This hearing will come to water. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for the efforts as related to the current i guess we have to call it a pandemic at this point in time with conv19, the corona virus. I do think its important we put everything in perspective and i would ask my Committee Members to include my pretend Opening Statement in the record. But we often times. Let me rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. I remember in a crisis we were talking about it spreading and could be a Million People which would have been a huge problem because ebola had a mortality rate of 40 , but in the end because of effective action on the part of the world health organization, the Obama Administration and resources we prevented it from spreading some less than 29,000 contracted it and about 11,000 died. Weve had other outbreaks where we are Getting Better and weve developed some relatively effective vaccines to help protect Heal
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
Technologygy and the center for justice to welcome you to what i consider to be a very timely and very important symposium. At these outset, i want to thank all the participants who got an incredible array of speakers participating in the form. I want to thank the guests that have taken the time to join us this morning, and i also want to reach out and say thank you to cspan for covering something that i think all of us, regardless of th whether republ, democrat, independent think it is critically important. Its an disputed people have been hacking into the elections for a long time. The evidence is indisputable. We can start with 2016, but i think that we will look back before that we might havese seed there were some people playing around inpe that arena even befe that time. So, when we decided to get together for these organizations to pull together a symposium to deal with how to make the 2020 election more secure so we are grateful they can join us this morning. Some of you in the
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Policy conference. I am the director of the i amrch center and delighted to introduce the chairman and vice chair of the white House Counsel of Economic Advisors. In preparing for this session, i have a foundational commonality. He is originally from sweden. , am originally from minnesota the land of american swedes. Close enough. Currently on leave from the university of chicago, where he is a professor of public directs thees and program on Foundational Research and Health Care Markets and policies within the Health Economic initiatives. Severald in publicsector positions, including his role as Senior Advisor to the head of the food and Drug Administration and as the senior Economic Advisor to the head of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. He also served as the Health Care Advisor for senator john mccain during his president ial campaign. Thank you so much for joining us today. Start, it says on wikipedia that the chairman writes all 300 pages. If you would, please take