Guest it would be information on threats and risks, basically on threat signatures, potential attackers that would help a company if it chose to do so defend itself better. Its not going to be privacy data. Well, thats the hope. Probably not. But its a good first step, and i think if you talk to some of the sponsors, they would tell you, you know, we know its just a first step, we know we have to do more, but we can get agreement on this, and it builds consensus on the hill to bring forward on cybersecurity. Host well, lets bring in tim starks of politico who covers cybersecurity for that organization to. Hi, jim. You mentioned there was the real deal waiting in congress. What would that look like . What are Things Congress hasnt done it should be doing once they finish this bill, even if they dont finish this bill . Guest they have to think about dhs, its authorities, what are its roles. Dhs has this grand mission to defend the nations cyberspace, but they have neither authorities or
Radical impact. On the issue of accountability, do you have legislation . I think they have the ability to do it and they simply arent enforcing it. Jeff does it. I dont question him. Its to get the best care possible. I think it wont have the same effe effect. And ive seen that where you couldnt get rid of a bad teacher. Of c you k bcan, but you have to doe work. They want to get rid of this, and we differ there. I think jeff thinks they need more protection. And what ive told the secretary is that they may need to theres a lot of risk analysis thats done in what they do, is it less expensive to just reach a settlement with this individual than it would be to take them all the way through, let them appeal to the protection board and then they end up back at the va and were paying for their Attorney Fees . I get that. But i think were going to have to take one of the most egregious cases. Even if it gets reversed. The American People would be able to see how difficult it appears to be
I wanted to note. Number one, theres some photos of you with cigars, with cigar smoke. Long time cigar smoker . Theres the cigar picture right there. I like what i call ponies, peter. Small cigars. At one time i was smoking probably five or six cigars well, strike that. Three or four cigars a day. Now that changed to three or four cigars a week. Then finally i just said to heck with it. Part of the reason was the staff didnt like it. Some of my colleagues didnt like it. The chief of staff, i think, led the fight on that. What the heck . If it is annoying to them, i dont have to have a cigar in my mouth every day. Ive been free of cigar smoke probably in excess of five years. Congressman coble, youve worked on a couple of issues that may not strike your colleagues as positive, such as limiting congressional retirement, term limits, cola increases, being careful about cola increases. Have you gotten so pushback from your colleagues up here on capitol hill . When i came up here, i said i
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Europe, we would be relying on those kinds of systems as well. To the extent that the guard, i work with the guard a long time ago when we had something called the Army Air Defense command and they were off the charts in terms of their capability and expertise in that area. So i think certainly its an Operational Reserve for those kinds of tasks. I think the forward could perform valuable function. Senator ernst thank you. Mr. Wood . Mr. Wood i see it more of active army formations, we talked about proliferation of technology, the increasing complexities of military operations, especially when youre coordinating, synchronizing operations at higher levels. We talk about distributed operations. Theres a still set that becomes there is a skill set that becomes ever more complex and takes a lot of time to develop competencies in those areas. So, i think the active component, doing that 247, is the force of choice to go off and do these kinds of things were talking about. You only have so m