e-mail, it is eight years going back of persistent efforts by foreign governments and others to get into our government and private sector computer systems. look at the chinese hack of opm personnel records, millions of records of americans working for the federal government basically stolen by beijing. what did we do about that? i don t know. patiently nothing. nothing. yeah, nothing. you re right, this is a far greater and far sweeping problem that needs to be addressed. just the abysmal lack of any kind of cyber security in this country is really woefully inadequate, and you see people and countries rather like china, like russia, like the north koreans, you know, making a mockery of the u.s. security systems, and it does have a deleterious impact on u.s. national security. no, absolutely. i mean i think we ve got a kind of missile gap here. i have no doubt america is capable of much stronger action
been this brazen. if you go back to 1960, this has happened before. jfk winning by talking about a missile gap created by eisenhower and nixon but never created. it was a lie. they knew it was a lie but it was effective. it was nixon in 72, not 68 but 72 that talked about his secret peace plan with vietnam. of course three or four years later they asked about the secret peace plan and he said there was never a secret peace plan. politicians do lie. perhaps this is more jarring because it happens in real time and happens so quickly. i think it s more concerning for us today because it s not just our politicians that are doing it. we re now giving our children and grandchildren the idea that news can be fake. i think that s what you would agree with. because everything has been said now by our leading politicians, younger people are now thinking in the same way. and they think, my god, i can
letting the russians get ahead of us in missiles. it frightens people. it s not true. but it frightens people, and it s very effective in the campaign. i believe the soviet union is first in outer space. you, yourself, said to khrushchev, you may be ahead of us in rocket thrust but we re ahead of you in color television. i think that missiles are more important than television. the missile gap was a total lie. we out missiled them at that time better than 100 to 1. if eisenhower came forward and said this kid is not telling the truth, it would have been a different election. let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend,
it frightens people. it s not true. but it frightens people and it s very effective in the campaign. i believe the soviet union is first in outer space. you, yourself, said to khrushchev, you may be ahead of us in rocket thrust but we re ahead of you in color television. i think that color television is not as important as rockets. the missile gap was a total lie. we out missiled them at that time better than 100 to 1. if eisenhower came forward and said this kid is not telling the truth, it would have been a different election. let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
but it frightens people and it s very effective in the campaign. i believe the soviet union is first in outer space. you, yourself, said to chus chev, you may be ahead of us in rocket thrust but we re ahead of you in color television. i think that missiles are more important than television. the missile gap was a total lie. we out missiled them at that time better than 100 to 1. if eisenhower came forward and said this kid is not telling the truth, it would have been a different election. let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.