professor easterly for a wonderful presentation. >> thank you very much. >> [ applause ] >> interested in american history? watch american history television on c-span tv. 48 hours of people and events that document the american story. visit our website for more information. booktv covers hundreds of author programs throughout the country all year long. here is a look at some of events we will attend this week: look for the programs to air in the near future. we are in princeton, new jersey on tuesday for the count of of "lines of descent" he talks

with cornel west at princeton university. and then we go to book passage bookstore in california we recall the rescue of 50 jewish children in viena in 1939. and then ralph nader speaks in washington, d.c. and he says people are gathering together to fight against the corporations. that is a look at the programs we will be covering this week. for more go to our website and visit upcoming programs >> kevin freeman, what do you do for a living? >> i am an investment manager.

>> host: and what is the the thesis of this book? >> guest: enemies of the united states, radical islam and elements in russia noticed how vulnerable we were and they started targeting aig, citi bank

and using techniques with the intent of crashing our stalk market. sounds like a conspiracy theory but it isn't. the former treasure secretary said the russian's approaches the chinese and said if we dumpthdump the holdings of the american debt we can crater the economy. and the russians did it and it worseni worsened our situation. >> you have a follow up. >> i got into the chinese dock doctrine that was written by the people's public of china and two colonels wrote this in 1999 and said the best way to beat

america is wall street attack, cyber attacks or ruining the currency. so i looked at what happened in 2008- 2008-2009. and i looked forward to what could be happening. our next war is going to be cyber economic in nature and say they will crash the economy if they get into war. that is what vladimer putin said when he invaded the ukraine. and he said we will slap sanction on you his response was you don't want to do that because i can crash your strong market and i can hack your financial system and dump the dollar. the things i wrote about in 2008 and covered in "game plan".

that book says where do you save? invest? put everything in gold? buy silver? >> as a money manager today, are you in the stock market? >> i am. the stock market in a currency collapse performs well. i am a zimbabwe currency and they were producing bills that you could exchange for a $20 u.s. that is what they were producing in 2008. their currency collapsed and they were $100 trillion bills not worth a penny. the their stock market did well. i cover this in the book, if a currentry collection happens you don't want to avoid the market. the question is what kind of

economic attack would we face, what will do and how do you respond. you look at the offense and say they will pass, if they pass you want to pass. if they want to run, you run defense. we cover all types of investments and clashes and how you respond. >> what kind of defense do we have up against an economic attack? >> unfortunately we don't have anything at the national level. the outgoing member of the nsa said on "60 minutes" he said our enemies know how to crater our financial system and we cannot stop it. we cannot stop hackers at target. iran hacked the navy website.

it is the new form of warfare and that is why putin is so confidant because he is saying if you do that we can crater your market. there is little we can do at the federal level. we are trying. i am working with groups in the government to figure out solutions. imagine n you were in hawaii in 1941 and someone said if the japanese start bombing this is what you should do. if the russian or chinese start attacking us "game plan" tells you how to respond. >> what is one piece of advice? >> everyone says we will pay you to go paperless.

don't do it. in 2011, when the trade towers were hit, i had a line of credit in one of the companies housed in those towers. i accessed that to pay playroll because all of the money dried up. i had to go with my paper statement and convince jp morgan chase, at the time it was bank one, to let me get the loan. that is one solid piece of advice. another is keep more than two days of food and water in your pantry. if the electric grid were hacked and taken down it might take a week or ten days or longer if it were a serious attack like an

emp. keep a little food on supply and hand. we live in a just in time society. but we are the only nation in the world that doesn't have access to food or water beyond a day or two. i am not talking about being crazy and moving into the basement as a preparation. and prepers seem less and less crazy to me all of the time. but i am talking about keeping a week or ten days worth of food supply on-hand on a regular bases because if something goes down you need to eat. you need a gallon per person per day in the household. this could happen from hurricane sandy or katrina or flood or fire or a natural solar flare that could wipe out our eelectric grid for a short time

or long time. so keep a little food and water on hand is practical advice two. >> in the subtitle you say this is a coming cyber economic attack. when is it coming? >> i don't know. but i can tell you it will come. we get 10 million hacking attempts a day. everybody in the government, both sides of the aisle will tell you we will have a cyber pearl harbor at some point. al qaeda has recruited some of the best hackers in the world. the supreme leader of iran went down and showed on the iranian news network showed all of the hackers they are training and their intention is to attack the united states and west. every day there are hacks. the syrian army hacked the

whitehouse tweet and sent out a feed saying the whitehouse was hit and the stock market picked up on that and it dropped 1%. what if they did that within that. >> brand new out is "game plan" and this is booktv on c-span 2. >> to see we are in the sixth x extinction is serious and some might say we are on the verge and maybe it can be prevented and others would say we are deep into it is we are changing the

world radically and fast. not unlike an asteroid. and in fact you will hear and i have heard a scientist say this time we, human beings, are the asteroid. how are we changing the world on an asteroid-like scale? actually there is a lot of ways. but i will focus on three tonight. how we are changing the atmosphere, how we are changing the oceans and how we are changing what darwin calls the principles of geographical distribution. let's talk about the atmosphere. dot ...

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