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Which is making them more chaotic and us less safe. >> with all do respect, thats a bunch of malarky. the congressman here cut them -- embassy security by $300 million below what we asked for. so much for the security piece. number two, governor romney, before he even knew the facts, before he knew our ambassador was killed, he was out making a political statement, which was panned by the media around the world. this talk about this weakness, i dont understand that my friends talking about here....

arabic networks saying he is walking around in tripoli and calls rebel forces criminals and traitors and rats. more and more the rebels do believe he is still in or near tripoli. in fact, they think two days of fierce fighting near the airport could be pretty significant. we are covering every angle of this story with multiple correspondents on the ground. sara sidner is in tripoli central square and we have arwa damon and frederik pleitgen and zain verjee. lets get to arwa damon right...

About that. >> are we winning? can we look forward to a day where it is a tourist destination for men and women? >> i spend the majority of my time and energy on the security lines of operation so we focus on the security piece and from a security perspective we are standing up training manning equipment afghan and national security forces by the numbers. they are taking on battle space they are taking on responsibilities, and that is part of the transition. i think we are doing pretty good at i...

About that. >> are we winning? can we look forward to a day where it is a tourist destination for men and women? >> i spend the majority of my time and energy on the security lines of operation so we focus on the security piece and from a security perspective we are standing up training manning equipment afghan and national security forces by the numbers. they are taking on battle space they are taking on responsibilities, and that is part of the transition. i think we are doing pretty good at i...

And airport security will stay in place. but that, of course, is on the surface. things you can see. what about behind the scenes in the cyber world? as cnns deborah feyerick reports, the government may be in for an all-out assault by hackers. >> reporter: the last time washington, d.c. shut down over stalled budget talks in 1995, tipton was in charge of protecting critical infrastructure, power grids, water supplies, monitoring natural disasters. back then, he says, cyber security was so new, i...

Water supplies, monitoring natural disasters. back then, he says, cybersecurity was so new, it was almost a nonissue during the shutdown. the government shutdown that youd experienced back in 1995, for one to happen today, it would be a completely different ball game? >> there is no comparison. the number of people that would be determined essential this time, just for the security piece alone will be several orders of magnitude larger. >> reporter: federal agencies are required to have backup p...

Serious threat. >> reporter: the last time washington, d.c., shut down over stalled budget talks in 1995, ford tipton was in charge of protecting critical infrastructure, power grids, water supplies, monitoring natural disasters. cyber security was so new, it was almost a nonissue during the shutdown. >> the government shutdown you experienced in 1995, for one to happen today, it would be a completely different ball game? >> there is no comparison. the number of people that would be determined e...

The number of people that will be determined essentialing this time just for the security piece alone will be several orders of magnitude larger. >> reporter: federal agencies are required to have backup plans listing essential employ yirks people who stay behind and safeguard their agency when everyone else goes home. where do you see the biggest threat being when it comes to security of the cyberinfrastructure? >> we just need to be people who can read the output from the monitoring systems th...

Mike flynn. were told this was a much more obviously broad set of questions being asked of him in this seven-hour interview. abby lowell gave us a statement. he says "a year ago jared was one of the first to voluntarily cooperate with any investigation into the 2016 campaign and related topics. since then he has continued his complete cooperation providing a large up in of documents and sitting for hours with interviews on congressional committees and sitting for two interviews with the office o...

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