and at the south florida level, we have a fusion center that has 132 different agencies working together to swap information and perform joint training exercises and it s been focused on international terrorism when the focus has shifted to domestic threats. that s a sign of the times. all right. mika from a national security perspective, what is your take? well, on international terrorism it s much easier to work with other nations and their connections to overseas terrorist groups. when we talk about domestic terrorism we have a more complicated legal situation involving the first aemgt rights. the republicans are really unwilling to look at the ways in which right wing extremists language is driving people to violence. in fact, in the obama
got a solution. yeah. president trump reportedly has an idea to keep the storms from causing damage to the u.s. nuclear bombs. nuclear bombs against hurricanes, according to axios trump has suggested multiple times to homeland security and national security officials that they explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the u.s. you know, mika, remember when we had warned everybody in i think it was july or august of the election year, 2016, that foreign policy people had gone in to talk to then candidate trump. yeah. and his solution to iran w was why can t we use nuclear weapons, north korea, why can t we use nuclear weapons against north korea and just generally asking being very frustrated, asking his foreign policy experts well, if we had built all of the nuclear weapons, why can t we use them? so now i guess he just wants a way to use
they need to invest in cyber security and firewalls. they need to bring on consultants. maybe they can bring on john podesta as a consultant about how not to open up emails with a strange attachments. they need to fix this and fast and the fbi says that most of the attackers come from overseas. and so the fbi is doing their part. it s time for the governments themselves to build up the defenses now. and mika, what is your take? it just seems like nothing gets done on some of the most important issues of our time. yeah. this is a very frustrating situation because we re in the middle of a cybercrime wave where we see as many as one in four american households hit by the kind of crimes. the ransomware rates are through the roof. what s challenging about this, you can spend all you want on defense. but we know and i know this from
the hateful talk that you have put out there? clear examples of it. why should they just turn the page on that? like why did you do that? well, mika, they have to decide that, but all i can is i can apologize for all the things that helped lead to trump. over the course of the last six years i have sent out 40,000 tweets. you and me and joe can find two to three hundred you d have your head scratching and i have to own those and explain those. i felt like we were at the tip of the sphere when we went to washington. it was a fight for this country. and we let i let that fight get personal and ugly sometimes. i have to own that stuff. apologize for that stuff, mika. and to compare it to trump again, correct me if i m wrong, this man s never apologized for anything. so here i am in front of you this morning. yes, raising my hands.
aronberg, and vice president for the national security program mika oyang. nice to meet you. good to have you in the shot. and watching you over the past few months going i can t wait to have her on. same name. but let s start with dave aronberg. the lack of a statute on the book, when we have had stories in the past six months of journalists being targeted and analysts and nothing can be done. it seems to make no sense. any headway from a prosecutor s point of view of a way to get around this? mika, there has not been headway in passing the needed domestic terrorism law, but the state of florida did pass a red flag law about a year and a half ago after the parkland massacre. that law is being used by law enforcement to take to get a judge to take away guns from someone who is deemed to be a threat to himself or others. it s been used about 2,500 times