And great set of speakers today, along with acknowledging additional support. I am here for the next 30 minutes with brandon wales, the acting director of cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, for what i hope is going conversationnating about the election, about the covid pandemic, about the state of cybersecurity and infrastructure security and Critical Infrastructure across the country. Brandon, thanks so much for joining us today. Brandon garrett, thank you so much for the invitation. I am very happy to be here and talk about the important work our agency is doing. Is december 3. It is hard to believe that exactly a month ago on november 3 we were sitting down as a country to watch the first Election Results role in. Roll in. It feels like as a country we have lived about 25 years in the last month, and i would imagine for you, it has actually felt somehow longer than that. Byanted to start off today taking you actually back three thursday after the election. They put ou
I am going to put you up first. Thank you all for being here today. We appreciate your time and your interest in some of our concerns, and the purpose of this is to convey our concerns that the department of justice, we are waiting for them to give us some kind of admission they are actually investigating the multiple allegations of improprieties in this 2020 president ial election. We have a keen interest in that, but we think all American People do as well, and we want to call attention to our efforts to communicate with the department of justice and attorney general barr to have him include us in the information he has us appears to be investigating. We will hear from several of our members today. The first one we will hear from is congressman ralph norman from south carolina. Ralph . Rep. Norman the bedrock of our republic is open, transparent, Fair Elections. And that is wet, as andy alluded to, we encourage the doj, we are encouraging an open transition of examining everything, a
This 2020 president ial election. We have a keen interest in that and we think a lot of American People do, as well, and we want to call attention to our efforts to communicate with the department of justice and attorney general barr to have him include us in the information that hes ostensibly, appears to be, anyway, that theyre investigating, but weve seen none and im want sure anyone in america has. We will hear from several of our members today. The first one well hear from is congressman ralph norman from South Carolina. Raff ralph . Thank you, chairman. I thank all of you for coming out. The bedrock of our republic is open, transparent, Fair Elections and thats what as andy alluded to, we are encouraging the doj and were encouraging an open transition of examining everything and where theres smoke theres fire and immediately after november 3rd, the press started calling for the president to concede and basically anoint biden. These things take time and al gore got 37 days in one
Burner as the Biden Administration and Senate Democrats push forward on a cody relief bill that some lawmakers and even leftleaning economists say could actually hurt the economy in the long run. President biden saying today its an easy choice, pointing to the latest jobs numbers as proof there is no time to waste. This as he met with 10 republican senators earlier this week who proposed a Counter Offer to his nearly 2 trillion plan. White house correspondent Kristin Fisher has been following it all. She joins us live from the north lawn from the white house with the latest. Good evening, kristin. Good evening, bret. The week started with President Biden meeting with republican senators and hoping to cut a deal. But it is ending with the president giving his strongest signal yet that he intends to move forward with his relief plan without republican support. Im going to act. Im going to act fast. In his most fiery defense of his 1. 9 trilliondollar relief plan, President Biden made it
Welcome to Washington Post live, are program at 1 00 p. M. Eastern everyday. Today, we will hear from two leaders on the frontlines lines of the campaigns. We will hear from senator todd , ofg later in the program indiana, running all the Senate Campaigns for the republicans as they hold onto their majority. And we will hear from a representative from Washington State, the cochair of the progressive caucus in the house. One of those leaders in washington who, regardless of who wins, will be a voice in the Democratic Party in the years to come. She is already campaigning across the country. And i will have two of my colleagues, who i have been waiting to hear from for a long emily, who will be with us later in the program. Lets go to the headlines. It is the day before election day and voters get to decide. Not anyone else, it is you who gets to decide. Here is what im hearing. Campaign, the trump republicans are concerned about my home area. The philadelphia suburbs. And have seen eros