Also have offensive capability where we can use cyber capabilities to go after those attacking us and show that when they do this, they have to pay a price. neil: leon panetta, thanks, sir. the former white house chief of staff. a bipartisan call to arms here to acknowledge the fact that this keeps happening, we have to do something. the time for pussy footing around the issue is over. a lot of you might have heard back and forth of interviews with dr. fauci of what he knew and when he knew it regarding the origin of covid-19. all the news networks have pounded that to death. some say he s a giant. i m not interested in that. i m interested in going forward and a comment that he made where covid goes from here. we re not out of the woods after
We have to develop better technology to deal with this. we have to develop the kind of expertise, cutting edge expertise that is required if we re going to deal with these adversaries of ours and the criminal operations that are basically attacking the united states of america. neil: you know, i was talking to a military operative on fox business. the issue came up, if they re going to keep hacking us and keep going after us, we can do the same. we can be hacking each other. what do you think of that? as i said, we need to have a very strong defense. remember when i went into the cia, i was told we were getting 100,000 attacks a day. i m sure that has multiplied several fold since i was there. so we re getting a lot of attacks. i think it s absolutely critical to have a very good defense and
Or not, is that a sign of more to come and will that come ahead of the big summit in a couple weeks? i don t think there s any question about that, neil. i ve been saying it for a long time. cyber is the battlefield of the future. we can see it now happening before our eyes. you ve got these sophisticated viruses that can be deployed into our computer systems. virtually shut them down. you have the potential today for a cyber attack that could take down our electric grid system, take down our transportation systems, our chemical systems, our water systems. take down our financial systems. you could virtually paralyze this country with a massive cyber attack. that clearly is something that we should be concerned about because it s our national security that is at risk.
This stuff could shut down the economy. guess what? if you spend money on this, probably create some jobs as well and stop the economy from shutting down, neil. neil: well-put, charlie gasparino to leon panetta who has been worried about this, former white house chief of staff. leon, very good to see you. thanks nor taking the time. this is not a partisan issue. it s a scary national security issue, isn t it? this is not just criminal activity by trying to get ransomware as a result of impacting on our infrastructure. i think this is a national security issue. when you have a cyber attack that can shut down the colonial pipeline and create chaos on the
Don t see any reason to do it. you have to meet people where they are. lots of reasons that people are vaccinated. some wanted me to give them a ride and sit there where i got vaccinated. i did that. depends on who needs to be vaccinated. there s many different reasons. some of it is procrastinators. some need to be nagged a lot. other people against the vaccine and they may as more and more friends and family get vaccinated as they see, nobody is being controlled by a micro chip a couple days down the road. they may decide to get vaccinated. it s going to be a one onone thing. the people that wanted to get vaccinated did. so you have to take this a step at a time with each person and nudge them the best you can. that will make it s hard but we can continue to inch up. the more we inch up, the better we ll be. neil: doctor, you re a doctor s doctor. you re helping people if they get nervous and they want you with them, you do that. you re a rare breed.