Information today. I will talk about the 2020 election with david becker whos and executive director for the center for election innovation and research. Us about the work the center does. We were founded in 2016 after worked for several years leading the pugh election team. E department, forcing federal voting laws. Tot we do now is we work ensure the security of the overall election system in the United States and also worked to improve access and convenience for all voters. Host you are at electioninnovation. Org. How are you funded . By donations and other donors, you are completely nonpartisan and nonprofit. Host looking back to the 2016 election, what is the biggest lesson that you personally learned from that . Guest i think what weve learned, and these are facts that have been presented by both parties, the Senate Intelligence committee, our foreign adversaries are going to try to undermine our confidence in our own democracy and they are going to use whatever means at their di
Welcome the senior senator from colorado, michael bennet. Senator, thank you. There are 85 students here from colorado college. More than any other delegation in the place. Thank you for joining we are thrilled to have you. Just kidding. As well. That is stupid this place ran a lot better when you are here. Thank you. Now we have a podcast. Were asking everybody a version of this question. Open to the idea of conditioning with israel. Land onwhere you can considert you withholding aid as leverage. Probably not where those guys landed. I would want to know and have a strong understanding of what the understanding would be on the politics and israel. Positionstrengthen the of israel, whose actions we are objecting to . When you have lived as i have with Mitch Mcconnell, i often said i would never want anybody i know to be as malevolent or cynical as Mitch Mcconnell, but i do believe we need to be as andtegic as Mitch Mcconnell as strategic as president netanyahu is. It feels like the con
The november 21 deadline. Later, jeff moore doc of the Washington Times talks about the Justice Departments investigation into the origins of the russia probe. Host it is the washington journal for october 29. The bill will vote on a the house will vote on a bill sanctioning turkey. Loseddoor Hearing National Security Council official who will express concerns about President Trumps ukraine phone call and thursday, presentmocrats will current procedures of the impeachment inquiry and. Stablishing new ones. Epublicans, 2027488001 democrats, 2027488000. And independents, 2027488002. If you want to text us about this coming up vote on thursday, 7488003 is how we will bring a resolution to the floor that confirms the Ongoing Investigation currently being conducted by committees as part of the impeachment inquiry including requests for documents, subpoena, testimony, and other investigative steps previously taken or to be taken investigation, this resolution establishes the proceedings for
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 National Security council under both president clinton and george w. Bush warned that we must take hold and expeditious steps to address cyber threats. We must treat Election Security theecretary of state from commonwealth of pennsylvania elaborated. Election security is a race without a finish line line and our adversaries are not going down. This testimony has been confirmed by the leaders of our Intelligence Community. Foreign actors will view the 2020 election as an opportunity to review their
Did the general of the Kurdish Forces say that they played a role . They were instrumental isis. G to defeat we remain in contact with them on the ground. I am not going to talk about it today, but i can tell you that we had u. S. Forces with eyes on baghdadi and we took dna and confirmed the dna from previous samples that we had. Is his body still in custody . His body will be disposed of properly. Do you imagine we will follow the same protocol that we did with Osama Bin Laden . I would imagine that would be the case. The president said there were a number of people who helped. He thanked russia first and the kurds last. Should we read into that . It was a Dangerous Mission for our troops. The president made a courageous decision to send them into Enemy Territory at night. It was a courageous decision from the president but incredible bravery and skill of our men and women in the armed forces. They had to fly over areas where there are significant antiaircraft capabilities, the syria