Good morning. I am like friedman, the 113th president of the National Press club. I am executive producer of the public broadcasting series, the capitol report are caught even the virus is affecting everything from travel to the stock market in addition to the human toll. Government, community, and faithbased and corporate organizations across the country and around the world are meeting, monitoring and urging people to take precautionary measures including washing their hands frequently, using handset i ties or come social distancing onsite and staying home if you are not feeling well. We are here this morning to learn more about how our local cities and counties are preparing for possible outbreaks. Havecal Health Officials enough protective equipment including masks, respirators, gloves on hand our hospitals and First Responders trained up to do with coronavirus patient are tests available . What is being done to educate the public what is being done to help educate the people in ou
Everyone go to coronavirus. Gov for the most information uptodate from the cdc. Dont touch your face, cover your cough and ceases and avoid close contact with others if you or they are sick. It likely has not yet reached its peak but is affecting all of our communities. I think theres a person in this room ters who isnt worried about the elderly or immunocompetent on compromised. Just yesterday the first two cases of diagnosed in the counties i represent an illinois. Our job is to keep americans safe. And lead us strong federal government responseees including with a supplemental response to each of these developments we must continue to support the local is a Public Health departments the Emergency Responders to the front lines a starts with having reliable data to prepare for the Health System and how much equipment is needed for Health Workers and developing and disseminating clear at Risk Communication to thear public. America scientific expertise that is unmatched throughout thehe
Our first speaker that we have is madeleine, are you over there . Im going to let you stand up here at the mic if thats good four. Shes the principal director for cyber policy for the office of the secretary of defense. Without further ado lets get the party started. [ applause ] so ill apologize, we actually had thought our colleague from the fbi would go first, but im happy is that okay . If thats all right. Okay. Its not the program, but so it is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce david kay porter who is the assistant section chief with the Foreign Influence Task force, counterintelligence division, joining us from fbis headquarters. Thank you. [ applause ] sorry about that. So good morning, everybody. My name is david porter. As anne said, i serve as the assistant section chief of the fbis Foreign Influence Task force. Or fitf as we are more broadly referred to within the Intelligence Community. I appreciate the opportunity to be here this morning to represent the men and
The meeting will come to order. Today we welcome the acting commissioner of u. S. Cuss thotos and Border Protection mark morgan. Thank you for being here today. We look forward to go etting your perspective on cbp priorities and requirements for fiscal year 2021. The fiscal year 2021 budget proposes 15. 6 billion in zregs nare discretionary fwunzing for rbp a700 million i bov the level. And 2 billion for the construction of 82 miles of border barriers and an increase of 625 million, over the current year appropriation for nearly 88 of the total fy 2021 increase for cbp overall. I have obvious concerns about spending another 2 billion on Additional Border barriers. But aside from any debate we might have about them, this administration continues to circumvent the will of congress, by diverting billions of dollars above what congress specifically appropriates for this activity. The house bill was simply not, does simply not include this funding. Even more to the point however is that the
The truth and erode our ability to fight, creating a set of it that no narrative or use source can be trusted at all. Some of the ttts in this space wont necessarily come as as a surprise to you but we talked about intrusion and u. S. Government networks and medical organizations, hack and leak operations related to compromise or embarrassing situations, Cyber Attacks against our eroding infrastructure, the targeting of u. S. Persons or elected officials by social media and disinformation, suppression of voter turnout by spreading misinformation regarding polling and voting, manipulation of media through the injection of false stories, and news reporting. And then subsequent application of the disinformation to shape of the discourse. Shape Public Discourse. There are a few overarching similarities regarding the manner in which our two principal adversaries, china and russia, execute these objectives. Both countries use a whole of government approach. And use sophisticated and aggressi