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Where the vulnerabilities are and set in place the fire walls, the defensive systems against that and then understand where the attack is coming from. not always easily done, but we need to make it very, very clear that if youre attacking the critical infrastructure of this nation, whether its a dam or wall street or financial institutions, youre attacking america and we will consider that to be a very serious and you can expect a counter punch. >> you heard the mayor of this town where this dam...

Encrypted communications. >> evan perez broke the news. >> reporter: one official said it is akin to stealing a master key to every building. someone was able to break in and alter source code. sophisticated hackers could use a back door to spy on communications that are supposed to be protected by enchrypted. u.s. officials tell me they believe this is the work of foreign government hackers. the breach occurred three years ago and juniper only discovered vulnerability in the lags the three week...

Vulnerability, the fact that they arent the best examples of kids or young men that are well integrated into society. i think you see that in the case of the california kid. >> do you start thinking about whether the same kind of explanations of vulnerabilities may apply to the teen arrested in harrisburg, pennsylvania now? are you getting a little bit concerned about the profile of people who are expressing an interest or even willing to plot and then they are arrested or charged on conspiring ...

Conspireing with isis, most recently this 19-year-old kid from pennsylvania who had a tactical style go bag, 57 twitter accounts he was posting to. you say its very, very difficult to track people like him. why? >> because of the presence of social media. when you have guys who are basically just online, they encrypt their communication, they play cat-and-mouse with dozens and dozens of different accounts. they dont really interact with like-minded individuals in the physical space. it takes a l...

Multi-diverse operation. these people are running this operation like a company. >> but they also have vulnerabilities because of how spread out they are. they need a lot of money to support the fighters they put in the field and if we can degrade their funding sources, we can degratd their efforts. when we say the agreement was historic and important, the test will be execution. as they shift into other sources of funding, do we move and evolve to stop them? we need to be more determined not to...

Our justice reporter evan perez broke the story for us. what are you learn something. >> one government official says its akin to stealing master key to everyone government building. juniper network says someone was able to break in to its systems and alter source code for an important piece of software. this means sophisticated hackers could use a back door to spy on communications thats supposed to be protected by encryption. u.s. officials say they believe this is the work of foreign governme...

We have a statement also from a senior administration official, jake, that says we are aware of the vulnerabilities recently announced by juniper. the administration remains committed to enhancing our national cyber security by raising our cyber defenses. this is a very important issue for the obama administration, jake, as you know theyre trying to make nice with the chinese. the chinese have promised to stop some of these activities. well see where this investigation goes, jake. >> alarming ne...

Doesnt have ceo experience, doesnt have executive experience, doesnt take full responsibility because the art of legislating and negotiating and coming up with legislation that can get a majority vote is a very different skillset than being the leader of any organization never mind the free world. >> did marco rubio, david, do as well as he should have done last night? >> listen, he is probably the best performer on that stage. and i think he delivers his answers in sort of ready for tv ad style...

Theorocratic ideology. im joined by kirsten gillibrand. well, where do we start. what is your defense of both the president and hillary clinton on this subject? >> well, i think my take from the debate last night is they are all pretty angry and all surfing off fear to get votes instead of laying out a credible strategy with a complicated subject matter. and i think, frankly, the bluff and bluster is so hollow compared to what senator clinton has laid out. secretary clinton has laid out in terms...

Knows what hes saying isnt true. >> reporter: cruz trying to draw contrast on vulnerabilities, his work on a comprehensive immigration bill that included a path to citizenship. >> there was a battle over amnesty. and some chose like senator rubio to stand with barack obama and chuck schumer and support a massive amnesty. >> im always puzzled by his attack on this issue. you support people in this country illegally. >> to suggest our records are the same is like suggesting the fireman and arsonis...