Parkland School Shooting. Oh, and shes also said that democrats should be executed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is very concerned about the ongoing threats to members of congress and she says now the enemy is coming from within the house of representatives. There are new developments this morning in the effectiveness of vaccines against new coronavirus strains. Earlier results from Drugmaker Novavax show it is 89 effective against the regular strain, but only 60 effective against the variant that we are seeing in south africa. That is worrying health officials. Whats more, people in the trial who had been previously infected with the first strain are getting infected again with the new strain. So this really has the potential to change some of the framing in the battle in this pandemic. The first cases of that strain were now found in the united states. That happened for the first time yesterday. It happened in individuals who had not traveled and have no connection to each oth
Fromwould prevent it taking place on the scale. You believe the money ought to be in the budget for mailin voting. Maybe you can help us establish some clarity about the president was trying to say. Let me be clear. We have already passed the cares bill, which provides money for the post office. I have watched all the commissioners. There is plenty of money. The difference between mail ballots and absentees. This is a legitimate argument. What happens if you are changing because of covid in california, we have half the people voting absentee. You can sign up to be a permanent absentee. They have had problems because when you apply by absentee it means you are already registered. You are filling out an application. They know what they know it is going to you. L. A. County got sued when they had a million more people on the roles and they actually had. They had to clean up the records. If you change that to an all you sentot, everybody a ballot on the record. That is when you get a probl
By mail, theyoted sold handle 450 million, there is no question if everybody voted by mail, they would be fine with that. The real question isnt the Postal Service, it will go to the Elections Office or the people voting, are the ballots accurate. Of them getne third thrown out so i think the post office is getting caught up in the political debate and that is the last place the post office should be because there are no problems there. Dan i think one of the reasons that so many of our members are concerned is because just as this debate was beginning to get more visibility, the president said last week he thought additional money for the post office in the covid relief package should be withheld, because it would prevent mailin voting from taking place on the scale that many have called for. Now, you and a senator Mitch Mcconnell have made it clear that you both believe it should be in the budget, so help us some or establish clarity on what the president was trying to say. Rep. Mcca
2020th election. This is also from the Aspen Security Forum. Welcome back everyone after that very short break. Were very happy to be back now and what doing a bit of a change in direction. You already heard this morning about modernizing the defense department. You heard from john bolton. You would from u. N. Ambassador kelly craft. Now we are turning west to Silicon Valley, and we have panel for you on technology and democracy actually going to dive into all of the complex things that either individual actors or nationstates are doing to influence social media, start disinformation campaigns and how that is impacting our democracy. To have that panel we have with us Laura Rosenberger who is i think with us here. I see her in the room. She isnt the director of the alliance for security democracy and a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the united states. Previously she was a Foreign Policy advisor for hillary for america where she coordinated the Clinton Campaign to National
Outstanding studies on access to what we are going to talk about today. Please, if you have questions no onto the link for this. And you can ask questions and we will talk as a group for about 20 25 minutes and then we will go to your questions. Is a component on the link where you can ask questions. So please do that. I am the chair and director of the Trans National press project. So lets get into first, the Current Situation with information and disinformation and then were going to get into a little bit of history critically playing off of thomases recent book active measures and then will of the future hiring so will start with the present and move too fast and then get into the future. Thomas, when we start with you. As we look at her as you look at russian and chinese in the u. S. Activities today, how would you characterize what is going on around covid19. Thomas is a tough question. Because what we see certainly, is politicians and top officials from china and frankly also fro