Him him him him him success. More than bipartisan. Can you speak to the key ingredients you had to put together to make the solarium benefit the success it was . First it had an interesting composition that was created in the National Defense act of 2019. Members of congress, bipartisan, for members from the executive in six members of the private sector. And the leadership myself and Mike Gallagher of green bay, wisconsin or the cochairs of it independent senate mike is a republican of the house. We just decided from the outset it was not a partisan exercise. You are in the meetings. We had Something Like 45 meetings i think we are now up to 52 and the second generation. The meetings are generally two three hours long. Everybody attended. I can honestly say i said this at the time, there is not a moment in all of those meetings when there was a partisan issue. If you could tell who was at which party there was no way to do that. It was treated from the very beginning as a very Serious
Okay. So the first question next talks. Theres no agreed next meeting between the president s. There are agreed subsequent followup meetings between various workinglevel groups at the state department. We agreed to set up a workinglevel group to begin to explore this Framework Agreement around the cyber issue, and this issue of noninterference. So those will be ongoing with various staff levels. Whos leading that . Is that rob joyce on the u. S. Side . It will be out of the state department and the National Security advisers office. As to the nature of the 2 hours and 15 minutes, first, let me characterize the the meeting was very constructive. The two leaders, i would say, connected very quickly. There was a very clear positive chemistry between the two. I think, again and i think the positive thing i observed, and ive had many, many meetings with president putin before, is there was not a lot of relitigating of the past. I think both of the leaders feel like theres a lot of things in
This is the cbs eve n mason and this is our western edition. Good evening. Im Anthony Mason. We begin tonight with a threat to americas security from hackers sponsored by foreign governments. In an exclusive interview today, cybersecurity czar rob joyce told us the u. S. Is lacking 300,000 cybersecurity experts needed to defend the country. And he had a warning for the public about using software from Kaspersky Labs. U. S. Officials believe the company has ties to the kremlin, and the federal government has vowed not to use its products. More now from Homeland Security correspondent jeff pegues. Reporter cbs news has confirmed that f. B. I. Officials have met with private industry representatives to relay concerns about Kaspersky Lab, a moscowbased Cybersecurity Company with suspected ties to russian intelligence. F. B. I. Agents have interviewed kaspersky employees working in the u. S. I dont use Kaspersky Lab products. Reporter you dont. Rob joyce, the nations Cyber Security czar, is
Good morning. It is wednesday, may 16th. Im Yasmine Vossoughian alongsi alongside Ayman Mohyeldin. Kim jongun cancelled talks with south korea over exercises with the south and u. S. Kim is okay with the exercises, a complete 180 from decades of north korea policy. Pyongyang appears to have reverted to that stance, calling drills a rude and wicked provocation and rehearsal for n invasion. Kim jongun said previously he staunlunderstands the need a utility of the United States and republic of korea continuing in joint exercises. Absolutely, we will continue to go ahead and plan the meeting between President Trump and kim jongun. Theyre simply not provocative. We do these things around the world, they have occurred for decades and decades. I will say it a third time. Kim jongun said he understands the importance to the United States that we conduct the joint exercises, joint exercises continue to go on. The statement carried out on state media, Foreign Affairs minister says if they push u
Reporter well, we do have to say we have some tension flaring up here, some people with some kind of a conservative message showed up. These are the people right here that the people with the camouflage jackets. We do not know if theyre White Supremacists or not. We do not know that. The people have chased them out of the square and shouting them down and they retreated toward the police and the people some of the antifascist, antiracist protesters are g getting vociferous, shouting them own of the square. Theyre being flanked by a couple of Police Officers and were following them as they go. This is at the end of the day. The protesters have mostly left, but there have been a couple of flareups like this, i would not term this to be a major incident, but this is the passion and tension that existed here, especially the energy here on the antiracist side. As you said, they have vastly outnumbered the White Supremacists. The White Supremacists were basically chased out irl heearl. They