrums, trump on the attack against key figures in his hush money trial. And on the lead back to your rights. Lets begin. We are continuing to follow this weekends major escalation across the middle east. Iran Launching Hundreds of drones, missiles, towards israel on saturday that it says probably a conflict in syria this afternoon. Some top u. S. Officials are worried that israel may in fact respond hastily and could drag the u. S. Into a conflict. We will dive in deeper in just a moment. In the past 24 hours we have seen a swift change in narrative. Much of the world focused on condem
yesterday afternoon, this man, the speaker, mike johnson, unveiled his plan to fund the government s, which involves a novel and untested approach called a laontiing resolution, or see our. under this plan, funding for some service agencies, such as military a veterans programs, and the department of transportation and urban development, among, others will be extended a current levels until the first ne, ich is january 19th. meanwhile, funding will be extended until february the 2nd, a couple weeks later, for the rest of the government, including the department of state, just, as health and, human services. it ll be a clean bill. no other provisions will be attached. meaning it will not include funding for ukraine, for israel, or border security. these are the three main sticking points with divisions in congress recently. it didn t take long for republicans to once again come out against their own parties proposal. just minutes after johnson announced the latter rcr, at leas
Publicprivate innovations and the public and private sector issues on Cyber Security. I want to also echo frank and thank our sponsors for this, northrup grummond. In addition to his day job at f northrup grummond, hes on the panel for the Cyber Security. At the end of the 50 minutes for audience questions. First immediately to my left, your right. Scott aaronson, executive director for business continuity. Hes been there since 2009, working in a variety of roles before getting his current position, before that work on the hill for congressman lantos, senator nelson for a number of years has a masters here from gw, from the graduate school of political management and also will be announcing this early next month, will be a member of the senators board of directors. Finally to his left, kirsten todd is the president and managing partner of Liberty Group ventures and also a resident sclar at the university of Pittsburgh Institute for cyber law. She served as executive director for the co
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On tactical Public Private innovation collaboration, a number of the public and private sector issues on cybersecurity. Want to also echo frank and thank our sponsors for this event, north rup grumened, and Marcus Edwards who has been our sort of partner in getting this organizes for the past few months. In addition to his day job, hes also a doctor of engineering student here at George Washington university. I dont know how he finds time to do both of those things, but thanks, marcus for all of your work on this todays conference. Ill briefly introduce the panel that we have before us, and then well go right into a discussion with some time at the end of the 50 minutes for audience questions. First, immediately to my left, your right, scott aaronson, executive director for security and Business Continuity at the Edison Electric institute. Hes been there since 2009, working in a variety of roles before getting his current position. Before that, worked on the hill for congressman lantos