Foundations executive Vice President dr. Kim holmes. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Welcome to all of you here in the auditorium and everyone online as well. Its a great pleasure for us to be back in the building of the Heritage Foundation. We have been away for some time teleworking. This is my first day back for a while, but i am very pleased to be back here today for this very important event of launching the Heritage Foundations 2021 index of u. S. Military strength. This is the seventh addition of the index and the index has become one of Heritage Foundations flagship publications. Our goal is unchanged from the very first issue. It is to provide both the leaders of this country and also premierican public a opensource and authoritative assessment of Americas Armed forces and their ability to protect the nation. Our goal is unchanged from the very first issue. Its to provide both the leaders of this country, and also the American Public a premier open
And that they might have actually changed the outcome of the election. That would be a regretful conclusion to reach in many months so it would be good cspan3 is live with the acting director of Cyber Security, brandon wales. And i want to thank intel and proof point for making this weeks summit possible and helping organize these conversations and let us talk with a great and diverse set of speakers today, along with acknowledging blue vector, cigma and the American Gas Association for their additional support. Im here for the next 30 minutes with brandon wales, the acting director of the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency for what i hope is going to be a fascinating conversation about the election, about the covid pandemic, about the state of Cyber Security and infrastructure security and Critical Infrastructure across the country. Brandon, thanks so much for joining us today. Garrett, thank you so much for the invitation. I am very happy to be here and talk about the
Who is Deputy Editor and Senior Pentagon correspondent for defense news here with us to talk about the efforts to pass the Defense Authorization bill. Aaron, the bill sets programs and policies for the pentagon. How important is it for pentagon operations and for the funding that those programs require . So the national Defense Authorization act, essentially, its the defense policy bill. This is seen on the hill and its one of the mustpass bills and this is how much well pay members of the military and this is how many plane, how many ships and how many guns were going to buy and this is how we want to invest and it can include policy, and regarding some movements in some cases and overseas exercises and things like that. It is very much the bill that sets the next year of the military and in some cases the next five years of the military planning. It is seen in the pent fwon as something they need to get done every year and it is done as a point of pride they get done every year and i
Thank fire eye intel and proof point for helping to make this summit possible, along with blue vector and the American Gas Association for their Additional Support and turn it over to my colleague, john carlan. Sorry, i had a bit of an audio issue. I want to welcome our guests and also to remind folks that the please submit questions and i will try to read them as we get towards the end of our session today. Weve just heard from 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 who is 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 and protection and innovation. And i thought we would start where we just ended which is we just heard from the cybersecurity a
Assisted living facilities. With dr. David gifford and we will also take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host four weeks after the election, joe biden and Kamala Harris today will receive their first president ial Daily Briefing with their inauguration as president and Vice President just over six weeks away. This as President Trump and his first tv interview since the election continues to maintain that he won. Good morning, it is monday, november 30, 2020. Glad you are here. We will start the program by asking you this, how has President Trump changed the Republican Party . Heres how to join the conversation. Emocrats, 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001. Ndependents, 202 7488002 you can also send us a text at 202 7488003. Make sure you tell us who you are and where you are texting from. On twitter, its cspanwj. And we are at facebook. Com cspan. We will show you some of the Maria Bartiromo interview this morning. But