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Then they are not launching attacks at us, or at least they don't have the funds, the capacity, the current capacity to go after us. so i think it's taking the war to them. martha: understood and it's great point. one last question, though, in the current stage of where we are right now with all of this. what -- how soon do you think something like this could happen? you talk about nuclear weapons development and the timeframe on that. one day are we going to go, gee, what is wrong with my computer and it will be more than that? >> the defense department has a current authorization of $36 bill...

Warfare that could be cyber pearl harbor. so what is the u.s. doing now to protect its assets from cyber attacks coming from iran? >> well, no doubt the iranians are aggressively going after our other own facilities, and you mentioned two classive examples of this. but i think we should go back to the main purpose of these attacks against iranian facilities. this is not meant to go after the iranian people or iran's general economy. this is meant to go after iran's nuclear weapons program, and this is an attempt to find a nonmilitary solution to iran's nuclear weapons development. and i think ...

Takeoff from south korea, the prohibition we have of south korea building is up a weapon or maybe of japan such a weapon in which case i don't think the chinese would like it much. i think unless you are willing to make these kinds of statements to these folks you don't get much cooperation. china looks on north korea as its buffer state i think they would be happy if the north korean regime why over thrown and they say capitalist democracy, marching up to their border and having a large apply of the united states on their border. >> what about north korea? how describe what the president has ...

This doesn't get us that much closer quickly enough to stop iran from doing what it is doing on nuclear weapons development. >> bret: what's your analysis of this report to congress about iran's capabilities? >> you know, it's very interesting. in the summer of 2007, you had the cia basically saying we know iran is producing a nuclear weapon. that fall we said we don't know if iran is producing a nuclear weapon. we do know they suspended weapons development. their weaponnization program in 2003. well, you know you have have this report that basically punts. it says nothing about weaponnization...

House's best case scenario here, this doesn't get us that much closer quickly enough to stop iran from doing what it is doing on nuclear weapons development. >> bret: what's your analysis of this report to congress about iran's capabilities? >> you know, it's very interesting. in the summer of 2007, you had the cia basically saying we know iran is producing a nuclear weapon. that fall we said we don't know if iran is producing a nuclear weapon. we do know they suspended weapons development. their weaponnization program in 2003. well, you know you have have this report that basically punts. it ...