The tsa testified before a house homeland subcommittee. This hearing is just under two hours. In maritime security and the subcommittees on cyber Security Infrastructure and protection and innovation. It will come to order for todays hearing titled cyber threats and the pipeline. Lessons from the federal response to the colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the subcommittee to recess at any point. Thank you Chairwoman Clark, ranking member you men as, and our panel of witnesses for joining us. The impact of the may 7 Ransomware Attack on colonial pipeline was farreaching. As we all know now, nearly half east Coast Fuel is supplied by by the current of pipeline. Entering the cybersecurity of our critical infrastructure last week we heard from the ceo of the colonial pipeline about how his company responded to the Ransomware Attack against it. I also asked him why his company , prior to the attack, appears to have resisted efforts to a
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Sure, alas, where he expressed fear is about the foreign present in the middle eastern states and russia pads to the poles on friday and the nation is general election. All the parties, the candidates and what upstate coming up later in the day here. All right, a full hour of programs ahead. No those starting with peter and guess to all our discussion show. Crosstalk and then its your mid Week Business Update and been both close. This is architecture, nash ah, ah ah, ah, hello and welcome to Cross Top where all things are considered. Im peter lavelle, is the Biden Presidency in terminal decline. This administrations handling of the coven pandemic, the economy, and not least afghanistan sees this president underwater, in the polls. And a big way in the Country Today is just as divided as under trump. Can this president turn things around the Cross Talking to by the presidency . Im joined by my guess internet panama, in london. He is professor of international politics at City University
Theres very high expectations. There is a major change which occurred obviously from the top administration, that major crises which President Biden inherited, including the cove it, but also the, the economic effects of it, the polarization. So i think after 9 months you could say, i would think overall out of 10, i would say probably 7 and a half, which i dont think is far or thought i would have expected. Because i think we have to recall that in addition to the more immediate crises that President Biden inherited, there were also kind of longer term crises, all crises of legitimacy, of the american political system itself on which President Trump, to some extent, was at the same time as well, so i think you would be hard pushed to go any further than he has. But id say one big thing which is really shifted is that he actually had an Approval Rating of about 4 percent on Corona Virus among the public opinion. So i think thats not a bad indicator of the way in which things have gone