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Or not, is that a sign of more to come and will that come ahead of the big summit in a couple weeks? >> i dont think theres any question about that, neil. ive been saying it for a long time. cyber is the battlefield of the future. we can see it now happening before our eyes. youve got these sophisticated viruses that can be deployed into our computer systems. virtually shut them down. you have the potential today for a cyber attack that could take down our electric grid system, take down our tra...

Strategic response group is being deployed to this area. this is their augment team, those assets are on the way. we heard this is possibly accidental. reports of a manhole fire. were not out of the woods yet, as we look at the prolonged nature of this, were going on now almost two hours, and were seeing these power outages, the electric grid system is bised on redundancies, the reason its rare you have a single point of failure. does that kuralt time? power surges, faulty equipment. system over...

Hacking, doing the kind of actions that the russians were involved in this the last election. but more importantly, you can use cyber to destroy. you can develop a sophisticated virus that can cripple our electric grid system or transportation. you could virtually use cyber to create the kind of paralysis that could frult a pearl harbor type attack. thats what russia is looking at, thats what china is looking at, what iran is looking at. its the effort to try to see if you can deploy these kinds...