you may be seated. behalf of pence: on the president of the united states, it is my honor to welcome you here for a very ofortant moment in the life our administration as i d minister the oath of office to of labor foretary the united states of america, alexander acosta. [applause] vice pres. pence: we are fortunate to be joined by his family. would you welcome them as well? [applause] vice pres. pence: i also want to thank all of our distinguished guests, who have joined us for this important moment, especially congresswoman iliana the hispanic, and community that are here with us today. thank you for being here on the historic day. this saturday marks the end of president trump s first 100 days in office, and is the straws to this draws to as a close, we need to reflect on the progress sweeping across the nation thanks to president trump. for nearly 100 days, president trump has been delivering on the promises he made to the american people, one after another. he picked a w
they are in a freeze watch warning as temperatures are in the 30s for parts of the panhandle. so cool and cloudy this morning. i m happy to tell you we are waking up to dry conditions. rain chances slim to none throughout the day. afternoon highs struggling to reach the low 70s. rain will return tomorrow. i ll have those details coming up. good morning, constance. good morning, julie. macarthur causeway west-bound we have construction crews picking up the cones as we speak. i saw construction crews out there, i promise you, but now i don t see them. let s worry about this if you re traveling northbound on i-95 reports of a broken down car on the approach to the airport expressway blocking one lane of traffic. 5:01 in the morning not affecting traffic at all with those speeds. we ve got to get to some construction broward county, this is long-term construction on the dania beach bridge. head to the beach, you re not going to be able to use this route at all. instead use sh
proloining information. as i indicated in my opening statement, though, i believe that the next push on the envelope here is going to be the manipulation or deletion of data which will, of course, compromise its integrity. going back to the russia/iran issue, and i know going back to russia and iran, and i know there are some issues that we can t talk about here, but russia s setting up a cyber command, how about china? to the best of my knowledge, the chinese have not yet gone to a configuration like the russians appeared to have with establishing a cyber com somewhat analogous to admiral rogers command. but that s not to say that the chinese, as you know, have very capable structure and apparatus in their current p.o.a. staff structure. i yield back, mr. chairman. the gentleman yields back. mr. quigley is recognized for five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. gentlemen, thank you for being here and thank you for your service. i guess we hear most often of the high
the reason that matters so much is there s never going to be enough federal agents to answer the call, answer the bell of tens of thousands of small businesses who need help. and so we ve got to equip our local partners to be able to offer that assistance. thank you so much, and i yield back, mr. chairman. the gentleman yields back. i now yield to the chairman of the agriculture committee, mr. conaway. thanks, chairman. director clapper, you mentioned the dark web in your comments, and maybe mr. rogers may be able to better answer it, but could you give us a better description of what that means and how it s being used, and can you tell if information that s been purloined from somewhere else is actually being sold in that arena? jim, the dark web? the dark web is that portion of the internet that is not touched by any of your normal search engines. so you won t find it through google or yahoo! or bing or anything like that. you have to go looking for it. and so, it
the intelligence business, i don t recall a time when we ve been beset by a greater variety of challenges and crises around the world, both regionally and functionally. and so the challenge for me is attending to, addressing this wide diversity of threats. in the face of and i have to bring this up a very uncertain budgeting environment, now approaching our fourth or fifth year of uncertainty about the size and shape of our budget, which poses challenges for us programmatically, certainly with respect to systems acquisition, and the uncertainty it creates in the work force. i ll stop there with that general overview and turn first to john brennan. thank you. thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee for the opportunity to talk to you today about this very important issue. three top priorities for me thinking about cyber. one is since cia has responsibility to make sure we have a good grasp of what the plans, intentions, and capabilities are of our adversaries