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Harden infrastructure, we better protect our systems from getting hacked but we really paid zero attention at all to the fact that the russians were figuring out a way to tear at the fiber of a divided country and that's exactly what they did here. >> matt, david ignatius has a question for you. >> matt, great reporting putting the recent events in context. i want to ask you what your sense is of what's been done in response? when you listen to commanders of u.s. cyber command they talk about all of the proactive steps that are being taken now to protect 2018, 2020 elections much more aggressi...

Exactly seven days after iranian forces attacked that japanese and norwegian oil tanker placing those mines on their hull. on the very same day that iranian forces shut down a high-priced u.s. surveillance drone that the u.s. military says was operating in international airspace. president trump called off at the last minute a retaliatory tomahawk strike in response to the iranian attack and now we're learning u.s. cyber command did respond allegedly wiping out a key database used by iran's irgc wing. the details were first reported by "the new york times" which says that iran has not been abl...

>> up until now, u.s. engagement with iran in cyberspace has been limited to what experts describe as tit-for-tat operations. there is yet to be any prolonged back-and-forth cyber warfare between the two countries. but on june 22nd, u.s. cyber command confirmed the u.s. conducted online attacks against an iranian intelligence firm believed to be behind the attacks on oil tankers. >> it's a very, very good tactic and technique edits has a very serious signal to whomever we do it to. >> iran has a history of retaliating against u.s. and cyberspace. in 2012 it attacked saudi armco, a major oil co...

Around and does this offhand remark that basically signals to putin forget all of that noise, this really isn't that central an issue. and that seeps through the administration. now, i think below the president's level there's been actual activity that states are doing a better job. i think the government's more focused on disinformation than it was. we reported two weeks ago u.s. cyber command has gone into the russian power grid. but the president constantly undercuts these efforts by not signaling the right message to president putin. >> and frankly, giving president putin a propaganda vict...

Humanitarian issues when it comes to the brink at this point. so i think it's very possible, absolutely. >> i think it at the end of the day i think what's so frustrating to those reading this story, there should be what were support for the children and they need to figure it out. there's so much noise and it's just a blame game. it's the reason why they can't get anything done. >> right. right. >> they think about the basics of this and it's about saving a human life. it's about saving a small child who has no fall, and i want is just incredible. >> really goes to show you how divisive gover...