Make sure its accessible to all americans across the landscape. I cant imagine as a member of congress how we would have functioned in this pandemic without the ability to use a variety of conferencing and communications technologies, not just the traditional phone calls we use for our Republican House conferences but zoom and webex and a whole variety of platforms to move information back and forth. Thats not just in politics. Not just in the legislative process. Listening to my friends and industry its been a necessity because many have spent a minimal amount of time in the office in the last 90 days just as i sped a minimal amount of time in my office in the last 90 days. Host so whats the role of congress in advancing that or is there a a role . Guest we are a facilitator. This is something that going all the way back to the telecommunication act of the 1930s, things that essentially everyone in the country is going to have the best technology and if its going to be widely availabl
[indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] today, the committee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of the Trump Administrations response to the covid19 endemic pandemic. Due to the Public Health emergency, members can participate in todays hearing either in person or remotely via video, and. Theart of this hearing, microphones will be set on mute, for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Remotelyarticipating will need to unmute your microphone speak. Participating in person, please wear your mask when not speaking. Dr. Monahan extract expressed in the updated guidelines that the use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case the wearer is unknowingly infected. When we are not speaking, each of us is playing a vital role in tech and all members and staff in attendance, as well as leaders of the covid19 response will be testifying before the committee. Due
Will try to incorporate any of those questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we discussed are allowing unscrupulous actors to sell unsafe, illegal, and overpriced medical equipment during this pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across the social media platforms. This one is not a new problem. Social media platforms continue to allow these dangerous disinformation during covid 19 pandemic, and in so doing, they expose just how dangerous and how irresponsible this kind of behavior can be and the role they play and continuing to allow it. Rampant conspiracy theories make , confusingon worse people, distracting people. Social media platforms have the technological know how and resources to fix it, that they but they have little incentive to do so. Weve got a distinguished panel these problems. People on the front lines who are dealing with these issues directly and legislators who are trying to do something about it from two countries. First, a look at some
Special agent at the l. A. Field office, where she specialized in chinese counterintelligence operations. Tracy lives with her husband and 4 1 2yearold daughter in dallas, texas. This evening tracy will discuss her memory, the unexpected spy, from the cia to the fbi, my secret life taking down some of the worlds most notorious terrorists. Tracy will be interviewed by dr. Vince houghton. After their discussion, they will open the floor to questions and answers. Everyone will have an opportunity to ask questions this evening. Were also going to asked if youre trapped in the middle of a row, put your hand up and well be sure you have a mic to answer your questions, but there will be two mics on each side that you can use to answer your question. If you could get out stay where youre at. If you have a cell phone probably everybody please silence it now. Id lead by example and make sure mine is silenced. Ill kick it over to vincent and tracy. Thank you, chris. The first time we were introdu
At the International Spy museum in washington, d. C. We have the largest collection of espionage and intelligencerelated artifacts in the world, and today were going to be looking at cold war berlin. Now, after world war ii end ed, germany was divided between victors. Thats the united states, france, united kingdom, and the soviet union. Soviet union occupied the east and the other three countries the west. And that included the capital city of berlin, which was also divided into four sectors, one for each of the victors, again, with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin, and the three western powers occupying the western zones of berlin. And this start of the division of germany, and the division of ber ly berlin after the war. Now, that division became concrete with the erection of the berlin wall in 1961. Now, the wall was put up by the eastern germans offensively to keep people out. In the years after world war ii and with the occupation of east germany and east berlin b