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Vandalism. as if billy bob and bubba, after a few beers and a night out, get their hands on ak-47s and surgically knock out 17 transformers, 16 circuit breakers after cutting underground fiberoptic cables and outsmarting security cameras and motion sensors. these terrorists are still out there. and less than a week later, in a shockingly similar attack in tennessee, a suspect on a boat fired shots at a nuclear power plant and then engaged with police. a trespasser, you might say? someone armed f...

A test, but im also thinking maybe theres some things theyve already instituted or implemented as a result of an attack. >> you know the dangers to and you say to americans. what do you think its going to take to get people to focus on this? >> judge, you know, thats a very good question. as americans, weve traditionally had kneejerk reactions to everything. 9/11, we were proactive for a little bit, but now were not taking any proactive approaches. as americans, were in trouble right now. i thin...

Congress. feinstein and reid and others are now pushing for stronger security standards of power plants, saying the attack was a wake-up call. as if they didnt already know based upon legislation that youve been involved in, the work that youve done, the grid act, the sipa act, the shield act. as if this is the first time theyre hearing about it. can you please explain to the american people why these politicians decide to come out when we hear about it and be against it but wont pass the stuff ...

Got it order and had delivered to a seaport, you have to really work to get it to the site. if you need 10, if you need 20, if you need a thousand of them, forget it. >> you have been on this for a long time, and you talk about the catastrophic consequences to human life in this country if there were to be an attack on the grid, whether its solar, which is natural, the electromagnetic pulse, and im not going to go through all of the causes, what do you -- i mean, what are are the predictions? >>...

A test, but im also thinking maybe theres some things theyve already instituted or implemented as a result of an attack. >> you know the dangers to and you say to americans. what do you think its going to take to get people to focus on this? >> judge, you know, thats a very good question. as americans, weve traditionally had kneejerk reactions to everything. 9/11, we were proactive for a little bit, but now were not taking any proactive approaches. as americans, were in trouble right now. i thin...

Its hr bill 2147? >> yeah, its the act that would protect against electromagnetic pulse, but what the attack in california showed us is there are other hazards as well, especially a physical attack, which could be a terrorist style attack, which it appears to be thats what happened in california. >> and comically, not even ironically, comically, the fbi and the local police are calling it vandalism as if a bunch of kids decided to have a few beers, get a few ak-47s and decide to start sharpshoot...

The prime minister is promising she will run for president in new elections shech. she got out of a hospital prison earlier today. now back to regular programming. an attack on the california power plant last april got almost no press until my next guest brought it to the front pages. rebecca smith from the wall street journal joins me now from san francisco. rebecca, you were all over this, and, you know, its ten months later. with little or no press, other than yours, and virtually nothing d...

Got it order and had delivered to a seaport, you have to really work to get it to the site. if you need 10, if you need 20, if you need a thousand of them, forget it. >> you have been on this for a long time, and you talk about the catastrophic consequences to human life in this country if there were to be an attack on the grid, whether its solar, which is natural, the electromagnetic pulse, and im not going to go through all of the causes, what do you -- i mean, what are are the predictions? >>...

Move on. take care it have and move on. >> congressman, the grid act passed the house and then went to the senate. what happened to it in the senate? >> they couldnt agree on the cybersecurity part of the bill. that bill addressed both emp, physical attack and cybersecurity and got hung up because they couldnt agree. >> it died, right? >> it died, and were left without protection. >> congressman, do you find it frustrating that after the san jose attack comes to light, weve got all these senator...

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