Chairman johnson good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, bell honorable christopher miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center, and honorable kenneth cuccinelli, senior official performing the duties of deputy secretary. This is an annual threat hearing. When i look at all the threats that this committee has considered and all the threats facing this nation, i think it is pretty interesting how many hearings we have held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for consent to have my written Opening Statement to be entered into the record. When you consider these threats, for example, i will just go down the list cyberattacks, ransomware, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned right now as we try to develop vaccines. But the hundreds of billions of dollars of Economic Loss due to intellectual
Security and Global Threats with fbi director christopher ray, at National Counterterrorism director chris miller, the talk included Election Security, cyber campaigns from russia, iran and china, extremist or threatened domestic threats. This is 2 hours and 40 minutes. This hearing will come to order, thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, director of the federal bureau of investigation, the honorable chris miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center and the honorable Ken Cuccinelli, senior official performing duties of the deputy secretary. This is the annual threat hearing. When you look at the threats, and interesting how many hearings you held on so many of these things. I want to ask for my Opening Statement to be entered into the record. If you consider these threats, down the list, cyberattacks, ransom, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned about if you try to develop a vaccine, hundreds of millions of dollars of Economic Loss due to
Acting deputy Homeland Security secretary Ken Cuccinelli and the head of the National Counterterrorism center. The fbi director said at the hearing that the fbi has not seen widespread voter fraud. Wisconsin senator ron johnson chaired this two hour, 40 minute hearing. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, christopher miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism center, and kenneth cuccinelli, the senior official performing the duties of the deputy secretary. This is our annual threat hearing. When i take a look at all of the threats that this committee has considered and all of the threats facing this nation, i think its pretty interesting, you know, how many hearings weve held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for unanimous consent to have my written Opening Statement be entered in the recor record. If you consider t
Joining me youre making a point of whether or not we need to see a reconstitution in what we have called f. A. A. N. G. We have had a reemerging. Time to look at some of the lesser known tech names and the smaller teches that are just getting started. We have two of those on the show today. A cloud air company is up big after reporting the latest quarter, and big commerce is finding its footing after its first earnings report. If youre an investor out there and you have gotten motion sickness from teslas stock lain changes. Coming up in just a couple minutes, right thats a great point, jon this year were hearing more about some of the other names you brought up but in one way i would say these are not necessarily smaller tech investors are getting nervous even though we have seen very, very good quarters from the like of docusign and c scale. Were seeing that perhaps that dont fill these excised expectations people are starting to wonder have they run up too that is a good place to beg
I bring the subcommittee to order. A great deal has changed since our last hearing. They are finally acknowledging oracle Electronic Health record systems not fully functional and not suitable in any other facility. After nearly three years across the board despite the mounting consequences to better than safety, staff burnout and billions of dollars wasted, secretary mcdonagh have become realistic about the future of this illconceived project. Thats encouraging. What has been painful and very expensive to watch this disaster unfold its been frustrating to argue and plead with the va not to march off the cliff only to be ignored or stonewalled. Thankfully the department is now listening to what veterans and its own employees and this committee have been saying for so long. It is far past time to look under the hood and see if it can be fixed and whether progress is even being made. But be assured thats exactly what we are about to do. We are here today to take an indepth look at one pa