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The White House CoronavirusTask Force Meeting with President Trump and Vice President pence. This is this is about one hour. President trump i would like to announce some progress on the chinese virus. War powers inthe case we needed. It can do a lot of good things have iteded and we will completed, signing it in a little while after im finished with this conference. Its prepared to go. We will be invoking the defense production act. Last week i signed an Emergency Declaration under the stafford act. We have been working with fema. They are incredible. Its always been on hurricanes or tornadoes but right now in tennessee, there is a large group working in tennessee and they have been incre ....
Actually do apply to domestic trim scenarios. The question is when can the federal government get involved in charging . F its a terrorist attacks but involves explosives, federal officials, transportation hubs, in those scenarios, federal law can be charged in those scenarios. The practical gap, theres two, guns and other forms of violence. Domestic terrorism using the most common method of attack would be guns, that is not covered at the federal level. Secondly, you may have heard of something heard the Material Support statute. It gets complicated. The one everyone has heard out that flat out supports to a Foreign Terrorist Organization that has been designated as such. We dont do that with domestic terrorist organizes. That is a separate gap and whether any of these gaps should be closed and i think we will talk about. You mentioned federal, federal, fed ....
Homeland security adviser to president obama. At this event hosted by the Texas Tribune festival. Thank you, evan. I thank all of you for being here. This is at the university of texas. A couple of quick reminders. This will be 60 minutes total but we are going to leave plenty of time for questions. We already know some of you have some questions you want to ask our, no kidding, allstar panel here. Secondly, in previous sessions at the festival, we have heard some very interesting ring tones. We would not like to hear any more of those interesting ring tones. Please remember to silence your phones. If you do want to take pictures, take videos, et cetera, and tweet them, yes, tribfest19 is how youll do that. Well take questions at the end. The microphone will be passed around. If you want to get the attention of the microphone, please look around as we move to that portion of the program. Quickly, im david priess, chief operating of ....