Chairman johnson good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, bell honorable christopher miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center, and honorable kenneth cuccinelli, senior official performing the duties of deputy secretary. This is an annual threat hearing. When i look at all the threats that this committee has considered and all the threats facing this nation, i think it is pretty interesting how many hearings we have held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for consent to have my written Opening Statement to be entered into the record. When you consider these threats, for example, i will just go down the list cyberattacks, ransomware, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned right now as we try to develop vaccines. But the hundreds of billions of dollars of Economic Loss due to intellectual
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
Contracted report for the commission on chinas expeditionary capabilities. Were really looking forward to that. At james, he specializes in emerging technologies, threat assessment, forecasting and data science. Much of his work analyzes chinas Armed Forces Modernization and u. S. Longrange strategic planning. Before joining james he was an extra Research Assistant for Yale University department of medical science where he did research on chinas naval modernization. Mr. Peltier has a master of arts in International Science from university of chicago. Good political real school. We will next year from kevin mccauley. Hes an independent analyst and was formally the scene Intelligence Officer for the soviet union, russia, china and taiwan during his 31 years in the u. S. Government. Hes senior china analyst for the armys National Ground Intelligence Center and he served on Advisory Board and working groups supporting the intelligence community, the National Intelligence council and the u.
James the warriors will now take on the winner of the Oklahoma City, san antonio series. Oklahoma city currently leads the series three games to two. Tonight at 5 30. Robin killing to overturn it agreed in san jose on to a new attraction heavy traffic there. Take a look at what happened at the thought cluck our big rig flipped over northbound 28 at the 17880 split and at one. The connector was open now closed again tied to the scene and it will slow down traffic once that the commute direction northbound to 80 at the split keker take it 880 north now closed and it is backing traffic to 87 lullaby parkway traffic times at about 20 minutes to get from 1 0185 expect that number to increase and still dealing with an overturned atrek lot of attention south 17 connector that close again and keep an eye on it will let you know when they have it out on the way exact estimate time a lot of heavy traffic north onto a 87 over to a spot 17 split. Dave with a delay of an hour tomorrow because of th
Hearing about it all. Stephanie i did not buy any really expensive art at about you, david gura . David the Chicago Police department will reportedly be investigated by the Justice Department or the Associated Press has a wideranging story this week about critics say the Police Department was slow to investigate the case. In beijing, the sky is the limit. The city issued a red alert because of smog. It imposes limits on factories and traffic, and schools are advised to close. Three consecutive days of smog are predicted. Is december 7, 74 years ago today that japan attacked pearl harbor and brought the u. S. Into world war ii. Ceremonies will honor the 2400 americans killed. You can get these and other stories 24 hours a day. Now over to matt miller. Matt taking a look at futures, after the blockbuster day friday. Nasdaq futures all gaining today. Even after we put on a gain of more than 350 points in the dow friday. Take a look at how far we are. Way from record closes here you can se