Americans election part two oversight of Government Agencies. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Last month this Committee Held apart one of the series of hearings on securing americas elections. In that hearing, three witnesses have been jointly selected by the committee testified unequivocally that the nations elections are under attack. The former director on the National Security council under both president clinton and president george w. Bush warned we must take bold, decisive and expeditious steps to address the cyber threats. We must treat elections activity as an imperative for safeguarding our democracy. Secretary of state from the commonwealth of pennsylvania and moderated elections activity is a race without a finish line and our adversaries are not slowing down. This testimony has been confirmed by the leaders of our Intelligence Community. Last month the director of National Intelligence testified about the foreign actors wouldve viewed by 2020 u. S. El
Go to school. That joint measure of our goal together and individual work is what so inspiring and what is aspiring when we see everybody here together at the conference. So its exciting to be here. Thank you. Thank you for the conversation today. Thank you for your service. And thank you for being on the front lines of our nation and bringing us together in this important fight. It was an honor to be with you today and thank you for the honor of joining us today. So good to be here. Good morning, everyone, i hope you are able to get caffeine in your systems, get your blood flowing. I do to cknowled good morning, every i want to knowledge all the media that has been with us for the last four days. We really appreciate all your coverage and all youve done for us. Thank you for being here. We would like to follow the fireside conversation by taking a more indepth look at the future of cyber. For our next session, 2024 and beyond, the hard road ahead, we have invited a distinguished group
Of aqap. I know that was before your watch. The boston bomber sthapdthat happened when i was at the department of defense. I am familiar with the case. Youre not going to take i was at the dod. Al. You were not in charge of tsa when he got through wearing a bomb i was not charge of tsa in december 25th a 2009. Fordt. Hood, some choose to refer to that as workplace violence. When someone is yelling indicating hes doing it in the name of allah, that doesnt seem to be exactly a right wing radical evangelical christian. I know theres been a lot of discussion about Francisco Sanchez in San Francisco. And i know as a former judge, an ongoing problem, one goyuy i sentenced him i think he got nine duis before he got to me. Six months later hes back in my court. He said he was deported 30 days or so after i sent him to prison. I come back and thats what keeps bringing me back to Francisco Sanchez. He was deported five times. Have you analyzed each of those deportations, where they occurred and
So first up is the honorable juan zarate. My good friend. First ever assistant secretary of the finance. He served as Deputy Assistant to the president and deputy combatting terrorism. His phenomenal book treasuries war discovers the new economic era of war far. So thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks to all of you for coming. This is a wonderful turnout and wonderful event. I want to thank the hudson institute. Mark dube wits. Thank you for shepherding the authors in the production of this very important piece of work i think. I would commend all of you in the room and those watching online to pick it up and to read it. The contribution, at least from the other authors are incredibly important. And im honored to be here today, especially with steve and mike to discuss these issues. I want to thank sam, too. Because she gave me an opportunity to write more about some of the details i explored at the tail end of my that i think are critical as we look forward. I want to discuss with y
It is pretty small. We are looking at small moves for the major averages. A mixed point at this point picture at this point. Really tells us investors remain uncertain about so many macro concerns out there, from geopolitical concerns, uncertainty in d. C. , watching Hurricane Irma and the impact force since four sections in the financial market. Believes that in the relatively near term, we are going to see new highs for the major averages. Despite the bearish activity that julie was talking about, over the mediumterm, new h ighs. We will see if that happens. Kroger down 6 after the Grocery Store beat sales estimates. But they abandoned the practice of providing longerterm guidance. It is thought this has to do with the competition of amazon coming on. Investors not liking that. Equifax down, plunging, a big breaching that could affect 143 million american consumers. Chipotle down 4 . Cowan is downgrading shares to an underperform. The analyst says he believes sales may trail estimate