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Down to four to six days. that is a far more compressed opportunity. i think that we may have had a little bit of a lag in doing this. but nobody can perform logistics the way the united states and that the united states army can deliver to the troops on the ground. so i have great -- i have great expectations for how this is going to work out from a logistics perspective. >> major general paul eaton, thank you very much for your expertise. really helpful. u.s. officials are warning that hackers have developed a powerful new tool designed specifically to target energy facilities. in a new ur...

Have strict need-to-know for valled a purpose which primarily means to support policy and security. among the collection and authorities we have to target foreign actors in foreign spaces by the section 702 and the executive order 1230 have been instrumental in our ability to produce intelligence to the committee and others in gathering the facts of foreign activity in this election cycle. it would be difficult to overstate the breadth and scale of malicious cyber activity today. our adversaries including nation states have not rested in trying to penetrate government systems, steal our privat...

Nation's history, the presidential campaign. we need to be talking about it. the candidates need to be looking at it. we need to have a public discussion of what if anything the federal government can do to deal with the consequences of an attack like this. the likelihood of it happening, the chinese are already in our grid. the russians are already in our grid. either one of them could knock out if not an entire grid at least a significant portion of it. the clhinese and russians thoug aren't likely to do it because of the many interrelationships we have with them. but only just behind them a...

1,800 secret agents around the world, that it may be a much more organized attempt by north korea to try to move into this parallel war of cyber war. >> she also spoke with a defector who worked as a computer analyst for the north. listen to what he had to say about this bureau 121. >> translator: cyber attack capability is much more dangerous than nuclear weapons because often it's hard to find the attacker. at low cost an effort, north korea can cause an incredible impact on society, politically, economically and militarily. >> peter brooks is a security expert and former deputy assistant se...