Brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Aneesh chopra, in your book, innovative state, the first three words are government doesnt work. Why do you say that . Guest i think it captures the spirit if you ask the American People in general, are you satisfied, the numbers are at an alltime low, and the perception is it isnt working. And even early days in the Obama Administration we saw some of the more challenging launches of services that really we shouldnt expect today in successful, modern, techdriven economy. And closing this gap was a big part of the motivation both for my term of duty in Public Service as well as why i wanted to write the book. Host the subtitle is how new technologies can transform government. Guest yes. Host how does the u. S. Government use technology, and does it do it successfully . Guest well, were moving in the right direction, to be sure. I try to spend a lot of my time thinking about American History in the book. You g
Incidents, even the very high profile ones, start with a spear phishing campaign, start with an enough it shouldnt have been clicked on. I think in that sense some of the very simple things that any company can do in terms of training their employees, knowing what their Program Looks Like actually going to default security measures instead of no secret he measures can make a big difference. And i think from the perspective changing the cost for any given firm, making sure that if there are targets of opportunity that you deny them the simple opportunity to attack you. Any thoughts on your part . From our perspective all of these conversations go into building resilience. Using the framework coming taking the partnership, using collaboration. What i like to refer to is killing the profit model on this opportunistic sense that are adversaries have. All of that goes into making it less worth it for the anniversary. But even more important making us resilient. Even if all that were to work
Committee in the congress the room to work on reform and decide which provisions to keep. For now, this is about balancing shortterm needs and longterm goals. In the coming months, the finance committee is going to pursue a tax reform plan on a bipartisan basis that gives all americans the opportunity to get ahead. But right now whats needed is to protect jobs and deliver more certainty. On april 3rd the finance committee passed the expiring provisions improvement reform and efficiency act. Mr. President , there was a strong bipartisan vote in the committee. And we called the bill the expire act for one reason, its supposed to expire. And i stated that morning that on my watch, mr. President , this is going to be the last time, the last time that the finance Committee Considers a tax extender bill. Once this piece of legislation is enacted and behind us, the Committee Moves on to the critical next challenge, and that is comprehensive, bipartisan tax reform. Now, im going to talk for a
Better shape of a potential lawsuit and if you didnt do Something Like that. And i think having Something Like the framework, which isnt a prescriptive rulebook, but its a much more flexible document that is tailored to individual companies makes it a better vehicle to achieve that kind of protection than the something that is more prescriptive, set in stone, concrete and difficult to be adapted to individual circumstances. Let me ask a followup on that. The idea of the framework is that it meets you where you are. If you are at a certain level and you are looking at the various aspects of the framework that you are looking at doing. As a smaller business and justice seeking generically that lack the resources to really fund against the nationstate. Are they at least in the context of liability is there any kind of distinction to say ive done my best but i cant go toe to toe with the nationstate. I think the framework is a good vehicle for doing that. It is adaptive, its not onesizefit
Ahead with a new Congress Sworn in tomorrow under unprecedented circumstances, while the race to flip control of the senate gets a final boost from party big guns. Meantime, the u. S. Closing out 2020 with the deadliest and most infectious month since the start of the pandemic, this as a new mutant strain spreads in the u. S. Amid problems getting people vaccinated. Good morning. It is saturday, january 2nd. Lets all take a collective sigh. We have made it to 2021. Ooh, sigh, everyone. Im cori coffin in for lindsey reiser. So far, so good. Off to a good start, right . Yes. Im joe fryer in for kendis gibson, live from msnbc headquarters in new york. We have a team of reporters across the country following the top stories and latest developments for you right now. We begin in washington, where the balance of power is at stake. Nbcs Shannon Pettypiece is there. So, shannon, the president is railing against the integrity of the upcoming georgia elections three days before voters there will