About the 2020 election. Welcome to Washington Post live. Im david ignatius, a columnist for the Washington Post, and its my pleasure to welcome christopher krebs, the former director of the cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at dhs, and it is fair to say, one of the heroes and protecting the security of our 2020 election. Welcome. Chris thank a lot. David lets begin with your story. You began preparing for a secure election back in february. And i remember talking with you in august for a column at a time when President Trump was warning about the danger of fraud because of mailin voting. You told me on the record interview back then this election would be slower to tabulate because of all the absentee votes, but it would be safe and secure. In august for a column at a time when President Trump was warning about the danger of fraud because of mailin voting. Took you told me in and on the record interview back then this election would be slower to tabulate because of all
Of widespread fraud in the president ial election. President trump fired the directory. Former cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director Christopher Krebs talked about the 2020 election. David its fair to say one of the heroes in perfecting the security of our 2020 election. Chris, welcome. Chris thanks a lot. David lets begin with your story. You began preparing for a secure election back in february. And i remember talking with you in august for a column at a time when President Trump was warning about the danger of fraud because of mailin voting. Took you told me in and on the record interview back then this election would be slower to tabulate because of all the absentee votes, but it would be safe and secure. I want to ask you, did you get any pushback from the white house back then . Unhappiness you were contradicting the president in effect . Chris let me frame this in terms of time and history. We have actually been preparing for we had been preparing for a secu
Deputy Campaign Manager announced two key members of the Pandemic Task force. For example launch the Coronavirus Task force. Tomorrow. Going to be led by a professor at ucsf. And the former Surgeon General of the united states. Both have been key medical advisers to bd throughout the pandemic. Theyll be joined by a team of top doctors from across lt country to form the task force. The coronavirus rampaging across the country. Were not in a good place. With 126,000 cases. Yesterday. Approaching were on a path for 2,000 deaths a day. Epidemiology expert says the task force will have three goals. Coordinate the cunning edge medical science. Having a government experience to get things done as quickly az possible and get the public to buy into the plan. A difficult challenge especially at the Trump White House doesnt cooperate. Everybody has to get on the same page. If we are hearing Different Things from different groups it will confuse everyone. Create more and were not going to on janua
Welcome, everyone, the kboel im sara eisen, here with wilfred frost. Pfizer says its covid19 vaccine candidate developed with biointech is more than 90 effective in preventing covid19 in a phase three study the cow and s p 500 hitting record highs in todays session, this after strong gains last week as well as the Election Results come into sharp focus. Seeing down sectors like airlines, cruises, banks, and energy are seeing outsized returns today on the vaccine news while the stayathome winners like zoom, peloton, and amazon are coming back to earth. Nasdaq is actually negative with this more than 1,200 point rally on the dow 59 minutes left to go on a historic day on wall street. Nasdaq hovering around the flat line. Big gains for the dow. Coming up on the show, a massive guests line ups. We will discuss the vaccine, the election, what it all means for your money with huge names nelson peltser will weigh in with his thoughts on what the market is doing as we speak. The chamber of com
Lisa is off today. Jonathan look at the goldman note, tom. Go over that. Tom roaring 20s from goldmansachs. J. P. Morgan talking about market nirvana. Lets look at where future are right now. S p 500 futures this morning, kind of chopping around. Positive. 7 of 1 . But here we are at 3567 and ldman coming out, tom, for 2020. Lut lets go with the year end 2021. 4300. 16 upside through 21. In addition to the upside in the year end. Jonathan again, its everybody readjusting hearing, yeah, its a vaccine and i know he likes the value and e. S. G. Its got to be more than the edical news. Jonathan a vaccine is a more Important Development for the economy and markets from the perspective policy of a biden presidency. This is historic for the market right now. We talked about it reapedly, this market is living in the ackhand of the 2021. The deterioration of the covid cases and a contested election down in washington, d. C. That has not been resolved yet and a senate race that has not been reso