national security correspondent alex marquardt is working this story for us. alex, this is very concerning. just been released by three of the country's top national security agencies, the office of the director of national intelligence, department of homeland security and the department of justice. what does it reveal? >> hand that's notable, wolf, because as you note intelligence community normally deals with foreign threats and here we're talking about domestic threats. that is short report, four pages long, straight to the point. it says that essentially because of everything that's going on this year, there is an elevated chance of deadly violence from domestic violent extremists. these are extremists, this report says, that are normally driven by racial bias and grievances against the government, but this year in particular, they are also motivated by this incorrect perception that the election was stolen. the january 6th insurrection and conditions surrounding covid, and this is something that they say will almost certainly spur some domestic violent extremists to try to carry out violent attacks this year, and then they single out the extremists who are mos

national security and foreign policy. it gives initial direction to our national security agencies so that they can get to work right away while we keep developing a nor in depth national security strategy over the next several months. the interim guidance lays out the global landscape as the biden administration sees it, explains the priorities of our foreign policy and specifically how we will renew america's strength to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of our time. so, for this, my first major speech as secretary, i'm going to walk you through how american diplomacy will carry out the president's strategy. if we do our jobs right, you'll be able to check our work to see the links between what we're doing around the world and the goals and values i'll lay out today. i know that foreign policy can sometimes feel disconnected from our daily lives. it's either all about major threats, like pandemics, terrorism, or it fades from view. that's in part because it's often about people and events on the other side of the world, and it's about things you don't see, like crises stopped before they start, or negotiat

i remain concerned that our national security agencies are simply not adequately focused on domesticerrorism which we all agree is the number-one terrorist threat to our homeland. the potential for violence was well known and widely disseminated all across social media platforms in the days leading up to january 6. yet the very agencies responsible for monitoring and evaluating those threats failed to utilize every investigative tool to gather the readily available intelligence warnings of violence and a failure to assess this intelligence. the intelligence community's failure directly contributed to the law enforcement's inadequate preparation on january 6. and i understand the fbi and the dhs' commitment today to doing better in their intelligence collection and monitoring this threat, which i appreciate it. we need to see these improvements. it has to be demonstrated in a meaningful way. it's not enough for agencies to simply promise to do better. congress must make reforming our counterterrorism efforts a top priority. we need to take a hard look at reforming the dhs office of in

of using cold war era ideologies and methods with 21st century technology is the former national security agency intelligence official and awesome awesome whistleblower friend of the show william binney thank you so much for coming on today mr binnie. good to be with you so i have and i have to ask you about the by the administration was suppose of response to the solar wind how conspired job can a clandestine operation against cyber warfare operation against russia still be considered best and if you're telling the new york times about it. no one fact even if you attempted to do it it wouldn't be it wouldn't be covert i mean it still know about it and become a very obvious to pretty quickly. and really this is finite that you know. finite thinking on the part of our leaders if we call it leadership of our government it's really finite you know not really competent thinking of all of the countries in the world the western countries are the most automated they're the most. computerized and they're the most vulnerable and it goes with the if you remember of the 7 release of data by wiki leaks and

he is back and running the defensive side of the national security agency. they are going to look for a strong leader so we will see who gets named for that. there is this national cyber director position that was created as a result of the information. we have not gotten anybody name for that. more to be seen on that front. the director of national intelligence, avril haines and her team. nsaa -- an excellent cyber leader. it lets you lead very much for in defending our nation and pressing against our enemies, doing the right thing. i think this team has a lot of smart capable people in this arena. i am looking forward to them trying to do good work on this going forward. it is a challenging problem. the more that the government can work with industry and collaborate and defend our nation collectively, that will be the key to succeeding. host: our conversation with jamil jaffer, the founder of the national security institute at george mason university law school. from michigan, philip, go ahead. caller: when people turn apc on or a laptop -- when people tur

we have a well ability as a government, as it country through the national security agency to look at what is going on beyond our borders. the question is how do we take stock of what is going on inside the united states, especially when a foreign government can basically use a credit card and false id to get access to a server in the u.s. data center. it is not an easy problem to solve. i think we all would recognize we do not want to live in a country where there is extraordinary domestic surveillance, so we have to ask ourselves how do we collect the information when there are these kinds of threats? we should call on the loyalty of companies in the country to step forward voluntarily and share information, but clearly that is not sufficient, it is not doing the job, so i think we should put in place a legal obligation that applies to companies in the critical infrastructure business, people that are first responders. we are at a microsoft, we are a first responder. we would recognize it is reasonable for this kind of law to apply to us. that creates the date at goes to the governm

who worked in the bush administration as a senior lawyer for the state department at the national security agency, at one point said, "i initially did not favor the idea of sunsets, and i would want to make sure that if we ever did something like that, congress had to ask -- had to act expeditiously so you don't leave troops out there unfunded. his thinking had changed because of the sheer length of the involvement that we had. people of both parties recognize we are dealing with a broken system here, and they are trying to work together across party lines. i took a lot of hope from the witnesses. they work for very different administrations, but they work very far apart -- they weren't very far apart in their thinking about the changes that needed to happen. host: was here from san diego, omar is on the independent line. caller: vietnam veteran, two combat tours, ended up shutting down saigon, came back. it's a funny thing, congressman. i do agree with mr. mcgovern who has good points on funding. i don't hear anybody mentioning anything about operations. it is now a corporate military and it was

and communications reportedly intercepted by the national security agency in january show iran's revolutionary.hasrmy post referring to the suicide boater attack in yemen that killed 17 sailors. the intelligence revealing threats to kill the army's vice chief of staff general joseph and martin, joining me now retired army james carafano, thank you so much i believe you were once stationed at fort mick mayor so you can speak to the vulnerability and are you surprised that iran would discuss an attack on u.s. soil? >> there's a lot of interesting sites it's at the confluence ins the pandemic river's in the houses of senior officers generals is onls the shoreline o you would say this sounds a pretty lucrative target think about running up to some guys and jumping and then killing people, i don't think that's a practical attack factor and might even before 9/11 but something like that i don't think that water is actually monitored in the coastline is monitored, i don't think you could get close. with really interesting why is the nsa saying this may be the trying to spook the iranians and same or list

pregnant, the army drafrd her to fort meade, maryland, home of the national security agency and one ofst secret and secure facilities. >> was she happy? was she excited? >> she was excited. she started working and absolutely loved it. >> top secret, some of it? >> she would say mom, i can't share anything about what i do. >> meantime, the army moved maliek to fort jackson, south carolina where he trained recruits in chemical warfare. the couple was 500 miles apart. while living by herself in maryland, karlyn became friends with another soldier, marisa manthey. marisa loved working with karlyn. >> she was the light of the office. she was loving. everyone loved her. >> marisa was a single mom with a young daughter. so when karlyn was nearing the end of her pregnancy, they decided to share a house together. >> had a back yard. it had a decent-size kitchen. and it was right by base. >> did you ever have security concerns? about the townhouse or the area. >> we did have. karlyn had mentioned that she came home one day and felt like stuff was moved around in the house. >> really? >> yeah. >>

back in january, the national security agency intercepted communications that indicated iran's revolutionarydiscussed mountain what was called ah uss cole style attack against the base, the uss cole was attacked in 2000 in the yemeni port of aden, killing 17 american soldiers. and referring to the current threats. intelligence officials say the islamic republic wanted to kill general joseph martin and plan to try to infiltrate the base. well for the first time ever. louisiana is sending a republican woman to the house of representatives. 40 year old julia let low, won a special election in northeast louisiana yesterday. now her husband, luke, won that seat back in november, but died before he could be sworn into office due to complicate shins from the coronavirus. let low campaigned on her late husband's platform and was endorsed by former president trump let lowe will be among 31 republican women in the house. financial devastation from the coronavirus pandemic is growing after the break the numbers that show just how dire this time is for small businesses, and it certainly felt like spring

today we'll be seeking answers on the role of the federal national security and counterterrorism agencies and officials played intelligence gathering, security and response to the attack. and i want to thank each of our witnesses for joining us voluntarily here today. and i'm grateful to all of you and the employees of each of your agencies, including the national guard units who continue to assist in protecting the capitol today. we appreciate their continued efforts to safeguard our national security. and while there are still many unanswered questions about january 6th, it's clear that this violent, coordinated attack was the result of a massive and historic intelligence failure. today our committees will, once again, examine the systemic break downs that led to this terrible attack and particularly how our intelligence and national security experts failed to see it coming. this is not a new problem. for years i've been raising the alarm about the growing domestic terrorism threat with the department of homeland security, the fbi and other key agencies and their continued failures to a

capitol police have requested an extension for the national guard state program and security agencies in washington are on high alert following threats that extremist groups are planning a new attack on the capitol building as is u.s. house of representatives session has been canceled because of those concerns followers of the bank can on conspiracy theory believe march 4th is a day donald trump will return to the presidency that speak to casseroles outside capitol hill for so heidi. tell us 1st about these reports that u.s. capitol police have requested this extension for the national guard to remain at the capitol building what more do we know. well this request wasn't a surprise fully there have been 5200 some national guard troops who have been protecting the u.s. capitol complex since january 6th the day of that rioting and you can still see those troops standing guard today this new request coming from the capitol police is being made to the pentagon for these troops to remain in place here for an additional 2 months originally the plan had been for them to end this deployment o

. >> such a good reminder of what these national security agencies and officials had to contend with. thing that's clear as the trump story, something we can evaluate in the rear-view mirror is the russian relationship, put conspiracy or anything mueller investigated for a moment aside, but the notion of mission is reinforced again that it was uniquely shared. donald trump joined the russian disinformation mission in ways that i can't imagine the russians thought possible. and his allies and aides became the vehicles for disseminating russian disinformation. what do we do about the fact that some of them are still running around? >> that's a great point. look, the intelligence community has assessed that russia's disinformation efforts going back five, six years now, is about sowing societal discord. it's about making us weak as a society so forward focused with our own navel gazing hatred for each other that we do not have the capability to stand up to them if and when they do something that is against our national interest or a violation of international norms. they totally succeede

to reports said capitol police have requested a 2 month extension for the national guard's deployment security agencies in washington are on high alert after threats that extremist groups were planning a new attack on the capitol building in hong kong $47.00 pro-democracy activists facing charges of conspiracy to commit subversion are to stay in prison the court granted bail to a 3rd of the defendants but sent the whole group to prison after the government appealed and loyalist paramilitary groups in northern ireland have told british prime minister boris johnson there temporarily withdrawing support for the p.c.l. they say it's because trade and commerce between northern ireland and the u.k. has been disrupted by breaks it the 1900 good friday agreement brought an end to the 3 day kate conflict between catholic nationalists sent protestant unionists those are the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera inside story. the international criminal court investigates alleged war crimes on palestinian territory israel calls it scandalous all the palestinians say it's long overdue so what can the inquiry achie

the problem we have is that our best he defense mechanism is the national security agency and cyber commandegree, the government. but primarily the military and they do that very effectively. but they have no access to u.s. service. they're denied that to protect those u.s. service. that's what happened in solar winds and that's the russian massive cyber attack, excuse me and also what the chinese as you just referenced have done to microsoft. we can't get access to that to determine and see that enemy coming like they do when they're defending the defense department. so what has got to happen here? we must develop public/private partnerships. we've got to break down these obstacles and impediments and of course the concern here is letting the government have access to u.s. service -- servers, that implies a denial of privacy and confidentiality to the american people. we've got to find a balance here, maria. and that's what i mean. we're slow to adjust to the offensive nature of what our adversaries are doing. they know it. that's why they're going to keep coming and keep coming until we d

who worked in the bush administration as a senior lawyer for the state department at the national security agency point said, "i initially did not favor the idea of sunsets, and i would want to make sure that if we ever did something like that, congress had to ask -- had to act expeditiously so you don't leave troops out there unfunded. his thinking had changed because of the sheer length of the involvement that we had. people of both parties recognize we are dealing with a broken system here, and they are trying to work together across party lines. i took a lot of hope from the witnesses. they work for very different administrations, but they work very far apart -- they weren't very far apart in their thinking about the changes that needed to happen. host: was here from san diego, omar is on the independent line. caller: vietnam veteran, two combat tours, ended up shutting down saigon, came back. it's a funny thing, congressman. i do agree with mr. mcgovern who has good points on funding. i don't hear anybody mentioning anything about operations. it is now a corporate military and it was when i

he is back and running the defensive side of the national security agency. they are going to look for a strong leader so we will see who gets named for that. there is this national cyber director position that was created as a result of the information. we have not gotten anybody name for that. more to be seen on that front. the director of national intelligence, avril haines and her team. nsaa -- an excellent cyber leader. it lets you lead very much for in defending our nation and pressing against our enemies, doing the right thing. i think this team has a lot of smart capable people in this arena. i am looking forward to them trying to do good work on this going forward. it is a challenging problem. the more that the government can work with industry and collaborate and defend our nation collectively, that will be the key to succeeding. host: our conversation with jamil jaffer, the founder of the national security institute at george mason university law school. from michigan, philip, go ahead. caller: when people turn apc on or a laptop -- when people tur

was hit but also within the federal government this attack could agencies that hold some of our most sensitive data and national cute security secrets. based on public sources this includes the state department that apartment, and security the national institutes of health and the national nuclear security administration which is the agency charged with maintaining our nuclear stock while. the solar winds attack also impacted the private sector and even cybersecurity firms like fire i the company that discovered the breach. it's one of the firm's folks call when they discover a break so they are the very people that we call when we get hacks got hacked themselves. we know despite the increased funding that has been appropriated for cybersecurity from the legislature and we have worked on in this committee the federal government never caught this attack. the fact that the federal government was hacked is not surprising to me. in june of 2019 is chair of the subcommittee on investigations i released a report for senator carper detailing the extensive cybersecurityy vulnerabilities f a different federal agencies. many of these

and it was across all the government agencies of supporting national security that we work they sort of basic process and goal of trying to share as much information as we could safely do. you know, because we thought it was important for democracy and for people to understand the legitimacy of where the government was doing. and your second question, my prospect on on all of that has not really changed since i entered the private sector. but i can say that working for a large private sector organization has made it clear that a lot of the principles that we're talking about here related to civil engagements and services are very much true and large private sector organizations. employees want to know the mission of their employer and values, they want to know that is going to do the right thing, that aims to do the right thing and do it the right way. they want it to be involved in the communities, you know, for us, systemic education is big feature and arm employees want to be involved in high school partnerships that wherein gauged in and it's because they want to be engaged in th

our nation's law enforcement and government agencies involved in foreign affairs and national security. it has affected approximately 100 private sector companies and at least nine federal agencies. including the department of homeland security, department of justice and state and treasury. and that is just what we know. there is much more that we still don't know. we still don't know if they are still in the system. in the weeks and months ahead, our committee will continue our joint investigation to examine other aspects of this massive attack. today, our focus is on the private sector. the private sector plays a key role in the nation's defenses and critical infrastructure and develop essential communication and technology products. they help the government and other companies defend their arms network. it was the private sector that uncovered this attack, not our own government. specifically fireeye discovered it and reported its findings and shared it with the world. had fireeye not taken that action the attack could be fully up and running today. at the same time, the private sec

national security council. my role was to coordinate national security issues between the congress and all of the agencies of the executive branch. i learned america is always stronger when article one and article two can work together. fifth and most recently, i served as deputy executive director of the international energy agency under a visionary leader and dr.. if confirmed, i look forward to being deputy to another visionary leader and secretary grand homes. i learned a successful deputy needs to put ego aside to support the leader to lift up all others and follow through. if confirmed, i would bring all of these experiences to the job of deputy secretary of energy. the expensive portfolio of doe and its experiences to the emplk a bit like frankenstein's monster. upon closer inspection, i would offer a clear thread throughout. doe, put simply, is where our country turns for solutions to our country's toughest problems. let me elaborate on what i mean of this critical role at doe as america's catalyst for solutions. the department must maintain a safe, secure, reliable nuclear stockpile, prevent nuclear wea

nation's capitol and security. i think it looks beyond this may extension to recommendations that essentially would militarize our nation's capital and create a bureaucratic agencythe department of homeland security. if the department of homeland security is not securing the homeland, what are they doing? and we don't need more of our taxpayer dollars going towards such bureaucracy. every time we see a failure of tour security agencies, we see a knee-jerk reaction of leaders in washington saying let's create more bureaucracy, spends more money and pass more laws that take away our freedoms. we are still dealing with those laws that breached our freedoms and we are seeing congress proposing the exact same thing. wasting more money on more bureaucracy. and passing legislation that would further undermine our civil liberties and greems as americans. jesse: we only have 30 seconds left. lloyd austin came from raytheon, a leaves contractor. is he running point on this? he seems like a real political guy. do you think he's involved in this or being told what to do? >> i don't have insight into lloyd austin. but congress needs to do its job, represent the american peop

as a senior official in the fbi after 9/11 i helped transform the agency into a national security organization focused on preventing the next attack. and as the leader of the national security division i enhanced the department's ability to grapple with what was then a newly emerging threat, nationstate cyber attackers. because of those experiences i understand that the justice department holds a unique place in our government. it wears two hats. it's an executive agency that implements the president's lawful policy objectives, that's policy objectives, not political objectives. it's also an independent investigator and prosecutor, and in this function must act free of any political or partisan influence. throughout my career these norms have been my north star. today, the justice department is at an inflection point. never has the department's role in protecting our national security and the safety of the american people been more important. as we battle violent extremism, foreign and domestic and mounting cyber threats from nationstates and criminals alike. our response to the shocking event

, whether it's antony blinken or jake sullivan and the folks in the national security council or even the diplomatic security agencieserns about china's practices. so it's been building for quite some time. >> it's not just russia that the u.s. is being aggressive with out of the gate and it wasn't just tony blinken either. it was after north korea criticized the u.s. and south korea for resuming military drills that were paused due to covid. the defense secretary lloyd austin warned that american forces are ready to fight tonight. what are the ramifications of those comments? >> i think what you're seeing is the united states trying to present a more unified, consistent message of strength, of resolve, but at the same time saying we want to work diplomatically with other nations. and quite frankly with respect to the trade war with china, while the concerns were legitimate under the trump administration, reflecting deep and long standing concerns by american businesses and government over the trade and economic policies of china, the strategy was wrong and what you're going to see under a biden administration on man

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rapid reaction force what it seems at this time around though is that many of the security agencies including the national guard capitol police the d.c. police are aware of the threat that has been circulating unlike january the 6th they are putting precautions in place no we know that the date in march is important to q. and a on supporters it is just a couple of days away in fact as to morrow that is because traditionally years and years ago that was the date that presidents were sworn in and they have been looking at this date since january the 6th seeing that march the 4th will be important because that is when donald trump will come back and will be sworn in as president because they believe that the presidents who have been sworn in since it was changed from much the 4th have been illegitimate presidents i know that sounds crazy but remember this is a cuban conspiracy theory we're dealing with and so they believe that march the 4th . donald trump will come but as the president they have said and you see this on the internet that donald trump is the 45th president and he will be doing 45 they go by a

national security aide at a washington-based foreign-policy and national security think tank. you may now proceed with your opening five-minute statement. >> thank you for the opportunity with a cybersecurity and infrastructure security agencies response to the silver when supply chain compromise. sister leads the physical security and resilience of critical infrastructure we share information and enable cooperation between the federal government the private sector and international partners and the defense communities. this has proven invaluable to manage cyberincidents and we cannot understate the importance of the collective defense for cybersecurity. we also know more work must be done. today we'll focus primarily on the supply chain compromise that what i taught can be applied to others like the exploitation of vulnerabilities of microsoft exchange product to highlight the necessity of the network infrastructure to truly defend today insecure tomorrow. late last year we became aware of her broad cyberintrusion campaign largely but not inclusively associated with of supply chain compromise orion management network software. but us government estimates a much smaller number and with the solar winds product and moved into e

today regarding the cybersecurity and infra- structure security agency's response to the solar winds supply chain copper mice. sysa leads the nation's efforts to advance the cybersecurity physical security and resilience of our critical info structure. we share information and enable operational collaboration between the federal government, state and local government, private sector, international partners and law-enforcement intelligence and defense communities.he this role has proven invaluable in managing recent cyber incidences and i cannot understate the importance of collective defense for cybersecurity. we also know that more work must be done. today we will focus primarily on the solar wind supply chainor copper mice but much of what i discuss can be applied, such as the recently announced expectation of vulnerabilities in microsoft exchange product. these incidences highlight the necessity of modernizing our cybersecurity and network info structure in order to truly defend today and secure tomorrow. late last year sysa became aware of a broad cyber intrusion campaign, largely but not exclusively with the supply chain copper

and there are reports that capitol police have requested an extension for the national guards the formant security agencies in washington on high alert following threats that extremist groups were planning a new attack on the capitol building those days u.s. house of representatives session was canceled because of those concerns although as of the debunked conspiracy theory believe march 4th it's a day donald trump will return to the presidency to speak to. capitol hill for his tell us more heidi 1st about the decision to extend the national guard's mission at the capitol. sure foley this is a request that is still pending made by the capitol police force to extend the deployment of the 5000 so natch national guard troops who have been here guarding the u.s. capitol since january you can see the heavy water thick haitian that this capitol building is still under with the barbed wires and the high fence surrounding it for blocks not * to mention of course the presence of the armed national guards men and women and today of course as another example of the heightened security posture responding to the potent

and security plan called operation safety net will involve national guard multiple police agencies, plansncts and secure fireproof if the city burns again. councilmembers are critical. >> too many city leaders think the most grown-up response to a problem is always with force an always to begin by sending people with guns. >> one plan was ditched in the face of public blowback in the appearance of propaganda. that was to pay social media influencers to combat misinformation and distribute messages from the city. this was never about trying terry change public opinion about any particular message. >> the police chief says there is no specific information of plans for violence following th trial. at this time around he says the city has had time to prepare. >> mike tobin, thank you so muc great things for joining us, that's it from washington. time shannon bream. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ advil dual action fights pain 2 ways. it's the first and only fda approved combination of advil plus acetaminophen. advil targets pain. acetaminophen blocks it. advil dual action. fast pain r

the security plan called operation safetynet will involve national guard and multiple police agency, crews if the city burns again. councilmembers are critical. >> too many city leaders have the most grown-up response to a problem is always with forces always to begin with guns. >> one plan was ditched in the face of public blowback in the appearance of propaganda, that was to pay social media influencers to combat misinformation and distribute messages from the city. >> this was never about trying to persuade a change public opinion about any particular message. >> there is no specific information of plans for violence following the trial. this time around he says the city has had time to prepare. shannon: thanks for joining us, that is it from washington. i am shannon bream. this is worth. that takes wealth. but this is worth. and that - that's actually worth more than you think. don't open that. wealth is important, and we can help you build it. but it's what you do with it, that makes life worth living. principal. for all it's worth. ♪ hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on

national security adviser focused on national security. this too is an all-of-government effort. >> i'm glad you touched on critical infrastructure. i'm a proponent of the infrastructure security agency's work on risk analysis. i authored a provision last year with the responsibilities of sector rich agencies to support that work. recent events, whether the cyber incidents tied to solar winds or microsoft exchange server or the frigid temperatures in texas have demonstrated how the failure of a few important assets supporting national critical infrastructure -- national critical functions can have cascading and often devastating effects. so the cyber space commission, which i serve as a commissioner, has suggested the concept of important critical infrastructure or sic, so secretary, do you believe that sic, based as it is on work, the obama administration did as part of executive order, 13636 is a useful framework for managing risk, particularly cyber risk? >> congressman, thank you. i do. and that is very much a subject of our discussion. i appreciate your focus on critical infrastructure. it is a subject that i discussed with the leadership in the department of homeland security on

national security adviser focused on national security. this too is an all-of-government effort. >> i'm glad you touched on critical infrastructure. i'm a proponent of the infrastructure security agency's work on risk analysis. i authored a provision last year with the responsibilities of sector rich agencies to support that work. recent events, whether the cyber incidents tied to solar winds or microsoft exchange server or the frigid temperatures in texas have demonstrated how the failure of a few important assets supporting national critical infrastructure -- national critical functions can have cascading and often devastating effects. so the cyber space commission, which i serve as a commissioner, has suggested the concept of important critical infrastructure or sic, so secretary, do you believe that sic, based as it is on work, the obama administration did as part of executive order, 13636 is a useful framework for managing risk, particularly cyber risk? >> congressman, thank you. i do. and that is very much a subject of our discussion. i appreciate your focus on critical infrastructure. it is a subject that i discussed with the leadership in the department of homeland security on

first, cyber security to protect our nation. both among federal agencies as well as critical infrastructure protection. i first designated this as a high-risk area across the entire federal government in 1997. so i have been trying to get congress' attention, the agency's attention on this area. unfortunately, the government's still not operating at a pace commensurate with the evolving and serious threats that are continuing to emerge. we have many recommendations in that area, and i'm happy to elaborate on those further. i'm also concerned about the state of the federal work force. 22 of the high-risk areas are on the list because of skill gaps and critical shortages of both the numbers of people, the type of skills that they need, and i don't think the federal government's work force is well postured to meet 21st century challenges. that's in need of attention as well. limiting the federal government's exposure by better managing climate risk is another area that needs considerable attention. focusing in on the government's growing environmental liabili

a security plan called operation safety net will involve national guard and multiple police agencies,nd secure fire crews if the city burns again. council members are critical. >> too many city leaders think the most grown-up response to a problem is always with forests and always to begin by sending people with guns. >> one plan was ditched in the face of public blowback and the appearance of propaganda. that was to pay social media influencers to combat misinformation and distribute messages from the city. >> this was never about trying to persuade or change public opinion about any particular message. >> police chief says there's no specific information for violence following the trial. this time around he says the city has had time to prepare. bret, back to you. >> bret: mike tobin in chicago. thanks. controlling immigration of the southern border is turning out to be a lot harder than it looked for president biden. we will talk about that with the panel when we come back. ♪ ♪ nicorette® knows, quitting smoking is hard. you get advice like: try hypnosis... or... quit cold turkey a

the guidance will provide direction to departments and agencies in advance of a new national security strategy which we expect to release later this year, as many past presidents have done. and we will post this i.s.g. on the white house website later this afternoon. i would also encourage everyone to tune in to the remarks of secretary blinken delivered this morning of foreign policy for the american people which touched on a number of the same pillars. this afternoon, the president and vice president will also meet with members of congress which we announced last night to begin working together in a bipartisan way to end cancer as we know it. defeating cancer is of significant personal importance to the president, the first lady and the vice president, and cancer is of course a disease that impacts, affects many americans. no matter their political affiliation. this has been a priority of the presidents for many, many years and this is his first engagement with members of congress in the oval office about it. one last piece, just to make sure you're all following. the activities of

national security council. he spent two years as deputy assistant secretary in the department of energy and he has spent four years in senior positions at the international agency including the last 14 months as dr. brawl's deputy. quite simply, mr. turk has spent the last 20 years spent the jobs given him the practical experience in energy, national security and management that he will need to help secretary grantholm lead the department of energy. i believe his performance at our hearing last week shows he has the knowledge and ability to serve in this important position in an unbias way. he is well qualified for the job and i do support his nomination. let me recommend senator barrasso to make his nomination at this time. >> thank you, senator chairman. today our committee will vote on the nomination of david turk and if confirmed play a critical role in our nation's energy agenda and leading the department. his experience in energy policy, i believe, is extensive, he served in leadership positions at the international energy agency and the national security council. during his nomination hearing he said he was dedicated to all types of american energy and t

cisa in our role as the nation's lead agency for cybersecurity are deeply focus on working with the control system security, community, to ensure both understanding vulnerabilities in that community where applicable we're helping the community identify sophisticated threats including through cisa's program and we're working to incentivize increasing the baseline of cybersecurity across industrial control systems, owners and operators so that we are seeing the use of modern technology to reasonably protect these critical systems. >> thank you very much, and again, acting director wales and assistant director goldstein thank you for testimony. madam chair, thank you for holding this hearing. with that i yield about. >> mr. rutherford. >> i'm sorry, mr. rufus berger. >> two names like that. thank you. i just didn't have a chance to answer my question about the incident come how does a american rescue plan requests support expanding the capabilities when you need do? basically bottom line, that's short-term. you said that all the way through. what in more detail if you can where is the money come 650 million,