currency payments joining us now to discuss is cyber security expert and president of dark intel todd shipley and blue bus co-host and investigative journalist ben swan now ben i want to start with you here what can you tell us about the shutdown and who is actually behind it yes so it's a pretty major shutdown as you're describing here 45 percent of all the energy supply for the east coast runs.

currency payments joining us now to discuss is cyber security expert and president of dark intel todd shipley co-host and investigative journalist ben swan now ben i want to start with you here what can you tell us about this shutdown and who is actually behind it. yes so it's a pretty major shutdown as you're describing here 45 percent of all the energy supply for the east coast runs through this. one pipeline which is based by the way right here in the atlanta area in alpharetta georgia but it is simply is taking fuel all the way through the east coast all the way through louisiana and then into texas ultimately to houston that's where it runs and what we're talking about here is about 2500000 barrels a day of everything from these old to gasoline to jet fuel that run through the pipeline so there's a lot that's at stake here there's a lot of infrastructure that's being affected by it that includes not only you know gasoline and the gasoline supply on the east coast but it also includes fuel for airports so the charlotte airport relies heavily on this pipeline for its fuel as does the atlan

currency payments joining us now to discuss this cyber security expert and president of dark intel todd shipley and blue bus co-host and investigative journalist ben swan now ben i want to start with you here what can you tell us about the shutdown and who is actually behind it. yes so it's a pretty major shutdown as you're describing here 45 percent of all the energy supply for the east coast runs through this one pipeline which is based by the way right here in the atlanta area in alpharetta georgia but it's simply is taking fuel all the way through the east coast all the way through louisiana and then into texas. ultimately houston that's where it runs and what we're talking about here is about 2500000 barrels a day of everything from diesel to gasoline to jet fuel that run through this pipeline so there's a lot that's at stake here there's a lot of infrastructure that's being affected by it that includes not only you know gasoline and the gasoline supply on the east coast but it also includes fuel for airports so the charlotte airport relies heavily on this pipeline for its fuel as does the

currency payments joining us now to discuss is cyber security expert and president of dark intel todd shipley and blue bus co-host and investigative journalist ben swan now ben i want to start with you here what can you tell us about the shutdown and who is actually behind it. yes so it's a pretty major shutdowns you're describing here 45 percent of all the energy supply for the east coast runs through this one pipeline which is based by the way right here in the atlanta area in alpharetta georgia but it's injury is taking fuel all the way through the east coast all the way through louisiana and then into texas ultimately to houston that's where it runs and what we're talking about here is about 2 point $5000000.00 barrels a day of everything from diesel to gasoline to jet fuel that run through the pipeline so there's a lot that's at stake here there's a lot of infrastructure that's being affected by it that includes not only you know gasoline and the gasoline supply on the east coast but it also includes fuel for airports so the charlotte airport relies heavily on this pipeline for its fuel

currency payments joining us now to discuss this cyber security expert and president of dark intel todd shipley and blue bus co-host and investigative journalist ben swan now ben i want to start with you here what can you tell us about the shutdown and who is actually behind it. yes so it's a pretty major shutdown as you're describing here 45 percent of all the energy supply for the east coast runs through this one pipeline which is based by the way right here in the atlanta area in alpharetta georgia but its injury is taking fuel all the way through the east coast all the way through louisiana and then into texas. ultimately houston that's where it runs and what we're talking about here is about 2500000 barrels a day of everything from these old to gasoline to jet fuel that run through this pipeline so there's a lot that's at stake here there's a lot of infrastructure that's being affected by it that includes not only you know gasoline and the gasoline supply on the east coast but it also includes fuel for airports so the charlotte airport relies heavily on this pipeline for its fuel as does t

science at the university of new haven we also have our friend todd shipley the sober security analyst and the president of the dark intel are guys look this is right up your alley it looks to me and to anybody who has my. mother would say can see 2 fingers in front of their face like o.d.o. paid this ransom do you agree. will definitely there's no doubt i think that the issue becomes that if they hadn't paid it they wouldn't be able to respond as effectively and as fast as they did so they paid all right but let me go to you on this i do love to know 'd whether you think that it was done as a joint communiqué or operation with the government of the united states in other words they were working together to say ok let's go ahead we're going to have to pay this they. must have been in the company it's as was mentioned earlier the federal government does not have the tools or the power to dictate how the company should react in a certain sense as of course lines are recommendations coming from. f.b.i. and d.h. as in new scenarios it is best not to pay the ransom to avoid encouraging these sorts of operations. just up the r

the university of new haven and we also have our friend todd shipley the so obvious security is at risk catalyst and the president of the dark intel are guys look this is right up your alley it looks to me and to anybody who has my mother would say can see 2 fingers in front of their face like colonial paid this ransom do you agree. will definitely there's no doubt i think that the issue becomes that if they hadn't paid it they wouldn't be able to respond as effectively and as fast as they did so they paid. but let me go to you on this i do love to know 'd whether you think that it was done as a joint communiqué or operation with the government of the united states in other words they were working together to say ok let's go ahead we're going to have to play this thing. in the common use as was mentioned earlier. the government does not have the tools or the power to dictate how the company should react in the circumstances of course. recommendations coming from. f.b.i. and teach as the new scenarios it's best not to pay the ransom to encouraging these sorts of operations. just up the road level of a recommendation i'd played a cl