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Colonial pipeline and jbs foods, which is the biggest meat producer in the world. those two recent attacks caused gas shortages, and beef plants to shut down. >> i think this is going to be an ongoing struggle. of increasing threat. increasing defenses. and to the extent, again, that this counterterrorism analogy works, that is another way in which this will be a long-term fight. >> reporter: the justice department announced, thursday, it will implement practices used for terrorism cases. telling prosecutors, to share more information and coordinate efforts on ransomware attacks. which is when...

It's a business that's very profitable, and we'll continue to see hackers overseas, criminals overseas continue to flood into the market. >> reporter:rance comewear attackers take control of a network and hold it hostage until they are paid. colonial pipeline paid its attacker $4.4 million. jbs has not said whether they have paid anything. those two attacks follow two other recent major operations by russian government hackers, the unprecedented solar winds breech and last week's attacks targeting hundreds of government agencies and organizations, but it's hat hacking of critical infrastructur...

>> i don't think a stomaumbling block on policy. nancy pelosi wants to hold it hostage because she wants to keep her moderate democrats if line. it's her own quid pro quo to say i'll gi you a vote that helps you in your district. >> it might pass by christmas. >> coincidentally, sure, it sounds like there will be an impeachment vote before christmas, too. that's my point. they've been tied together. >> well there's going to be articles of impeachment we assume by christmas and approval of the usmca. >> let's hope we get the trade deal done. >> thanks for coming in. appreciate it. stay with us ...

Extended months long attempt to get the ukrainian government to produce dirt on joe biden. and what seems to be coming out is that thanks to giuliani, there was this long effort to make it hostage to donald trump's political gains. how much of that can be tied to trump directly and whether the congress thinks that's an impeachable offense. >> trump tied it to himself directly. >> that's what's so interesting about this. you have the phone call which still looks like a smoking gun to many people, but what we're learning now is that was not an isolated incident. it fit in with a larger pattern. ...

Sunday with "state of the union" in advance of me. he said there are three things they're going to take the president down on, one, withholding the money from the ukraine, holding it hostage. two, intimidating the ukrainian president and, three, trying to cover it up. all three of those pillars of their inquiry fall flat. because in the first instance, the money was not being held hostage. the money was legitimately being held up while debate was being held about the proper contribution to ukraine. the republican senators will testify to that i believe when it comes time. there is some questio...