i want to bring in jeh johnson. etary johnson ran homeland security under president obama. >> thank you for having me. >> here we are, one year later. do you think that the capitol is any safer now than it was this time last year? >> thanks for having me, first of all. i just have to take a step back. tow me one year later, the most remarkable image i'll never forget, whether it's one year or ten years is the confederate flag being paraded through the halls of congress. that's something that never occurred during the entire civil war. so when i was secretary of homeland security, we often would say in public statements, there is no specific credible threat leading up to an event. here if you believe all of the public reporting of what our government knew leading up to january 6th, there clearly was a specific credible threat to the january 6th event at the capitol. and craig, we know how to secure the united states capitol. we do this for inaugurations. we do this for the annual state of the union address by the pres

without further ado, jeh johnson for his keynote remarks. >> this is jeh johnson. i thank the atlantic council for the opportunity to speak to you today. the topic is the cyber security of our nation's energy infrastructure. on may 6th of this year, colonial pipeline was hit with a ransomware attack by the russian based group dark side. reportedly, dark side attacked colonial pipeline's pilling system, not its operational technology. but as a precaution, for the first time in history, colonial shut down its entire pipeline which supplies 45% of all of the gasoline and jet fuel consumed on the east coast of the united states. this shutdown had an immediate, direct, and far-reaching impact on the day-to-day lives of the american people. shortages at gas stations popped up across alabama, florida, georgia, north and south carolina, and virginia. on may 11th of this year 71% of gas stations in charlotte, north carolina, ran out of fuel. on may 14th, 87% of gas stations in washington, d.c. went dry. gas prices shot up. panic buying and hoarding occurred. airports and ai

we are just hearing from the congressman, let's listen to the former homeland security secretary jeh johnsonocial media at large i think is the issue that we need to tackled here. without curbing free speech, without undermining our values in this country, i think it tracks back to the american people themselves to more responsibly scrutinize information and news that they consume on a daily basis. caroline: jennifer, that is the point you were making. need to take on board our own learning processes and ensure that we are getting information from the right source. but how does one do that? jennifer: let's talk sources. the homeland security is a federal government function. they have a really large social media presence too. helping people understand that this is an official source. this is not a news outlet. until it is checked by the media , by journalist, it is just information. every federal agency in the united states has a massive social media presence. i still have yet to hear from any representatives who have been elected who have suggested maybe reducing their own media footprint a

discussion includes former security secretary jeh johnson. live coverage on c-span. >> annual survey that asked foreign policy experts to identify and evaluate 40 ongoing or potential conflicts based on how likely they are to escalate or occur in the next year and possible impact on u.s. interest. our panelists are looking ahead to see what might be in the book. it has been, shall we say, a very tumultuous period of time. i would like to first turn to paul, briefly describe the results of the 2022 survey that will guide our conversation today. >> thanks, lulu, thanks to everybody on the zoom today for participating. an those who took the survey. we apreesh yeaive to -- appreciative to those who are engaged in this activity. explain the last 14 years we have been polling american foreign policy experts to assess the risk of particular violent conflicts, interrupting or escalating over the next 12 months. the goal is to not just assess the likelihood but potential impact on u.s. interest. i think this differentiates what we do from other survey

>> we'll take the next question from jeh johnson. >> good afternoon, everybody. i hope you can hear me. nice to conduct an interview that lasts longer than seven and a half minutes. question for one or all three of you. in preparing for a possible invasion by putin into ukraine, if you were still national security advisor, would you give the president, as part of his response options, an option for an offensive cyber operation of some type against the russian government by the department of defense? margaret: who wants to take that? it's a great question. i wish i thought of that. mr. o'brien: mr. secretary, it's a great question. we have to see how things play out and what tools were available. and certainly defense of cyber, it's a tool that the u.s. has and the president always has available to him. i think at this point, what i'd be more interested in doing is moving troops out of germany, which hasn't been necessarily helpful in this crisis has secretary rice has pointed out, and moving a number of those troops forward into nato countries, not in ukraine, bu

jeh: sheri, good to hear your voice again. can't see you. caller: i want to ask you something, secretary johnson, when we think about climate and migration, you were speaking about how you have to help people at the source. with climate change that is a global threat that really isn't necessarily something that one can account for. lulu: how does the united states deal with that if we see huge outflows because of climate change? jeh: you're right. this is a global problem. it's not a regional problem. it's not a southern border problem. it's a global problem. the thing that worries me most about climate change aside from the fact of climate change, is it's as barack obama once said, a slow moving, slow motion emergency. it never makes it to the top of the in box in terms of priorities to address. our government's inability to take a sustained consistent leadership role in addressing carbon emissions, global warming year after year after year is itself a huge problem. i know the percentage of carbon emission from the u.s., india, and russia is some huge number, like 70%. our own inability on a su