Hello everybody welcome to the brookings event on election and here at the Brookings Institute to have several colleagues to join me for an indepth discussion on this topic we will do a twopart event today starting with what you see before you. With the integrative process and then as second panel on the problems tackling this implication with a campaign were in the midst of. And with those keynote remarks some one from someone on the front lines. And the infrastructure security with the department of homeland security. And with they are doing with those t issues and then to go into a discussion with mark harvey with the National Security council for the person in charge of coordinating all of the initiatives. And with Election Security and integrity. And at the Harvard Institute of politics will also trying to work with the outreach on those issues and to understand whats involved on the various issues and to be and in the midterms. And with the organization especially devoted with th
Event today starting with the panel that you see before you which are going to focus on safeguarding Election Security to the integrity of the e Electoral Systems and process. We have a second panel that will begin at 3 15 on the problems of tackling disinformation, the implications for the Election Campaign that were in the midst of for the election in 2020. Werere delighted to be able to start off today with keynote remarks from someone whos on die front line of this, a great thlleague of mine, chris krebs, who is thee director for Cyber Security and infrastructure security of the department of ry Homeland Security. He has a whole agency he directs that is completely devoted to the subject of todays panel, and were really grateful as chris iss coming right from thei frontlines of dealing with these issues that hes got some time o to spend with us today. Chris is going to give us an overview of what the government is trying to do to tackle this issue head on. And then were going to go
News of more pipeline and refinery disruptions are all in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey now reports of more storms brewing. Well break down the impact on energy prices. And explosion and fire at a Chemical Plant in texas. Were live on the scene with the impact. Scary stuff trying to figure out if its toxic or not we bring with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin picking up President Trumps baton who spoke to our Steve Liesman earlier with hoy lights of that conversation. Thank you very much u. S. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin sitting down exclusively with cnbc saying the detailed plan cometh despite criticism that President Trump was promoting a plan without detail. Mnuchin says there is a plan, and it will be released within the next few weeks. Originally our goal had been august unfortunately, things got delayed a bit, but were on a track to get this done by the end of the year, so youre going to see the details come out later this month its going to go through a committee proces
Disruption that happened on b. A. R. T. There were a couple of arrests . Reporter thats right. There were two and many headaches for commuters. We wondered about organizers asking demonstrators to bring spoons with them. Now we know why. Reporter at San Franciscos montgomery b. A. R. T. Station what one called an annoying protest. Beginning at 7 00 a. M. About 200 demonstrators swarmed the stations bemanding charges be dropped against b. A. R. T. Protesters arrested three months ago, even as officers arrested two more protesters. [ indiscernible ] the message here, no business as usual for however long that police violence, the attacks on the community. The morning commute snarled system wide. My husband said the station is closed. We will see what happens. Reporter what happened, trains didnt stop. B. A. R. T. Safety procedure and service at the free station disrupted two hours. And even commuters sympathetic to the issues were turned off. I come from a generation where we protested f
Here and take a look at what we see here. A National Guard humvee standing watch. Now, we can show you some video from the rest of the town as well. The National Guard showing a very strong presence this afternoon at mondawmin mall. That is the location where teenagers started the rock throwing on monday that escalated into the looting and burning that we saw. There have been some protests around town today. A peaceful protest led by a group of pastors in downtown baltimore saying that they want to get the focus back on the freddie gray investigation. Now, we hear that governor larry hogan is giving a Live Press Conference and we want to go to him on hear what he has to say. All right. We lost the hogan signal there. What we wanted to tell you is weve been seeing a lot of peaceful protests today. Folks are saying they want to get the town back to normal but theyre also telling us that simmering just underneath is that tension that can turn at any second to violence. The next question t