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Colonial pipeline and jbs foods, which is the biggest meat producer in the world. those two recent attacks caused gas shortages, and beef plants to shut down. >> i think this is going to be an ongoing struggle. of increasing threat. increasing defenses. and to the extent, again, that this counterterrorism analogy works, that is another way in which this will be a long-term fight. >> reporter: the justice department announced, thursday, it will implement practices used for terrorism cases. tellin...

Its a business thats very profitable, and well continue to see hackers overseas, criminals overseas continue to flood into the market. >> reporter:rance comewear attackers take control of a network and hold it hostage until they are paid. colonial pipeline paid its attacker $4.4 million. jbs has not said whether they have paid anything. those two attacks follow two other recent major operations by russian government hackers, the unprecedented solar winds breech and last weeks attacks targeting h...

>> i dont think a stomaumbling block on policy. nancy pelosi wants to hold it hostage because she wants to keep her moderate democrats if line. its her own quid pro quo to say ill gi you a vote that helps you in your district. >> it might pass by christmas. >> coincidentally, sure, it sounds like there will be an impeachment vote before christmas, too. thats my point. theyve been tied together. >> well theres going to be articles of impeachment we assume by christmas and approval of the usmca. >...

Extended months long attempt to get the ukrainian government to produce dirt on joe biden. and what seems to be coming out is that thanks to giuliani, there was this long effort to make it hostage to donald trumps political gains. how much of that can be tied to trump directly and whether the congress thinks thats an impeachable offense. >> trump tied it to himself directly. >> thats whats so interesting about this. you have the phone call which still looks like a smoking gun to many people, but...

Sunday with "state of the union" in advance of me. he said there are three things theyre going to take the president down on, one, withholding the money from the ukraine, holding it hostage. two, intimidating the ukrainian president and, three, trying to cover it up. all three of those pillars of their inquiry fall flat. because in the first instance, the money was not being held hostage. the money was legitimately being held up while debate was being held about the proper contribution to ukrain...

I worked for arlen specter, one of the more serious republicans. i thought it was an overreach then and i think its an overreach now. listening to hakeem jeffries, who was on sunday with "state of the union" in advance of me. he said there are three things theyre going to take the president down on, one, withholding the money from the u cranes, holding it hostage, two, intimidating the ukrainian president and, three, trying to cover it up. all three of those pillars of their inquiry fall flat. i...

Weve been worried about state act, to principally russia, but this is ransomware that is spread all over the internet. and through social media weve seen essentially discussions about how this ransom ware could be purchased or how it can be acquired. it really means any actor that wants to block up the election system, really jam it up, whether its a couple of days before or maybe even on election day could do enormous damage and hold it hostage, and it might be very difficult to attribute who a...

Getting a sense of the reality and impact of it. they dont like it. it has him nervous. thats why hes overcompensating on this issue of the economy. >> i think its great hes talking about the economy. i agree with rick. i dont think its great hes talking about taking it hostage. he does have a great economy. you can talk about the good things. a lot of people are wondering how long the good times will ro roll. even economy is good, they cut a lot of programs. if the bottom falls out somewhere pe...

I agree with rick. i dont think itsigate hes talking about taking it hostage. you can talk about things, but a lot of people are wondering how long the good times are going to roll. even when the economy is good, they have spend a ton of government money. >>subicidies for farmers. >> they cut interest rates. if the bottom does fall out, people are nervous because this is an administration that projects instability. i notice in the interview with peter navarro, they are already starting to set an...

>> we want to get as many people in the office and look at republicans and democrats and look at our debt and how we address it. we started to try to do things like that with the simpson plan and the dementia plan, but we didnt want to go that. we had the tea party that held up our national debt and said, they were going to basically hold it hostage. >> neil: everyone had a hand in this. i guess what im asking you, and also as someone who served in the military in this country very on honorably,...