i completely agree with what director krebs has said. one thing that has been very clear over the last several years is, even in these highly partisan divisive times, if you talk to election officials across the political spectrum and the country they will tell you how well we've been working with them to secure their systems. that's a tremendous victory and that's one of the reasons we are as secure as we will be in 2020. i've been doing elections for a long time. over 20 years since my time in the justice department with both the clinton and bush administrations. since 2016, founding mind organization and research. it has been clear that since 2016, there are two potential targets here that we need to be concerned about. one is the actual election infrastructure as mark accurately pointed out. we've been relying upon technology more and more. in some ways, that's very good. technology can do some things very well. it counts votes much more accurately and quickly. it can provide for access for people who have challenges, etc. but that t

doctor krebs, thank you for overcoming our own digital system problems at the beginning of the call. >> it's been great. goodbye now. >> we are going to pivot to our panel. we are joined by three experts with very different portions of the u.s. ecosystem can talk about risk management and critical infrastructure and different vantages that will make for a productive conversation. before i introduce them i do want to put a call out to the audience who is listening in from various parts of the u.s. if you have questions that you would like to ask our panelists we will be fielding some of those questions at the end. please, go ahead and e-mail them to our e-mail address spip@wilson center .org. please e-mail questions and then we will field some of those at the end. these panelists have been introduced by congresswoman harmon but i will briefly remind you on who they are. we are joined by the assistant director of national risk management of the management center. thad allen is a senior executive advisor at hudson analytics. and kathleen senior director of national security and emergenc

. >> [indiscernible] >> chris krebs at dhs has done a good job on the election machinery in terms of improved safety. now, theion we have attempt to slow down the mail in themiddle of a pandemic, necessity to use mail-in voting, i think that raises other serious questions about security. making any of that. there's been no evidence of that. what we do need to recognize is that the election machinery is better than it was four years ago. i want to make a suggestion. if you will get the name, address, and telephone number of the individual involved and get it to the member of congress home they represent -- who represent them, or the senior member of the committee oversees the postal department, we will track that down. >> thank you. one more question -- >> one more question. thank you all very much. you are just as hot as we are, i guess. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: there is some news breaking this afternoon re

today we're joined by the nation's chief risk officer chris krebs, director of the department of homeland security's cyber security and infrastructure security agency leave it to congress to include security twice in your title chris. chris will talk about how the department has protected america's critical infrastructure in the past and what we need to do going forward. chris has briefed me frequently as a member of the homeland security advisory committee, and the homeland security experts group, doesn't have security twice in either name, and even showed up last year at the hacking conference in las vegas. i was there too. i was a dinosaur in the room. this is chris's second tour at the department. he was previously senior adviser to the assistant secretary for infrastructure protection and part of microsoft's government affairs team after that. chris has an impressive command. i know this from talking to him. of the threats we face and has been at the forefront of tackling our election security challenges and ensure our networks remain be resilient during a global pandemic and when th

chris krebs, director wray, who leads the fbi, and just before he left, our former director of nationalelligence, who's now gone, but these are folks who put in place an extraordinary system to fight back again foreign interference. the one thing they can't prepare for is that the president himself might fall victim to those conspiracy theories, those lies and that misinformation. and in that circumstance, it's tough to say what our federal government will do. and i think we're unprepared nar outco outcome, despite the great work that those civil servants have done to prepare us for 2020. >> john berman here. a little connected to that is something president obama said last night, and i don't know if you ever voted for him, but president obama said, this administration has shown it will tear down our democracy if that's what it takes to win. i'm curious what you make of that. what evidence of that you have seen? >> well, i think that the president -- president obama is right. donald trump will fight viciously and vigorously to make sure that he doesn't lose this election. but i don't ju

if you came to a krebs you had a good candidate so these companions on these walks are falling by the wayside all along the way the best story was told by the ambassador. he was from france and uso excited for his first walk with the president picky said, he had the silk outfit, , he thought he would be on -- found itself in the woods picky was dying. he couldn't wait until was over. they finally come to the big statement he said thank god we're going home. he saw the president unbutton his close and say it's an obstacle. we can't go around it. we might as will well take a cs off. he said so i for the honor of france took off my clothes. however, i left on my lavender gloves. why? it would be most embarrassing if we should be made on the other side and they didn't have gloves on. [laughing] so anyway all found -- the most interesting parts of the is fdr. he had a a cocktail party every night during world war ii where the rule was you couldn't talk about the war. you could talk about books to read come to be shooting, gossip. after while this cocktail party was so important to him that

commission those are -- >> krebbing. the question question as i understand and ran it would best be in his corner to direct the concerns and comments to san francisco mta or the commission. >> sfmta absolutely. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> that is all public and then popular comment will be closed. any of the commissioner have comments on the chief's report? i see none. i'm sorry president covington forgive me. sorry. >> that is quite all right. i did have a few questions and i apologize for being late, but for some reason i could not get in. and i just wanted to know an little bit about the work group. and i want to know how does the person become a member of the work group. do you select all members or do they apply to be part of the work group? how does that work? there is the application process last year and we asked for people to sign up and get the work done and the focus matter experts. you select every person for every work group. >> chief please. and so like the chief said the process was the application proc