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The House Committee will come to order without objection. To chair is authorized declare recesses at any time. Welcome everyone to this hearing on securing americas election, oversight of government agency. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Last month, this Committee Held part one of a series of hearings on securing americas elections. In that hearing, three witnesses who had jointly been chosen testified that our nations elections are under attack. The former director of the Nat...

The subcommittees will presume from our recess and i want to thank the witnesses for coming today. I want to introduce the second panel. And apologize. [background sounds] i am looking for the biographies of the panels. Here we have doctor, by mispronouncing a word. The donkey. Hes an assistant from of Computer Science and director of the master science in file monies program. He was born in iran. Is now a legal permanent resident living in baltimore, maryland. He holds a phd in Computer Science...

Guest indy. I have about those issues with me. I think we last visited when i was visioning finishing the reauthorization of the fcc, which is not been done since 1990. Of course, the mobile now bill, the precision agricultural bill and some of those components that are foundational items and in our internet ecosystem getting those provisions finished was important and then bringing that knowledge and expertise to the senate where we are dealing with privacy and Data Security issues not only in ...

We have the next president of the United States with us today in rochester, where i live. [applause] ive had the pleasure of knowing joe for quite a while. What i have seen on his personal side is his warmth and caring in the way he takes time out to hear people. Its a lovely, beautiful trait. There were so much more that defines joe biden. Joe bidens intellect is incredible. Joe bidens understanding of the world and our place in it and his understanding of what people live through in this state...

Yesterday, the director of National Intelligence testified that, quote, the greatest challenge we have as a nation is making sure to maintain the integrity of our election system. Closed quote. Excuse me. I agree. Our democracy was founded on a government elected by the people, for the people and free and fair elections. Today our elections, the very core of our democracy, are under attack. Special counsel muellers report in no Uncertain Terms details our Foreign Government attacked our 2016 ele...

About my five years arriving driving around the United States, spending time in what i would call back road america, the part of america that is everywhere. It is not a red state or blue state thing, it is the towns and communities that have been ignored or left behind or forgotten. Places like selma, alabama, like the north side of milwaukee, places like the bronx in new york city. Places that are kind of stigmatized and defined in various ways as being places where there is high crime or pover...

We have to recognize the Senior Member here, and treat to welcome current and former colleagues and i have worked with this panel in some form or another inside and outside of government. It is a treat to welcome everybody here on the nyu school of Law Community where i am a distinguished fellow. Welcome to the program and my colleagues. This is a treat for me to be joined together with you once again to talk about a really important and timely subject, the issue of National Security and how the...

My fellow americans, over the past month evidence has emerged that the president of the United States pressured a foreign leader to investigate one of his leading political rivals. It is an offense serious enough to wasnt a full investigation by congress. And that is exactly what the house of representatives has decided to do. By beginning a formal impeachment inquiry. We have a responsibility now to see that all the facts get out and to consider those facts with the best interests of our countr...

How you prove that . Guest sure. As a former prosecutor we dont look at individual items of evidence in isolation. Look at everything in context. So in this case donald trump had halted military aid to ukraine that congress specifically approved because it is going to help our National Security interest, ukraine was pushing back against one ofy our adversaries and then a week later donald trump calls the ukrainian leader and lead us to ukraine leader raises issue of military aid, trump request a...

Lets get this show started. My name is ryan heath and i am the Senior Editor at lit ago in washington, d. C. Politico in washington, d. C. I think you should be able to hear me now . Any better now . Ok, lets do it. Hows that now . Better . Good. Good. We are going to do it. Feedback,for the thats the sort of participation we want over the next 80 minutes, you might be able to tell from my accent im not from around here. We are looking at how we can solve problems and fix americas political syst...