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Wells. 2 00 p. M. Eastern, virginia democratic senator, mark warner, and democratic representative Lauren Underwood. And republican congressman will hurd of texas will talk about the progress that capitol hill has made investigating Cyber Security threats. Watch live coverage on cspan3. Jamie raskin is with us, the congressman sitting on the committee. Congressman, welcome to journal this morning. Good morning. We started the program asking viewers about the president s remarks last night on facebook. I dont know if youve had a chance to see any of that. Any reaction to that . Youre talking about the 45minute diatribe rant about the election . Yes. Well, look, the president has painted himself into a corner here. Theres been a complete divorce from reality. Every election official involved in administration of this election, infer counting the ballots, has rejected the pres ....
Commissioner. Here . Are we even i will give one example. Pandemicthere was a flu. They called it swine flu. The outbreak infected more than 2 Million People. As far as i can tell, the who acted incredibly admirably and rapidly in getting vaccines out. The only reason that it was not devastatingost epidemics in the history of humanity is because that particular flu decided not to be very lent. We dont get a vote. But the Gates Foundation has mathematical modelers that estimated that, had it been flu, 33 like the 1918 million, 37 Million People would have died, and we would not be having this conversation because we would be dead. What happens when these sort of things occur is if they dont kill a lot of people, we just move on, especially when it comes to influenza, which people seem to think is just a word that means ....
Which may be a couple of minutes because of the importance of this event in that it is the launch of what will be an Important New Initiative of the Aspen Institute. The launchingks of a new policy program of the institute that we are calling Cyber Security and technology. Obviously, a talk at that, unless you have been on a Desert Island the last six months, which actually sounds pretty good, you realize it will remain on the front pages and at the front of the National Debate for some time. Seeing some of the reporters in the room today, another sign of the centrality of this issue. We think that 2016 will likely be remembered the year in which Cy ....
Which may be a couple of minutes because of the importance of this event in that it is the launch of what will be an Important New Initiative of the Aspen Institute. The launchingks of a new policy program of the institute that we are calling Cyber Security and technology. Obviously, a talk at that, unless you have been on a Desert Island the last six months, which actually sounds pretty good, you realize it will remain on the front pages and at the front of the National Debate for some time. Seeing some of the reporters in the room today, another sign of the centrality of this issue. We think that 2016 will likely be remembered the year in which Cy ....