Eric Swalwell

That is not the norm.

And there does need to be a greater understanding that, yes, we have shared interests right now, but there are real differences in what we're trying to achieve and what they're trying to achieve.

I remember in 2021, I was asked to speak to the Seabees, the Navy's engineering group.

And I went out to their base out in California.

And I actually met with the CO at the time of the Seabees.

And after my speech, we were kind of chatting after the event.

And he started recounting how the Seabees in Iraq went in and took out Fallujah's energy grid and water supply in the run-up to the Battle of Fallujah.

And he looked at me and he said, you know, he said, we did good work, blah, blah, blah.

But he said, you know, I start to worry about, you know, what happens when an enemy does that to us?

And he said, would we like that?

Would it be considered, you know, fair game?

And it's always stuck with me.

And when I heard the president on Bartiromo's show yesterday, I used to do her show occasionally.

I could tell she was uncomfortable with what he was saying, it seemed like.

And I think that the president...

I don't think the president understands that we are not fighting a bunch of savages in the desert.

We're fighting a highly skilled enemy and the Iranians have a very robust cyber warfare capability.

I was told a week or so ago by a friend of mine or a contact of mine who is involved with cyber security for the government.

And he said that the, and I think this has since been reported, I think in Politico in the last week, but basically that we are seeing an uptick in Iranian cyber intrusions directed specifically at U.S.

energy and water supplies.