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The united states militarily is closing because of chinas development of the power forces and naval and strategy forces and signer and counter space forces. >> reporter: peter brooks helped to author the u.s. and china security review. the conclusion that china conducted the test of a hipper sonic missile vehicle allowing a strike anywhere in the world and able to strike the entire intercontinental united states. we have breaking news, back to you. >> thank you, well check back with you, later. ...

If we dont do anything, well see this bad behavior again if something is not done to make sure they pay a price and be deterred from doing it again. >> devastating to sony and its employees. but when you think on our electrical grid, our banks, it is a big wake-up call for all of those things that have to be considered. peter brooks, merry christmas, early. still to come, jeb bush makes it clear he is eyeing a possible run for the white house. what does it mean for the gops bumper crop of pote...

President obama defended his criticism of sony for withdrawing "the interview." but the president added the key is not to depict the beleaguered hollywood studio as a "bad actor." >> its making a broader point that all of us have to adapt to the possibility of cyber attacks. we have to do a lot more to guard against them. my administrations taken a lot of strides in that direction but we need congress to pass cyber security law. >> the bush administration removed north korea from the terror list...

Out of probably 200 in the world that have some sort of offensive cyber capability. clearly theres any number of important targets. you mentioned one, economics, our financial health, computers that might be involved on wall street and other parts of the country involved in finances. this has been talked about for a long time. not only by nation states but other groups such as al qaeda. remember, the attacks of 9/11, that was about getting at our financial health and bringing down the united sta...

1,800 secret agents around the world, that it may be a much more organized attempt by north korea to try to move into this parallel war of cyber war. >> she also spoke with a defector who worked as a computer analyst for the north. listen to what he had to say about this bureau 121. >> translator: cyber attack capability is much more dangerous than nuclear weapons because often its hard to find the attacker. at low cost an effort, north korea can cause an incredible impact on society, politicall...

Yesterday, his wish was granted. president obama, in fact, thanked him for his role. >> i want to thank his holiness pope francis whose moral example shows the importance of pursuing the world as it should be rather than simply settling for the world as it is. >> want to bring in peter corn blue from havana, the author of "back channel to cuba," what an appropriate book to be talking about at this time. peter, i was in havana when pope john paul ii visited that country in 1998. this, whats been ...

Interlocutory between the two countries until this very moment. >> peter, let me ask you about the castros. rah rule castro is 83, fidel castro is 88. what does this deal, do you think, mean to them personally and what do you think it means to their legacy? >> well, i think that this change in u.s. policy is a tremendous legacy for president obama, frankly. its a foreign policy victory of great significance. its changing 55 years of policy. he has taken the courageous step that none of his prede...

There aror things we cant know but theres one thing the president knows. the president knows that continuing to employ these techniques descried in that report would only undermine one of the most powerful weapons in our arsenal to protect american national security and that is the moral authority around the globe of the united states of americ america. >> lets bring in our military analyst, mike hertling and former cia officer peter brooks. peter is also a national security expert with the heri...

Keep that in mind. >> general, a quick final thought. the fact is what he mentions, war is awful, people get killed innocent civilians get killed in the theater of war. is this to be expected, some will ask? >> well, certainly laws of war attempt to prevent atrocities and violations of human values so thats all part of the consideration of training young soldiers and thats why what we do in our interrogation you mentioned the interrogation manual 34-52. its a great manual to show how to question...

Intelligence gathering, these are not things we should be doing. however it happened a very long time ago and we are picking at a scab right now while we here in active combat, active military operations around different parts of the world so im very concerned having -- i was in baghdad in n 2004 when the abu ghraib photos came out. we were in combat there and it certainly affected the situation there. im concerned now as were seeing perhaps a little bit of the culmination of the isil forces in ...