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Water supplies, monitoring natural disasters. back then, he says, cybersecurity was so new, it was almost a nonissue during the shutdown. the government shutdown that you'd experienced back in 1995, for one to happen today, it would be a completely different ball game? >> there is no comparison. the number of people that would be determined essential this time, just for the security piece alone will be several orders of magnitude larger. >> reporter: federal agencies are required to have backup plans listing essential employees, people who stay behind and safeguard their agency when everyone e...

Serious threat. >> reporter: the last time washington, d.c., shut down over stalled budget talks in 1995, ford tipton was in charge of protecting critical infrastructure, power grids, water supplies, monitoring natural disasters. cyber security was so new, it was almost a nonissue during the shutdown. >> the government shutdown you experienced in 1995, for one to happen today, it would be a completely different ball game? >> there is no comparison. the number of people that would be determined essential this time, just for the security piece alone will be several orders of magnitude larger. >>...

The number of people that will be determined essentialing this time just for the security piece alone will be several orders of magnitude larger. >> reporter: federal agencies are required to have backup plans listing essential employ yirks people who stay behind and safeguard their agency when everyone else goes home. where do you see the biggest threat being when it comes to security of the cyberinfrastructure? >> we just need to be people who can read the output from the monitoring systems that come in and if there is targeted attacks, which we get every single day, then you have to be able...

Mike flynn. we're told this was a much more obviously broad set of questions being asked of him in this seven-hour interview. abby lowell gave us a statement. he says "a year ago jared was one of the first to voluntarily cooperate with any investigation into the 2016 campaign and related topics. since then he has continued his complete cooperation providing a large up in of documents and sitting for hours with interviews on congressional committees and sitting for two interviews with the office of special counsel." in the view of jared, he thinks he's done with these investigations. obviously ...

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