You have everyones bio, i dont think i need to reintroduce the panebut it is a way to look at the year in a context of cyber and healthcare and give us a different way to look at the efforts to get the vaccine to the public. Have news that we will get to later, the new rk times reported cyberattacks related to cold storage of the vaccine have been gog on since august and it is unclear whether this is about ran somewhere or sothing more sinister but we will get to that in minute. What i thought we would do is divide the discussion into three parts, going to look at thbroader issue, attacks on for healthcare sector as we wrestle through a pandemic, ok at the security and protection of intellecal property related to the vaccine and finay is related to news about hacking the cold cin we will talk about Security Protection and defense of the supply chain for the vaccine. What i would like to do if you have questions i will field those as we along and we may have questions at the end as well
Sometimes we start gravelly, then we east into it. We hope you have your breakfast in hand. Will my man told me hit the Snooze Button one too many times. He is not yet to the mountain dew, the first energy drink of the day. I know this is slow morning for pete hegseth. Pete i go up to my office during one of the commercial breaks to get my mountain dew. Will i know your routine. Pete it wasnt going to happen. The alarm went off. I said not today. Here we are. Will here is it what were following several big stories. Covid19 cases spread from team to team. First the Denver Broncos in unprecedented jam after all of its quarter back are declared ineligible today for the game today with the saints. One of the quarterbacks tested positive. Pete the Baltimore Ravens have 18 players on the coach cove reserve lives. The game against the steelers is in more doubt but scheduled for tuesday night. Jedediah San Francisco 49ers faces its own issue after county imposed ban on Contact Sports. They are
My friend chuck for their remarks. I will have more to say to them later. On march 9th, 1967, senator howard baker junior, the newly elected senator from tennessee made his maiden address, his first speech on the floor of the senate. He spoke for too long. The republican leader of the senate who was also bakers father in law, walked to congratulate him and said howard, occasionally you might enjoy the luxury of unexpressed thought. Which is good advice for farewell address as well. Senator bakers legislative assistant, i was also a speechwriter that made an address, or at least i thought i was. He developed a bad habit of not saying what i wrote for his speech. I asked to see him, do i have a problem with our relationship . Write what you want to write and say what i want to say. I learned a couple other things about saying what i want to say. One came from alex haley, the author of roots, you heard him speak once and said may i make a suggestion . If when you begin a speech you would
Interview of the new acting director of cisa, the department of Homeland Securitys key cyberofficial branden wells. Ill be back at the end of the day for the summits final session, a covering with three of the top Cyber Security voices on capitol hill. Senator mark warner, representative will hurd and representative lauren underwood. Pie would also strongly encourage you today, take a look at our new report released yesterday by the aspen Cyber Security group that laid out a National Cyber agenda for the Biden Administration and the 117th congress. It outlines actionable steps, the art of the possible, as we call it in the cybergroup. And help build a more secure foundation for the internet and our digital economy. A full report is available at aspenvi aspencybersummit. Org. And many of the key voices that went into writing that report youve heard from at the summit already and today. Im pleased to introduce my friend from npr who will be speaking with fbi Deputy Assistant director tan
Welcome, everybody. I think we have some republicans that have a leadership election, but theyll be coming in. Can you see me . Can you hear me . Is it working . Well, the election is over. Theyre still counting the votes and making legal challenges and once all of the legal challenges are made and the votes are counted, well have that done. We still have two outstanding races in georgia to determine the control of the senate. And the committee will keep moving forward doing its work. We have next week social media oversight. I cant wait to have the social media ceos come to the committee and explain themselves about their platforms. I think theres a lot of bipartisan support to take a hard look at social media platforms. The earned act is still a business pending before the committee and after the hearing well have markup. But today, we have mr. Mccabe, the number two at the fbi during crossfire hurricane. I think hes going to appear remotely. I appreciate him coming. And what ill do