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
Some of them burning dangerously out of control tonight. Here is a map of where those fires are burning at the moment, the u. S. See you a lightning complex that has burned the most scorching more than a 137,000 acres across 5 counties. Then closer to the coast. The seas eu august lightning complex fires, those are burning in the mountains of san mateo and santa cruz counties and finally the l a new lightning complex fires are burning in the north bay, including napa sonoma and solano counties. The lnu lightning complex fire. So far have scorched a combined total of a 131,000 acres imagine that a 105 structures have been destroyed 70 have been damage and right now the entire fire is 0 contained and we want to share with you the evacuation map now for sonoma county, heres a look at the Evacuation Orders and warnings in that county as you can see there anyone living in the red area they are under mandatory Evacuation Orders. The yellow area. Thats under an evacuation warning, which means
Republican from house judiciary, with us tonight on how this will hit the 2020 election. He was among the few chosen to grow these powerful ceos. Also with us tonight black voices for trump 2020 member jack brewer on this new fight, attorney general william barr says its possible, nancy pelosi endanger the lives of federal officers by tweeting they are Storm Troopers as these officers put themselves on the line working to stop mob violence. 188 injured so far. They are enforcing the very same laws led by nancy pelosi and congress that have been enacted. After major blowback, pelosi tried to deny she said that but we have her tweet in that debate. Also this new fight, were going to ask trump 2020 Campaign Senior advisor to larr if the democrats and the media are explaining it with ultraviolent writing in a cnn host says its not fair being reported. A federal courthouse has been bombed in portland, the shockwaves are so powerful they can be felt far away, wait till you hear what other de
Republican from house judiciary, with us tonight on how this will hit the 2020 election. He was among the few chosen to grow these powerful ceos. Also with us tonight black voices for trump 2020 member jack brewer on this new fight, attorney general william barr says its possible, nancy pelosi endanger the lives of federal officers by tweeting they are Storm Troopers as these officers put themselves on the line working to stop mob violence. 188 injured so far. They are enforcing the very same laws led by nancy pelosi and congress that have been enacted. After major blowback, pelosi tried to deny she said that but we have her tweet in that debate. Also this new fight, were going to ask trump 2020 Campaign Senior advisor to larr if the democrats and the media are explaining it with ultraviolent writing in a cnn host says its not fair being reported. A federal courthouse has been bombed in portland, the shockwaves are so powerful they can be felt far away, wait till you hear what other de