Eric Swalwell

And we're stopping them, but they are getting very deep inside the system before we detect and stop them, increasingly so.

So that indicates to me that they are mapping the battlefield.

Iran is getting ready for this next wave of escalation.

And it is not a guarantee anymore, I don't think, that Iran will only keep their ire focused on the Arab states and Israel.

They might try to kick something off here if we go after...

key civilian infrastructure in iran which is again matching us as we escalate every time we escalate the iranians are right there with their own you know match so i would encourage the president to not go down that path it's a very dark road they will affect our arab partners definitely we know the iranians will shortly knock out the arab states desalinization plants they'll probably target israeli ones as well

But what will stop them from potentially doing that here in the United States?

And I can guarantee you all that will be catastrophic for this country, especially at a time when we're already economically hurting and all these other things are going on.

It will be absolutely catastrophic.

Our infrastructure is not ready to handle what happens after a massive cyber attack on our electrical grid, on our water supplies.

And if I can just add there as well, Megan, I just saw the comments from the Chinese Emerald that you were referencing at the start.

It sounds to me like if we did try to interdict any of these Chinese ships in our counter blockade,

they will escalate in some other way and i think you're right they might use their very powerful cyber warfare capabilities to hit us somewhere in our infrastructure that will be catastrophic remember the transformers that make up the physical power grid here in the united states eighty to ninety percent of them come from one company in tianjin china

And so if those systems are taken offline or if they're physically damaged, which is very possible because they're a fifth columnist here in the United States, if those systems are taken offline in abundance, we're going to have to hope the Chinese are kind enough to give us the replacements because we don't have the replacements on hand here in the United States.

So this is a real slow rolling disaster if we really do go after China in the counter blockade.

Well, I told you we're living in the most censorious age, I think, in the history of the United States.

Maybe World War II was more censorious.

But again, that was a world war.

And we were thrust into that conflict.

We were not thrust in.