In his seat. Its in his contract. Jedediah i believe that. Pete he has a good agent. Jedediah we love having you along. I said weigh didnt scare you too much last time. Lawrence no. Pete how are you doing . Jedediah i havent seen you facetoface for a very long time. Pete its been a while. Jedediah you have a few more gray hairs, im not going to lie. Lawrence he did the 7 p. M. Every day this week. He killed it. Lawrence i dont think there was an hour last week where pete wasnt on a show. She reported to me. Pete stuck with four more. I apologize for that we are thankful you are here. We are going to learn where to look. Day of the Stage Manager told me to look there but now im looking here. So we will figure it out. You will figure it out with us. Stay with us all morning long. I will tell you guys, yesterday there was a jobs report that came out that everyone was anticipating would be huge because the country needs it we are at a place where we want this economy to be rip roaring the
As this hearing is fully virtual, we had to address housekeeping matters. For this meeting, the or staff designated by the staff may mute their microphones when they are not under recognition and the purposes of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Numbers are responsible for muting an unyielding themselves, and if ive noticed that, i would ask the staff you. If you indicate by knotting, we will unmute your microphone. I remind everybody that the fiveminute club still applies. If there is a technology issue, we will move to the next issue member until the issue is resolved. You will mean pain the talents of your time. At one minute remaining, the clock will turn yellow, at 30 seconds permitting, i will deadly tap the gavel that your time is almost expired. When your time has expired, the clock will turn red and i will begin to recognize the next member. In terms of speaking order, we will begin with the chair and Ranking Members and members present at the time the hearing is calle
Departments budget and clean jobs. This is two hours and 35 minutes. Welcome, everyone. As this hearing is fully virtual, we had to address housekeeping matters. For this meeting, the or staff designated by the staff may mute their microphones when they are not under recognition and the purposes of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Numbers are responsible for muting an unyielding themselves, and if ive noticed that, i would ask the staff you. If you indicate by knotting, we will unmute your microphone. I remind everybody that the fiveminute club still applies. If there is a technology issue, we will move to the next issue member until the issue is resolved. You will mean pain the talents of your time. At one minute remaining, the clock will turn yellow, at 30 seconds permitting, i will deadly tap the gavel that your time is almost expired. When your time has expired, the clock will turn red and i will begin to recognize the next member. In terms of speaking order, we will begin
Adults fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, theres more and more talk indoor Mask Mandates can be on their way out. First, weve got to start with the Breaking News i mentioned on top, a Russian Criminal Group now suspected in that Colonial Pipeline cyberattack. Congress secretary Geno Romanedio said that congress is helping to restart that 5,500 mile Pipeline Network that runs, get this, all the way from texas to new jersey and trans ports 45 of east coast fuel supply. Abc reports the pipeline remained mostly offline sunday. I want to get straight to ken dilanian and tom costello for the latest. Ken, what can you tell us about this possible attack . Good morning, stephanie. Two sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news that its attributed to a group called darkside, a russian criminal ransomware group. And a statement attributed to them has been posted on the dark web just in the last few minutes which say we are apolitical. We do not participate in geopolitics, trying to dis
They suspect an adversary or criminal organization or can they distinguish between the two . They are pretty confident this is the work of russian cyber criminals by the name of dark. Ive got the name on another piece of paper, but the bottom line is russian cyber criminals and this organization demands ransomware when they lock up something. They are demanding an unknown amount of money from Colonial Pipeline. You can see the scale of this pipeline. As you mentioned more than 5,000 miles long. It runs from texas up to the east coast. It transports 45 of the daily energy needs, the fuel needs to the east coast. So were talking about gasoline and diesel fuel and jet fuel and right now theres an awful lot of that stuck in texas unable to move up the east coast. Colonial tells us that they are working hard to get these pipelines, there are four of them, actually that are right now shut down to get them operating again, but this does appear to be a very sophisticated Cyber Operation that h