Cybersecurity and cisas cybersecurity and infrastructure Security Acting director and we will have with us today i think hes joining a little bit later. Senator warner is the vice chair of the intelligence committee, representative will hurd whos the Ranking Member of the subcommittee on intelligence modernization and readiness and on the house intelligence committee, and representative underwood, from the subcommittee on cybersecurity, infrastructure , protections, and innovation. And i thought we would start where we just ended, which is we just heard from the cybersecurity and infrastructure cybersecurity agencys acting director from the department of Homeland Security. And the reason why we have an acting director is that the president fired the director , chris krebs. And maybe ill start with representative underwood and then turn to representative hurd, but to see what do you make of the firing of our lead cybersecurity officials. Well, thanks for having me. Hi, everybody. Really
Chief Information Security officer, meredith harper. Welcome, and over to you. Thanks very much, john. Its nice to see you, even virtually. So, today, you have everyones bio. So, i dont think i need to reintroduce our panel. But what theyre going to offer us, i think, is a way to look at the year, and back at the year in a context of cyber and health care, and give us a little bit different way to look at the latest efforts to get the vaccine out to the public. We actually have some news on this today, by the way. Well get to that a little later. Basically, the New York Times reported that Cyber Attacks related to cold storage of the vaccine have been going on since august. Its unclear whether this is about ransomware or something more sinister. But well get to that in a minute. What i thought wed do is divide the discussion basically into three parts. Were going to look at the broader issue of cyberthreats and attacks of the Health Care Sector as we sort of wrestle through a pandemic.
I am going to put you up first. Thank you all for being here today. We appreciate your time and your interest in some of our concerns, and the purpose of this is to convey our concerns that the department of justice, we are waiting for them to give us some kind of admission they are actually investigating the multiple allegations of improprieties in this 2020 president ial election. We have a keen interest in that, but we think all American People do as well, and we want to call attention to our efforts to communicate with the department of justice and attorney general barr to have him include us in the information he has us appears to be investigating. We will hear from several of our members today. The first one we will hear from is congressman ralph norman from south carolina. Ralph . Rep. Norman the bedrock of our republic is open, transparent, Fair Elections. And that is wet, as andy alluded to, we encourage the doj, we are encouraging an open transition of examining everything, a
Addition to the pandemic relief and fighting the coronavirus, what else should be a priority. Republicans, one line, democrats, one line, independents and others,. One line you can also send us a text. Include your name and where you are texting from. And onter, cspanwj facebook. We will hear from a couple of members of Congress Later in the program. We will ask them both about the status of a potential pandemic relief bill. We will also show you some of the highlights from last nights cnn interview. First, a piece from page of washington journal using data from johns hopkins. The whole front page, if you go online, you will see the interactive map showing the spread of the virus across the country. The april 17 spring peak, july 25 at summer peak, the low point between the summer and fall of september 19. So far, in the fall, the fall peak to describe, two weeks in november, over 2 million cases. Over 12 million cases. The bottom line is how the surge engulfed. They write today, about
The outgoing chairman, mike johnson from louisiana from indiana mike johnson from louisiana and jim thanks from indiana. Im going to do a quick interruption of them and then ask questions but we will take questions from the audience. If you would like to ask questions, please submit them to chris see hris. Gavin at a. Org. We will put them up. I have a bunch of my own questions as well so we will try to get to them as they come up. Representative jim thanks is chairman elect to the committee and representative thinks is inn his second term representative of the Third District covering the Northeast Corner of the date including four lane. Thanks service in the Armed Services committee on education and Labor Committee and Veterans Affairs committee. He is the father of Young Children so we always like to have, no about peoples families. Representative johnson is the outgoing chairman, the second term representing Fourth District of louisiana covering the northwest part of the state inclu