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Well, well get a back. weve seen this and weve seen coverage of that. we havent seen the big one. what about our attack on the electric grid in new england in january? that may be sophisticated enough to take it out in three days. how many people will die from minus degree weather on that? i mean, those are things that you have to try anticipate what are the capabilities that our adversaries now have if they wanted to use them? >> john, that gets our attention. and whats the gap between that pot...

January? that may be sophisticated enough to take it out in three days. how many people will die from minus degree weather on that? i mean, those are things that you have to try anticipate what are the capabilities that our adversaries now have if they wanted to use them? >> john, that gets our attention. and whats the gap between that potential reality and our reality, what were doing to prevent it right now? >> well, i think were doing a lot to prevent that kind of cyber 9/11 in a sense of pre...

>> john, that gets our attention. and whats the gap between that potential reality and our reality, what were doing to prevent it right now? >> well, i think were doing a lot to prevent that kind of cyber 9/11 in a sense of preparing our defenses. but on the other hand this white house has eliminated the cyber coordinator who would have been the person to organize all of the efforts in the u.s. government. the problem with cyber, brian, is that everyone has a piece of it. on the technical side y...

A member of the committee, and there is a couple problems with this response. clearly the president equivocating on whether or not vladimir putin was responsible is a problem and its why. were under attack and we need a coordinated response, and when the president is on again and offer again, mostly denying it, it makes it impossible for that to happen. the national security advisor abolishing the position of cyber coordinator. a bizarre decision given that. the second reason this is important, ...

Weapon of mass destruction picked the weapon of mass destruction had been one of those airliners that hit the twin towers, we would not be talking about 3,000 victims, we would be talking about 300,000 victims or more. these are the things that we have to think about it we cannot rest on our laurels that we collect a lot of information, we know what is going on. there are people out there playing this game of chess with us in ways that are going to take us down. we have to be better than they. t...

The president at the working level. but for instance dan coats said last friday that the warning level on cyber, and cyber from russia more aggressively than any other foreign actor, was blinking red. to the extent that the threat level from terror was blinking red before 9/11, john mclaughlin, you lived through that. jeremy, so did you, in and out of government. and the fact is, certainly the aftermath of it, the fact is, if there is nobody in the white house anybody in charge of cyber, because...

Strategically we have to look forward. tom clancys sum of all fears, when a terrorist group obtains a weapon of mass destruction. the weapon of mass destruction had been one of those airliners that hit the twin towers. we wouldnt be talking about 3,000 victims. wed be talking about 300,000 victims or more. and so these are the things we have to think about. we cant rest on our laurels that, yes, we collect a lot of information. we know whats going on. there are people out there playing this game...

>> theyre overtly insidious. theyre not effective unless you feel them. the russians had an act it program for some time to infiltrate and embed themselves in various aspects of our infrastructure. and to reens enforce an earlier point about the turnover with tom bossert and rob joigs, who was a cyber coordinator, who is really a competent professionals, both of them are having departed. well, once again, were in a bad space i think to how we react to these russians -- >> he wasnt until a few da...

And aleve is proven to work better on pain than tylenol arthritis. so why am i still thinking about this? how are you? aleve, proven better on pain. and developing now on "the rundown" president obama is expected to address that massive hack attack on sony in a few hours during a white house news conference. a senior u.s. official told nbc news that the u.s. has concluded that north korea is responsible but so far administration officials have not publicly blamed that country. right now the ad...

It is also the subject of a number of daily meetings convened here at the white house that have been led by both the presidents homeland security adviser and occasionally by his cyber coordinator, that includes senior members of our intelligence community and security officials, of military, diplomatic and law enforcement officials as well. >> what is the united states going to do about it? >> before we start to publicly speculating about a response, its appropriate that we allow the investigati...