Thats why for the first time in history, im going to be elevating the president ial science adviser to a cabinet rank, because we think its that important. As Deputy Director of the office of science and Technology Policy and science and society, i appoint dr. Nelson. Shes a professor at the institute of advanced studies at princeton university, president of social Science Research council, and one of americas leading scholars and Award Winning author and researcher, exploring the connections between science and our society. The daughter of a military family, her dad served in the United States navy and her mom was an army crip yptographer. When i wrote that down i thought to myself, how many kids anyway. That passion, it was a passion, forged a lifelong curiosity about the inequities and the Power Dynamics that sit beneath the foundations of scientific research. Dr. Nelson has focused on that like few before in american history, breaking new ground in our understanding of the role science plays in American Life and opening the door to a future which science better serves all people. As cochair of the president s council on advisers on science and technology, i appoint francis arnold, director of the bioengineering center at cal tech. One of the worlds leading experts on protein engineering. A lifelong champion of Renewable Energy solutions, who has been inducted into the National Inventors hall of fame. That aint a bad place to be. Not only is she the first woman to be elected to all three National Academies of science and engineering, shes also the First American woman to win a nobel prize in chemistry. A very slow starter. A daughter of pittsburgh. She worked as a cabdriver, a jazz club server, before making her way to princeton, berkeley, and a career on the leading edge of human discovery. I want to make that point again. If any of your children are watching, let them know. You can do anything. This country can do anything. Anything at all. And so she survived breast cancer, overcame tragic losses in her family while rise to go the rising to the top of her field still overwhelmingly dominated by men. She is an inspiring figure to scientists across the field and across nations. I want to thank dr. Arnold for agreeing to cochair the first allwoman team to lead the president s council of advisers on science and technology. As cochair, i appoint dr. Maria zubar, a trailblazing geophysicist and planetary scientist, a former chair of the National Science board, the first woman to lead the Science Department at mit and the first woman to lead nasas robotic planetary mission. Growing up in coal country, not far from heaven, scranton, pennsylvania, about 50 miles south of where i was as a kid, she dreamed of exploring outer space. I could have told her she could just go to green ridge in scranton and we would find where it was. I shouldnt be so flippant. Im so excited about these folks. Reading every book she could find and listening to her moms stories about watching the earliest rocket launch on television. She became the first person in her family to go to college and never let go of her dream. Today, she oversees the Lincoln Laboratory at mit and leads the institutions Climate Action plan. Shes played a leadership role in ten nasa missions. Her groundbreaking work on planetary mapping has generated some of the most accurate topographical maps humanity has ever produced of the moon and of mars. Not only is she an explorer of outer space, shes one of the most accomplished explorers in generations. And im truly honored that shes agreed to answer this call to service to help us chart new courses of discovery. And finally, im pleased to announce ive had a long conversation with dr. Collins, francis collins. He could not be here today. Ive asked him to stay on as director of institute of health at this critical moment. Ive known dr. Collins for many years, i worked with him closely. Hes a brilliant pioneer, a true leader, and above all, a model of public servant. Im honored to be working with him again. I want to thank him again for being willing to stay on. I know that wasnt his original plan. We worked an awful lot on the moonshot and dealing with cancer. I just want to thank him again. To each of you and your families, and i say your families, thank you for the willingness to serve. Not that you havent been serving already, but to serve in the administration. And the american people, to all the american people, this is a team thats going to help restore your faith in americas place in the frontier of science and discovery and hope. Im now going to turn this over, starting with dr. Lander, to hear from each of our nominees. And then well hear from the Vice President. But again, i just cant thank you all enough, i really mean it. Thank you, thank you, thank you for being willing to do this. Doc, its all yours. I better put my mask on or ill get in trouble. All right. Youre listening to president elect joe biden there, saying that with this new science team, people that hes putting in place, he says he believes that they can make more progress in ten years than has been made in 50 years. And among those he says he is elevating the science adviser to a cabinet position, and montgomery scientists that he has named, hes got a Nobel Peace Prize winner and an outer space explorer hailing from mit. Well keep close tabs on the announcements there. In just four days, president elect biden will take the oath of office in washington, d. C. Right now were seeing unprecedented security following last weeks riot at the capitol. Across the country, the pictures are very similar in other capitols where security is being stepped up amid new threats of violent protests in the days leading up to and possibly on inauguration day. We have reporters across the country covering the preparations ahead of those potential new threats. Lets go first now to the nations capitol where the pentagon has authorized the mobilization of an additional 5,000 National Guard troops to secure joe bidens inauguration. And that means 25,000 troops will be on hand for the ceremony. Cnns Shimon Prokupecz is tracking the security measures. Shimon, why the decision to bring in more troops, and what now is also being learned about people who are suspected of this insur insurrection . Reporter the threat continues to evolve. I wouldnt say it necessarily grows, but certainly officials from the fbi to the secret service are very concerned, and weve been hearing about this for days, about the chatter over social media and other places about people wanting to come here and disrupt the inauguration, the peaceful transfer of power. So the military and Law Enforcement are not taking any chances, increasing security. Were now talking about bridges, roads with access into d. C. Being shut down. They need extra military and extra Law Enforcement to do that. I want to show you whats going on around here. Were a black or so from the capitol. There is actually more fencing going up. Weve been seeing so much fencing around washington, d. C. , almost at every site, every high profile site, from the monuments to government buildings. This type of fencing going up everywhere. This morning and this afternoon half a continued doing this. On the other side here, i want to show you, there are military vehicles just over my Left Shoulder here. Jerry over here is going to show you. There are military vehicles. These are the National Guard buses that are passing through here now. Almost daily, we have seen more and more National Guard troops arriving. So these military vehicles are set up at many of the checkpoints, many of the roads here in downtown d. C. And the National Guard troops are all over d. C. , blocking a lot of the roads. And one of the concerns that ive been told is over vehicles, and perhaps someone trying to either store ieds or bombs inside vehicles. Weve seen that, where Police Arrested an individual on january 6 with those 11 molotov cocktails that were stored in a pickup truck. That is something that has Law Enforcement very concerned. Thats why we see so many roads being blocked so early here in washington, d. C. Really, as you said, its unprec unprecedented. Never in this nations history have we seen security like this in one place. Its swarming with military and Law Enforcement. Shimon, it is unprecedented, but already this effort is netting at least one suspect, right, one arrest of an individual who had some fake credentials, who was stopped at a d. C. Checkpoint and who was armed. Tell us more. Reporter yeah, so this information was stopped by the police at a checkpoint at the capitol, on the north side of the capitol, at a checkpoint. He stopped, police, it was a pickup truck, Law Enforcement there asked him some questions. He showed them what they say are fake credentials for the inauguration credentials. His name is wesley allen bealer. Hes from virginia. Police say they also found a begun, a. 9 millimeter glock inside his pickup truck and 500 rounds of ammunition. We dont even what he was up to, we dont know why he had this weapon or all this ammunition. Theres nothing to indicate obviously that he was coming here to do any harm. But given all the security measures, and given everything thats been going on, obviously Law Enforcement on high alert, so they stopped this individual, they questioned him. They found he has been arrested and hes facing charges for the weapon and ammunition. We don we dont know exactly why he was in this area, theres nothing to indicate he was any kind of threat or coming to do any harm. But he has been arrested and police did find this weapon and ammunition. But open minous at best, the information is that he had a fake inaugural credential, plus the kind of weaponry that you just spelled out. I mean, its pretty stunning. Reporter yeah, it is stunning, and it certainly is concerning. Thats why i think we need to learn more. Im sure authorities are trying to learn more. As i said, one of the things authorities are very concerned about are vehicles and what possibly someone could store inside a vehicle. And so of course someone driving through a checkpoint in a pickup truck, something official are concerned about, they saw something suspicious, and they asked him questions, he did admit to possessing this weapon. They then searched and did find this ammunition. So we need to learn more, exactly what he was doing here, why someone would think they could get through a checkpoint with police and this amount of military surrounding the secure zone now, really is mindboggling. To think that he could possibly get through it. Obviously this is why we have these checkpoints, why the police and the military have set up all these checkpoints all across d. C. This is not just the capitol, obviously in the blocks around the white house. But at key intersections to get into any part of this area is blocked off with military vehicles. And the same kind of information, some of it that you probably have, that this pickup truck with this individual, wesley allen bealer, that checkpoint was at north capitol and e street northeast, which is right next to the train station. Thank you so much, shimon, well check back with you there on capitol hill. With me now to talk further about this arrest and other concerns surrounding the inaugural activities, garrett graff, cnn contributor. Also with me, jonathan weckrow, former secret service agent, good to see both of you. This is alarming, a virginia man stopped at this d. C. Checkpoint, that the individual would be asked if he had any weaponry and that according to this reporting, the person said, yes, i do, and in fact right in the glove compartment having a glock and 500 rounds of ammunition. But really whats so unsettling here on top of all that is that there were fake inaugural credentials. What do you make of what the possible intent would have been for this individual . Listen, first of all, this is evidence that Law Enforcement is facing a persistent threat by those seeking to cause harm. And theyre going to be continuously challenged by lone actors. What the intent was by this individual still remains unknown. But what we do know is someone tried to utilize those fake credentials. Was this someone trying to test the defenses to see if they could get in and then put these rounds and this weapon someplace for future use . We really just dont know right now. But it talks about, really, the volatility of this moment, where Law Enforcement must be hypervigilant to threats that could present themselves at any moment. This was a checkpoint, sort of an administrative role right now, where people are searching these vehicles. But a threat can present itself at any moment. Theyre dynamic, theyre unpredictable, and the severity is always unknown. So Law Enforcement has a challenge right now. We know that there are groups out there who are actively engaging in domestic terror acts and at any moment, you know, we could have an issue. So the deployment of 25,000 National Guard troops and the mobilization of Law Enforcement not just from the secret service and federal entities but local and state partners is absolutely necessary to secure this inauguration and the transfer of power into the biden administration. And so jonathan, you used the word volatility there, and i wonder, garrett, can we zero in on that . While we have an impressive amount of National Guard, 25,000 troops there descending upon the nations capital, youve got heightened enforcement from park police to, you know, Capitol Police, to metropolitan police, but then when you also have the departure of, say, dhs secretary chad wolf, that is expected to happen because of the changing of the guard, so to speak, but there are other National Security posts that are filled by interim people. How, you know, volatile, you know, is Law Enforcement right now, particularly at this time as it pertains to National Security . As jonathan mentioned, were headed into a president ial transition, which is normally a very fraught and tense and securityconscious moment. And yet thanks to Donald Trumps years of underinvestment and mismanagement of the nations security agencies, they are wrestling with and struggling is vacancies unlike anything that weve ever seen in american history. Every president ial transition since 9 11, we have had a confirmed attorney general, a confirmed Homeland Security secretary and a confirmed defense secretary headed into the president ial transition. Now coming into this week, we have none of those. All of them are acting positions. Jonathan, how unsettling is that to you . Well, listen, its unsettling, but weve also had acting positions within dhs for a long time. Really at this point in time, the career government officials, the nonpolitical appointed folks such as the director of the secret service, will actually carry the mantle and coordinate the Immediate Response to any type of incident. And what i do think is really important to note is that the incident were just talking about, around the checkpoint, it actually goes to, you know, prove, and this should serve as a reassurance, that the model thats set up under the National Special security event, is working. We do have a security structure that is in place that actually is working. It is hypervigilant. They are trying to ensure that we are having a safe and secure structure. So what we saw on january 6 was a lack of command and control, a lack of communication, and really a bifurcated responded to a crisis incident. What we have moving forward under this nsse structure is a fundamental process that has very coordinated communication around intelligence and operations. And that will guarantee the success of this event moving forward. And garrett, last word, obviously this is an unprecedented type of inauguration thats about to get under way, but obviously, you know, prevention has already just occurred as a result of the kind of reinforcements that have descended upon the nations capital. Yeah, and jonathans right, one of the things thats challenging about this environment, you have a very decentralized threat. Youre not necessarily looking for an organized terror group or an organized criminal group. There will be a lot of lone actors trying to pull off their own shenanigans and possible assaults and possible attacks over the next week across the country. And thats going to be a really, really big challenge for Law Enforcement, not just in washington, but remember, across all of the State Capitols this weekend and over the course of this forthcoming weekend. From coast to coast. Thanks so much, appreciate it. 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