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Reveals exactly what we already knew about the trump administrations zero tolerance immigration policy that separated families at the border. the new watchdog report from the homeland security inspector general said the dhs was not fully prepared to implement the administrations zero tolerance policy or to deal with some of its after-effects. joining me nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pete, what else can you tell us about the report and what consequences might there be? >> well, in...

The manufacturers are trying to overcome it by making them what they call user-friendly. >> isnt that pretty? now what do i do? >> making computers easy enough to use for a beginner, it wasnt always true. people had never encountered this stuff. >> hold down shift and press -- >> so there was a great disconnect between the ambitions of the apples and microsofts and the realities of people trying to use these things for the first time. >> right now, if you buy a computer system and you want to so...

Need to. in cyber warfare, do you think this is a good move? >> it absolutely is, the 2012 director that president obama initiated actually began, it was well-intentioned, but it became overly cautious, very bureaucratic. and here is what the issue is. we have somebody hacking us, and cyber command picks set up, they are part of the national security agency, and they monitor it, there are shooters. and they have the authorities, the president grants them certain authorities to take out those who...

Clear the malware from the companys computer system but they were not. able to track down the perpetrators. these complex targeted attacks known as advanced persistent threats or a p.t.s. are becoming more sophisticated and more common. alpha very is convinced that every german company is a potential target. says were now in a period of transition where people are willing to discuss these problems open lines with his. company experts are exchanging detailed information on various kinds of attack...

Another shocking story coming out of russia. a suspected russian spy working in the u.s. embassy there for more than a decade. she had access to the secret service commuter system and e-mail system and she was having regular, unauthorized meetings with fsb. joining me for perspective, jonathan rakrow, he is a former secret service agent. the fact that this person has had access to the same computer system, same e-mail system, the intranet that secret service has, what does that mean she had acce...

Software. there are over 40 states that election equipment is so old, anti-hacking software wont even work. we have 13 states that dont even have a paper trail so if we wanted to audit to find out what happened we couldnt do that. >> thats a crude and basic safeguard, to be able to count votes by hand to back up if a computer system was compromised? >> thats right. homeland security secretary johnson told me that most entities dont even know theyve been hacked. it probably takes a year and a hal...

Investigation focused on conspiracy to defraud the united states. thats really the special counsels theory of the case. and everything else falls under that, whether its the unauthorized access to the computer system, what we call the hacking, or whether its potential violations of campaign finance. any of those fall into the ru rubric of conspiracy. and these meetings regarding whether or not individuals, senior officials trump and his inner circle on the campaign knew in advance about any of t...

>> never mind theres proof that russia is attacking democracy when it comes to the mid-terms, never mind theres now proof that democratic senator claire mccaskills computer system, russians were trying to hack her. shes vulnerable this fall still. the president is open to it. >> what president trump seems to view the russian relationship and his relationship with putin, not as one where he is dealing with a power that is involved in a series of adversarial aggressive attacks against the united s...

To infiltrate that computer system. there was no evidence to believe that the hack was successful and senator make haskills office later confirmed that portion. again this is the first concrete evidence that we have that we were able to reveal here of russian interference in the 2018 midterms. >> and what tipped you off to this? >> so a couple weeks ago, or i guess last week at the aspen security forum, a top microsoft executive was talking about a few candidates that microsoft had picked up i...

A foreign student. $13,000 for an in-state student. is it any surprise that as a result there are six times as many now chinese students at berkeley for example than there were ten years ago. >> laura: 35% of all foreign students now in american universities are chinese. >> thats right. >> laura: if you could devise government policy, what would it look like? >> i think theres a couple of things. one of the things, obviously if youre a professor taking or taking money from darpa or dod, you need...