this failure and it is really a major failure which is now costing americans. reporter: it certainly it and it is a little hard to see paul, even by their own terms. the piece of legislation spending legislation that joe biden did get passed back in march, that was $2 trillion of spending. and then he got the $1 trillion of infrastructure bill spent as well. now all of that spending wasn t going out the door. but they were sending checks to the american people. and upwards of $1400. and it was intended to stimulate the economy. and indeed people were out of work, they were home and then indeed they did spend that money. and some of the other policies that biden administration put in place caused disincentivize people to work and stay home and that created famous supply chain
dollars a year. congress has legislation spending on cybersecurity which has not been approved. they do. that s true. even with that ind coukind of legislation, it s a major challenge and companies are reluctant to call out whether it be china or north korea because they don t want to be a bigger target. our country has to figure out what we are going to do about it. they don t want to expose the fact that they have been cyberattacked. one other thing we ll have to pay attention to in 2015 is the fact that we have troops back in iraq. jim just reported yesterday, 1300 more troops. and that is potentially a real mess what is going on and we haven t covered it as in depth in the last few weeks. we re kind of fighting alongside iran, one of our enemies, and it s really unclear how this is going to play out especially with iran working with the shiite militias in iraq. what is going to happen over there? is there an exit strategy?