hollywood. they asked themselves this question. if a bomb had done this damage how would we respond? they never really got to a clean answer about this. this is the same conversation that s going on now with these hacks. you saw the ic andtive order from the biden white house saying we re going to treat these as terrorism. that threat is unfinished. well, i ll leave it there. there s a lot of unfinished business from that era. and to that point, the stakes have escalated. listen to the secretary of energy talking to jack tapper yesterday, we know the colonial pipeline, a major meat supplier was hacked, those originated from interests inside russia. the energy secretary says they could do a lot more. do you think that adversaries of the united states have the capability right now to shut down the power grid? yeah, they do. i mean, i think that there are
voting patterns? think about that. they want people in fear which makes controlling you even easier. just consider the never ending threat theater surrounding the u.s. capitol linking every day americans to potential terrorists despite no known or active credible threat. because while democrats constantly use january 6th as a shadowy boogie man it comes as our enemies ramp up very real attacks. the colonial pipeline hack last month led to shortages at gas pumps all along the eastern seaboard and contributed to rising gas prices. and the recent jbs meat supplier hack impacted our food supply. sergeant at arms saying cyberattacks worry her more than any imagined new attack on the capitol. take a look. i worry a lot more about cybersecurity than i do another mob attack in the capitol. cyberattack for me is a greater concern than the prospects of thousands of people storming the
of hand magic trick. tonight fall for the cheap political ploys or never ending hysteria or never ending direction. democrats can t solve their problems because frankly they don t want to solve them. they want chaos. they want dysfunction because it gives them a pretext to keep doing what they do. spreading fear and grabbing power. joining me now republican senator from arkansas tom cotton. senator, thank you very much for being with me. i appreciate it as you could tell, i m a little charged up there seems to be a lot of things that are pretty obvious in the midst of our world. you clearly now have a reputation for seeing things early for being willing to stand up to them. can you start by explaining when we hear now the arguments about we saw the hacks of the oil pipeline of the meat supplier, the warnings about the power grid. how is congress because we don t see it how is it that they spend their time demonizing americans as the enemy when these things are happening in realtime and
it is just coloured leds. so maybe the main question is whether people will want it, but we are living in the century of the selfie, so who knows? i have a feeling they will. hello and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that huawei launched its self developed operating system harmony os in an attempt to challenge google s dominance in smartphone software. bill gates and the eu announced a push for $1 billion to accelerate clean tech. and big news ebay updated its terms of service, meaning that sellers can no longer use paypal. also this week, and a cyber attack hit the world s largest meat supplier. computer networks atjbs were hacked, temporarily shutting down some operations in australia, canada and the us. the ransomware attack could lead to shortages of meat
supporting cyber attacks, stop providing a safe haven for groups that are mounting them, that would be helpful. it s hard, though. we ve seen the biden administration in april impose tough sanctions on russia to not great effect. the question is to what degree are you willing is the united states willing to disrupt u.s./russia relations on this front when there are other issues on which we want to have cooperation. i think this is a tough one. that meeting in geneva coming up between the president and putin really a crucial one to watch. chris: doug, what can we do both the u.s. unilaterally, the u.s. as part of a western movement, the public side of it, the private side of it, what can we do to protect ourselves from cyber attacks, when you see the biggest meat supplier in the country shut down, when you see the owners of the biggest gas energy pipeline in the country shut down. that s got to get your