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And here's abc's whit johnson now. >> reporter: tonight, after crippling cyber attacks on the u.s., affecting the u.s. meat supply, the gas supply and transportation, the justice department has now sent out notification to u.s. attorneys on how federal law enforcement should respond to these attacks. one justice department official telling reuters, u.s. authorities must investigate ransomware and digital extortion attacks with a similar priority level as terrorism cases. tonight, the white house out with a new urgent warning -- no company is safe from being targeted by ransomware. >> these att...

Seriously, we have this memo saying they are going to be treating ransom ware with the same process, the same protocols as terrorism cases. what that means, wolf, there's going to be more alerting within the justice department. if things happen in the country, u.s. attorneys will raise that with the justice department and here in washington, d.c. there's going to be more information sharing, more coordination and resources for these attacks. this is a recognition of this major issue that the country and world is facing. >> it's a really critically important and very dangerous development unfol...

That dmv area. this is officers investigating crimes, building cases, looking at suspects that are not going to have data to do their job. investigating terrorism cases. human smuggling cases, child pornography cases and the like. and now as they do that, they are not going to have that dmv data to build their case and make their communities safer to ensure the safety of the officers themselves. it's very troubling and similar to what we see with vaccination area policies around the country that again are not protecting the communities and the law enforcement officers trying to do their job. s...

That the iranians can possibly get. it's the greatest gift the russians can get. it's a huge proceed to the isis campaign. it's a disaster for american interests in the middle east. >> i will wonder this aloud. i know i have said it to you guys. i wonder where the advice he is getting that this is strategically brilliant, when you know pompeo and pence are headed over there to get turk why i to stand down, when you know that every republican that he apparently listens to once in a while is saying that this is a mistake. a imwondering whe -- i'm wonder where the advice is that this is so strate...

It's a huge concern for law enforcement, for the fbi. it's really a problem now that is much bigger probably than any of us have really realized. law enforcement is trying to get people to come forward as they do in terrorism cases, it's that whole campaign, if you see something, say something. now we're talking about things happening in this country, from folks who are not linked to any kind of overseas terrorism group. it's people who are unleashing these kinds of attacks, who are from this country and are unleashing this kind of attack in this country. it's a huge concern for law enforcemen...