Back the National Defense authorization act as the defense policy bill seen on the hill is the best passed bill especially this is how much we will pay members of the military how many planes, ships, guns will buy, buy, and includes policies with overseas exercises. Its the pool that sets the next five years of military planning is something that is seen that they need to get done every year is a big enterprise every year and that prize the congressional leadership this year might be a little bit tricky we will see what happens there is confidence every year this is a bill at the end of the day they will come together to make sure it goes tough. Host there are two different versions how far apart are they quick. We just went through the conferencing process so essentially now we know there is one version that they came together to make agreements. With a Republican Senate and Democratic House there were issues of contention but the leadershipe of the house and Senate Armed Services com
Will try to use the system to shut you out yeah shut you out is exactly that was what we were seeing happening on thursday as you saw this whole you know monday through wednesday of last week as well like you know that stock just skyrocketing because theyre buying and buying and buying would just call the short sellers to be like oh my gosh i was broken with you know basically what was interesting with that is that thats when you know trading like robin hood t. D. Ameritrade Charles Schwab and others started restricting users from being able to actually buy game stop stock and other stocks that also were being looked at as short sells that the you know other groups driving up the price of what you see and things like that its pretty incredible robin who claim this was due to recent volatility in the market over listen to this submission. Of the week and many posters on wall street pointed out that quote one hedge fund suffering amid the game stop surge was Melvin Capital Management whi
Cybersecurity and cisas cybersecurity and infrastructure Security Acting director and we will have with us today i think hes joining a little bit later. Senator warner is the vice chair of the intelligence committee, representative will hurd whos the Ranking Member of the subcommittee on intelligence modernization and readiness and on the house intelligence committee, and representative underwood, from the subcommittee on cybersecurity, infrastructure , protections, and innovation. And i thought we would start where we just ended, which is we just heard from the cybersecurity and infrastructure cybersecurity agencys acting director from the department of Homeland Security. And the reason why we have an acting director is that the president fired the director , chris krebs. And maybe ill start with representative underwood and then turn to representative hurd, but to see what do you make of the firing of our lead cybersecurity officials. Well, thanks for having me. Hi, everybody. Really
And great set of speakers today, along with acknowledging additional support. I am here for the next 30 minutes with brandon wales, the acting director of cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, for what i hope is going conversationnating about the election, about the covid pandemic, about the state of cybersecurity and infrastructure security and Critical Infrastructure across the country. Brandon, thanks so much for joining us today. Brandon garrett, thank you so much for the invitation. I am very happy to be here and talk about the important work our agency is doing. Is december 3. It is hard to believe that exactly a month ago on november 3 we were sitting down as a country to watch the first Election Results role in. Roll in. It feels like as a country we have lived about 25 years in the last month, and i would imagine for you, it has actually felt somehow longer than that. Byanted to start off today taking you actually back three thursday after the election. They put ou
About the 2020 election. Welcome to Washington Post live. Im david ignatius, a columnist for the Washington Post, and its my pleasure to welcome christopher krebs, the former director of the cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at dhs, and it is fair to say, one of the heroes and protecting the security of our 2020 election. Welcome. Chris thank a lot. David lets begin with your story. You began preparing for a secure election back in february. And i remember talking with you in august for a column at a time when President Trump was warning about the danger of fraud because of mailin voting. You told me on the record interview back then this election would be slower to tabulate because of all the absentee votes, but it would be safe and secure. In august for a column at a time when President Trump was warning about the danger of fraud because of mailin voting. Took you told me in and on the record interview back then this election would be slower to tabulate because of all