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Next, officials from the fai Justice Department, Homeland Security, and u. S. Election Assistance Commission testify on election infrastructure security. And how each agency is working to protect voting systems and coordinat coordinate with state and local officials. This house judiciary hearing runs about 2 1 2 hours. On judiy welcomthe judiciarywill come to. Without objection, the chair is authorized to house subcommittee on the judiciary will come to order, without objection. The chair is aut...

Americas elections. I will now recognize myself when Opening Statement. 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 come close quote. Excuse me. I agree. Our democracy was founded on a government elected by the people, for the people and free and fair elections. They are elections very core of our democracy under a aa tactic special counsel most report in no Uncer...

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...

Actually do apply to domestic trim scenarios. The question is when can the federal government get involved in charging . F its a terrorist attacks but involves explosives, federal officials, transportation hubs, in those scenarios, federal law can be charged in those scenarios. The practical gap, theres two, guns and other forms of violence. Domestic terrorism using the most common method of attack would be guns, that is not covered at the federal level. Secondly, you may have heard of something...

Festival and austin is the host of this hourlong event. Law thank you evan, thank all of you for being here, this is titled from within the topic on domestic terrorism, law, couple of quick reminders, this will be 60 minutes total but we will leave plenty of time for questions, we know that some of you have questions you want to ask our no kidding allstar panel here, secondly in previous sessions at the festival we have heard some very interesting ring tones, we would not like to hear any more o...

Tones. [laughter] we would not like to hear any more of those interesting ring tones. Please remember so silence your phones. If you want to take pictures, take videos, etc. , and tweet them, yes, the hashtag trib fest 19 is how you will do that. We will take questions at the end. The mic will be passed around. If you want to get the attention of the mic, please look around as we move to that portion of the program. Quickly, im david priest, the chief operating officer of law fair. I worked in t...

Homeland security adviser to president obama. At this event hosted by the Texas Tribune festival. Thank you, evan. I thank all of you for being here. This is at the university of texas. A couple of quick reminders. This will be 60 minutes total but we are going to leave plenty of time for questions. We already know some of you have some questions you want to ask our, no kidding, allstar panel here. Secondly, in previous sessions at the festival, we have heard some very interesting ring tones. We...

Slowly taking over ones full time fields in somalia. Just 2 years of to the last dealt and the countrys again facing one of the driest threeness seasons in more than 3 decades. The victims of visible almost everywhere makeshift camps like this one for those affected by drought can be found in almost every city. This is by insult west so money. These people have just arrived from the countryside. However builds a heart for her family from old clothes she says it took them a month to get here but ...

Left of the airport terminal again weve just arrived when youre flying in you can really get a sense of the devastation theres a conifer forests all around has acres and acres of trees literally split in half it sounds cliche to say this but it but it looks as though a bomb went off here if you were to drive in that direction now that the waters have subsided you arrive at marsh harbor there are thousands of people who live there the latest estimates that we heard were somewhere around 13000 hom...

Is taping tonight. Im kidding, youre not going to be on tv. When we get to the q a they usually want to bring a microphone down so they can record it. If you have a question try to wait until they bring the microphone to you so we dont have to repeat it the speaker will repeat the question so that you can hear it but this is so they can hear it however they work its. Our speaker received his phd in American History from columbia university. After teaching at columbia and working for David Rockef...