question what should be done more regulation more money joining us to answer those questions as jim harper director of information policy studies at the cato institute jim first of all is there a war against hackers and are we losing it let's call it a war is overstatement and to talk about cyber terrorism is overstatement cyber security is thousands of real problems with data networks even. hooter's problems that hundreds of thousands of people and institutions work on over many many years it's not a war and there's no terrorism involved and we can settle down and work on these problems seriously without throwing up our hands or or giving it all to the federal government to work on and that this term cyber terrorism and cyber war of course john henry says that and we've also heard from leon panetta from president obama but i'm wondering what you think is sort of the end game here is that just simply more regulation and more money devoted to the well when you've got thousands of problems to work on what do you do not think about fixing them all think about who should be responsible for the

tracker is leaving the bureau claiming that we are losing the cybersecurity war i'll talk to cato's jim harper to try to figure out if the threats are real or just fodder for new regulations i have all that and more for you tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to miss. so there's something going on today regarding an issue that applies to each and every one of you it deals with your rights and your freedoms as an american and how those rights have changed immensely in the last few months based on a new law a law that's now being challenged all right tea partiers i'm not talking about health care it's something much more important and more far reaching but you want to know it because here's what you would have seen surfing throughout the mainstream media today. you want to be a mega millionaire the jackpot has gone into orbit some players already making plans for the five hundred million dollars or so fortune and we spend more money than any country on the planet. person on health care the president knows that as gas prices

losing the war against internet hackers right christine will sit down with jim harper director of information policy studies at the cato institute find out. all that and more coming up at the top of the hour worth but that's going to do it for the news for more on the stories we covered you can head over to r.t. youtube dot com slash artsy america we post everything there are stories and interviews and we post them in full so if you missed any part of today's show you can watch it over over and over on.