Hello and thank you for joining todays event at Hudson Institute, where we are all appropriately masked and physical distancing. I am here with fbi director Christopher Wray and it is my pleasure to be physically back at the office and to join the director in todays conversation. Christopher wray currently serves as the eighth director of the fbi. He has served in a number of roles on the federal government, including as principal associate heorney general where oversaw investigations conducted by the in 2003, president bush for the criminal division, where he oversaw Major Investigation into domestic and International Criminal activities. He also oversaw the dojs Law Enforcement agencies. He was instrumental in the dojs efforts to combat terrorism, cybercrime and international espionage. Today he joins us to discuss chinas ongoing efforts to interfere in the United States Domestic Affairs through espionage, disinformation campaigns, intellectual property theft, and monetary theft. It
This was at the Hudson Institute. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] thank you for joining us at the Hudson Institute. We are here with fbi director Christopher Wray. It is my pleasure to be back at the office and an honor to join the director in todays conversation. Here with fbi dirr Christopher Wray and it is my pleasure to be physically back at the office and to join the director in todays conversation. Christopher wray currently serves as the eighth director of the fbi. He has served in a number of roles on the federal government, including as principal associate heorney general where oversaw investigations conducted by the in 2003, president bush for the criminal division, where he oversaw Major Investigation into domestic and International Criminal activities. He also oversaw the dojs Law Enforcement agencies. He was inst
Serves as director of the fbi. Christopher wray currently serves as the eighth director of the fbi. He has served in a number of roles on the federal government, including as principal associate heorney general where oversaw investigations conducted by the in 2003, president bush for the criminal division, where he oversaw Major Investigation into domestic and International Criminal activities. He also oversaw the dojs Law Enforcement agencies. He was instrumental in the dojs efforts to combat terrorism, cybercrime and international espionage. Today he joins us to discuss chinas ongoing efforts to interfere in the United States Domestic Affairs through espionage, disinformation campaigns, intellectual property theft, and monetary theft. It is my pleasure to welcome director wray to the Hudson Institute. [applause] mr. Wray thank you. Good morning, everybody. I realize it is challenging under the current circumstances to put on an event like this. I am grateful to the Hudson Institute f
Having as our special guest ben rhodes. He will speak and then he will speak and then. He and i will have a conversation. To postrage you all questions through the q a feature. Limited to the second half, i will begin to wrap up our discussion and i will start posing some of your questions. This will run about one hour. I want to mention next week, next wednesday we will have our last webinar for the seminar partnerll be with our novelg about his new which is a look into the future of warfare and cyber warfare. He is a fantastic thinker and writer. Rhodes. Y, ben he is the former National Security deputy National Security advisor. Of pensee the world and ae the world, friend of ucla. Take it away. Mr. Rhodes thank you everyone for joining us for this. Commentske some open summarizing the argument i was and that this piece can set up the directions we go when in our conversation. Me, the genesis of this idea about the end of the 9 11 era is like anyone else, the extremity of the lockdow
I want to mention next week, next wednesday we will have our last webinar for the seminar partnerll be with our novelg about his new which is a look into the future of warfare and cyber warfare. He is a fantastic thinker and writer. Rhodes. Y, ben he is the former National Security deputy National Security advisor. Of pensee the world and ae the world, friend of ucla. Take it away. Mr. Rhodes thank you everyone for joining us for this. Commentske some open summarizing the argument i was and that this piece can set up the directions we go when in our conversation. Me, the genesis of this idea about the end of the 9 11 era is like anyone else, the extremity of the lockdown hit me in early march and for me, i was taking a walk with my daughters. We went down to venice beach which was completely empty, desolate. I had never seen it before. My daughter picks up a dandelion and i said make a wish. She said to make the coronavirus galway. Go away. For someone who worked in the white house, wh