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
President caen . Here. Vice president vietor here. Commissioner moran here. Commissioner maxwell here. Commissioner paulson here. And we have a quorum. President caen good. Will you please read the announcement . During the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and mayor breed, have lifted the restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgovtv. For those of you watching the live stream, please be aware there is a brief time lapse between what is being viewed. On behalf of the commission, i would like to extend our thanks to tv and puc i. T. Staff for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to make two minutes of Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 087 5808, pound, pound. And star 3 to speak. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise if they have not already done s
Please press star 3 to be added to the Public Comment queue. You will have three minutes to provide Public Comment and six minutes if youre online with an interpreter. You will hear a bell go off when you have 30 seconds remaining. Please standby. Once again, if you have joined this meeting, we are currently on agenda item 7. Discussion of monthly staff enforcement report. You will have three minutes to provide Public Comment and six minutes if youre online with an interpreter. There are no more callers. Chair ambrose Public Comment is closed. Thank you mr. Pierce. I will call agenda item 8. Discussion of executive directors report an update of various programmatic and operational highlights of Ethics Commission. That will be executive director pelham presentation. Thank you. Thank you chair ambrose. I wont recap the budget information i highlighted here in case this is where people look for the budget updates. Theres some information there. Quick update on the Public Financing program
Cut out for us to deal with, not only suppression, but Prevention Strategies here, with the immediate, as well as strategies to address the long term. The governor visit comes one day after he declared a state of emergency for napa and sonoma counties. The glass fire has grown 8300 acres since yesterday, it has now burned more than 56,000 acres. It is now 5 contained, but a red flag warning does remain in effect, strong wind could complicate the firefight is the concern for firefighters. Tom baker joining us live from the fire zone in napa county, where the impact has been really strong on the small community. The town . Except for the media and First Responders, this is calistoga, a virtual goes down, it has been that way for several days, and of course, recently, and you have First Responders and stuff like that but people arent allowed back in here, and because the fire isnt coming down into these towns a lot of people think the fire isnt so bad, well, we went just a little ways out
Commissioner moran here. Commissioner maxwell here. Commissioner paulson here. And we have a quorum. President caen good. Will you please read the announcement . During the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and mayor breed, have lifted the restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgovtv. For those of you watching the live stream, please be aware there is a brief time lapse between what is being viewed. On behalf of the commission, i would like to extend our thanks to tv and puc i. T. Staff for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to make two minutes of Public Comment on an item, dial 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 087 5808, pound, pound. And star 3 to speak. Im going to ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise if they have not already done so. Madame president , the first order of business i