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U.s. cyber command in advance. >> and john, you know how vulnerable we were from solar winds. the government didnt diagnose it. you guys did, and the fact that we didnt know about it and couldnt call it out doesnt that really show how much we have to do if its the private sector thats involved, it has to be voluntary by these corporations, not required and not mandated by the government. >> yeah. like michelle said, theres a lot of attack surface that we have to worry about. you know, we are off...

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Possible. he echoed that warning as he joined msnbc regarding the recent attacks. >> i very much consider what has been happening to be a national security threat, when you talk about taking down our basic infrastructure, major pipeline, providing fuel to the east coast, our meat processing operations. our transportation systems. it raises my greatest fear about what could happen with the cyberattack. >> when its raising his fear that we should all be freaking out. do you get the sense that the ...

White house. they got jake sullivan. chris angles doing national -- so a lot of really american missing people. the real question though is, are we going to get tough on russia and china? and are we going to be able to help our nation defend. weve got to bring the public prosecutors together to really defend this nation when it comes to cyberspace. >> that said, we also the sergeant of arms is more afraid of the cyberattack against congress then another mob attack at the capitol. if people like ...

Cyber command, they have the authority for offensive actions. it can be a case by case basis. these recent attacks that have gotten attention here in the u.s., the ransomware attacks, those have been handled by law enforcement, the fbi. one reason that the government is looking at a different way of handling it is theres rarely anything that happens after the ransomware attack. the fbi doesnt have jurisdiction of a criminal network in russia. russia will not let them in to arrest these individua...

Issues, legality of this. what this would take is for the administration, the white house, i guess the general counsel to say, what is and what is not legal for the military to do. they would are to provide them the authority. even without that authority, u.s. cyber command, the administration can go to cyber com and say, give us options. they would present options. then the white house and president biden could make the decision whether he wants to give them the authority to act. whats really d...

Believes they are to our national security. courtney kube joins me now. when you think the conventional warfare, they have targets. they have a potential list of targets if we went to war with iran. is this something that they have mapped out over the years and they are just now thinking about using it? are they beginning the mapping out process? >> reporter: we now know -- this comes from some reporting from our colleague that in 2019 the nsa started spying on some of the cyber criminals to try...

Affordable. now, going back to what was just previously said, an attack on critical infrastructure in this country, and the pipeline is critical infrastructure, warrants a defensive and offensive response, not just by the intelligence community, by the department of defense, u.s. cyber command. so the administrations statement along those lines yesterday was perfectly appropriate. thats the stakes are high when we have to deal with cyber attacks on critical infrastructure in this country. >> is ...

Cyber command for 0 an offense ive action to go after the networks. ken was told the nsa since 2019 spying on the criminal groups and trying to gain information about them that they can use for potential future actions, potential offensive actions. this is the scope. how the magnitude of these hacks. jbs, colonial pipeline, after fuel supply with a real impact on the fuel here in the east coast. the jbs hack, the potential for going after food supply hire in the united states. the biden administ...

Networks. generally handled by the fbi but in the past theres very rarely any kind of adjudication or anyone held liable for them because the u.s. just doesnt have jurisdiction to go after the groups that are harbored in russia. they have safe haven in russia. so thats where things are starting to change. our colleague is told that now the administration is considering using the u.s. military, u.s. cyber command for a potential offensive action in the cases. that would mean cyber com has the abi...