Hi folks, Lisa Monaco here. It's been an eventful two weeks on the National Security Front.

The recent Twitter hack has renewed concerns about cyber reformer abilities related to the

upcoming election, a standoff between the U.S. and China escalates with the decision to

close the Chinese consulate in Houston and the Justice Department's indictment of two

Chinese nationals. And President Trump has reportedly provided secret orders authorizing

the CIA to conduct covert cyber attacks. I talk about all this and more with Ken Wainstein

on this week's episode of United Security. Today we're sharing a clip with listeners

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forward to having you as part of the insider community. Lots to cover. Let's start with

the Twitter hack. Recent news that Twitter got hacked and some luminaries Elon Musk, Barack

Obama, Joe Biden. I love how you put Elon Musk ahead of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

I'm sure he'd appreciate that. I could have started with Kanye West. Yeah, exactly.

But they all apparently got their accounts hacked and there were fake solicitations for

Bitcoin to be contributed. And some people actually did contribute Bitcoin. Looks like

it was a scam and it was designed to scam people of their Bitcoin and was not apparently

at least as the experts currently see it, not action of a state actor, but still a pretty

brazen crime and something that caught a lot of people's attention in large part because

of how important Twitter is to our daily lives these days. Yeah, you know, I actually,

my reaction Ken was, it's kind of ominous, right? I mean, Joe, a little bit that was,

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