will be helping republicans in the future. his intention is very different. it s to disrupt our democratic process, and whatever he can do to do that, he will seek to do so. and you are exactly right, collusion is one aspect of what they did. they reached out to various members of the trump campaign. that was one instrument to try to influence what happened here. but there were many others. and the two that are getting no attention whatsoever right now is the cybersecurity threat, the fact that they stole data and published it and that influenced our election, and the media campaign they launched. we are just not focusing on that as a nation. i think we will regret that in the future. let me play devil s advocate. we got a good sense of how the president operates, of what he takes personally. by focusing on obstruction, collusion, coordination, are we in effect hurting ourselves because we are making it so this
bush administration we put secondary sanctions on a bank in hong kong that really had an impact on the behavior of the north korean regime. we need to be doing that again, secondary sanctions on there s 12 chinese banks that could be targeted. but we finally have a coherent national security strategy, coherent engagement with the rest of the world that is making us safer. and if you look at this at the end of eight years of the bush administration, the world was safer for america. at the end of eight years of the obama administration, the world was less safe for our country, and i think we are well on the trajectory right now and people should keep that in mind in 2018 and beyond dana: i should mention there was the issue of isis in 2017, and the administration points to the fact that they re quite diminished not only just in territory, i think 98% to of the territory is diminished, bruce, and the fighter thes are out. but the cybersecurity threat and also the online recruitment of
as recently as last week indicating attempts to get into their private e-mail accounts. officials say that despite russian expectations of better relations with the incoming trump administration, alisyn, they expect the russian hacking activity will continue largely unabated. thank you for that reporting. we ll get into it more as the program progresses. how will president obama fight back? first, let s bring in suzanne malveaux live at the white house. what do you expect, suzan? president obama is vowing retailiation for the hacking and influencing the u.s. presidential election. now, president obama says in an npr interview it was back in september. a g-20 summit. a sideline meeting he had with russian president vladimir putin confronting him about this cybersecurity threat. it was in october. intelligence analysts publicly
planes in the wake of all those questions and the plane going down in the french alps. there have to be if they re realizing this this potential or hacking there has to be fixes or recommendations in the report. what do they recommend? well we do know that the congressman, peter defast so the ranking member of the one of the committees that requested this report they are asking for the faa to essentially come up with a cybersecurity threat plan a very comprehensive one so that is one of the many recommendations in this report brooke. all right, renee, thank you very much in washington. again, just a quick reminder we were talking to drew griffin. five years in just a couple of days since that massive disaster in the gulf of mexico. so we want you to watch our special report. it is airing this meaning blowout: the gulf oil disaster. 9:00 eastern and pacific. gulf oil disaster 9:00 pacific
i won t back down. [cheers and applause] jenna: well, you may remember mayor ford admitting smoking crack last year, and he soyed he would run for re-election which, apparently, he is. city council has stripped him of most of his powers. the election is set for late october, so this is just the beginning. jon: you just can t make this stuff up, can you? right now new concerns of a growing cybersecurity threat. experts say hackers could use the so-called heartbleed bug to create fake web sites and trick people into giving up personal information. adam houseley live from walnut creek, california, with more on that. adam? reporter: yeah, one hacker s already been arrested in canada for doing that. that threat s already been there, fake web sites trying to lure you to give information that they could use against you, credit card numbers, that kind