Security and Global Threats with fbi director christopher ray, at National Counterterrorism director chris miller, the talk included Election Security, cyber campaigns from russia, iran and china, extremist or threatened domestic threats. This is 2 hours and 40 minutes. This hearing will come to order, thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, director of the federal bureau of investigation, the honorable chris miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center and the honorable Ken Cuccinelli, senior official performing duties of the deputy secretary. This is the annual threat hearing. When you look at the threats, and interesting how many hearings you held on so many of these things. I want to ask for my Opening Statement to be entered into the record. If you consider these threats, down the list, cyberattacks, ransom, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned about if you try to develop a vaccine, hundreds of millions of dollars of Economic Loss due to
It was 1972, to a plot 30 in the morning when George Mcgovern delivered his acceptance speech. A few months later, he would lose badly to president Richard Nixon. Tonight, the candidacy and legacy of George Mcgovern. We are live from the mcgovern museum in mitchell, south dakota. Joining us is provincial author scott farris. It was 2 30 when he delivered the acceptance speech in miami. Why . It was emblematic of the whole Mcgovern Campaign, which was it was an insurgent campaign run against the establishment. What happened was, as you heard from senator mcgovern, he was very strong on the issue of vietnam. One of the things about senator government senator mcgovern as one of the most influential who ran for the presidency who was not successful, he went after the vietnam issue. He spoke about that war in ways no patinkin that had ever spoken about war before. No president president ial candidate had ever spoken about war before. It was Strong Language that unsettled lots of americans a
Langevin and others. Recognizeey i myself. The warnings we had and decisions made about the most recent worldwide Intelligence Committee in january of 2019, and i quote, the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next pandemic where large scale outbreak of contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls from the United States for support. We must ask ourselves what are the warnings are going unheeded, and what can we do right now to protect the American People from other threats . Before the unthinkable happens in the future, how can we exercise strategic and precisive foresight to the best of our ability today to ensure are a nation prepared for tomorrow . That same worldwide threat assessment Cyber Attacks is a top global threat with china, russia, iran, and north korea, raging a silent war capable of shutting down with such Information Systems and cri
Our nation recently observed the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001. Nearly two decades later we continue to mourn the nearly 3,000 lives lost that terrible day and keep their loved ones in our prayers. This committee and the department of Homeland Security were established in the wake of 9 11 to help prevent future attacks on our soil. Regardless of who was chairman weve held regular hearings examining worldwide threats with leaders from the department of Homeland Security, fbi, and National Counter Terrorism Center. And regardless of who has occupied the white house, whether democrat or republican, weve received cooperation in that effort. Today was supposed to be no different. Unfortunately as we see from the empty chair in front of us mr. Wolf is not here to represent the department of Homeland Security. Let me be clear about how we got here. The committee began engaging with the department over three months ago to secure participation alongside his col
Quote the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next pandemic or largescale outbreak of contagiousd disease. That could lead to a massive disability. Th and severely affects the worlds economy a. Strain international resources, and weak call in the United States support. We must ask ourselves, what are the warnings that are going unheeded . What can we do right now to protect the American People from other threats . Before the unthinkable happens in the future, how can we exercise strategic and persuasive foresight to the best of our ability today to ensure we are a nation prepared for tomorrow . That same worldwide threat assessment against Cyber Attacks with china, russia, iran, north korea, raging a silent work capable of shutting down such Information Systems and jeopardizing critical sectors in america. The report states, and i quote , our adversaries and strategic competitors increasingly use the cyber capabilities, including Cyber Espionage, to attack and see