Nomination of mr. Alex azar to serve as secretary of health and Human Services, one of the most important jobs in any government anywhere in the world. Id like to welcome mr. Azar to the finance committee this morning. I want to thank you for being here and for your willingness to serve in this important capacity. Mr. Azar certainly has his work cut out for him. Health and Human Services is a massive, Sprawling Department that overseas trillions of dollars in spending and liabilities and encompasses all areas of our Nations Health care system. As a result, if confirmed, mr. Azars work will impact the lives of every single american. Now, thats a big job. It requires knowledge, experience, and, most important, strong leadership. Fortunately, our nominee brings all of this to the table having nearly two decades of experience in the health care sector, including about six years working at the highest levels of hhs. During his time at hhs, mr. Azar played key roles in implementing new polic
Anne reports its prompting road closures. Reporter the fire is burning in a remote canyon in the hills behind me, but Kings Mountain road is closed except for to locals making it in and out on this side of the fire. The fire has been burning for several hours in the in the western mateo hills. It has burned 38 acres, and it ignited overnight when the thunderstorms moved through. This is one of several fires burning right now in san mateo, and santa cruz county. It is believed to be started by lightning. Cal fire and local firefighters obviously have their work cut out for them. Pg e standing by in case they need to cut or restore power to any of the homes in this area. Near mack vick, kpix 5. The Lightning Strikes went through that mountain range. Theres no wonder that fire is smoldering. We want to take you to 5 00 yesterday to show you the extents of those Lightning Strikes that came through there. There were hundreds of them between 5 00 and 10 00 last night. Here are the conditions
Hacking weapons, putting world in danger. So explain to me, please, who did what to whom and what does it mean. David charlie, this story really goes back to august of 2016. A month you may remember we were all thinking about another hack. It was really when we discovered the depths of the russian hacking into the Democratic National committee and the release of emails, and so forth. It was just the moment when the russia hack was beginning to gather steam. That same month, this group called the shadow brokers, who we didnt really understand then and dont really understand 15 months later, began publishing what looked like very obscure computer code that they advertised as coming out of the deepest depths of the nsa, a group called the tailored access Operations Unit. This is sort of the special forces of the nsa. The group that designs american attacks to get into foreign computer systems. The attack against iran to cripple their centrifuges. That was at least party a t. A. O. Operati
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Its my pleasure to remind you that you are welcome to buy a copy and how will be available to autograph them after words. Here we are in the stylish new Conference Center to discuss a very old problem, namely how best to survive financial panic of which there have been many throughout the century, how to survive the fear and mistrust when financial actors try to withdrawal from risk to protect themselves, a rational strategy for each but as we all no, not when they do it at the same time. It is highly interesting historically but much more pressing than we can consider as how scotts book does in detail. What should we do in the next panic that will arrive sooner or later. Two centuries ago they accurately observed, on extraordinary occasions, a panic may seize the country one becomes desirous of possessing him self of precious metals. Again such panic concludes that banks have no security on any system that is to say that private banks on their own. In 1873 they drew the conclusion we