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Or not, is that a sign of more to come and will that come ahead of the big summit in a couple weeks? >> i don't think there's any question about that, neil. i've been saying it for a long time. cyber is the battlefield of the future. we can see it now happening before our eyes. you've got these sophisticated viruses that can be deployed into our computer systems. virtually shut them down. you have the potential today for a cyber attack that could take down our electric grid system, take down our transportation systems, our chemical systems, our water systems. take down our financial systems. y...

Strategic response group is being deployed to this area. this is their augment team, those assets are on the way. we heard this is possibly accidental. reports of a manhole fire. we're not out of the woods yet, as we look at the prolonged nature of this, we're going on now almost two hours, and we're seeing these power outages, the electric grid system is bised on redundancies, the reason it's rare you have a single point of failure. does that kuralt time? power surges, faulty equipment. system overloads and the like, the reason we don't experience them is because you have redundancy. however ...

Hacking, doing the kind of actions that the russians were involved in this the last election. but more importantly, you can use cyber to destroy. you can develop a sophisticated virus that can cripple our electric grid system or transportation. you could virtually use cyber to create the kind of paralysis that could frult a pearl harbor type attack. that's what russia is looking at, that's what china is looking at, what iran is looking at. it's the effort to try to see if you can deploy these kinds of viruses into systems that could paralyze the united states of america. >> so what should the ...