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we are going to talk about that next with a guest joining us is haywood who is with lexis-nexis riskutions. user government division ceo and joining us to talk about the issue of the potential billions of dollars. good morning. >> good morning. how are you. headline that we'vd about this among others in terms of where the problem is, and then it did to your comments. it says half of the pandemic unemployment may have been -- money may have been stolen. first of all, you are with the risk solutions. what is it, broadly, that your group does and how are you monitoring the unemployment, the potential for unemployment fraud? guest: we do very simple things. we help catch bad people, we stop fraud, and we enable digital governments. our company is a market leader in identity verification. in the government space, we call that imposter fraud. we do over one billion transactions per day and we stop over $1 billion in fraudulent payments each week. we do business with dozens of states and help to mitigate the risk of this transnational criminal gang attacking the unemployment insurance syste

host: woody talcove of lexis-nexis, what are your thoughts on those comments from a year ago?uest: i think he is right on. the only part i would add is that because these criminal groups have been so successful in unemployment insurance, i would want, as governor, i would want the administration and every local government that government is now the target for these groups and they need to put in place tools to ensure you know who you are interacting with. basic identity verification systems. because of the scale and scope and the ease of which they got this money, they are going to continue to attack these systems until they are updated. host: what is the biggest country you are noticing is involved in terms of transnational crime? what country are receiving the most? guest: i would say if it is a race for first place, russia, of course is right in there. then we have nigeria. the nigerians were able to take over $1 billion in the state of washington. then we have, of course, china. and over the past few months, we started to see the romanians. i do want to point out, and i do

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the ceo of lex's national -- of lexis-nexis discusses pandemic unemployment fraud. a doctor from the university of maryland discusses her research on covid vaccine booster shots. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern monday morning. join with your facebook comments, calls, texts and tweets. >> the senate is back on monday at 3:00 p.m. eastern to consider the general counsel for the director of national intelligence. a vote to advance his nomination is set for 5:30. on tuesday, a vote is scheduled on whether to begin debate on their election reform bill. the house returns for legislative business on tuesday. on their agenda, protecting workers from age discrimination, credit fairness for lgbtq businesses and reducing pollution caused by methane. watch live coverage of the senate on c-span two. the house on c-span. online at c-span.org. listen on the c-span radio app. >> monday night on the communicators, antitrust and -- and competition policy in technology markets. >> we are off the charts in terms of where we have been the last 40 years. end of las

this according to cybersecurity firm lexis-nexis, many international groups backed by their respectiveke terrorism, illegal drugs, child trafficking. the march stimulus bill includes $2 billion to upgrade the unemployment insurance but a year ago we were talking about this, the state employment systems were crashing because they were sold and antiquated, of course they were a target of cyber attacks. jillian: do we are don't we have a deal on infrastructure. that is the question. >> bipartisan group of 10 senators come to agreement on infrastructure package, gop senators, rodney, collins, murkowski, cinema, tester on a bill that includes $579 billion in spending, over 8 years. no tax hikes in this plan. todd: a little hypocrisy friday. >> officials took 50,$000 to help needy kids who struggle to get to school to hire nicole hannah jones when she told students and faculty what we call american history is weight history. she leaves with the 1619 project, the new york times initiative that wants to reframe american history. one education group in oregon says spending 7 months and 50,$000

the ceo of lexis-nexis discusses his group's research on pandemic unemployment fraud.from the university of maryland discusses her research on covid vaccine booster shots. watch c-span's washington journal. every day from 7:00 to 10:00. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> washington journal continues. host: we want to welcome back mona charen, author, syndicated columnist, thanks for being with us. guest: my pleasure. host: i want to begin with this headline from the economist that looks at the president's agenda. after a quick start, joe biden's legislative agenda hitting a brick wall in part because of party factionalism and the filibuster that could imperil his democratic ambitions. your response. is that a fair headline?

lexis-nexis puts the percentage at 70% of stolen money has gone overseas, based out of china and based is an enormous number if accurate. home prices hitting record highs, in his cushy role in vegas. >> taxes, in the master bedroom, a great view. built it, designed it, one of the big things i like, the master bathroom on this, they are not the faint of heart, but outdoor to and bathroom. in the master suite you see the walk in closet, 15,000 square feet. it is an 11 car garage, the latest, in the panic room, one of the interesting things is over the past 5 years 200,000 people moved into las vegas, talking about those numbers increasing now, the past 12 months or so, they are seeing customers in chicago and new york, i tax areas. tax structure is almost the number one reason why people are moving here. he doesn't believe it will change the status quo. >> during the pandemic people were thinking about their lives a lot and where they might want to live and might want to change their life, we benefited from that as people thought they might get away from southern california and move some

we would encourage you also to subscribe to the lexis-nexis library the digital as well. our future planning goals and impacts for the library have to do with where we are as a result of the funding crunch. we made many adjustments to provide services during the pandemic and we will continue to create alternative ways to expand outreach to larger and larger sector out reaches of the community. we are limited for the lack of funding for sufficient staffing, material updates, the high cost of legal databases and there's no way to determine if the filing fee situation will ever return to a pre- 2008 level. but we are particularly challenged by these funding issues. as an example there used to be a day when we would have over $1 million in filing fees which supports most of the library business. but this year we have about 650,000. art historically legal databases have cost hundreds and thousands of dollars to subscribe to for each and with the budget that is 600,000 and having to pay 200, $300,000 for digital databases this is a real crunch. we are not able to hire new staff

we would encourage you also to subscribe to the lexis-nexis library the digital as well. and impacts for the library have to do with where we are as a result of the funding crunch. we made many adjustments to provide services during the pandemic and we will continue to create alternative ways to expand outreach to larger and larger sector out reaches of the community. we are limited for the lack of funding for sufficient staffing, material updates, the high cost of legal databases and there's no way to determine if the filing fee situation will ever return to a pre- 2008 level. but we are particularly challenged by these funding issues. as an example there used to be a day when we would have over $1 million in filing fees which supports most of the library business. but this year we have about 650,000. art historically legal databases have cost hundreds and thousands of dollars to subscribe to for each and with the budget that is 600,000 and having to pay 200, $300,000 for digital databases this is a real crunch. we are not able to hire new staff to replace those that are

we would encourage you also to subscribe to the lexis-nexis library the digital as well.pacts for the library have to do with where we are as a result of the funding crunch. we made many adjustments to provide services during the pandemic and we will continue to create alternative ways to expand outreach to larger and larger sector out reaches of the community. we are limited for the lack of funding for sufficient staffing, material updates, the high cost of legal databases and there's no way to determine if the filing fee situation will ever return to a pre- 2008 level. but we are particularly challenged by these funding issues. as an example there used to be a day when we would have over $1 million in filing fees which supports most of the library business. but this year we have about 650,000. art historically legal databases have cost hundreds and thousands of dollars to subscribe to for each and with the budget that is 600,000 and having to pay 200, $300,000 for digital databases this is a real crunch. we are not able to hire new staff to replace those that are laid o

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you are with lexis-nexis risk solutions. what is it broadly that you are doing and how are you monitoring the potential for unemployment fraud? guest: we stop fraud, we help catch bad people and we enable vigilant government. our company is a market leader in identity verification. in the government space, we call that imposter fraud. we do over one billion transactions per day and we stop over $1 billion in fraudulent payments each week. we do business with dozens of states and help to mitigate the risk of this transnational criminal gang attacking the unemployment insurance systems. host: let's give some perspective here, this is the reporting on those figures from axios. criminals may have stolen as much as half of the unemployment and benefits the u.s. has been pumping out over the past year. unemployment fraud could easily reach $400 billion, they write. the bulk of that money likely in the hands of foreign crime syndicates making this not just a theft, that matter of national security. one of the things they point to i