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Its hr bill 2147? >> yeah, it's the act that would protect against electromagnetic pulse, but what the attack in california showed us is there are other hazards as well, especially a physical attack, which could be a terrorist style attack, which it appears to be that's what happened in california. >> and comically, not even ironically, comically, the fbi and the local police are calling it vandalism as if a bunch of kids decided to have a few beers, get a few ak-47s and decide to start sharpshooting after cutting underground cables and getting into a structure to do that, a protected structur...

The prime minister is promising she will run for president in new elections shech. she got out of a hospital prison earlier today. now back to regular programming. an attack on the california power plant last april got almost no press until my next guest brought it to the front pages. rebecca smith from the wall street journal joins me now from san francisco. rebecca, you were all over this, and, you know, it's ten months later. with little or no press, other than yours, and virtually nothing done in terms of an arrest, why do you think this went so unreported until now? >> i think because t...

Got it order and had delivered to a seaport, you have to really work to get it to the site. if you need 10, if you need 20, if you need a thousand of them, forget it. >> you have been on this for a long time, and you talk about the catastrophic consequences to human life in this country if there were to be an attack on the grid, whether it's solar, which is natural, the electromagnetic pulse, and i'm not going to go through all of the causes, what do you -- i mean, what are are the predictions? >> i think the most authoritative assessment of all of this has been done, and i know you've got a c...

Move on. take care it have and move on. >> congressman, the grid act passed the house and then went to the senate. what happened to it in the senate? >> they couldn't agree on the cybersecurity part of the bill. that bill addressed both emp, physical attack and cybersecurity and got hung up because they couldn't agree. >> it died, right? >> it died, and we're left without protection. >> congressman, do you find it frustrating that after the san jose attack comes to light, we've got all these senators -- and remember, the democrats are in charge in the senate. they're now concerned about the da...

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