Militarily military members as the basis for their work. This was hosted by the rand corporation. I think we can go ahead and get started. First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is deanna lee. I am part of the Digital Communications team here at rand, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, Global Research organization that tackles the Worlds Toughest problems. I am very happy to welcome you to todays policy lab on a very important topic, addressing violent extremism in the United States. Our policy lab series is designed to give an opportunity to hear directly from rand experts about todays most important policy issues. I am really pleased to see so many folks have joined our zoom webinar. I want to welcome folks watching and listening on cspan one and cspan radio, both broadcasting live. For those who have joined on zoom, have you house rules. We will have time at the end of the presentation for a short q a session. If you do have questions, please post those in the q a forum on zoom, not
I think we can go ahead and get started. I have a couple things to discuss before introduced our steam speaker. Forceful and introduce myself. My name is deanna lee. I am part of the Digital Communications team here at a nonprofit and nonpartisan Global Research organization that tackles the Worlds Toughest problems. I am very happy to welcome you all to todays policy on very important topics addressing violent extremism in the u. S. Our policy lab series is designed to give you an opportunity to hear directly from experts about the most important policy issues. Im really pleased to see so many folks have joined our zoom webinar. Additionally i want to welcome those of you are watching and listening on cspan radio and shes been 1. Both are testing to go live today. For those of you who have joined us on zoom i have a couple housekeeping items. We will have some time at the end of the presentation for a short q a session. If you do have questions please post those in the q a forum, not
College campuses. I will yield so he can say a word about the tragedy that occurred in texas. I thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome. Let me just say briefly that before discussing the important topic of todays hearing on sunday a gunman shot and killed 26 church goers in texas. We now know that information concerning his courtmartial for Domestic Abuse should have been submitted by the air force to the instant criminal background check system. Should have been prevented from purchasing firearms from licensed gun dealers via the brady background check system. Yesterday before this information came to light, i wrote to you, mr. Chairman, requesting that the briefing planned for our members tomorrow afternoon by atf on the issue of bump stocks. Be expanded through the fbi to discuss the background check issues. Related to southern springs. And in that briefing be conducted as a formal hearing open to the public. Now tat we have even more information that theres been a break down in the imple
Him so he can say more about the tragedy that occurred in texas over it weekend. Top of the morning and i thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome. All nine witnesses. All time hearing. And the distinguished gentleman from wisconsin. Let me just say briefly that before discussing the important topic of the days hearing, i want to raise another issue that we must unfortunately confront with urgency. On sunday, a gunman shot and killed 26 church goers in southern springs, texas. We now know that information concerning his Court Marshal for Domestic Abuse should have been submitted by the air force to the National Instant criminal background check system and should have been prevented from purchasing firearms from licensed gun dealers via the brady background check system. Yesterday before this information came to light, i wrote to you, mr. Chairman, requesting that the briefing planned for our members tomorrow afternoon by atf on the issue of bump stocks. Be expanded through the fbi to discuss t
Over it weekend. Top of the morning and i thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome. All nine witnesses. All time hearing. And the distinguished gentleman from wisconsin. Let me just say briefly that before discussing the important topic of the days hearing, i want to raise another issue that we must unfortunately confront with urgency. On sunday, a gunman shot and killed 26 church goers in southern springs, texas. We now know that information concerning his Court Marshal for Domestic Abuse should have been submitted by the air force to the National Instant criminal background check system and should have been prevented from purchasing firearms from licensed gun dealers via the brady background check system. Yesterday before this information came to light, i wrote to you, mr. Chairman, requesting that the briefing planned for our members tomorrow afternoon by atf on the issue of bump stocks. Be expanded through the fbi to discuss the background check issues. Related to southern springs. And in