Ne on worldwide security threats with the director ofburns, fbi director r wray. They joined other leaders from the Intelligence Community to talk about the importance of continued support for ukraine, the israelhamas, competition with china, and efforts to combat the spread of misinformation. This is about two■ . Hours and 15 minutes. I would like to call this hearing to order and welcome to our witnesses. Ctor of National Intelligence avril haines, cia director bill burns, fbi director christopher wray, assistant secretary for intelligence and research at the state department, brett holmgren. Director of National Security agency, general timothy hop. i and Defense Intelligence ageny dea director jeffrey cruz. Thank you for appearing before the senatentelligence Committee Annual worldwide threats hearing. It is important for congress and the American People to hear the leaders of our Intelligence Community about the threats and challenges facing the United States. I would like to fi
Secu■ threats with the director of the cia william burns, fbi director christopher wr. They joined other leaders from the Intelligence Community to talk about the importance of continued suort forthe israelh, competition with china, and misinformation. At5z■4 this is about two hours and 15 minutes. Good afternoon. I would hearing to order and welcome to our witnesses. Director of National Intelligence avril haines,6 most americans will never see the work you do behindbe assuree members of this committee know its importance and we thank you for what you do to keep america safe. The threat environment today we have seen in recent years. We have seen nations backsliding from democratic institutions, authoritarian systems seeking to impose their will upon neighbors while looking to undermine systs been guarantor of stability and security since world war ii. And we see] competition around new technologies. We must ensure that our evolve to meet these new challenges, which means in my mi
Hello, everybody. Thank you for coming. I am jennifer whitham, the dean of engineering at stanford university. And i am a cochair of the Stanford Emerging Technology review, which is sponsoring the event today i wanted to thank secretary raimondo for hosting this opportunity to talk about their review and to have the panel that you are all here probably excited to hear what they have to say. Im going to briefly tell you about the review itself. And then we will move ahead to the panel. We created the Stanford Emerging Technology review, because we recognized a need to educate policymakers, industry leaders, and the general public in key emerging technologies. You probably realize that todays emerging technologies and their impacts are very complex, and they are evolving at an unprecedented pace. And our goal is to enable better understanding of the emerging technologies for the people who make the laws and policies around the technologies and for the people who develop them, market the
Decliner with points and percentages this morning. Those futures are off 117 points. Take a look at treasury yields. They were higher yesterday, but you are seeing a pullback this morning. The tenyear yield below 4. 18 . The twoyear yield at 4. 58. Joe mentioned that bitcoin continues to climb. It is down by 1 . 6 6 6 66,834. We are watching the price of gold futures. Gold hitting the record high close yesterday. That april contract jumped at 2,131. Despite the high, it is still below the inflation adjusted high of 3,200 which hit back in 1980. Alltime high. For gold. Yeah. You know, with inflation slowing, but money printing, less likely with no cuts maybe coming this year. Potentially. Or three later in the year. Yeah. Looming behind all that and were adding 1 trillion to our debt every 100 days. I read that the other day. Thats still climbing. Theres no relief in sight for that. Bitcoin as you keep talking about the halving in the next two months. I was reading something yesterday t
Panic and chaos. [background noises] exit selectivity it will come to order. This is a short hearing weve never had this combination of witnesses. A collection of expertise to help us make sense of what the chinese, and his partys doing in cyberspace and i can better defend ourselves. Our hats off we spent a lot of time on this committee debating or thinking about the question of whether xi jinping will make a move militarily against taiwan. And what would be a timeline for such a move . Obviously this is a nun on noble question people continue to debate it. In some meaningful sense i wonder if such an invasion or a preparation which would be incredibly costly if the Ranking Member very eloquently pointed out yesterday has already begun. The intelligence preparation of the battle space has already begun. Put differently for over 20 years they have been attacking us the government, defense Contractors Technology firms in cyberspace that is a fact. For a long time the attacks rubbing a v