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Thank fire eye intel and proof point for helping to make this summit possible, along with blue vector and the American Gas Association for their Additional Support and turn it over to my colleague, john carlan. Sorry, i had a bit of an audio issue. I want to welcome our guests and also to remind folks that the please submit questions and i will try to read them as we get towards the end of our session today. Weve just heard from cisas cybersecurity and infrastructure Security Acting director and...

Middle of the year. The toll plaza to the one o one about an eightminute drive for you ok, hot spots not to tell you about antioch to concord 17 minutes such a co 2 danville thats a 30 minute drive for you its starting to slow down just a little bit there in san leandro to milpitas and the one o one san jose to menlo park, 31 minute ride dariann james guys. Thank you are in a 6 oh one is the time our breaking news from overnight. The u. S. Has set another record now for the most covid related de...

7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can send us a text message 3. 202 748800 cspanwj. Since novemberth 3 election and 11 days before electors meet to cast their votes. So far 306 electoral votes for joe biden, 232 for President Trump. The popular vote standing at 81 million for joe biden and 74 million for President Trump. Here is the headline reporting in the Washington Post. Trump escalates election attacks in 46 minute video rant. They say trumps video represented ...

All around washington but nonetheless reflecting a real divergence and breadth of thinking, experience and approach. In thinking about these kinds of conflicts with a lot of broad strategic expertise and also a lot of Field Research and handsonexpertise. This struggle is at the new American Engagement Initiative at the Selikoff Center at the Atlantic Council. He has a longstanding scholar, many will know him from his years at the Cato Institute and his most recent book is hes, war and liberty. H...

You for coming on to discuss monopolies suck. Its a very timely book because the issues you write about in the book, the power of dominant companies in the u. S. Economy and the impact on workers and consumers and citizens is really a very hot topic in economics and policy making right now. And we will see but could play a big role in the incoming Biden Administration. So i thought we should begin with sort of the big picture about, that you lay out in the book. I think when people hear the titl...

Dark winter warning. President elect joe biden charging ahead, promising bold action against the pandemic. We can save tens of thousands of lives if everyone would just wear a mask. Urging americans to do their part with 71 days until hes sworn in. President trump refusing to concede and overnight, attorney general william barr adds fuel to the president s false claims by giving Prosecutors Authority to investigate claims of voter fraud. The race to stock up. As americans brace for the next covi...

Bigfs, Mark Zuckerberg and dabbing jurorsy faced over scrutiny over censorships. The very latest coming up. Has dabbing is up 40 and s p higher by 8 and 3 quarters. Retail once again in focus this morning with lowes, target and tjmaxx reporting. Its a tough day. The s p down 17. Carlos goshns legal battle, i spoke with one man who helped the former nissan chairman escape from jail as he faces 90 milliondollar civil suit in japan. You will hear from him himself, carlos goshn will join me next hou...

Vaccine. There were a total of 95 cases of symptomatically covid. The vaccine was 94. 5 effective. There were no reports of serious side effects. Other hopeful news, all 11 cases of severe covid illness were in the placebo group. The cofounder and chairman of moderna spoke about the results. We have a number of different other subgroups we are looking actively at. In general, it looks like the vaccine performs broadly across all the population groups that we consider. Moderna expects to have 20 ...

Decision to extend federal funding past the december 11 deadline to avoid a Government Shutdown. Your watching live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Bay black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, who in your wisdom has so ordered our earthly lives that we must walk by faith and not by sight, increase our trust in your sovereign care. Remind our lawmakers that no problem is too difficul...

Question, we will move to the next senator until resolved. I remind all senators that the five minute clock still aflies. You should have a box on your screen labeled clock that shows how much time is on your screen labeled clock that shows how much time is remaining. But we have had some troubles, and i have had senators who cant find that box or dont see it. And so, in fact, last hearing one of the senators ask me again to get a reminder, i will do that at this time for everybody. So at 30 sec...