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Different. remember the significant military buildup a few months ago, an immediate run-up for the first biden/putin summit. it seemed to de-escalate tensions. there was a sense that biden wanted to come out with establishing, if not better a more predictable relationship with russia. that has not happened. thises in military buildup, i'm hearing a much enhanced sense of alarm, in that military action is in fact possible. vladimir putin is known over his two decades in pow foremaking late decisions, but wanting to have the options to do things. remember, as unthinkable as it seems, vladimir pu...

Biden/putin summit that this topic came up, they walked away and thought it would do something because immediately we saw more ransomware attacks. immediately we saw russian intelligence agencies hacking in, attempting to get into the republican national committee. so toss not a deterrent. he has no reason really to stop what he is doing because he is suffering no cost. establishing deterrence in cyber space means you have to give some sort of a cost to your adversary so they'll quit doing it. i really don't see vladimir putin backing down at all or stopping at any point until he knows what th...

Either doesn't believe in the power of his words -- i doubt that very highly considering his political success. so, is actually trying to use words like this, i think it shows you his mentality, what he traffics in, the kind of information that's coming in to him. and i can't disconnect that trump frame of mind and mentality from what we see from the likes of marjorie taylor greene today, talking about the vaccine and saying we're not going to have your sort of science brown shirts making a nazi reference in her displeasure with the biden administration's effort to get all of america vaccinate...

And would we know about it if it happened necessarily? >> we may not know about it because putin and russia may not want to admit that we found a weak spot and took advantage of it. it could range from everything such as taking the infrastructure for this particular ran some ware syndicate off-line, potentially going after their cryptocurrency stores. it could also be sending a warning in very subtle and not-so-subtle ways that we may not actually know about. >> beyond specific cyber options, there are other sanctions, et cetera, that this administration, previous administrations have used con...

Provider of the republican national committee, though it's not known specifically if the rnc was targeted. the rnc says no data was compromised. there was also last friday's attack that hit kaseya that has affected 1500 businesses around the world. joining me, theresa peyton, former white house officer under george w. bush. this is after the biden/putin summit where biden publicly said he warrant putin, don't attack again. if you do, we've got capabilities. he winked and nodded as he said that. as you see these ransomware attacks, is this putin testing biden? >> this could very much be a test....