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President breslin very good. At this time, i would like our secretary to explain some procedures about this virtual meeting. Clerk thank you. Yes, just a reminder, this meeting is being televised through sfgtv so there is about a minute, twominute lag time between what were seeing as the producers and members of the live t. V. As opposed to the live event. So please be mindful of that during the presentation. We are going to have Public Comment on almost every single item on the agenda, and so everyone who wants to give Public Comment needs to dial into the conference line listed on the screen...

Good morning Lindsey Graham good morning everybody. Thank you very much for attending the hearing and im sure we will have more come in throughout the morning. We have four witnesses. Nito. Raig carpe ournal. The assistant director of criminal investigative division. Fbi. Assistant director of the office of investigations of the lighted states secret service. So we talked about this before. Fraud related to the cares act. Scams out there against seniors selling masks the does work. Playing on young peoples fears. And partially you try to do some good the country, people take advantage of it. A...

We still cant hear you. I wonder if we should try having you sign in again or have you call in rather than just a video link and we could hear you by dialing in. I will let my staff interact with you directly and in the meantime we will begin with some questions. My apologies, Mister Morrison, we will get this worked out. Let me look for any of our witnesses that can be heard. The current pandemic began in china. If possible the next pandemic may begin somewhere else. If the pandemic were to begin or begin spreading in africa what level of confidence do you have in our ability to identify that...

Congress has an option, many workers do not. You can do our work remotely in a safe, secure online format. The highest levels of the federal government have all recognize the unique circumstances of the covid19 pandemic by holding remote or virtual hearings. It includes the house and senate which have held virtual hearings like this one. It even close the Supreme Court which is modified how it conducts its oral arguments. It includes the executive agencies which are recognizing the legitimacy and the need for remote proceedings by participating in those conducted by congress and the Supreme Co...

Meeting. Clerk thank you. Yes, just a reminder, this meeting is being televised through sfgtv so there is about a minute, twominute lag time between what were seeing as the producers and members of the live t. V. As opposed to the live event. So please be mindful of that during the presentation. We are going to have Public Comment on almost every single item on the agenda, and so everyone who wants to give Public Comment needs to dial into the conference line listed on the screen. Everyone will have three minutes to speak unless the board president shortens that time at some minute during the ...