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Mike Rogers: “The government said, yeah, it's kind of hard. It's kind of a…”

Featuring: Mike Rogers, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Michigan

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Michigan Business Beat | Former Congressman Michael Rogers Cybersecurity, Civility and Policy in '23

Published | Video Starts at 01:41

And then of course, when I was chairman of the Intelligence Committee, what really got me into cyber was, was somebody came in about 2004 and said, you know, this whole cyber thing, remember 2004, nobody was talking about this. The government said, yeah, it's kind of hard. It's kind of a complex problem, but we think we got it handled. And I wasn't that bright, but I went, boy, I'm not sure that doesn't sound right to me. Nice work. Exactly. Yeah. So you're staying in that vein. (01:41–01:47)

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