next, officials from the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency and the white house national security council participate in a discussion on ways the federal government is making progress on boosting infrastructure cybersecurity and resilience to potential threats. other topics include the threat landscape, strengthening infrastructure and the cyber framework, the cybersecurity workforce, and the impact of artificial intelligence. this is 40 minutes. >> hi, everyone. welcom

justice department to go after top missing a warm welcome to the show, former trump white house national security councilthor of the best-selling book, government gangsters, kash patel is your debut here we were so excited to talk to you when you make of what politico is reporting can you tell us what is really been going on inside the justice department becomes a democratic abuses of power. c1 today to make my debut, we are at the home of the free because of the great and happy veterans day to everybody you know, i national security prosecutor at the department of justice right i recall russia gate being the lead investigator the house intelligence committee what we expose not just their abuse that unconstitutional activity against a political opponent. the outcry then i was outcry from the career official sense when christopher read the fbi illegally surveilled or 275,000 americans one year outlook of the reforms have not been implemented by these career officials must affect back in the trump administration the time it doj, his sick retribution anybody wanted to follow the constitution and law singula

warrants in the united states has rejected the courts move a spokesperson for the white house national security council said the decision was rushed and marred by procedural errors, divided ministration will hold further discussions with its partners. meanwhile, the european union's foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, says o e u. country meant and member states are signatories to the international criminal court and must abide by the ruling. this, it is not a political decision. is that the decision of a court? what go to justice? we need an issue of justice. and the decision of the culture has to be respected and implemented. so i take note of the decision of the international criminal court to issue address squadrons from prime minister netanyahu. the former, i mean you're still defending mistake. i don't know how i should either state these decision is a binding decision on all state. all the states bought a dish of the court, which includes on members of the union on binding this lemon discard decision. oh, i spoke with julie oh, be assumed she he once served as president of the international cri

next, officials from the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency and the white house national security council participate in a discussion on when the government -- whether the federal government is making progress on resilience to potential threats. other topics include strengthening infrastructure, cyber framework, cybersecurity workforce and the impact of artificial intelligence. this is 40 minutes. >> this is critical infrastructure and cybersecurity months. i am thrilled you are here today. we are talking with experts. i'm going to read this because it's a long title, very exciting. deputy assistant to the president and deputy homeland security advisor at the white house, and the assistant director for infrastructure security. dr. david musson 10. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you. >> we were talking yesterday, and you mentioned that november is your favorite month. tell us why. >> first of all, thank you very much for having me join you today, and david, it's always a pleasure to be with you. i want to thank all of our viewers for tuning in today before thanksgiving. i want to

rough around boy, trump has chosen keith caleb, who was the chief of staff for the white house national security council during from the 1st time, getting out caleb's plan for ending the war, involves freezing the bucket lines in their current positions and forcing both sides to the negotiating table. but that has moscow has repeatedly stated that freezing with conflict, it's a no go for russia. kellogg's rhetoric on the matter is of particular interest, but usually has been calling. busy strikes deep into russia even long before the finally approved and you have this candidate and, and our advice present harris wants to continue what you're doing long range. and what they have done is they've basically given, basically to brush or ensure is a military background. you've never given opponent to sanctuary. never, never, never, we did out of the non big mistake. and that's what they've done by restricting the ability of them to use the weapons that we give them. if it's a war, let it be a war. it's hard, but you have to accept that. you have to give more arms to them because you can't trust the russians.

or russian envoy, trump has chosen keith caleb, who was the chief of staff for the white house national security council during chops, drums, fast, a time, keller supply before ending the war involves freezing the popular lines in their current positions and forcing both sides to the negotiating table. but that's us. moscow has repeatedly stated that freezing the conflict is a no go for russia. that kind of rhetoric on the market is of the ticket of interest because it has been calling for strikes deep into russia long before that were finally approved. i think you started to ask yourself questions. is this what's best for you? crate is a nation. i don't care about russia, i care about ukraine. they say a year and a half ago, the russians to and the hills. and if the west had provided the equipment, the president zalinski aust full, then you probably could have finished the job. you have to give more arms to them because you can't trust the russians. well, born in the american weakness can only be ended by american strength. that's why the pos to bringing these negotiations about is to enable ukraine to

and russia. envoy trump has chosen keys kellogg, who was the chief of staff for the white house national security council during transferred to kellogg's plan for ending the war. involves freezing the buffer lines in the coming positions and forcing both sides to the negotiating table. but that's how small school has repeatedly stated that freezing the conflict is the no goal for russia. a kind of spectra week on the market use of particular interest. they had been calling for the spikes deep into russia even long before that were finally approved. and you have a proud candidate and, and our vice president harris wants to continue what you're doing long range. and what to have done is they've basically given basically to brush and sure is a military background. you'd never given opponent to sanctuary. never, never, never, we do that in the non big mistake. and that's what they've done by restricting the ability of them to use the weapons that we give them. if it's a war, let it be a war. it's hard, but you have to accept that. you have to give more arms to them because you can't trust the russians. you j

i personally briefed and nato, obama's white house, national security council in all of these key pieces.s. national security community about what was coming. that the highly classified level. and yet, what the pentagon has decided to do is use ukraine effectively as a human shield to protect the europeans who did not want to pay for their own security. eric: finally, quickly it seems like a standoff. how do you think this will end? what do you see happening in the next year? >> hopefully president trump will come in and settle this. he is the only president that part putin fears the only u.s. president for multiple reasons. one is that u.s./russian intelligence a designated trump is unpredictable. which means when trump negotiates the russians will not be able to tell whether he is bluffing or not. the russians are an excellent position to negotiate. the ukrainians are not. but, we have 60 days still when biden has his finger on the nuclear button. and, when biden has cognitively impaired we are in a very perilous situation. eric: that's not exactly say that in other say he's been able

national security issues. he filed that as a deputy director advisor to the white house national security council and then served at opec as chief counsel deputy director and director. first we will hear from the undersecretary smith who will deliver his prepared remarks. then he has agreed to spend some time with us on stage so aba senior vice president of finance heather will join him on stage for a fireside chat on several critical issues. first join me in welcoming to the conference acting undersecretary brad smith. [applause] ♪ >> i am so excited to be here this morning. i will confess, i have never actually come into an event with theme music so my day has already started very strongly. i will also confess and i feel bashful about this, this is actually my first time attending aba. i was supposed to be her last year and had to get pulled away and we swap seats on someone covered for me but this event is so well-known and this group is so familiar to those of us in treasury that i am just excited to be here today. i'm also excited on a personal level because i will be chatting with heather true and heather

we are hearing from the white house national security council, the biden administration has been verygallant and netanyahu. i want to read you a little bit of the statement. they say, the united states fundamentally rejects the court's decision to issue arrest warrants for senior israeli officials. we remain deeply concerned by the prosecutor's rush to seek arrest warrants and the troubling process errors that led to this decision. they go on to say that the u.s. along with israel are discussing potential next steps. we heard from republicans in the congress talking about potentially sanctioning the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court, and it is important to stress also that the prosecutors squ seek the arrest of three of hamas' top leaders back in may. two of them have now been confirmed killed by israel, and so the court today only issuing an arrest warrant for the third, mohammed deif, who is the hamas military chief. our team in gaza, jose, has been speaking to people on the ground there. there is a sort of weary understanding that the court is not going to be abl

is 22nd deputy secretary of state, and senior director for the indo-pacific on the white house national security council. and i don't want to embarrass but there are no two individuals who have been more in the u.s. government over the past four years to innovate u.s. policy in asia. let's give them a warm welcome. [applause] >> during the obama administration as assistant secretary for east asian the pacific, dr. campbell had a watershed moment when the united states declared that em's strategic future would be in asia not in two wars in the middle east and afghanistan. the doctrine stated that the united states must reorient its posture and policies and its personnel, it's resources and talent in the indo-pacific. when he left government, he wrote a about book to this effect. it was called "the pivot" that was an instant classic. >> sold five copies. >> outside your immediate family. i have used it in my courses numerous times. a few years later, dr. cooper authored "shields of the republic" is a fantastic book on the history of alliances and became required text in graduate seminars. together in the

near east policy, dana stroll and the former director for syria and lebanon at the white house national security council, hagar chemali. thank you both for being with us. hagar, first to you. do you expect that the cease fire deal between israel and hezbollah will get over the finish line? >> i definitely think there's a very close and certainly closer than they would be with gaza. and the reason is because the israelis are dealing not with the terrorist group actually, but they're dealing with the lebanese government and the lebanese armed forces, who very much want to make a deal. you don't have hostages included. biden is pushing it very hard on his end. this is the one win that the biden administration could get before the end of his term. and as and in general, israel has already decimated hezbollah significantly, not to the point of eradication. but but we don't want to underestimate the extent to which they've killed off those leaders and how much that weakens them. so in order for them to be able to focus on gaza, i do think there's interest on both sides to make this deal happen. and i think th

to the wall street journal, that she is the right person for the job you were the white house national security council senior ethics official. are you concerned about gabbard serving as the director of national intelligence? what do you think about that pick? >> look, i'm concerned about a number of his appointments. they range in some ways from folks that i would disagree with on on sort of policy grounds. the folks that are unqualified and folks that have a questionable commitment to the rule of law. i think tulsi gabbard is somebody who has peddled in conspiracy theories for years she's been an apologist for dictators, including bashar al assad and the russians, for that matter. so i'm concerned about this nomination i think the senate, which has a constitutional obligation to advise and consent to the president's appointments, is going to take its job very seriously. i hope they do. and they they do their due diligence. >> and you're coming into the congress as a democrat, part of a minority. there up on capitol hill. but just by a little bit, i mean, we'll have to see how the final numbers shake

next, officials from the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency and the white house national security council participate in a discussion on when the government -- whether the federal government is making progress on resilience to potential threats. other topics include strengthening infrastructure, cyber framework, cybersecurity workforce and the impact of artificial intelligence. this is 40 minutes. >>

nation's most sensitive programs. my last position i manage add program on behalf of the white house and national security council. as such i appreciate the needs to prek certain sensitive intelligence and military information. i consider my oath to protect secrets sacred and will always put the safety it of the american people first. with that said i also understand the consequences of excessive secrecy. nowhere was there more apparent that the aftermath of 9/11 which many of us remember all too well. i believe that america's greatness depends on three elements. a., a watchful congress, b., a responsive executive branch and, c., an informed public. over the last decade and a half i learned certain programs were and are operating without any of these elements. although much of my government work on the uap subject remains classified, excessive secrecy led to great misdeeds against loyal civil searchants, military personnel and the public. also the fact we are not alone in the cosmos. a small cadre in our own government created suppression and intimidation i've personally been victim to along with many colleagues.

now, they are, according to the white house national security council, mark swidan and others, been detapedle's republic of china. two of the three had been designated as wrongfully detained by the u.s. state department. he was detained in 2012 on drug-related charges and he has spent more than a decade being detained in china. li has been detained since 2016, serving a ten-year prison sentence. leung detained in 2021 and sentenced in 2023 for life in prison on spying charges. again, this is the biden administration announcing this just a short time ago. the white house has repeatedly said that president biden has helped bring home over 70 americans unjustly detained. really around the world. and certainly we've heard about several of these stories over the course of his a administration. we can also tell you that national security advisor jake sullivan, he had also urged the return of americans were wrongfully detained in china during his visit to the country at the end of august. again, that breaking news, three americans who were detained in china have been released. we are still waiting

one of the things that happens in a transition is that the white house can actually make appointments to the national security council, the national economic council. most of the agencies, the state department, the defense department, the treasury cannot actually begin to function. many of their top officials have to be confirmed by the senate. this is one of the really interesting problems and a presidential transition. often the white house is kind of on first. those agencies that report to the president, since they are basically staffed to the president -- that's important understand. they don't go for a, -- through a confirmation process. they are a little head of the game at the beginning until the agencies are able to get staffed up, get their people confirmed. at the beginning there's a little bit of imbalance between the white house -- what the white house can do it what the agencies can do. often with agencies you are left with whoever did not turn out the lights when the last administration left town after the inauguration. can you talk about that a little bit? you were not just at the white house but in th

white house live with the details. peter. >> emily this is a potential national security problems we have reached out to the national security council at the white house to find out what they are tracking. we will bring you their answer. we've been in touch with officials with the transition team at mar-a-lago. they are not willing to any further at this time than this statement. we made a graphic so you can follow along. last night and this morning several nominees and appointees were targeted and violent un-american threats to their lives and those who live with them. these attacks ranged from bomb threats to swatting. law enforcement and authorities acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted. president trump and the entire transition team are grateful for their swift action. just as we were coming to hear we learn to at least one of these trump appointees or trump nominees was. who received one of these threats last night. it was elise stefanik, who president trump wants to be the ambassador to the united nations. she says "this morning congresswoman elise stefanik, her husband and their 3-year-old son were dri

nation's most sensitive programs.. my last position i manage a special access program on behalf of the white house and the national security council. as such, i appreciate the need to protect certain sensitive intelligence and military information. i consider my oath to protect secrets as sacred and i will always put the safety of the american people first. with that said i also understand the consequences of excessive secrecy and stove piping. nowhere was this more apparent that in the aftermath of 9/11. which many of us remember all too well. i remember believe america's greatness defense on three elements. a, a watchful congress. beat comics response to executive branch and see, and informed her public. after last decade and a half i learn certain programs were and are operating that any of these elements. although much of my government work on the uap subjects are meant classified, excessive secrecy has led to grave misdeeds against loyal civil servants, military personnel, and the public. all to hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos. a small cadre within our own government involved in the uap topic as greatin a cu

from 2013-2017, ryan served as a director at the white house, china, taiwan, mongolia on the national security council. next, we have the doctor who is an associate professor of political science at the national university where she focuses on u.s. foreign policy as well as security issues in the indo-pacific. she previously served as a member of the policy advisory committee of the south korean ministry of unification, ministry of foreign affairs, defense, and other organizations inside south korea. and last but not least, we have dr. who is chair at southeast asia studies at brookings institution, and a senior research fellow at the university of cambridge. and previously a senior fellow for the asia pacific security studies at the international institute for strategic studies. so i'm just going to jump right into our first question and turn to ask to get started by sharing his thought on what president trump's return to the white house portends for the indo-pacific region. neither the indo-pacific nor china or korea featured very prominently in the u.s. presidential election. the focus was largely

so let's bring in our white house correspondent, kimberly how could kimberly, what do you have? yeah, the national security council of course, the vitamin ministration. reacting and the comments from it saying that that is not surprising. rejecting the i c c a it decision to issue arrest for is a gates the is really prime minister and defense minister and saying that it's deeply concerned. once again saying the prosecutors rushed to seek rest worth calling this a troubling error that led to this decision. and once again, the us believes that the i, c, c has no jurisdiction. this is something that it said back in may as well. now it is going to be coordinating with israel as well as international partners. it says to discuss next steps. now having said that, the one of the top republicans in the us senate senator lindsey graham, who posted earlier that he was opposed to this decision has since issued another post that is even stronger than the one he issued in the last couple of hours. he goes on to say to president 5, as well as president elect donald trump, as well as current members who congress and those that a

bringing back his longtime adviser, sebastian gorka, to the white house to serve as a senior director for counterterrorism at the national security councilley of trump strategist, steve bannon, gorka has doubted the threat of white nationalism in the country and pushed for pardons of january 6th rioters. >> anyone who didn't, you know, hit a policeman or, you know, break through the doors actually completely a full and unconditional pardon, absolutely. >> reporter: now trump also naming oregon congresswoman lori chavez-deremer for labor secretary in a nod to unions and bringing back russ vought to run the office of budget and management, the key architect of project 2025, the conservative plan to overhaul the government. >> whit: maryalice, thank you so much. >>> and the president-elect will not be sentenced next tuesday as scheduled on his conviction in the new york hush money case. judge juan merchan formally adjourned sentencing asking both sides to expand on their arguments over the next two weeks. trump's lawyers arguing the conviction should be thrown out to ensure a smooth transition. prosecutors saying they are willing to delay s

from 2013-2017, ryan served as a director at the white house, china, taiwan, mongolia on the national security council. next, we have the doctor who is an associate professor of political science at the national university where she focuses on u.s. foreign policy as well as security issues in the indo-pacific. she previously served as a member of the policy advisory committee of the south korean ministry of unification, ministry of foreign affairs, defense, and other organizations inside south korea. and last but not least, we have dr. who is chair at southeast asia studies at brookings institution, and a senior research fellow at the university of cambridge. and previously a senior fellow for the asia pacific security studies at the international institute for strategic studies. so i'm just going to jump right into our first question and turn to ask to get started by sharing his thought on what president trump's return to the white house portends for the indo-pacific region. neither the indo-pacific nor china or korea featured very prominently in the u.s. presidential election. the focus was largely

national security council staff when she was i.p. i think that since -- i'll backtrack. first, ppd 21, i had the white house -- i left the white house in 2013 when i was lunch. cyber was an ascendant factor. it hadn't maturity at. -- it hadn't matured yet. the part i still run is where that still resides, physical security, a privileged socket. i think over four years we have seen a worsening of the cyber risk situation, to be frank. nationstates have done a lot of things that we hope to they wouldn't do but we suspected they would do. people's republic of china. obviously, russia and ukraine have happened over four years, so that is made physical sabotage and threats to infrastructure really vivid, as has our alliance with countries with whom we have a lot in common. that collaboration internationally has also matured as well. traveling around the u.s. in this job, given critical infrastructure and different states, i've seen a lot of lessons learned in a flowering of public-private partnerships. those are opportunistic things i dwell on when i think about the challenges out there. erin: i love that, and t

pentagon and they take office and you have your national security council in place that we have a much better working relationship between the white house and the pentagon, that's not a great way to start. >> let me follow up because trump as president will be the commander-in-chief but what these pentagon officials are considering right now and discussing among themselves, what if he gives the pentagon and the us military illegal orders to do certain things, what do they do then? >> my advice to them would be instead of talking to each other, talk to the president and talk to his senior staff because look what has happened, they are having these meetings, now it's out in the open, what is donald trump supposed to think, you've already got the government, the bureaucracy, plotting against you? so to me, the best thing that could happen is for them to talk to each other, meeting the pentagon people and his team. i hope the secret meetings, that really needs to stop and we need more communication between the incoming government and the people who are already in the building. >> i remember trump during the final weeks of the campaign was t

white house may impact the war in ukraine with charles kupchan. he's a seniorfellow at the council on foreign relations and a former senior director for european affairs at the national securitynts. he thinks donald trump will end the war quicker than president biden. do you believe that? do you think that president zelensky believes that? i think zelensky is facing two cold hard realities. one is that president—elect trump and said he's going to make a determined effort to end this war and it looks pretty clear that us aid will not continue to flow at the same levels it did during the biden years. the second reality is that this is a war that is not moving in ukraine's favour. little by little the russians are gaining more ground. the chipping away at ukrainian territory. the ukrainians face manpower shortages of munitions and the comments from president zelensky are simply a function of the fact that he doesn't have a lot of options here and has to follow trump's lead in an effort to try to negotiate a ceasefire and move from the battlefield to the negotiating table. we heard in the previous interview that the next few weeks and months could be crucial in terms of what happ

the white house is condemning the killing of an israeli rabbi in the united arab emirates. in a statement, the national security council spokesman spokesperson said, quote this was an horrific crime against all those who stand for peace, tolerance and coexistence. it was an assault as well. on uae and its rejection of violent extremism across the board. authorities in the uae have arrested three people in connection with the death of rabbi zvi kogan, who had been filmed by a friend just days before his murder. israel says he was killed in an anti-semitic act of terror we are following a developing story out of lithuania. a cargo plane flying from germany crashed just outside the vilnius airport at about 5:30 a.m., local time, public broadcaster lrt reports that one crew member was killed and at least two others were taken to hospital. reuters is reporting that the plane is a dhl aircraft an airport spokesperson says emergency workers and firefighters are on the scene. the mayor of vilnius told lrt the plane narrowly missed hitting a house and crashed into a nearby courtyard. we will, of course, bring you more details a

national security council. we believed that things were moving in the right direction. we didn't get much different from matthew miller. he's certainly not going to get ahead of the white house on the situation. but certainly he seemed to carry need of confidence that there was a ceasefire in the offing. this is not the united states, but the parties to the agreement to say yes, there been many times and we thought we were going to be getting to us in both cases and for various reasons. the parties didn't get there. but that's it. we believe we are close here, but that's why you heard me come out and say nothing is final until everything is final. because we know we don't have a deal until there's one that has been fully agreed to by both sides. that it would also hearing from the german foreign minister who is with the meeting of the, the g 7 foreign ministers in rome. seeing that they have been speaking to their counterparts and the out of world and the belief that there's some level of movement there as well. and as you were saying, dining to no one who is the it is really ambassador of the united nations seem to suggest that the, the is really cabinet will meet at some p

national security council. when then president trump made that phone call to zelensky threatening to withhold weapons, you may remember alexander testifying eugene an army lieutenant colonel, was the one who alerted white house about the content of the call. president biden is scheduled to speak at eight. our time this morning. we will, of course, carry that live here on nbc bay area on our app and nbc bay area .com. now, i will say after four years of watching this president speak, laura, he is never on time. that's true. we always kind of contract the presidents in their timing or governors or whoever for that matter. thank you scott. well, the today show continues our coverage of this historic election ahead at 7:00. kate snow takes an inside look at melania trump's return as first lady. and of course, we're tracking many more local races here at nbc bay area. that includes the race for mayor in san francisco, as well as the recall races of the oakland mayor and alameda county da to get updates, make sure to download our free nbc bay area app. 636 for you this morning, breaking now, a destructive and fast moving wildfire providing a tough battle for first responders down in southern california, it has alr

national security council. when then-president trump made that phone call to zelensky threatening to withhold weapons, you may remember alexander testifying. eugene, an army lieutenant colonel, was the one who alerted white house about the content of the call. so president biden, scheduled to speak at 8 a.m. our time, we will, of course, carry it live here on nbc bay area on our app nbcbayarea.com. one tip marcus, after four years of watching this, president speak, he is never, ever on time. i knew you were going to do that. that we know. all right. thanks, uc bery students held a demonstration last night in opposition of president elect donald trump. and one of their biggest concerns is trump. not coming up with a solution to end the ongoing war in gaza. that demonstration, taking place on the steps of sproul plaza. this is in uc berkeley and including a brief appearance from students supporting trump. some cal students have expressed frustration with the current biden administration over their handling of the current war with gaza. when it comes with palestinians. i don't think that he will be able to provide a prominent resolution to the situation going on between israel and in gaza. trump is probably going