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Region and tomorrow mississippi, tennessee, ohio river valley, large hail, damaging winds and tornados. severe weather outbreak anticipated here, know how you get watches and warnings. all right, were going to get a warm-up here and love it. really cold over the last couple days. new york city, 44 today, watch what happens. watch what happens. 60 degrees on thursday, my friends and then 57. well take it. >> todd: well take that. >> janice: little bit of everything. warn folks about the snow and ...

Yet. they also announced for the first time that they might consider going after the systems powering the critical infrastructure of russia, the water and power systems. this would affect every day citizens so that could be very impactful. but ive yet to see and do something like this because they are trying to avoid targeting every day citizens. >> here in the u.s., dhss warning of russia cyberattacks on our country. what do you expect those disruptions could look like? >> if that were to happe...

Has been about dhs just meeting with the mayor and local officials in dc. planning for the state of the union has been ongoing for months. its a very complex structure, a very well-coordinated structure thats applied every year to the state of the union. what were seeing now is the preparation for tuesday is drastically different from the security posture that we saw over a year ago on january 6th. >> as you noted, jonathan, a multitude of threats out there. we appreciate the work of law enforce...

Local u.s. governments and explaining to them they need to be cognizant of the possibility for russian ransomware attacks as this crisis with ukraine grows. and as the tension between ukraine and russia gross and the ukraine and the west grows. there isnt a specific threat they are talking about here. but they are warning local governments and businesses to be cognizant of is the possibility of increased ransomware attacks. they specifically told the folks on this call to be thoughtful about tho...

Infrastructure on attacks on systems that would -- that if disrupted or if destructed would impact civilian life in the country, whether its nato or the u.s. but were purposely vague about it, nato is purposely vague about it because you dont want to set a line and putin sort of keeps going close to it but not over it. >> right. so the department of homeland security, you know, has also done its part by warning u.s. businesses that they may become targets of cyberattacks from russian state-spons...

Your dhs background? >> yeah, well, look, when we sat in the room several years ago in the white house situation room and looked at these threats, the reality is weve come a long way over the past ten years. businesses are vastly more secure. the federal government especially dhs is much more prepared to prevent and respond to these types of potential attacks, but that said, alex, there are still significant vulnerabilities in u.s. critical infrastructure and our adversaries know it. i would go ...

Harder and spirits are high. so they have a chance to disrupt us. this is what they are planning to do. as you have seen from the image on fox news and others, what they bring from the north is massive, massive show. >> laura: chris murphy just tweeted that dod and dhs pressing for congress to end continuing resolution and get a budget passed. there is no way for national security to be nimble enough to support ukraine if operating on 2021 budget. senator, while all of us are very concerned abou...

Event that we intervene in and thats the reason why dhs alerted us that russian cyber attack is potentially infinite you know thats right, it is because vladimir putin has a preemptive doctrine and if he is determined that our actions are nondefensive but offensive, and make a mistake, they have a plan to raise cyber warfare they can do anything from a small you know ransom or attacks all the way to cyber. brian: but we have counter cyber attacks and we also have shown that and he knows the resp...

Concerned about, particularly a silent attack. as we increase sanctions on the financial sector and as theres an impact on the energy exports that the russians used to basically fund themselves, there is an increased risk that there will be some kind of cyberattack on critical infrastructure. now that the u.s. has warned russia, if you do that, we will respond in kind. and so, therefore, there should be some deterrent effect. but its a little hard to calibrate it with putin exactly how seriously...

Strange arguments, even novel arguments, maybe even ridiculous arguments. what you cannot do is argue something that you know to be false. thats why this document goes to great pains to explain why this was not just some aggressive legal theory. they say doj at the time said no donald trump has not won this election. the fbi said that. dhs said that. they quote john eastman himself admitting i know if this gets to the supreme court will lose 9-0. the argument the committee makes, this crosses th...