America should respond to russia and what else the biden team should be ready to focus on. And the covid crisis in america is worsening by the day. 2021 will bring some relief, but how much . Will the world return to normal next year . Global health expe devi joins m the most critical networks, widely attributed to russia linked hackers, its clear it is massive, unprecedented and crippling. Tom bossart, who served at Homeland Security skriezer to President Trump writes, it will take years to know for certain which networks the russians control and which ones they just occupy. We do know that they successfully penetrated the department of Homeland Securitys own systems as well as the state department, commerce, and others. Stanfords alex stimos says this is one of the most important hacking campaigns in history. Vladimir putins russia has significantly expanded its hybrid warfare using new methods to spread chaos among its adversaries. The United States will have to fortify its Digital Infrastructure and respond more robustly to the kremlins mounting cyberattacks. What about the more insidious russian efforts addat disinform helped reshape the information environment worldwide. In 2016, two scholars at the Rand Corporation wrote a paper describing russias five hose of fal falsehood propaganda model. Different from doled war era propaganda. Current russian approaches work with prevailing technologies and social media platforms. There are at least two key features. High numbers of channels and messages and a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions. There is no effort at consistency or credibility. The report quotes one analyst, new russian propaganda entertains, confuses, and overwhelms the audience. Now, russias methods, strangely closely resemble Donald Trumps own propaganda strategy. Trump issues a blizzard of messages using every medium he can find. He is usually untruthful, but always entertaining. He never worries about consistency, asking only you remember his most recent claims. So when campaigning in 2016, he argued that the Unemployment Rate was a hoax, that the Federal Reserve was keeping rates dangerously low and the stock market at the time was a bubble about to burst. Once he entered the white house, he soon said the exact opposite about all three. If you bombard people in the present, few have time to dwell on the past. Waitingly or unwittingly, trump uses the russian model which rests on the principle that people are more likely to be convinced when they hear the message many times from a variety of sources no matter how biased the sources are. He adds an intuitive understanding of how social media works. If you make an outrageous claim, it will attract attention and eyeballs and over time people may begin to believe it. A boring truth dies on twitter while a sensational lie goes viral and, most disturbingly, over time the lie becomes a halftruth. Trump has set a new standard because he simply does not view the truth as a constraint. For example, a principle conservative would explain republicans dont have a replacement for health care because they dont believe the government should be required to provide health care as a right. Trump asserts he has a plan, one better than obamacare. He said he will veto the defense appropriate bill because it removes confederate names from bases, a rule that protects social media companies. He decided it would be simple willer to claim that, quote, the biggest winner of our new defense bill is china, unquote. Now, there is no conceivable sense this is factual since the bill creates a formal deterrence offense against chinese expansionism for the first time. Trump understands that a sensational lie is far more effective than a complicated truth. The pandemic may have accelerated these trends. Socially isolated, americans now seem more susceptible to theories that confirm their partisan beliefs. The most startling fact about 2020 is not that donald trump tried to overturn the results of the election. Many of us predicted he would try that. What is stunning is that according to the polls 60 million americans believe his assertions and the series of lies that sustain them. The problem is this not just that russia has hacked into americas Computer Systems. It seems to have hacked into our minds. Go to cnn. Com fareed for a link to my Washington Post column this week, and lets get started. Lets dig into this devastating hack with david sanger. New york times. He is the author of the perfect weapon weapon, war, sabotage and fear in the cyber age. Perfectly timed. Hbo released a document also called the perfect weapon based on the book. David, people are going to want to know where yy you have judges to be such a massive intelligence failure. Well, fareed, i think the first and most important thing to know is that this attack was with such stealth that it did not actually set off any of those great sensors that the United States, the National Security agency, cyber command, the department of Homeland Security have created over the past five or ten years, and particularly the ones created after the 2016 hacks surrounding the president ial election. And the reason, fareed, that the Russian Intelligence Agency that pulled this off, a group that is known as the svr, was able to be is stealthy was that they very wisely got into some software that companies, government agencies, all use to manage their computer networks. And they got into the updates, similar to the kind of update that you would use if you plugged in your phone overnight and you waited for apple or another manufacturer to update your phone. And, of course, you dont look at the code that came in overnight, and neither did the companies that were taking the new improved version of the software. And that Software Enabled the hackers in this case, the suspected Russian Group, to be able to bore in and basically get access to everything from email to databases and all that. The question is, how much of that access did they make use of, and why didnt we see this supply chain hack . A hack so smart that it got into the supplier rather than breaking directly into the computer system. Explain what the damage could be potentially. They are in the department of Homeland Security computers, for example. That means they potentially have access to what . Its a great question. And the answer is right now no one knows. The potential is huge because the software was used so broadly. But we believe that the suspected hackers, again the group that everybody seems to be believe is the russian intelligence group, probably only went into dozens or hundreds of these systems out of a universe of more than 18,000. And that could have been because they wanted to be careful not to get caught. If they are in the email system, the question is, are they only in the unclassified email system, which would be bad. Theyd get sensitive material, but wouldnt be anywhere near as bad of being inside classified networks. If they are in databases, can they simply download the material or can they alter data . Data alterations always has been a big fear. If you got into the pentagon system and you read medical records, its bad enough. If you were able to change everyones good type, that would be really bad. If you got into targeting systems. If you got into satellite sensors, that could be really bad. We just dont know right now. And thats whats most worrisome in some ways because joe biden will be coming in and inheriting a government that clearly is permeated with some amount of russian code and he is not going to know exactly what he can trust. Attribution is often very difficult with cyberattacks. What is the why are we so sure, why are the experts so sure that this is in all likelihood russia add the particular Russian Group svr . Its a great question. Part of this, at least that we know about, has to do with the tactics, the patience, the time and resources that were required, which, as one cybersecurity expert outside of the government who looks at staterun acts, said excludes 97 of the hackers who are out there. So thats number one. Number two is they used some techniques that we have seen russians use before and this group used before. But i have to say i have checked with a broad variety of people inside and outside of the government, and they are all honing down on the same group. It could turn out a few months from now that it was a different Russian Group. I guess it could turn out that it was the chinese instead of the russians, but it seems unlikely based on everything we know right now. David, let me ask you about a contrast, which is that a lot of the administration, the Homeland Security agency, others, experts all seem very, very perturbed about this. The one person who does not seem that perturbed is the president of the United States. Yeah. Its completely striking, fareed. He has been almost awol on the subject. Think about it. His National Security advisor was in europe on his last trip in office and turned around to go manage this crisis and gather the nurt security council. The National Security agency, the spy agency, has been turning out warnings to the government and private industry. The department of Homeland Security turned out one of the most sharply worded bureaucratic warnings i have ever seen, one that says that the government Computer Systems are in grave danger, and yet we have heard so little from the president. We have heard from president elect biden, and i thought that his statement was particularly notable because he said, you know, having better defenses is not enough here, that we need to raise the cost. We need to impose costs and we need to make sure that a price is paid for this. You know, thats easier said than done. The russians have been breaking into american Computer Systems for a quarter century. They did it in the 1990s. Famously, they went into the state department, the joint chiefs of staff, and the white house unclassified email systems during the Obama Administration while joe biden was there and the Obama Administration underreacted at that time. They didnt even name the russians publicly. Now president elect biden is saying he will act, but i think he is going to find that when you get into that kind of adversarial situation with a nuclear power, you get very careful about how you allow escalation to occur. So what should the Trump Administration do, and more importantly, what should the Biden Administration do to protect the country against such hacks . I will ask former National Security advisor tom donilon when we cam bock. Om. E. B. A. C. My kids, they know im a scientist. But its hard to explain to them what i do every day. Right now, im working on purification technologies that help advance vaccine and Therapy Research for covid19. One day, theyll realize i wasnt just trying to help them go out and play again. I was trying to make it safer for the whole world to get back outside too. Finding the right words can be tough. N it comes to autism, finding understanding doesnt have to be. 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The suspected russian hack, covid19, heightened tensions with china, climate change, and the Bigger Picture of reestablishing americas role on the world stage after four years of america first. How to go about all of that . I wanted to talk to somebody who had occupied the National Security advisor seat that Jake Sullivan is slated to inherit that day. Tom donilon served that role for president obama from 2010 to 2013. Welcome, tomorrow donlon. Thank you, fareed. Hope you are doing well. Tom, react first to this russian hack. What are your thoughts about it . I have a couple of thoughts and a couple of ways i think we should be thinking about this. First of all, it is most likely the most severe attack, cyberattack on the United States that we have seen. Its almost certainly an attack by a nation state and i think if the reports are correct most certainly from russia. The headline here, of course, is that the United States was not able to defend itself and defend its networks against an attack by an adversary. The United States government now will have, as a massive task, of doing a damage assessment, of trying to clean up the attack, clean up the networks, discover exactly will the malware is and what its doing, get it off the systems, and also to engage and deter future attacks. A couple of other thoughts come to mind, and thats this. I think its an analytical point, not meant to be a partisan point, but i dont think that cybersecurity has been at the top of the list for the Trump Administration to date. The director of National Intelligence adds you know, fareed, for a long time now, six or seven years, has indicated that cyberattacks were among the top risk to the United States and it has not been reflected i think in the priorities of the administration. Indeed, you recall in 2018 the administration actually disassembled, took down the cybersecurity coordinators role inside the nsc, comparable around Global Health, but took down the cyber coordinators role in tand got rid of, dismis two of the most senior folks on the team. Of course, i also note that at around the same time that this attack was happening that the government actually dismissed President Trump dismissed the senior cybersecurity official in the government, chris krebs. Going foorld i think the priority needs to be raised. Obviously, very intense effort. This will take months and maybe years to actually get it the bottom of this and to repair the networks. It will cost billions of dollars. I expect the Biden Administration will put in place a coordination structure inside the white house and i think we a should move to public attribution to respect to this attack when we have the basis to do that and i expect it will be russia. That has been something, the last thing ill say, that has been something that this administration has been reluctant to do, which is to engage, confront, criticize Vladimir Putin and the russians when they have done things which are decidedly against u. S. Interests. Talk about that last piece more. What would you do with russia . Look, it is a nuclear power. We have interests. We want to make sure that we have some kind of a relationship. What is the strategy that we should have towards russia . I think a couple of things, fareed. Number one, it is important to realize that russia is actively hostile to the United States and has been so for quite a while here. There is no deterrence with respect to Vladimir Putin that he has felt. And i think it arises from a couple of things here that need to be corrected in the next administration. In the Biden Administration. One is there has been this reluctance one of the most inexplicable things i think in the Trump Administration, reluctance by President Trump to confront it, criticize, engage Vladimir Putin with respect to steps that they have taken against u. S. Interests. He has been at odds with his own government. That wont take place, i think, in the Biden Administration. I think, you know, president elect biden, should be to be President Biden, knows putin and i think he will see a consistency in the Administration Ad administration as opposed to division. Its almost schizophrenia with respect to the approach to russia. Secondly, develop a common approach to russia with our nato allies and european partners. We have seen actions by the Trump Administration which have been hostile to natos unity, and i think you will see a big change in that. And last i think you will see with respect specifically with respect to the cyber issue, i think you will see public and formal attribution and as president elect biden said in his statement this week, you will see steps taken to exact a price here. As we sit her today, i dont think that Vladimir Putin has believed for the last four years there would be any price extracted for steps he took. He had the spectacle in helsinki a couple of years ago in side bei ing with him in counter distinction to our intelligence services. Tom, before i let you go, i want to ask about what will clearly be another huge Foreign Policy kmeng for joe biden which is china. It will be hard enough to get it right, but you can tell from the president , President Trump, from mike pompeo, from senators like josh hawley and marco rubio, they are going to go hard on the idea that the Biden Administration is too prochinese, is appeasing, is in some way or another in the pocket of china. How do you navigate that politically . How does the Biden Administration navigate that politically . Yeah, well, china, the u. S. china relationship is going to be the main geostrategic challenge for the United States for most of this century most likely. It will be on the front burner for the Biden Administration. I disagree with a little bit of what you said here there, fareed. I think that in fact there have been real deficiencies in the trump approach President Trumps approach to china which i think need to be directed. Heres how i would think about it. The first thing we need to do, and i think that president elect biden has made this clear, its going to be his first priority, is the United States needs to have a successful and competent effort to distribute the vaccine, get appropriate takeup of the vaccine, and address the covid crisis in 2021. This idea of competence by the United States has been one of the most important sources of our strength in the world. That image and reality of competence, one of the most important strengths really since world war ii. Its america can do spirit, its really important here i think because china is arguing that its system has done better with respect to covid and is superior in terms of delivering for the needs of its people. So the covid crisis is the first important step. Beyond that though, you know, this the china challenge is really as much about us as it is about trying to effect chinese behavior at the margin. It really is about the United States stepping up to meet what is the real core of the competition, whith the core of the relationship between the United States and china which is in the technology and competitiveness area. And, finally, another missing piece of u. S. china strategy and a comprehensive approach has been on values. And i think you will see the United States under President Biden reinforce values, reinforce the soft power that the United States has around the world with its partners and allies and others. Thats an important piece i think which has been missing. Thank you, tom donilon. Always a pleasure. Next on gps, the experts have been warning of a dark and ugly covid winter in the United States and much of the western world. Winter doesnt start until tomorrow. We are seeing skyrocketing numbers of cases, hospitalizations, and even deaths. When will the vaccines and therapies bring an end to the cold . Find out when we come back. Rbsip at walmart. You can get the perfect gift up until the last minute. Lets end the year nailing it. She always wanted her smile to shine. Now, she uses a capful of therabreath healthy smile oral rinse to give her the healthy, sparkly smile she always wanted. crowd cheering therabreath, its a better mouthwash. At walmart, target and other fine stores. 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He was a Street Vendor in tunisia who set himself on fire ten years and three days ago. It was apact of protest against his local government that then spiraled to mass protests against the national government. Those in turn inspired the entire arab spring. The epicenter of the movement bake tar ear square in kawhi row which filled with angry protesters until Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign. It looked like a success at the time as did the other leaders deposed in nations across the region. But what has come of it all . Joining me is noah feldman a professor at the harvard law and the author of the arab winter a tragedy. Lets start with the nontragedy part which is where it began. Tunisia. That one has sort of succeeded. Why . Tunisia has sort of succeeded in that it is now a functioning, not perfect, but functioning constitutional democracy. Its pretty free. They vote people in and out of office. They form coalitions in their government. They sometimes fail to form coalitions. Basically, the ordinary person still suffers from some of the challenges that face them even before the arab spring, especially unemployment. So its a kind of mixed success. But on the other hand it is a democracy. And the real reason for that is that the tunisian leadership and the tunisian people compromised. They looked each other in the eye. They had very different views. Many were deeply religiously motivated. They were islamists. They compromised and took sharia out of their program. And others also compromised by allowing a party that was essentially an Islamic Party to participate in politics. They compromised. It worked. The force that everybody worried about in the middle east and in the islamic world in general was islamic fundamentalism, islamic militancy, whats called political islam, the desire to use islam to ip fuse politics or create an islamic government. What did the arab spring tell us about the future of that movement, the potential of that movement to succeed or to derail government sns . In tunisia, political islamists compromised. That made them much more moderate. They turned into Something Like christian democrats in europe. In that country political islam turned out to be completely compatible with the emergence of constitutional democracy. In egypt the Muslim Brotherhood government would not compromise. Th they thought they could govern the way they want. Thats not how it works in a constitutional democracy, you have to compromise and they were displaced by the army. Worst of all in syria after the civil war created a tremendous security vacuum we saw the rise of the Islamic State which is islam in its most extreme and horrifying form and that turned into a murderous and horrifying kind of death cult which had to be defeated you willy by force. When you look at egypt what conclusion do you draw about the people power . It was people power that drove mubarak out. Everyone said this means they want democracy, they dont want radical islam or militancy. And then they came out the same people apparently, came out and drove the elected islamic government out, the elected Muslim Brotherhood government out in favor of a dictatorship that is in some ways more extreme than mubaraks. The first takeaway for me is people power is not limited to people of one country or one religion or one culture. The hard part comes after you have adopted democracy. It doesnt necessarily follow that you will get the government that everybody wants. You can get deep division. Thats basically what we saw. The Egyptian Government had a dictator through the army. They went it the streets and asked for the army, which almost guaranteed the return of another dictator and thats what they in fact got. So they a there the reminder is people power can lead right back into totalitarian dictatorship. What about the outsiders . The United States during the arab spring, you know, tried to be on the side of the egyptian people. It intervened to get rid of gaddafi. It chose not to intervene in the case of syria. It feels like no one of those strategies, intervention, nonintervention, nothing was perfect. None of those strategies ultimately worked. We were left with something in between, a hybrid strategy. And in some cases, as in tunisia, that sort of paid off. In egypt it didnt work. It led to the reemergence of dictatorship and in syria it failed disastrously because it ultimately prolonged the civil war. The u. S. And other allies effectively gave the rebels enough to stay alive, but not enough actually to defeat the assad regime. That meant that the war lasted a long time, more refugees, more people dying, and the longterm consequences for the region are really tragic. You know, noah, you are talking about the need for compromise. The need to understand that you cant always get the government that you want. You were talking about the middle east, but it feels like these are things we should be learning in washington as well. Did you come out of this feeling like democracy is fragile and that people in washington should bear that in mind . The arab spring teaches us that democracy is very hard to create and our own political situation shows us that its also really hard to sustain. In both instances, the key is to remember that winning a bare majority in an election does not translate into the capacity to govern exactly the way you want. Thats just not how democracy is designed and its not how constitutions operate. What you have to be able to do is look to the other side which makes demands that you do not like and say there are enough of you and you matter enough that we are going to make compromises that are brutal and painful in order to actually govern and in order to function together as a country. We need to do that here, painful though it will be, if we want a chance of governing. 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If someone wrote this as a novel, people would say it was too crazy to be believable, but it turns out to be all true. Second, the melting pot or civil war, a son of immigrants makes the case against open borders. We have forgotten about the immigration crisis, but it persists and needs to be solved. Reihan salam makes a case for a new approach to immigration that recognizes the cost and enormous benefits to american seat. You might not agree with everything he says, but you will come away wiser for having read it. Third, the american story, conversations with master historians by david rubenstein. This is history that is bitesized and accessible, yet helps you learn and think. Rubenstein has gathered together conversations with the greatest american historians from robert carol, lyndon johnson, to david mccullough, ron adams, Alexander Hamilton to jon meacham fon thomas jefferson. It issen easy, pleasurable read. Fourth, human kind, a hopeful history. This is perhaps the most contrarian book i read this year. Copious research to tell us a story of human beings that is the opposite of the familiar tale of competition and conflict. The lord of the flies was fiction, he reminds us, and points out that reallife versions of that incident revealed human beings to be, by nature, friendly, cooperative, and collaborative. It has implications for everything from Corporate Strategy to war and police work. And, finally, i want to recommend the book i spent many months of this year working on to try to make sense much the covid crisis and the changes the pandemic is ushering in political, economic, technological, and personal ways. Ten lessons for a postpandemic world. Let me quote from the New York Times review. With his lively language and to the point examples, he tells the story well while resisting boilerplate served up by the left and right. It is an intelligent and judicious guide for a world in the making. 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