Chairman johnson good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, bell honorable christopher miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center, and honorable kenneth cuccinelli, senior official performing the duties of deputy secretary. This is an annual threat hearing. When i look at all the threats that this committee has considered and all the threats facing this nation, i think it is pretty interesting how many hearings we have held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for consent to have my written Opening Statement to be entered into the record. When you consider these threats, for example, i will just go down the list cyberattacks, ransomware, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned right now as we try to develop vaccines. But the hundreds of billions of dollars of Economic Loss due to intellectual
An investigation wrapped up thats the largest of its kind in the state of california, quite possibly the largest in the nation. Nearly 100 Law Enforcement officers spent thousands of hours over the span of eight months and in the end they had to sit through a Little Mountain of evidence and arrested a suspect whose nickname was the medicine man. We are in the Central Valley town of patterson because they did not need just an Evidence Room they needed an evidence warehouse. Professional thieves in the bay area, this has been a brutal week. This warehouse converted to an industrial size evidence Processing Center now full of recovered stolen merchandise. Trailer after trailer, been after ben and zach after sacked stored on pallets, stacked floor to ceiling twostory solve. It took a team of 30 people two days to catalog it, mostly merchandise from cvs as part of operation proof of purchase making it the largest dust of its kind in california history. 8 million in recovery. Reporter one of
Security and Global Threats with fbi director christopher ray, at National Counterterrorism director chris miller, the talk included Election Security, cyber campaigns from russia, iran and china, extremist or threatened domestic threats. This is 2 hours and 40 minutes. This hearing will come to order, thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, director of the federal bureau of investigation, the honorable chris miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center and the honorable Ken Cuccinelli, senior official performing duties of the deputy secretary. This is the annual threat hearing. When you look at the threats, and interesting how many hearings you held on so many of these things. I want to ask for my Opening Statement to be entered into the record. If you consider these threats, down the list, cyberattacks, ransom, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned about if you try to develop a vaccine, hundreds of millions of dollars of Economic Loss due to
Acting deputy Homeland Security secretary Ken Cuccinelli and the head of the National Counterterrorism center. The fbi director said at the hearing that the fbi has not seen widespread voter fraud. Wisconsin senator ron johnson chaired this two hour, 40 minute hearing. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, christopher miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism center, and kenneth cuccinelli, the senior official performing the duties of the deputy secretary. This is our annual threat hearing. When i take a look at all of the threats that this committee has considered and all of the threats facing this nation, i think its pretty interesting, you know, how many hearings weve held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for unanimous consent to have my written Opening Statement be entered in the recor record. If you consider t
A row of losses for both the s p and the nasdaq. That is the longest losing streak weve seen there in seven months. So with all of that, a a lot to get through. A lot of angles. Fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman is at the white house. The president will be moving shortly we think. Gerri willis following the Market Action for us. Gerri, lets start with you. Reporter yeah, lets start right here. Yeah, big selloff today. Many, many, worries, stimulus, virus, political uncertainty. Money laundering among the banks a lot going on. Let me make you feel good about the selloff, originally the dow was down 942 points. Obviously correcting in the last few minutes in the afternoon, doing better indeed. That is good news. The s p flirted with correction territory. Didnt get there. So that is good news, finishing much better than expected. The nasdaq real turn around for the index down 14 point as after being down as much as 273 points. So it has been a major turn around for this market a hu