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Democrats in the congress leaving him as they move into the beginning of next year. >> chaos ensues. dont go anywhere. breaking news just learned that the chairman and ceo of equifax is stepping down. richard smith announcing his retirement. extraordinary that he gets the benefit of calling it a retirement. just moments af go after the massive data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly half of all americans. that information includes social security numbers, drivers licenses and...

Companies, a, how possible is it that the chief financial officer wouldnt have known about a data breach at company whose business it is to keep information. b, when you were at the fdic what rules were there when a company knew it had some danger about selling stock? >> of the it really does raise -- if they didnt know about it it raises questions about what their internal controls were to provide notification to senior management of a breach of that size. either way they dont look good. i thin...

As bad against the dollar as it was. european stocks have been lower this morning. in particular, the german bank down 1.3%. may be because of resumers of potential tie out with italian bank unicredit. theres a small firm in wisconsin suing equifax because of that data breach. they claim it will cost them money, harm their profit. reissuing credit cards and things like that. quite a move. financial firm trying to recoup losses not yet made. also worth noting equifax has ruled out it will try to ...

The breach is a very poor response by this company and by this industry. first of all, they wanted to make people have to give up their legal rights to get things fixed that they caused and you and i didnt cause. they also wanted to charge us for getting the kind of products necessary to try to make us whole as best we can for the mess were in. all those things are wrong. the response was wrong. and it is time that these companies understood that they have to be held accountable, not going to be...

Virgin islands and run location helping with the reconstitution and the recovery from hurricane irma. we really located those assets temporarily, but were ready to respond in the aftermath of maria as well. >> jon: we know the coast guard does great work in these circumstances, so we wish you and your cruise well as they respond to this terrible hurricane. >> thank you very much. >> julie: following the major equifax data breach, one state attorney general asking the two other major credit repor...

Thank you so much. this equifax data breach is huge. at affected personal info of 143 million americans and includes social security and drivers license numbers. identity theft essentially. wheres the governments accountability? >> thats a good question. one thing i proposed after testifying on healthcare.gov, we talked about accountability. im not a big fan on and all this will ruffle some feathers, but theyre doing exactly what youre talking about. cover the missing when the cover of financial...

Breach. this may through july data breach that affected 40% of amerans. the theory is, sb 20 hack this big and sophisticated must be the work of a governmental organization. people can protect themselves by freezing their credit reports. >> bret: its a good thing to do. thank you. next up, president trump threatens north korea and blisters iran and venezuela. we will get reaction to his u.n. speech from our panel. a little later, i will ask secretary of state rex tillerson about the fallout from...

Taking so long for state to staff up? theres a lot of vacancies, and secretary tillersons response was he himself had to hire eight people to fill out all the paperwork required of him. >> he blamed the process? this is a process thats existed for -- >> the process in which many of our presidents took people not from out of the state department themselves -- >> so what do you think is happening? >> i think its a difficult process for somebody whos not been in government before. >> got it. well l...

Working very closely together. >> you are absolutely spot on on that. that is his goal is the reunification of the korean peninsula under his regime. one thing we can do is put the full on effort into missile defense. you have an iron dome, a short piece, the aero midrange, and the david sling piece, a layered missile defense. not perfect, but certainly better what south korea has right now. so we start instituting those pieces as well. we need to keep allied with south korea. >> julie: yes, we ...

Americans extremely vulnerable to theft, fraud and a number of other crimes for years to come. so if you think your information is now in the hands of hackers cnns alison kosik has five things you can do to protect yourself right now. alison? >> hi, boris. for most consumers, chances are some of your financial or personal information was compromised in the equifax data breach. with 143 million accounts exposed, thats more than half of the u.s. adult population. no matter if youre freaking out or...