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Military in recent weeks. recently buzzing an american ship in the black sea. spotted over the connecticut coast. and four times four days last week russian military flying off the coast of alaska and intercepted by american and canadian fighter jets. >> proeb probing, see areas of vulnerabilities, test our defenses and keep united states and nato partners off balance. even if unintended we could get ourselves in a shooting war with the russians. >> russian officials deny their aircraft made any...

Election. those serving on the front lines get nervous any time those controversial words are uttered. >> when you categorize all of islam in that term, you tend to target and create vulnerabilities in communities. >> reporter: michael downing spent years heading up the lapd counterterrorism bureau. >> that is what isis wants, to have people feel oppressed or have grievances because its easy to recruit into the ideology. >> reporter: for people in the communities broad anti-islam statements migh...

Russians had been trying to extract from carter page and what kind of tactics would they have employed. >> yeah, those guys are right. what the russians referred to that type of operation would be access operation. >> the russians have some access. the russian would have the greatest access themselves, not sitting down on a regular basis with donald trump and other folks as it is alleged by the trumps team. somebody like that is still incredibly useful. yes, you can say okay, maybe i dont have t...

Someone taking over air traffic control or trains or anything that was, you know, has a high degree of lethality to it, no reason to believe those capabilities exist? >> well, the capabilities are always there. the intent is there. we have seen that defenders are able to protect against this threat. you know, any time you upgrade system, you introduce a new vulnerable or potential vulnerabilities that can be attacked, but just know that, you know, department of homeland security is working close...

Are they now putting into position sort of cyber protection that do not create 15 single point of failure. you want a notification system to ensure this does not happen again. its not good it happened. we have vulnerable infrastructure, but we got to learn like this because every city is going to be facing stuff like this. >> go ahead, bill. >> just tackling on what she said, theres a piece of this is awareness. the first piece is when americans talk about infrastructure, they think bridges, roa...

They havent at this point. they havent explained why oreilly was treated differently than ales. until that happens, they may be able to avoid that. >> you mentioned the federal investigation. matt brought it up as well. was your story, michael, linked to this federal investigation? was there any connection? >> at this point we see no connection to the federal investigation at this point, but as -- you know, as a law enforcement reporter myself, you know, when the feds get in and they start looki...

Can continue to have the latest advancements to be able to deal with this. unfortunately, what were seeing in the other countries, you know, i talked about the latest multi-vision x-rays, that was an advancement from a single vision and now youre able to look at the laptop from multiple levels. youre able to detect that human who is looking at the machine and the machine itself here in the united states and in europe and in some other countries has the ability to look at that laptop a little bit...

Conclusion we do need a special prosecutor. i might add, dick cheney said, this comes back to what we were discussing, he considers what the russians did an act of war. >> greg: im not saying what what the russians did was okay. im saying they are hardwired to take advantage of our vulnerabilities. the best outcome for us is to understand that and accept it and move on to the bigger issues which are terror. that is our existential threat to. its not russia. >> eric: we are going to talk more abo...

Russians have immense national pride. russia is the largest country on the planet. 48 times larger than germany. it encompasses 11 time zones and straddles europe, yaz aasia and middle east. its also rich country. culturally its often thought of itself as the third rome preserving christianity even as rome fell to the barbarians. putin understands russia. he also understands the world. hes not foolish enough to make a frontal assault on america or europe. he knows how to use power asymmetrically...

Radicalization for terrorists. >> i always get obsessed on the weird stuff. >> but i cant help be fascinated by how a major western city i was ground to a halt over what was a crude terror method, a knife and a vehicle. weve seen this play out in brussels a year ago and elsewhere. but this idea that with very little intelligence advanced planing, you can do a hell of a lot of damage >> i think this was planned. people are looking at our vulnerabilities. ive done red-teaming. ive done some agains...