Cspan, howard my cable. Up next, intelligence and cybersecurity leaders testify on foreign threats to the 2024 elections. The most significant foreign actors targeting u. S. Elections include china and most notably russia. Remaining the most active threat the hearing is one hour and 45 minutes. I want to call this hearing to order and i want to welcome todays witnesses. I want to warn them we are finishing up one vote. We will have another one. We will work through that process. People slipping in and out, i think you understand. The director of National Intelligence, director of cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and lisa knapp executive assistant director of the National Security branch at the fbi. Welcome to all of you. Todays hearing builds on the bipartisan effort and 2016. To educate the public on the intentions of adversaries seeking to undermine the integrity of our systems. And to ensure that u. S. Government is postured to protect our elections from those foreig
Too often it is one party power and sticks it to the other party. And then secondly i know you mentioned geographic concerns. We try to putt some other limitations on the map drawing process by requiring districts to be drawn more according to county lines or natural geographic features rather than just these crazy districts that squiggle around. Thats not you know not easy to do but one thing it does is makes it possible impossible for people to be too key yative. Some of the districts are very, very creative and having little bit more limitation on the process, open process about how to redistrict we are for. We werent willing to go as some people say to go to california or arizona which have models which are more completely out of the political process. They have turned it over to citizens. They dont want the legislature or the parties involved. Our commission really believed that having both parties have a say in those maps made sense but we did agree with you in many ways redistri
We want to keep using our military do go into the other countries, take a bill with us figure out what its going to cost and tell them that you pay half when we get there and half when the jobs done. We cant keep affording to go and police the world and some of the social programs like Social Security so easy to fix. When the kid comes out of the Social Security on year one, start taking taxes out. Dont wait 18 or 20 years. Take a little bit out of earned Income Credit and not miss it. It would fix Social Security and probably give a little bit of money there for health care that the whole country needs. Okay. Caller i think those are a couple of good things to start with. All right. John fortier the budget. We with respect taking positions like wars and entitlement. Those are functions for congress to address. I think if youre getting at the budget process, thats something we made recommendations about and the Bipartisan Policy Center has additional recommendations out of an economic
About the geopolitical vulnerabilities posed by the neck in his book the darkening web. He was part of a panel discussing the risk of cyber attack and the potential for technology to undermine governments around the world. From the atlantic counsel this is an hour and a half. C my name is frank kramer. Im a distinguished fellow in on the border of the atlantic counsel may want to welcome all of you to this session. Delighted that you are here. This event is hosted by the council cyberstatecraft. We are being followed on twitter and i welcome all those folks who are there on line. I encourage you to join the conversation ac cyber abc scowcrofts. The attack in ukraine and multiple sets of questions. The internet raises issues that the originators really never thought about is going to keep it going and how do you really do that and at the individual level theres issues of privacy, privacy from government, privacy from corporations. Theres an approach called a multistakeholder model and q
We are being followed on twitter and i welcome all those folks who are there on line. I encourage you to join the conversation ac cyber abc scowcrofts. The attack in ukraine and multiple sets of questions. The internet raises issues that the originators really never thought about is going to keep it going and how do you really do that and at the individual level theres issues of privacy, privacy from government, privacy from corporations. Theres an approach called a multistakeholder model and questions fo who are the stakeholders and how do they relate to the. All these racing sets of issues and as you think about the questions, it is useful to have at least the framework in your mind at will change over time it certainly changes in mind. But what problem are you trying to solve not the technology but the problems, what are you trying to do, and the problems range vary considerably mentioned privacy already individually give us a. Then you have the whole influence arena if you will som