This is two hours and ten minutes. Thank you for coming. My name is seth jones, the harold brown chair and director of trance National Threats project for the center of international studies. We have a fantastic two sets of panels on what is an important subject and i think increasingly important subject and part of the motivation i think from Suzanne Spaulding and i in looking at this and i have to give you u credit, suzanne, for being the brain child behind this, was to look at some of the recent attacks including el paso and the synagogue attacks and note that there has been a dialogue debate within the u. S. About how to respond to it. The degree of threat and how serious it is then how to respond to it. So what we like to do is move in the following sense. Were going to begin with a discussion about the evolution of the threat. And how domestic terrorism, i know some of the terminology for these groups is the racially motivated violent groups. I cannot promise the panelists are go
the hearing will come to order. the hearing is to discuss a very important issue and one that hopefully will get some important answers to. this issue could not be more urgent. a dangerous white supremacist group called the base was arrested. they aren t your parents neo nazis. they are paganistic, anarcic group. they hate jews and african-americans but they don t like president trump or the united states either. their goal is to use terrorism to start a race war and collapse the united states. it s claimed more lives than international terror since 9/11. last week fbi director wray told the sjudiciary committee he was elevated, rationally motivated, violent extremism to a national threat priority. the same ban with home grown violent extremism and isis. unkwoets. our enemy, especially russia exploit these racial tensions to divide and weaken american society. the head of the base lives in russia. russia likely supports white supreme assist groups in the united states and e
11 . I know of two banks that have a combined Cyber Security of 1. 2 billion. Dhs is about 900,000,000, 75 of what two banks are spending by themselves. Cybercrime costs are nations and have chilly dollars a year. If were successfully prosecuting maybe 1 of cyber criminals. We need to spend more. Two, government needs to act with greater urgency. It took congress two years sorry six years to pass a sharing bill. In 2009 we present to congress with detailed recommendation on Cyber Security. In 2011, the house gop task force embrace the recommendations but four years after the house report, we still have not seen any substantial work on the top recommendation of that report or the executive orders. For example, the gao task report, and and the executive order all call for the creation of a menu of incentives. Yet aside from the informations sharonville, the president has not proposed, congress has not introduced, a single set of strategy bill. Last month it was reported that 12 of 15 sec
Blackouts in russian controlled areas in a hand san region after moscow claims ukraine for an attack on a crucial dam. Ah, im terry johnston. This is al jazeera, well i from deb also coming up, democrats and republicans in the us make their final campaign pushes as mid 10 voters prepared to head to the polls on tuesday. A plane crash and that turns in is nate victoria leaves at least 19 dead. We have the latest on rescue operations under look at why it summit nicaraguans say the conscious local connections are illegitimate. Ah. Must go back to officials of the has song region that say there have been Power Outages off the russian, the ports that Ukrainian Forces a damn the 30 me to high nova half cut them, holds back 18000000 cubic meters of water from the in the pro river, which cuts through eastern ukraine. Since october, both russia and ukraine had repeatedly accused each other of tending to breach the dam. Using exclusive damage. Located near the city of san ukrainian troops have b
Ah, theyre on kerry johnston. This is news out loud from dough are coming up in the next 60 minutes, the russian held its Operation Nuclear parties. We connected to the countries power grid after a fire damage is paralyzed. Memories of a massacre and holmes left behind that ringer refugees, whose lives remain in limbo 5 years after seeing a military crackdown focused on a court. Grants former Prime Minister, iran con, temporary bail from a terrorism case, and he was accused of threatening the judge and the police, picking up the pieces and recreating priceless artifacts destroyed in the big blast. And in sport, the Champions League Group Stage Draw is, can put on its produced a group of data and we are with f say barcelona, barcelona german champions. Byron lena, again, inter milan had been all drawn together, increasing the number of dead it from a Russian Rocket attack on a ukrainian train station on wednesday has risen to 25. A strike. It came as the country was on high alert for at