>>> meat producer hit by a cyber attack senator angus king will join us to talk about what washington thinks should happen next. >>> good morning and welcome back to "squawk box" right here on cnbc. i'm andrew ross sorkin along with becky quick and joe kernen. yes, it is true. you can see it live and in color. we are back in person altogether around the same table this morning right here at the nasdaq joe, you don't get it by yourself anymore. >> no. >> the american flag is gone that was my seat >> keeping it warm for everybody. >> there was not one of these things kyle is back, too. hey, kyle. >> hey. >> hey, kyle he's got the steady cam which

and that the members of congress mike gallagher angus king that actually wrote in the report last year we need a paradigm shift. host: he came on this program last year to talk about those issues and then you mention the colonial attack yesterday on capitol hill a very high profile ceo of colonial talking about the attack and the response. here's a little bit of what he had to say. >> and in exchange for the key to unlock those systems we had defenses in place but the unfortunate reality is those were compromise. and then to make difficult choices that no company ever wants to face the then to isolate and contain the attack

joining us now, senator angus king, independent of maine.ependent who caucuses with the democrats and joins us live from maine. thanks so much for joining us, senator. you said this week that you cannot overstate how concerned you are with the cyberattacks. you co-chair the cyberspace commission and sit on the u.s. intelligence committee. what are you most concerned about and has the u.s. responded offensively through retaliatory cyberattacks? >> well, you've asked two or three questions there. i'll take the last one first. there has been some responses. both from nsa and from the biden administration in terms of things like sanctions. so there have been responses, but i think we need to step that up. one of the problems is over the past 15 or 20 years as we've had these series of cyberattacks from north korea, russia, china, we really haven't responded. we've been a cheap date and you can't defend yourself simply by bobbing, weaving and patching. the accedversary has to realize there will be a cost for attacking the united states or our cri

angus king, jeanne shaheen. tom: let's go to angus king, the gentleman from maine.t is angus king's power in negotiation with the president of the united states? emily: has a moderate end of cap -- as a moderate democrats, he can try to make inroads between senator manchin and president biden because he is someone who mention can look at and say this guy is -- who manchin can look at and say this guy is a democrat, but he has the independent streak in him, and shape thinking on certain things. this isn't a vacuum. certainly the senators speak to each other, and i'm sure there are plenty of discussions between moderate centers of the party and where they think they can go, what pressure they might be able to assert on the more progressive members of their party, as well as party leadership area -- party leadership. tom: emily wilkins, thank you so much. much busier than i thought it would be here in early june in washington. lisa, i prepared for our interview with mattias corman with the oecd, a gentleman from belgium, with a germanic education. he lands up in perth,

>> do you think senator manchin should be leaving the door open more like angus king is? >> regardless of what i think, i think manchin is telling us what he's going to do. listen, he's the middle of the roader. he says, no matter what i will not vote for the filibuster. joe biden and the democrats have to figure out how to go around that and what they are going to do it, and it's going to take a lot more than what it will take angus king to change joe manchin, and he's a crucial vote. i think he enjoys the fact that he is a crucial vote, and it comes with a lot of power, and there's no reason for him to put out this op-ed today except to say stop asking me, folks, i'm not moving, not budging, and this is where i am, will be and where i will stay. >> i definitely think it seems as though he's sending out the message, the signal to other democrats saying the pressure is not going to work and this is where i stand. anna, bill, thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> we have got a cnn exclusive coming up later in the hour that you won't want to miss. senate sergeant

and senator kelly from arizona, senators hasan and somewhat hone from new hampshire and senator angus king from maine. how many senate democrats share these concerns behind the scenes but haven't been asked 300 times a day like manchin has? >> well, look, i think that the filibuster ends up producing legislation that stands the test of time. that being said, the filibuster can and has been abused greatly and continues to be abused. look at the -- the january 6th commission as a prime example. so, look, i want to see the filibuster stay in place, but if people are going to use it just to block legislation because they can, then we're going to have to re-evaluate it. i'm not there yet, but i will tell you votes like the january 6th commission were very disturbing. i was here. i saw what happened. you saw what happened. this is a big deal. we need to get to the bottom of it, and it's not about politics. it's about this nation. it's about how we move forward. it's about if we're going to let domestic extremism and domestic violence rule the day, and i'm not in that group. i think we need to fi

angus king, the senator. and thomas friedman and mohamed el-erian >> he's upstairs >>> let's talk about the corporate stories. elon musk saying the price of tesla vehicles pricing because of the pressures in the auto industry he made the statement with the response to a tweet. tesla increased the model 3 and model y prices intel ceo pat gelsinger saying it could take years for the global chip shortage to resolve itself speaking the trade show in t'aipei. the work from home experience led to the explosive growth which placed a huge strain on global supply chains >>> in other corporate news, i love that, leading into this cloudera near a deal to be taken private by kkr bloomberg puts the price at $17 a share. the data cloud company largest shareholder is ikon. >>> and eamon javers heavy on this beat. major tech news to talk about. not bacon, that's probably next. the world's largest meat producer that was hit. jbs says units in australia and north america were hit over the weekend by the organized cyber attacks

and that the members of congress mike gallagher angus king that actually wrote in the report last year we need a paradigm shift. host: he came on this program last year to talk about those issues and then you mention the colonial attack yesterday on capitol hill a very high profile ceo of colonial talking about the attack and the response. here's a little bit of what he had to say. >> and in exchange for the key to unlock those systems we had defenses in place but the unfortunate reality is those were compromise. and then to make difficult choices that no company ever wants to face the then to isolate and contain the attack to back up and running safely and with the same law enforcement and federal authorities including the white house we reach out to federal authorities within hours of the attack and they continue to work to be safely restoring operations. thank you to the department of justice and fbi for the progress and say earlier this week also thank you to the colonial pipeline and american people as we responded to the attack and up with a disruption that it cause. we are deepl

it had the support of mark warner and angus king. unfortunately the republicans voted it down. still there. , along with other changes that we can make. senator manchin will have to put forth his ideas because this is a good bail and i am not going to give up the fight. judy: but without significant changes in that bill, paring it down significantly, the expectation is that there will not be an end to this filibuster rule. so the question is, how do you get this done? sen. klobuchar: senator manchin has, in the past, indicated that he would look at a standing filibuster. i guess if you look at the piece that he wrote this weekend, you could say that would in his words, i suppose, strengthen the filibuster. my argument is that these guys, if we are not going to abolish the filibuster, which i favor, because i want to get stuff done and i am sick and tired of this and people many plating the process, then at least make them stand and argue that we should not be giving water to voters in line, or that we should not be making it easier for people to vote in the safe way that they w

if they do pull the plug and then you're going to see what angus king does.he president is dealing with a lot on the world stage and calling members of congress from across the atlantic on this? >> well, don't know that he's made any calls yet. his staff is working with people on the hill. he'll get involved if he thinks he can make a difference. the issue is, though, they don't have any choice but to go through this process. because the only way that they're going to keep all 50 democrats together behind what joe biden wants to do in the end, in a democrats only push, is if they go through this stage first. collapse this week. this is the remaining stage of the bipartisan process. it involves joe manchin and cinema who are two of those 50 essential democratic votes. if if they can't succeed here, then the question is going to be do they fall behind biden? i think the belief in the white house is that they will. but there is no choice but to go through this process, try to talk it out. explore how they're willing to pay for it. joe biden has hands full on the

on party lines through the senate, which is why even though, you know, one independent senator angus kingnts to -- is now open to nuking the filibuster it doesn't matter because these two senators do not want to get rid of the filibuster. >> you can't get it done without manchin and sinema. >>> secretary of state antony blinken says russia has an obligation to crack down on cyber attacks like the ones that targeted the jbs meat company and the colonial pipeline that both caused supply shortages. blinken tells cnn espaÑol the kremlin must stop harboring criminal enterprises. >> in the case of the attack on the colonial pipeline the enterprise responsible for that attack its leaders were in russia -- are in russia. so i think there's an obligation on russia's part to make sure that that doesn't continue. we also need countries around the world to make commitments and then make good on those commitments not to harbor criminal enterprise that is engage in these attacks and on the contrary to seek them out and to stop them and to bring them to justice. >> jbs says it is set to resume productio

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now have 11 republicans on board, 10 members of the democratic caucus including the independent angus king of maine. they are gathering more and more support as they move forward. i think there's really two camps here. one is the progressives that want president biden to go big with multitrillion dollar packages including infrastructure, but also other measures including health care and perhaps immigration. this group of bipartisan senators, they want a more narrow approach and they think they are on the cusp of something bipartisan, which is really what president biden has emphasized during his campaign and also during his presidency, is that he wants to restore bipartisanship to washington and they think they are really on the cusp of doing something. this would include about $1 trillion of infrastructure, more traditional infrastructure spending. about $580 billion of that would be new spending. i think this is a pretty critical week to see what could actually be done on a bipartisan basis, or if the talks fall apart and president biden decides he's going to go big on infrastructure and

romney and lindsey graham and susan collins, to folks like debbie stabenow and jeanne shaheen and angus king here we spent a lot of different committees let me mention three things that are think a of che that i think are important. every one of the 14 senators in this group including those seven republicans agree ceos, leaders of major companies, oil and gas companies, business organizations like the chamber of commerce, folks who lead major companies like ford and gm are major financial services companies. and every single one of them has said the climate is changing, humans are causing it, we have to change it, and we need to put a price on carbon. that's a a big change from wht you would ever from the ceos of major companies five to ten years ago. last, this is a i think hasn't been reported or covered as much, there's a real enthusiasm in the conservative religious community amongst evangelicals for tackling climate change, and pope francis as the world leader of catholicism has taken on climate change as one of his top priorities. that's changing some of the conversation back home. whe

but many democrats like independent senator angus king said this could be worth changing the filibuster. >> if it comes down to voting rights and the rights of americans to go to the polls and select their leaders versus the filibuster, i'll choose democracy. >> but, of course, the thing with the filibuster is they need joe manchin if they're going to get rid of it and therein lies the rub. >> it really does. we had the progressive from new york on and it pissed him off. he said joe manchin is holding back democracy, and that view is held by progressive democrats, but is it justified? harry is with us, senior political analyst. harry, if not joe manchin, who in west virginia? what can democrats reasonably expect if he is not senator there? >> a republican, that's what they can expect. these are west virginia political facts. biden's 2020 west virginia vote just 30%. in the entire congress, how many democrats are in congress where biden won by less than 40 besides joe manchin? zero. zero, zero, zero. biden's vote share needs to be 10% higher to get near any democrat in the entire house o

host: it was angus king who came on the program last year when that report came out to talk about the issues. you can watch that on c-span.org . you mentioned the colonial attack. on capitol hill, high-profile testimony, joseph blount, talking about the attack and their response. years a little bit. [video clip] >> darkside demanded a financial payment to unlock the systems. we had cyber defenses in place but the reality is those defenses were compromised. the attack forced us to make difficult choices in real-time that no company ever wants to face. but i am proud of the way our people reacted quickly to isolate and contain the attack so that we could get the pipeline back up and running safely. i'm also very grateful for the immediate and sustained support of law enforcement and federal authorities, including the white house. we reached out to federal authorities within hours of the attack, and they have been true allies as we have worked quickly and safely restored our operations. i especially want to thank the department of justice and the fbi for their leadership and the progress

angus king told me he does not support lowering that threshold down to 51 votes.hat means at the moment they need to get ten republicans to break ranks and there's no sign this is going to happen. that's why democrats want to make this an issue heading into the midterm elections and blame republicans for blocking their efforts. >>> now to the president's plan to take on crime. kaitlan collins is live at the white house. tell us about this meeting he's soon hosting and the strategy he's laying out. >> reporter: i think what this shows is the white house realizes this is an issue, so they want it to look like president biden is at the forefront of it and is addressing it and also addressing ways to change the numbers and send them in the other direction. of course, given the rise in violent crime we've seen play out in the united states over the last few months, that's why they're dedicating an entire day to it, having him meet with the attorney general and senators throughout the day and then he's going to come out and make remarks on it. they're saying gun violenc

but a lot of democratic senators including angus king told jake tapper this morning he wouldn't support it as it is. in the op ed he said he would support the john lewis voting rights act and says there is bipartisan support to do so. i think the filibuster should be reformed. i think we are doing everything we can to reform our democracy. >> also, to be fair, jim, as you know, hr-1 is a very sweeping bill that does more than just voting rights. it also includes a comprehensive campaign finance reform action as well as other things. you know, you can do -- the reason the hr-4, the voting rights act, is separate is because it is but pun part of hr-1, you can be for voting rights and not be for hr-1 as a democrat. >> absolutely. i think what you are going to see over the next several months is a real debate over this issue because these republican state house bills that have been sweeping the country just raced ahead of, you know, any, you know, movement that you could possibly see in washington. things move incredibly -- at a glacial pace here in washington. and the state bills move so f

. >> as senator angus king, independent of maine was on the sunday show, this is the biggest thing thatocrats are not acting on, not moving on which is the move to take power away from people like brad raffensperger who is a republican but operated in a very fair and objective way as the secretary of state of georgia, take power away from him and give it to the legislature, and the legislature is currently reap warnings but the point is you want -- you shouldn't take it away from the people whose job it is to be objective and give it to people whose job it is to be subjective. >> the way a secretary of state sworks to have relationships with all the officials in the counties and the cities, and that is an administration drought. why bob and i decided to write the op-ed is we were co-chairs of a presidential commission back in 2013 and '14. we spent a lot of time talking to local and state election officials, and we both had the impression that no matter the political party, those election officials were with, their goal, their motive was to run a fair election which allowed people to vo

. >> reporter: angus king was one of the ten senators that did kt this deal.hey'll have to draft the legislation, see if they have enough support to move forward. and at the same time, jake, democrats are preparing to move along straight party lines through the budget process that's already set in motion. they plan to do that next month. even if this bill, this bipartisan group fails, democrats have an alternative but need to get their caucus in line to do that. >> so shelly moore c-capito, wh was negotiating with the white house and biden eventually sent her on her way, she says the agreement that this bipartisan group came up with looks similar to what she proposed weeks ago. >> reporter: the question is what exactly is in here? they're getting general reports of the details here. and from what ind is that what they are briefing their members are on just general parameters and outlines of what's in this agreement. it's clear what ultimately they will support this. are there actually 10 republicans who could support had? that's another question all together.

but your senate majority leader, joe manchin and senator sinema, a whole bunch not voicing it, angus kingnt senator from maine. he caucuses with the democrats. i asked him about this yesterday. >> do you support the bill as written? >> no, i think there are things that can be modified and chuck schumer knows that and amy klobuchar, i've said that all along. it's an 800 or 900,000-page bill and there's clearly things that need to be negotiated and joe manchin realizes that. >> my point is this. it's not just joe manchin. >> it's not just joe manchin. there's democratic election officials in the state saying this bill is not what we need right now. you're sneelder, you're democratic leader, what do you do? >> i get those old schoolhouse rock videos out and teach people again how a bill becomes a law, right? this thing is -- needs negotiation. i'm for the bill completely. >> it passed the house in march. >> it did. >> but it can't pass the senate. >> i'm not a reporter, but i have spoken to people who wrote the bill and about manchin and they said to me we're open for business. they want to

but i do think it poses the question, which angus king, the senator raised essentially saying that wend russia in the past and now it's coming back to bite us. the question is how does the u.s. ramp that up? what does that look like? because, of course, putin has a little bit of deniability because they can say it's a criminal group, not actually the russian state but they harbor these groups. the white house says they do believe if you are harboring these groups you are responsible. >> biden has teased out he's willing to go a little bit harder, he was asked, i believe, last week if putin is pushing him around. and biden poked his head back in the room and said, absolutely not. we saw an executive order that told private companies in the u.s., get your security up a little bit but beyond biden knocking on all of the doors there's not much a senior administration official can do beyond write op-eds in the "wall street journal" and you hear, i think it was the sergeant at arms say she's more scared of a cyberattack than the insurrection, which puts pressure on the white house to think,

. >> now, look at this tweet by maine senator angus king, quote, in maine we have no voter i.d. laws, we have same-day registration. we have no-excuse absentee voting, we have early voting, we have 24/7 drop boxes, and we have virtually no fraud. expanding ballot access does not encourage fraud, it encourages voting. now, that's an independent senator in mostly a white state. should democrats be talking about more about the laws designed to make it easier for people of all parties and all races to vote to counter republicans who want to make voting inconvenient for everyone over extremely rare instances of fraud? >> i think so. i think we need to expand access to voting wherever we can both in the states and at the federal level. as senator king indicated, we know when you expand access to voting, that doesn't increase fraud. fraud is incredibly rare in every state in the country regardless of whether they have easy access to voting or more restrictive access. so things like automatic voter registration, long hours for early voting can help make voting easier. we need to make su

. >> angus king and john tester said even though they are not in favor of getting rid of the filibuster they are more likely to do it when it comes to a investigate right bill. thanks to all of you. appreciate it. >>> coming up next, vice president harris on a trip focused on immigration. still has not gone to the border. the vp talks about that ahead and a secret trove of urz files exposed showing how big-time billionaires are getting away with paying almost nothing in federal income taxes to uncle sam. that's next. versus the other guys. ♪ clearly, velveeta melts creamier. (vo) conventional thinking doesn't disrupt the status quo. which is why t-mobile for business uses unconventional thinking to help your business realize new possibilities. only one 5g partner offers unmatched network, support, and value-without any trade offs. so, you have diabetes, here are some easy rules to follow. no. you know what you want? no fettuccine. no fries with that. no foods you love. no added salt. no added sugar. in a can? you can-not. no pizza. have that salad. unless there's dressing. then, no. rem

steve: really >> jimmy: yeah, for instance, let me show you, sentator john hoeven, sent senator angus kingwhen we were both pan am pilots in 1988 [ cheers and applause >> steve: he's paying back an old debt >> jimmy: he's paying back an old debt yeah >> steve: yeah yeah, by using a modern -- >> jimmy: and then next up - >> steve: what >> jimmy: senator mark kelly sent senator rand paul $15 for borrowing one of his poodle toupees. [ slidewhistle ] [ cheers and applause next up, senator james lankford sent senator ron wyden $60 for matching t-shirts that say, "we hate the sun." [ laughter ] >> steve: oh wow >> jimmy: here's another one here, senator gary peters sent congressman don young $3 for unlocking my iphone with your face [ laughter ] isn't that unbelievable? >> steve: wow. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: can you imagine that >> steve: no, it's crazy >> jimmy: next up, senator joe -- >> steve: charge him $3 for that >> jimmy: he charged $3. >> steve: yeah >> jimmy: just to see if he could do it. >> jimmy: hey, you can do it >> jimmy: hey, can you unlock - >> steve: you think it was like, i'll

your colleague, independent senator angus king of maine who caucuses with democrats, he tells cnn thats to try again to reach a deal with republicans on election reform legislation. do you think that there is potentially common ground to be found on this, a more narrow bill? or do you think democrats and republicans are just too diametrically opposed on this? >> well, look, i hope that we can reach common ground. preserving the right to vote and the ability to cast that vote is the very essence of representative democracy. yet, what we see across the country over 400 actions taken by republican legislatures and introducing bills that restrict the right to vote, that make it far more difficult to cast a vote, particularly in minority communities. that's a telltale sign of where republicans really are at. so it is my hope that if it wasn't for the people, that then tell us what you're for at the end of the day to see what we can come together on common ground, at least to advance some of the democracy gains that we should be having in our society and make sure that everybody who is eligi

supported by all of the senators on the committee, including moderate senators in and the independent angus king but theepublicans voted that down, so that's a good place to start. >> woodruff: are you saying that you believe now there's a real chance this can be revived, that you can get senator manchin to agree to something that's a different looking bill? >> of course, i do, or i wouldn't be standing here saying it to you. i believe so strongly in voting rights, and people stood in line in milwaukee in garbage bags with home maid masks just to exercise their right to vote. people in texas had a deal with one ballot box dropoff place in harris county, texas, with 5 million people. these are outrageous stories that went on around the country, yet 8 million more people voted. we've seen joe biden win by that many votes, you've seen record turnout in the ddle of a pandemic because people cared about voting, and instead of simply chaining their policies and reaching out in different ways, the republican party has said, you know what, we're just going to make it harder for people to vote. and i thi

i am pleased that working together with junior senator angus king and university of maine and other statewidepartners. we are one of 40 organizations to have>> received funding through the geriatric workforce education program. in conclusion, successfullyve addressing america's health care workforce crisis will require not really acting on each of these five strategies in isolation but seamlessly integrating them. strategic investment will be required40 but much reflects cultural changes that will require strong leadership, a willingness to innovate and coordinated partnership again between academia, government, industry and the nonprofit sector brand grateful for0, your time and happy to address any questions, thank you very much. thank you very much doctor herbert. i have been impressed from the panelists and from the members here there is a general consensus about what the crisis is improbably the direction we have to go forward. about 400 questions but i have time for three or four. doctor mcdougall made an interesting point which we don't talk about enough. i would like each of you to te

there's a bipartisan solution and i've worked with angus king called the repay act. we are ready to get to work if only someone from the white house would pick up the phone and call. you should have my number but if you don't it said burr. senate.gov will give you my telephone number. why are we having a discussion on k-12 reopening? are we concerned with the teachersrs union what they will save we demand the schools reopen this fall quick lesser publicans are blocked in our efforts to demand school reopenings. will we be blocked again and will union say they don't want to go back s to school this fal? the children are must -- much less likely than a dirt dad told stays suffer severe masses. teachers can be safely vaccinated thanks to operation warp speed we got safe and effective vaccines approved in record time and every adult in thisn country including every teacher has had plenty of time to get vaccinated at this point. science tells us to win over 12 be vaccinated and hopefully this fall and winter the vaccines will be approved for younger children as well and u

host: that is independent senator angus king of maine. daniel on facebook writing "the u.s. government cannot prevent cyberattacks unless you are attempting to advocate for the government to take over the internet. the answer to that question is no." we are asking you whether the government is doing enough to prevent cyber threats and attacks. this is from cnn.com, more numbers. 15,000 ransomware incidents in the last year, the u.s. being hit by that number against organizations last year alone according to a threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm emisoft. they cost the u.s. between $596 million to $2.3 billion in 2020 in ransomware payments and loss of productivity. the true figures might be higher because the estimates only count for confirmed cases of ransomware incidents. the last several years, threat actors have been successful at hitting larger enterprises in newsworthy attacks. rich is joining us, fredericksburg, virginia, good morning. caller: good morning. if you could put your hand on a red-hot eye and it doesn't hurt then you will not fear it. we need a team of

i mean, just to hear the story should get people to galvanize center. angus can king, who is an independent but caucuses. what the democrats says, my hair is on fire. when hearing these type of things, i'm a member of the american legion, we been pressing the congress to change the laws. so these people can get it more quickly. i think the biden administration finally waking up to the, the problem because when they talked about getting out of afghanistan by, you know, the anniversary of 911. they didn't get deal with this right away. they should have been dealing with it when they knew they were leaving victoria your reaction to what you heard from our is the there, there it's it just, i mean, we know there's a huge problem here for so many people, but it really personalized it sent me for me then hearing about what she's going to and the fear that she has as well. i've said with you. and i think that, you know, one should always remember that there is no need to be a ration and know keith and no development operation without the help of national staff and everything that we have been doing

the problem is not only joe manchin but kyrsten sinema as well as angus king.so looking at blowing up the filibuster and saying i'm not really on board with voting rights act. a lot of this stuff has nothing to do with voting rights. when it comes to infrastructure. i'm not for going from 35 to 28. i'm not even maybe 25. tops. but we're not -- when you talk about corporate tax rate, we're not competing with america. we are competing with other countries. so it's not a matter of corporations against the working class. and then when -- in the big picture, joe manchin is holding the line. he is not voting for this. because he represents a conservative state. he also represents senator robert byrd. for everything robert byrd was. he was a compromiser. he was for people negotiating in order to get a piece of legislation. he was not for banning the filibuster and jamming it down people's throats while people will point out that joe manchin voted 100 percent of the time with joe biden and you are right. he says on all these three. and he wrote an op-ed yesterday. that

now have 11 republicans on board, 10 members of the democratic caucus including the independent angus king of maine. they are gathering more and more support as they move forward. i think there's really two camps here. one is the progressives that want president biden to go big with multitrillion dollar packages including infrastructure, but also other measures including health care and perhaps immigration. this group of bipartisan senators, they want a more narrow approach and they think they are on the cusp of something bipartisan, which is really what president biden has emphasized during his campaign and also during his presidency, is that he wants to restore bipartisanship to washington and they think they are really on the cusp of doing something. this would include about $1 trillion of infrastructure, more traditional infrastructure spending. about $580 billion of that would be new spending. i think this is a pretty critical week to see what could actually be done on a bipartisan basis, or if the talks fall apart and president biden decides he's going to go big on infrastructure and

reporter: senator angus king of maine described this as virtual battlefield. >> conflict can take placein a pipeline company or an electric company or in a water service utility anywhere in america. reporter: this is why there are increasing calls from private industry for the government to develop policies to respond to hacks. now easterly told lawmakers there were 24 ransomware attacks last year. attackers demanded $320 million in cryptocurrency. neil? >> chad, thank you very much for that. want to go to phil keating on another bubbling development right now in the sunshine state they're pushing a vote on critical race theory. what is going on, phil? reporter: neil, as expected 25 minutes ago the florida department of education adopted a new academic standards next year widely reviewed as a official rejection of critical race theory. a vast majority approved the new measure. critical race theory deals with american history, specifically regarding slavery and the jim crow era and how those negatively impacted the lives of minorities. how exactly that is taught and to what extent it is

host: it was angus king who came on the program last year when that report came out to talk about thessues. you can watch that on c-span.org . you mentioned the colonial attack. on capitol hill, high-profile testimony, joseph blount, talking about the attack and their response. years a little bit. [video clip] >> darkside demanded a financial payment to unlock the systems. we had cyber defenses in place but the reality is those defenses were compromised. the attack forced us to make difficult choices in real-time that no company ever wants to face. but i am proud of the way our people reacted quickly to isolate and contain the attack so that we could get the pipeline back up and running safely. i'm also very grateful for the immediate and sustained support of law enforcement and federal authorities, including the white house. we reached out to federal authorities within hours of the attack, and they have been true allies as we have worked quickly and safely restored our operations. i especially want to thank the department of justice and the fbi for their leadership and the progress t

brian: bret baier did tell me yesterday senator warner, senator tester and senator angus king aren'tre you go talking about bret baier. brian: he likes you too. steve: i only talk to his wife his wife gave me a recipe for chicken and art choke. brian: not going to help with the talking point but it's. steve: democrats realize they have to do something right away because the writing is on the wall. with stuff like this going on where liberal democrats blow up the filibuster and change society they are going to lose midterms. and everybody knows that who has a brain. ainsley: are you all hearing that joe manchin definitely will stick to his guns? yesterday i heard some people they were worried that he was going to flip flop because he usually does vote with the democrats. steve: in 2017 and i got sidetracked when we were talking about bret baier's wife. in 2017. brian: you were talking about bret baier's wife. steve: i was. a bipartisan group of senators sent a note and supported the filibuster. 33 of them were democrats. 33 democrats supported the filibuster in 201 including joe manch