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Eric: beyond that there's a new major threat they say that seems to be spreaded rapidly and that's ransom ware attacks, most recently targeting 20,000, kara is back, associate fellow at the national security program at the center for new american security. the numbers are staggering, millions in bitcoin to hackers that hack into towns and cities, why are they getting hacked and why can't we stop this? >> so one of the primary reasons why they are getting hacked is because these state and local municipalities offer low-hanging fruit, so they have lower budgets for cybersecurity, you know, if go...

Administration is going to continue to act decisively to protect america's interest, american jobs and american security. >> reporter: now, the speech comes amid reports, dana, that amazon and apple network servers have been compromised by chinese spy microchips. other reports warning of attacks by beijing linked hacking groups. another story you may have heard about. the u.s. navy proposing to have an increased show of force to counter act chinese agreg in the south china sea. the idea, of course, is to balance your messaging. but do keep this in mine, dana, when the chinese had the full page...

Anything about these hacking groups, but look at that. from the u.s. we hear there was not any meddling until the elections. who are they hearing that from? the highest levels of the u.s. government are saying the russians did hack into the 2016 elections. the only person who's waffling on that, wolf, is the president. >> including that interview with reuters yesterday when he said if, if the russians did it. once again raising a serious question. alex, good report. thank you very much. the president is silent so far on the new hacking attempt by russia. so how will congress respond? the sen...

Access to their foreign actor, director wray saying it's no longer these nation states. meaning try to get our secrets, our military information. but now, you have them working with hacking groups. in these various third party people that can go in and try to get access to these systems and it's a real collaborative group that's trying to be set up. most of the u.s. is critical frugs and when it comes to cyber it's all private. our cell phone companies. the it's private. that might be a good thing, right? there might be a robust response from the private sector. >> well, it's going to hit thei...

Everybody has to read it. about how the obama administration basically just sat on this issue of russian meddling until oops. donald trump won. >> long before the 2016 election, russia was engaged in widespread cyber aggression against the united states. the president at the time, barack obama, and all of his intelligence chiefs, john brenan at the cia, james clapper at national intelligence, james comey and his predecessor robert mueller, at the fbi, they were all well aware that russian-state-backed hacking groups, cozy bear, fancy bear and others were engaged in this cyberespionage and yet ...