Event today starting with the panel that you see before you which are going to focus on safeguarding Election Security to the integrity of the e Electoral Systems and process. We have a second panel that will begin at 3 15 on the problems of tackling disinformation, the implications for the Election Campaign that were in the midst of for the election in 2020. Werere delighted to be able to start off today with keynote remarks from someone whos on die front line of this, a great thlleague of mine, chris krebs, who is thee director for Cyber Security and infrastructure security of the department of ry Homeland Security. He has a whole agency he directs that is completely devoted to the subject of todays panel, and were really grateful as chris iss coming right from thei frontlines of dealing with these issues that hes got some time o to spend with us today. Chris is going to give us an overview of what the government is trying to do to tackle this issue head on. And then were going to go
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Meeting, many of us have been talking together but we cannot get done what needs to be done, only you and the administration can critically given attention of the saudis and flooding the markets adding insult to injury at a time when our economy is suffering anyway because of the coronavirus. So this meeting could not be more timely. I agree with whats being said about the importance of Affordable Energy to our standard of living and really we change the world as a result of the production of Domestic Energy here in improve the quality of life for a lot of people. Thank you very much. Youve done a great job. John, i agree, we were talking the other day that weve all done well and weve also kept energy very affordable, very, very affordable and a lot of it, we never had any problems, we will keep it that way. Do i see dan back there, i was lucky and i thought that look like dan. I want to thank you for convening this meeting. The Trump Administration working with the congress in the u.
Finish on the barrons round table tonight but at a safe distance, ben leveson, carl english and jack howe. Ben, first to you. Lets talk about whats happening in the market right now. In the beginning of the bear market, we had that crazy panic stage, lots of missed pricings. Now things seem to have settled down, investors maybe trying to find what the right prices are . They are. Or at least they, you know, theyre making bets that some kinds of companies are going to have a lot of trouble going ahead, and thats your traditional retailers, airlines, cruise companies. After rallying last week, theyve gotten hit very hard this week. And there are companies that have been winners including Biotech Companies who are working on treatments and vaccines for coronavirus. And theyve done very well. The one strange one is energy which has been among the losers but had a fantastic week because of reports that maybe we could see some production cuts to oil, and that would help drive the price back