. >> this week on "the communicators" we want to introduce you to andy purdy, chief security officer at huawei. what does that entail? andy: primarily, it is an internal role. i chair the committee for cyber security and privacy, similar to the one we have globally. where you have representatives from each business group, i.t., human relations services, etc.

. >> this week on "the communicators" we want to introduce you to andy purdy, chief security officer at huawei. what does that entail? andy: primarily, it is an internal role. i chair the committee for cyber security and privacy, similar to the one we have globally. where you have representatives from each business group, i.t., human relations services, etc. that meets quarterly. meetingsure we are statutory regulatory customer requirements and our internal policies so we can manage risk from a cyber security perspective. i work with my government relations and public relations people to talk with customers and stakeholders about issues, and tried to drive the conversation forward. host: give us a snapshot of huawei. andy: huawei is a company with 180,000 people around the world, 30% of our products come from huawei. 32% of the components come from the united states, $11 billion a year. we are an employee owned company. we have 80,000 people involved in r&d. we spent $15 billion on r&d last year. which is one of the most important factors and one of the advantages of being private. we

. >> this week on "the communicators" we want to introduce you to andy purdy, chief security officer at huawei . what does that entail? andy: primarily, it is an internal role. forair the committee

. >> the chief security officer andy purdy on concern about u.s. efforts to convince other nations to not use his company's equipment over fears it'll be used to spy on americans. he is joined by drew fitzgerald, "the wall street journal" telecom and technology reporter. >> i was going to be able to be and have been able to be an advocate for a safer america in cyber space. i am basically saying, look. we need the best technology. we need to be able to compete. it is critically important we address the risk. we believe there are risk mitigation measures. i've never been told what to say or what i can't say and frankly when you look at the bigger picture, we don't speak through the china government and they don't speak through us. >> watch "the communicators" tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. the c-span bus is stopping at middle and high schools across the country to meet and award the students in our video cam competition. we met with the first prize high school west winners from william j. palmer high school. >> for us it didn't really take lon

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united states joined us along with its outside legal counsel, and here's what security officer andy purdyry, china, than about the company huawei and the united states is not ready to address the most sophisticated cybersecurity risks generally, so they're bending over backwards to try to make sure america's safe, and we think we've got to ramp down the rhetoric and address real cybersecurity risks. >> so, i know we're springing this on you, marc, but how do you see this playing out is it a bargaining chip in the eventual deal with china, or is this something that's not going to change, regardless of trade >> well, as the president said, it's possible that it gets included in a trade deal, but i think it is more than that, joe. the reality is that huawei is not a private company as americans are familiar with here in the united states it is more or less a wholly owned subsidiary of the communist party of china and the reality is, what huawei has been doing, the reason there are sanctions on it now, is because they've been facilitating, aiding the government in iran with technology that's