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I had America's to do list for 2021, is how to respond to the recent cyber attack. The compromise thousands from government agencies to corporate giants. The attack is widely blamed by cyber experts on Russia so what to do now.

Our cover story as reported by Senior contributor Ted Koppel wearing incident response phase and the forensics are ongoing like the coronavirus it came from overseas, writing initially on notice. I think were only beginning to learn the extent of the damage when it was finally belatedly discovered the overage for a few days at least, was epic. This is nothing short of a virtual invasion by the Russians into critical accounts of our federal government, and it is an extraordinary invasion of our cyberspace users believed hacked into the software of a company called solar wind, causing them to push out malicious updates: liver, cyber virus infecting the computer systems more than 18 cells in private and government customers almost lose cyber pandemic. This vulnerability allowed then FRS cyber operatives to actually create what we referred to in the industry as God access our God door, giving them basically any rights to do anything they want to in stealth mode like it's a medical counterpart of cyber virus spreads through Brad, the high-energy wishes for me to say this is breathtaking is a word that certainly comes to mind for me. That's why referred to this earlier today is our modern-day cyber Pearl Harbor also which is Pearl Harbor, which drew the United States and World War II were just a massive espionage operation similar to those conducted by the United States around the world with nothing much to see media coverage fate, but the experts remain seriously concerned. So this is not just about an espionage attack. This is about some legal preparation of the battlefield where they are now able the time of crisis to eat the software in thousands of US companies any particular hacker time more than 20 years ago Richard Clark was the nation's first cyber czar working initially in the Clinton White House and then under George W. Bush these days. Clark is chairman of good harbor cyber security consulting company. When you hear people talk about this as being purely an intelligence operation, except that no I don't with the Russians.

It is they've suddenly gotten into thousands of Americans and placed additional backdoors. Once they got it so even if we discover a backdoor that they placed in critical network.

The public placed five or six bullet refundable. That means they are in a position the crisis to walk right in. Lots of important American networks, both government and private sector and then to wipe out the software on the network down here now in a moment in history where there is a constant escalating short of war. Cyber conflict underway every single day. David Singer's national security correspondent for the New York Times cyber the most inexpensive and highly destructive, highly deniable web cyber warfare is to borrow the title of his book documentary based on the perfect weapon.

Is there a really visible line between cyber intelligence and cyber warfare. Yes, I think there is. If I went into your computer system. Ted just read your email that's pure espionage people discovered over time. Ted was that the same computer code that enabled you to break into somebody's system would also enable you to manipulate that system. So once you're inside if you have the right access, you could do all kinds of things. If the network was connected to an electric power grid to a gas pipeline to water distribution system to a nuclear centrifuge plant, you might be able to manipulate the data and cause havoc in those systems and that's much more than mere espionage these days.

Keith Alexander is CEO of the iron that cyber security company but when he retired as a four-star Army general Alexander ran the NSA, the national security agency where he was to direct intelligence operations against America's adversaries. I wondered what he thought the Russians are doing is not reasonable in a situation like this, to assume the worst that they were planting in effect, cyber landmines, which can be activated at some future point. I think the real objective is to gain information for treasuries. Secular commerce is thinking what homeland security. Second, what State Department does they want insights to what's going on in our country.

You still haven't responded directly to my suggestion that it could also include cyber landmines, which could be activated later on. That's a good point.

Having said that, there has been no insights yet as to them actually setting landmines as much is gathering information so I would say that's think of this is a recount phase they would set up those backdoor so that they have a way of getting in and out and then if they had that you don't necessarily have to set up the landmine at that time, you would probably keep your information on those networks down low so that is not detectable and just have the backdoor capability to get in and then do something when the need arises. What has occurred is again preparation of the battlefield is not been a lot of damage because of solar winds. Maybe some information was stolen but nothing has been damaged yet yet yet, but if if I didn't misunderstand what you said before the Russians are really no more than a few keystrokes away from implementing exactly that kind of damage on the as you put it, thousands of American firms. That's right. And we do not plans or capability today to quickly come back after that good devastating the kind of things that we need to do now. We could have done 20 years ago. 20 years ago. However, there was no real understanding in the Congress or in the White House was the willingness to spend the kind of resources people worried about privacy concerns and big brother controls in trust the government to defend them against the so the thing and here we are with trust in government. Probably a lower than it's ever been. And you think that's going to change neither government nor the private sector can defend our networks alone they have to work together and we need to unite the country put the politics aside and say what's the right thing for this nation.

When you listen to some of the chest beating what is going on in certain circles about taking retaliatory action against the Russians. Just give me your thoughts.

We don't want to create a deeper cyber war in cyberspace, but we need to send a message that can be done outside of cyber diplomatically, politically and economically to be done in cyber can be done overtly or covertly, because imagine if we did attack and then they attack back who has more to lose.

We do who is able to sustain the pain of the cyber attack more effectively. We or our enemies. Probably our enemies.

One of the other strange things about cyber is that the advantage goes to the least network society attacking the most network site, and we are clearly ted the most network society. So here we are in this extraordinary position. David Singer of being arguably the most technologically advanced country in the world. Probably the best at cyber technology in the world and simultaneously, if not the most vulnerable among the most vulnerable in the that's actually right as one of the leading thinkers inside cyber command says Microsoft Meyer.

We live in the Glass theist of the glass houses right. So while we may have the biggest weapons were nothing but picture windows and it's really easy to throw a rock through one of us for a New Year's resolution focused on keeping your brain alert and sharp are Dr. John the Polk has been getting some tips on that from CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, John. I've had a long-standing love affair with the brain when he's not on CNN giving updates on the coronavirus you have to try and do the best you can to mitigate all potential exposures. Dr. Sanjay Gupta is at his day job your brain surgeon like to hold it in your hand. First time I ever operate on the brain known close to 30 years ago now. It was a mystical experience.

You can't believe that those 3 1/2 pounds are everything to us are paying all of our joy.

All of our memories, all of our learning everything and did his spare time Dr. Cooper has written a book about the brain, specifically how to keep it in shape. The book is published by Simon & Schuster part of Viacom, CBS for Dr. Gupta. It's personal.

In many ways. His journey began when my grandfather developed Alzheimer's and I saw that as a teenage kid and really stuck with me with this is been a lifelong journey to try and understand how I could prevent that happening to me and from anybody else more than 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's. Most common cause of dementia. One of the biggest fear is that my patients have is a developing dementia. The confidence that you know what I could think of somebody's name I know them so well is in the sentence I lost my train of thought. So how can people know the difference between changes that come with normal aging and the onset of dementia.

This is a topic of conversation number one in our home used to be because my parents were always asking me this question and now my life and always asking each other this question. You know, MI starting to become more forgetful comes to discovering something as is normal memory loss versus abnormal people lose keys all the time becomes more abnormal when you don't remember exactly what those keys are for. It turns out the changes in the brain that lead to Alzheimer's disease begin decades before symptoms arise.

The rest of suggested right that even if you're destined to develop Alzheimer's in the future that if your blood vessels in your brain are wide open. If you're doing everything you can to keep heart healthy, that it might actually push it off.

It might actually delay I think is no question now that we can say and I don't think you said this, five, 10 years ago that there are things we can do that involve lifestyle changes that could actually delay the progression of dementia and even reverse it. Dr. Gupta says the key is doing activities that create cognitive reserve in the brain areas of new nerve growth and wiring that can pick up the slack if needed. So let's get to it with no miracle drug on the horizon.

What's the prescription for fighting off dementia.

Let's start with exercise. Put it this way, what's good for the heart is good for the brain when you move. It's almost like your signaling to the body into the brain. I want to be here. I'm not ready to get with the brain. Specifically, it releases these things called neurotrophic's these good chemicals. These are sort of nourishing the brain in the United States.

A lot of us are going hundred miles an hour but so many of us do that while sitting down not moving you people keep saying this sitting is the new smoking every time you're about to sit say do I need to be sitting then just try and moderately move throughout the day. It's so effective in terms of what it does for the brain. We can measure doing to the brain and there are some simple habits people can do. For example, take the stairs rather than the elevator.

It takes months, years to change the heart ranking change like that. How about diet.

You've heard about that to eat less red meat, less processed food, more vegetables and fruit.

Dr. Cooper says, especially one kind of fruit that we say John apple a day keeps the doctor away.

I think I come to the brain.

It's Barry's varies in terms of what they can do for the brain in terms of certain chemicals they release are probably going to be one of your best foods any variance just about any Barry blueberries allow the attention because they may release more with fewer calories.

They taste good but if you like a certain very dive into Barry's, how about working directly on your thinking skills, crossword puzzles, video games, what works. I have nothing against crossword puzzles and even video games and brain training games and things like that. I think they can be great cedar crossword puzzles to play the piano. You do it over and over again and practice makes perfect. That's actually true, but it's change that builds resiliency. You need the change so I wouldn't just do crossword puzzles. The way that I think about it is if you can get outside your comfort zone in some way every day you're probably harnessing other real estate in the brain that you don't otherwise use very often do something that scares you every day. You know whatever the metaphor has whatever works just do something different, learn a new skill.

I remember talking to these neuroscientists who said he did with your left hand tonight.

If you're right-handed, getting a good night sleep is another way to help stay sharp your so-called garbage collecting cells that help remove toxins from the brain.

And while you're asleep. Memories from the day are processed our knowledge about the importance of sleep has really changed over the years.

It's not just a matter of letting our batteries recharge right sleep is is such a sophisticated activity that we spend 1/3 of our life doing the brain is a remarkably complicated organ when you go to sleep at night is taking the experiences you had throughout the day and consolidating them into memories.

Why do we even have experiences.

If you're knocking to do the things necessary to remember them right were learning that the brain is constantly sort of going to this rinse cycle at night for one of the best ways to fight off dementia, look no further than your friends and family. We know that that social interaction is so critically important. We are social creatures. We know that there are certain neurochemicals that are released we actually have touch and look someone directly in the eye. The best thing you could do overall in terms of putting it all together for brain health would be to take a brisk walk with a close friend and talk about your problems, why get the brisk walk you're getting the movement in you're doing it with a friend you getting the social connection in turns into this beautiful thing for the relationship and also for the brain. Of course the coronavirus means seeing friends up close and personal, is a little tough right now but with American starting to get vaccinated against coded the time when we can move past the pandemic may be approaching what people want to know is when do we get back. If not, to normal towards normal what effect I think we will start to get back to normal a lot sooner than people realize, and I think that could be maybe mid end of spring. It's good it's gonna start to feel a lot more normal things will start to open up people will be out and about more. I have three teenage girls. I think there to be back in school next fall could be wrong but that's where it seems like things are headed.

So as we look forward to getting back to normal.

Here's a New Year's resolution for you. Think about doing something for your brain. Empathy and kindness, compassion. They do a lot for everybody's brain. Don't think they are the ultimate sort of nourishment for the brain. Every site you see every sound you hear everything you touch, feel, whatever it may be taste. And then the feelings the experiences that you have through empathy through these connections with people is all nourishing the brain as well. It's it's really good for the brain. That's why we live. This is intelligence matters with former acting Dir. of the CIA.

Michael Morel bridge Colby is cofounder and principal of the Marathon initiative project focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition states put our mind to something, we can usually figure it out what people are saying and what we can know analytically and empirically as our strategic situation or military situations not being matched up with doing follow.

Intelligence matters where ever you get your podcasts tree Barry mar all my I want to tell you about our new shout to Disney's podcast and in each episode mean weekly gas that can cover all the quirky find inspiring and informative stories that exist because well, maybe you need to find a new listing Terry to sign trend Barbie car to the right and wrong way to flasher us out getting the things that you just kind of well probably not able to do in daytime television fell watch out. Tristan is ever you get your podcasts on the got out with the old, in with the new chief Washington correspondent Maj. Garrett looks ahead to what's in store for Mac in 2021 as the new year Jones and the nation awaits a new president 2020 leaves behind unfinished political and pandemic business. Twin runoff elections on Tuesday for Georgia Senate seats will determine which party controls the chamber and likely the fate of President-elect Joe Biden's agenda. I need to send this date want to get something done. A Democratic sweep would give America's first female vice president, Laura Harris, the deciding essay on partyline votes in the electoral college has spoken Republican leader Mitch McConnell waited until the electoral College voted to even recognize Biden as President-elect sign, along with silence about Mr. Trump's baseless claims of election fraud that Republicanism and Trump's are blurring. Thomas Friedman is a New York Times columnist and author. We been destroying the two pillars of democracy, which are truth and trust without truth we can't agree what road to go down without trust we can't go down that road together and so would you truth and trust. It's very hard to sustain a healthy democracy, said runoffs in the way the publicans handle the remainder of the Trump presidency will say a lot about the parties future at least 12 Senate Republicans will join 100 or more House Republicans in object to the electoral College Count on Wednesday that will briefly delay certification of the electoral College vote. It will not derail Biden's inauguration. It has already sown GOP divisions there too many principal Republicans conferred specific I'm not getting that clown car and yet that clown car is full of other Republicans were happy to go along to earn doldrums blessing. Don't know when. Don't know how but if he keeps at it. This party is then there's the pandemic sure to be raging into 20, 21, spurred on by holiday gathering, says Dr. Anthony about we know that that almost certainly is going to result in a storage superimposed upon a series the Biden administration has set an ambitious goal. 100 million vaccines in the first 100 days the inauguration will be subdued scientific, economic, and cultural challenges abound. Now it's time to turn the page is done throughout our history tonight to heal inseparable from the pandemic. New work to reverse long-standing racial disparities in barrier we have to actually be intentional about potential how we deal with one another potential how we attack these problems, how we produce better policing.

We need to be much more intentional. Biden is about to reverse Trump era executive action and may seek an early victory on infrastructure we need to seize an opportunity to build back and go back better than we were before. Some trends of 2020 are likely to endure in 2021 big companies bigger, small businesses, limping or disappearing hunger and homelessness spreading working from home. Learning remotely apart, but more connected than ever.

Still with us into 2021 more people in more places cannot compete, connect and collaborate in more ways for less money from more places than ever before happened this past week, the death of the fashion great night Tuesday just outside. I ran again at odds with the French national establishment for decades.

Designs embrace bold colors and shapes often evocative of the spacing to be tomorrow what yesterday businessman, as well as design job at his brand on hundreds of everyday pride here kinda was 98.

We also lost a figure by generations of TV fans actress Don Wells died Wednesday of the cause related to covert, 19. She is best remembered as a wholesome Marianne on the 1960s CBS shipwreck comedy Gilligan's Island. Now you just relax there, you tell us in your own sweet, charming, simple way what it is that you want most out of life. Wells went on to a long career on stage and screen, earning her a star on the Marshfield Missouri walk of fame where our maraca caught up with her in 2016 door to the stars away from Charles Lindbergh in your diagonally away from amelia Ehrhardt.

That's pretty great, so you like flying.

I hope that Don wellness is a detailed and we learned of the death of Phyllis McGuire, the last of the singing McGuire sisters. We are born with the girl next door to the trio skyrocketed to fame in 1952 appearance on Arthur Godfrey's talent's the comments that clearly wow a lot. His sisters went on to a series of hit, including nearly a second unite in 1985 years, including a 1990 performance here on CBS live from Phyllis's opulent Las Vegas mansion living sisters Christine and Ellis McGuire died Tuesday.

Reportedly in her 25,000 square-foot was we looked at what the new year holds here at home time for the global perspective from Mark Phillips in London.

One thing at least used to be predictable in this world. Crowds gathering around the globe to celebrate as the new year will in this pandemic year in most places. The party was over before it began. And there was no immediate improvement in all the issues the world is facing. Just because the date has changed is 2020 a year that you to be sad to see the end of Albright may have been secondary of state 20 years ago when the world was a different place and you would expect her to take a dim view of the US posture minute over the past four years. But what about the next. Every part for a while and I have always believed that strength depends on how we operate with our partners deal with the issues that are out there and everybody knows what the biggest issue out there is simply rejoining the World Health Organization as President-elect Joe Biden as promised will not end the pandemic, but it will. According to Albright son is now rain.

How powerful is I think we need to re-engagement the World Health Organization talking as it returns to an active role of the international table at the WHO at the G7 NATO, the US will find the less dependent, less trusting place. So yes world has changed far more fragmented world Karen von Hippel is the first American to run the prestigious Royal United Services Institute, the world's oldest security think tank in London much more rising rat and competitor years ago. All these other countries such as Russia and flexor muscles in many parts of the world.

Middle low back different world, but has also taught to speaking in terms of the Western allies are said to be less dependent on American leadership international. Yes, for those countries to build up their own resiliency and capability America once they don't have anyone following the lead on rejoining the rearguard action being fought against climate change. Look at lead on confronting the disruptive influence of Vladimir Putin's Russia very well and our democracy to separate us from our friends and allies in Europe to reassert Russian influence in the Middle East is something that is troublesome. The pandemic Russia, China and North Korea ran the Middle East. Those are just the challenges we know about is that the bandwidth to deal with all of these international issues of such importance have to send a big surprise as somebody used to say Ancel. I didn't think is a mistake. What Yogi Berra said was the future. Ain't what it used to be and once again he was right on the new year is fresh want to take time to remember one of the giants of this medium. Sumner Redstone and interval part of our Viacom CBS family for some 40 years. He died in August, but the age of 97 Lee Cowan has an appreciation to see what became media empire that includes CBS planted in a parking lot. This one. One of the first drive-in theaters in America and I do remember myself working behind a little stand at the sunrise out of New York selling cola and pop for summer Redstone.

There was always a bit of nostalgia about his dad's movie theater business because it was a piece of Americana.

But the dragons taught a lesson that he would carry the rest of his life. You can have the best driving data, but if you have the best picture you lost when the audiences drive to go to drive-in started Wayne Redstone built multiplexes in their place same space. But more opportunities to reach out to tell my kids success is not built on success building faith building frustration. It's built on catastrophe and what you do about it. She's here, what he did when cable TV started to grow was to jump in with both feet.

This company national amusement took over Viacom, 1987, which owned TV Nickelodeon show Chuck so many of you heard me speak of Viacom, the sleeping giant giant woke up. Indeed, it did. He went on a spending spree for much of the 90s working outmaneuvering his rivals to acquire Blockbuster Paramount pictures, and eventually thoughts CBS.

This partnership seems almost dictated by destiny at a time when most entrepreneurs might be eyeing retirement Sumner Redstone was ever focused on the ever-changing media landscape. Still looking for a new feature that could give him, and he fervently believe that contact with you is vehicle for that company thought stream reflected from the top with her Charles back in 2001 is a point at which a big enough building to grow these to say that it was a but I blew myself too long to say that it's ever over. He wasn't forced to be reckoned with those with whom he negotiated.

Say rarely surrendered either in business or in life.

Redstone famously survived the deadly blades at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston in 1979 by clinging to allege three stories up, he was burned over almost half his body in his later years, he donated much of his fortune to help treat burn victims, and he served on the boards of several charitable organizations for cancer research autism education and the arts will remaining chairman what is now Viacom, CBS, until he was 92. Never leaving. I like it here. I'm not going somewhere else. So forget the rocking chair. Redstone name is still woven into the fabric that is Viacom's daughter Sherry Redstone now holds the ring and the same title as her father is one of the most powerful people in media. The one time popcorn salesman from Boston once said that nothing possible for those who have a commitment to excellence and an obsessive will to win words that we had Sunday morning have in our own way certain tried to.

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