Ethis committee will come t order. To help us understand what china is doing. We spend a lot of time on this committee debating whether xi jinping will make a move. This is a question that people continue to debate. I wonder if such an invasion or the preparation for such an invasion which would be incredibly costly as the Ranking Member very eloquently brought up yesterday has already begun. Put differently, the ccb has been attacking us. Government, our defense contractors, our Development Firms in cyber. And they had been robbing us on tech. And they used that to their military modernization. And they have been gathering information on people and companies. Our military records have been compromised. Mine is framed in my office, in my basement. According to the fbi, chinas vast Hacking Program is the Worlds Largest and theyve stolen more americans personal and business data than any other nation combined. But that wasnt enough for the ccv. In the past few years, our intelligence and
Exit selectivity it will come to order. This is a short hearing weve never had this combination of the select committee will come to order. This is a historic hearing, we have never had this combination of witnesses, a fantastic collection of expertise to help us make sense of the Chinese Communist party is doing in cyberspace and how we can better defend ourselves. I thought this morning we spend a lot of time on the committee debating or thinking about the question of whether china will make a move militarily against taiwan and what would be the timeline of such a move. Obviously this is a unknowable question and people continue to debate it, but in some meaningful sense i wonder if such invasion or the preparation for such invasion which would be incredibly costly as the Ranking Member eloquently pointed out yesterday has already begun. If the intelligence operation of the battle space has begun for over 20 years the ccp has been attacking government, defense contractors, technology
This Atlantic Council event is about two hours. Director of the cybersecurity and if a Structure Agency at the u. S. Department of Homeland Security and principal associate Deputy Attorney general at the u. S. Department of justice. Going to go through some questions and we will have time to take questions for b i wonder if you could get us started. Talk through some key framing assumptions for the strategy. What were two or three places you wanted the team to focus on shifting the debate. To talk to you. Strategy. There are some fundamental shifts as you recognized in the strategy. First we have to start with what we wanted cyberspace to look like. What are we trying to achieve, what is our northstar . That is to have a defensible resilient Digital Ecosystem that is aligned with our values. That is what we are trying to achieve. At bottom our constituents are American People. How do we do this for in American People and at its core, it is reliant, significantly rely on collaboration a
release the affidavit. several news outlets have asked for it to be unsealed. but the doj says unsealing the document would hurt this and other high profile investigations. the wild card here is all the heat that is coming off the search in mar-a-lago. the death threats to the fbi and government officials. just yesterday, a pennsylvania man was charged for threatening to kill fbi agents. and remember last week, when an ohio man tried to break into an fbi field office with a nail gun and an assault rifle. trump oddly has acknowledged that the temperature needs to be brought down. in the same breath, he s continued to attack the doy and federal agents. while the former president faces mounting legal trouble, he s not the only one on the state level, rudy giuliani, donald trump s personal attorney, is now a target of georgia s investigation into the attempt to overturn the 2020 election. he is set to appear before a special grand jury there tomorrow. and here in new york, long t
Geopolitics and what is happening in gaza and israel and what is happening in ukraine and russia and the economy as so much more. We will bring you all of that conversation ahead over the next three hours. Well be showing you pieces of that interview all morning long. Andrew, your biggest take away the biggest thing you think will be most important for the markets or investors watching with us . You know, we got into the conversation which we will show you in the 7 00 hour with the euro it is likely the ecb will move ahead of the fed and that will weaken the euro. There are a lot of take aways how he is thinking about politics and we talk about the issues with china and we mentioned tiktok i mentioned that in new caldonia, where there are riots taking place, they shutdown tiktok he had pointed words with how the United States is thinking about china as an enemy or frenemy. There will be pieces of this that folks will be watching. The euro is down 2. 5 on the year just on those concerns