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The politicians are still on the hill for late votes, so we will do things a little differently. National holiday, so some of our competitors are still at work, the politicians are still on the hill for late votes, so we will do things a little differently. We will have the journalists compete for their champion, and when the politicians arrive they will battle it out, and the winner of each round will go headtohead to find out who is the champion. So, lets get started. Competing for the press t...

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Programming tonight. Congress has not yet delayed the spelling bee a national holiday, so some of our competitors are still at work, the politicians are still on the hill for late votes, so we will do things a little differently. We will have the journalists compete for their champion, and when the politicians arrive they will battle it out, and the winner of each round will go headtohead to find out who is the champion. So, lets get started. Competing for the press team this year is our defendi...

Fromion, Alexandra Petri the washington post. [applause] im still smarting because she beat me last year. John donnelly of cq roll call, a long time press club member. Hey, john. [applause] f npr, myheslow o former colleague. [applause] tillman of buzzfeed. [applause] we have a buzzfeed crowd here. [laughter] cheating, she brought a second competitor. [laughter] gangitano from the hill. [applause] from theawsey washington post. There you are. [applause] eric geller of politico. [applause] is a g...

Hasnt yet declared spelling bee day a national holiday, some of our competitors are stuck at work. Are onour competition the hill for late votes. We will do things differently and have the journalists compete for their champion and when our politicians arrived, they will battle it out and the winners of each round will go headtohead to find out who is the champion. Lets get started. Competing for the press team this year, we have our defending champion, Alexandra Petri from the washington post. ...

Directions but we are truly fortunate to have rob joyce in his place. For those that dont know rob, rob is the cyber lead at the National Security council. Hes the socalled cyber czar, the coordinator for all things cyber. He comes to the white house from the National Security agency where among other roles he ran t. A. O. Which i think has gotten a little more noticed in recent years and there was a time we couldnt even mention that, but rob comes to this job with true professionalism. And he h...

In this portion youll hear from coordinator rob joyce and Deputy Director george barnes. Good morning, good afternoon. One bit of housekeeping information, tom boss ert is duty calls, hes responding to obviously the devastating effects in puerto rico and since his job is to be head of Homeland Security, cyber, counterterrorism, hes kind of running in a million directions. We are truly fortunate to have rob joyce in his place. For those of you who dont know rob, rob is the cyberlead at the Nation...

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Authority and we go to the company and serve them with an order, we just want the information that the order says we can get. And how the company does it is frankly their business. And we want to work with them, and help them, some company cans would wo some companies can work with us. But others do it on their own. What do you think, john, about this . I mean, theres no one size fits all, but you said theres policy questions involved. And they do ultimately boil down to policy questions. To the...

Just a quick bit on passcode. We launched in february of this year. We bring some of the biggest issues facing the internet. If you were here this morning, youll agree this is one of them. We hope youll come to more of them, especially in october where we have a full slate of them here in d. C. We hope youll listen to our podcast. Subscribe to our newsletter. This is clearly an issue where it seems like theres this immovable force about National Needs and Law Enforcement being im sorry, immovabl...