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Been injured by this syndrome, these directed energy attacks is unlike some colleagues that work for cia or department of defense they have not gotten the same care. that needs to change. we have got to continue to support those american dip plo mats and personnel who served overseas at great sacrifice to themselves and families who now many won't be able to work again. we need to ensure they get the benefits that allow them to continue to provide for their families and themselves. >> do you have confidence in the white house and the cia that they are beginning to change this if the state depa...

North carolina. seaports, 72 airports i was in charge of, all the highways there. think about what general kellogg was talking about. these cyber attacks that can happen that can shut down commerce at a seaport, can change the amber alert on a highway that can scare people. think about what happened in hawaii that time that there was a false alert that a missile was inbound to hawaii. all of those things, you know, the enemy can penetrate as they demonstrated with the colonial pipeline and the meat processing plant and so forth. so our infrastructure right now is a key vulnerability and state ...

Look what happened with the coronavirus that we're talking about. that -- the potential of that coming inadvertently out of a lab would -- killed millions of people. 600,000 in the united states. you see what happened with the cyber attack and the ransomware attack on colonial pipeline. i live in northern virginia. i saw what happened when the pumps were shut down and the panic buying was going on. if you combine the attacks, you can shut down a nation well. we have to address that. we have not done it. the words that president biden talked about are words. i don't think he's figured it out ye...

Directed energy attacks against major systems that can disable our own air defenses, our own systems for defense of the nation. so when you layer hypersonics in to that, you can direct energy against our air defense systems, which have a hard enough time with hypersonics and you can fly hypersonics in to do whatever damage and whatever targets that they want to hit. so this is a cutting edge form of warfare and something that we need to take seriously. darpa and other agencies are taking a look at this. if we think we're unprepared for cyber warfare and bayou -- bio warfare, this is more on th...

To help you there. >> shannon: all right. well, the thing is we know they're probing 24/7. our defenses have to be excellent all the time. thanks, kurt. martha sat down with a panel of experts to address invisible threats like those facing america. here's part one of the future of warfare. >> cyber attacks and cyber security, two of the areas dominating president biden's sit down with vladimir putin this week. another reminder of the threats from china and russia are changing the battlefield. the future of warfare is moving beyond explosions and gun fire to hacks on weapons and guidance system...