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>> this is a world that is evolving faster than government. it's one of the reasons why the republican senator from colorado and i have tried to bring together everyone interested. there have been nine different hearings, nine different committees held 27 hearings. i think in terms of more vis-a-vis russia and i want to take a look at the bill that senator mccain introduced. we need to up our cyber game across the board not just in terms of government actions but for all of society. when we realize how many times we are hacked into in terms of intellectual property and personal information the...

Megyn: as president obama's nominee to be the country's new health czar calls for more openness with everyone's medical records, we are getting new information on an explosion of what is called medical i.d. theft. last year, there were more than 275,000 cases of medical information theft in the united states. the average cost of such fraud is over $12,000 to a person. by comparison, the average cost for all identity crime last year was less than half of that, around $4800. so once again more medical records are stored in electronic form, could fraud cases skyrocket? joining me now is lewis dic...

To take very seriously. megyn: and i want to correct myself, i said that they took out an iranian nuke facility, it was an iraqi, and they did other preemptive moves, israel has in the past. we're all watching to see what would happen. if this happened now, it would be obviously a huge international issue. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you. megyn: last year, there were more than 275,000 cases, 275,000 cases, of medical information theft in the u.s. was your file one of them? who knows. you're not always told. and it is not just your privacy. that gets violated, a frightening war...