we did it with both melissa hathaway and howard schmidt after that. we have had thousands of meetings either directly or through telecommunications with all kind of people. we have made adjustments. we meet with so many people, and we have made so many tweaks just to get it so that it could pass. it has got to have critical infrastructure, which is what the republican bill doesn't have now, but i think that will change. we have to protect our federal situation, the so-called dot-gov. we have to have a lot of research and development. we have to develop a lot more talent for people who are up to speed on cybersecurity to keep up with other countries and other actors. it is critically important. i compare it to 9/11, except is his much more obviously than 9/11. 9/11, you suspected there were people coming in and out of the country. you couldn't keep up with their movements, but you had a bad feeling about it. something would go on at the minneapolis f.b.i. station, and it won't get to headquarters. then there were dots to be connected, people living in

. >>> now let's turn to howard fineman, nbc news political analyst and editorial director of "the huffington post" and steve schmidt, served as a senior adviser to senator john mccain's presidential campaign. howard, what are you hearing from the campaigns tonight in the wake of this? >> well, i think the santorum campaign thinks that, at best, there's a semicolon, neither a period or exclamation point, there's another half of the sentence, and they think the next half of the sentence are some of the states chuck was talking about, louisiana and wisconsin, but also they had a long conference call today, earlier today, ed, that i was on in which the santorum people were lay bore yously going over the places rick santorum can end up winning more delegates than you might think because he's going to do well at the district, county, state conventions in states such as iowa, missouri, colorado, minnesota, states that had beauty pageant caucus and primary votes but where the real, hard, nitty gritty work of getting the delegates is only now happening. santorum were spending a lot of time on that earlier today because they

. >> amish but, thank you -- emily schmidt, thank you. >> a fight in howard county is caught on videot hits the internet and goes a viral. school officials say this was started by somebody who is not a student. jennifer franciotti has more. >> it was yesterday afternoon when school officials say a man when to long reach high school and tried to attack a student. this ended with the man lying on the ground. now the video has been seen by more than half a million people. it is an afternoon flight that is gone viral. it happened at columbia's long reach high school just after the dismissal. a man in a ski mask confronted and try to assault a student. the man is knocked to the ground. the boy is seen throwing a punch. that student was defending himself. >> the situation is under investigation. it has been turned over to the police department. >> it may have started forming taunting incident at the school. a girl has been charged and the man who came to the school may have ties to the girls caretaker. this is the video that has gone viral with more than 600,000 hits. a child psychologist s