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The voter file system that they had access to. a third party, not the sanders campaign, as they initially attempted to suggest, but a third party became alerted to the breach and notified the vendor that operates the voter file. at that point the voter file administrator started restricting access and had to delete lists that they created that were relying on clinton campaign data. to the extent the bernie sanders campaign say they are not in possession of any data, its only because of actions t...

The lawsuit has now been filed. donna, i assume the dnc is going to fight this. >> based on what we were told this morning, we were informed of the suspension based on what happened with the breach. the offices were told the steps that the party is trying to take right now to ensure that not just the data is secure but also an investigation in terms of how this breach happened. so i think, you know, as you know chairwoman debbie wasserman-schultz has been very clear they took this action to, in ...

In the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer in "the situation room." the breaking news this hour, the bernie sanders campaign just filed a lawsuit against the democratic national committee in a exploding breach of database. this comes hours before the debate and weeks before the contest in iowa. president obama renews his promise to defeat isis. he claims progress against the terror group. the president meets privately with the victims of the san bernardino terror attacks. fam...

Develop security patches to protect the equipment protected. that was done yesterday because of the sophistication really only a handful of governments have the capability to do this and russia and china are at the top of that list. the fbi has launched an investigation. >> im sure they have. thank you. joining us now is the chairman of the senate homeland security committee republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin. hes also a member of the foreign relations committee. thanks very much for jo...

Vendor for the party. weve had a voter file that the republicans are envious of, thats why they have their super pacs and others now trying to build the same type of voter file. the fact that the engineers went in and found the bug, fixed the bug but in the interim someone entered the system and tried to have access to the files of another campaign, that was a breach. they sign an mou, im not a lawyer, i dont want to get technical. im not a technical person, but they breached their agreement. an...

Hampshire and other places. we cannot run this campaign without this data. they are attempting to cripple our campaign and were not going to stand for it. >> she said you broke the rules. thats why the suspension has gone into effect. >> you dont get to give the campaign a death penalty. thats not how we deal. >> what happened to that clinton data that may have been downloaded? >> we dont have any data. >> who has it? >> i dont know. as far as i know its not downloaded. >> why do you say the cli...

Inappropriate overreaction to a data breach involving a high level sanders flow. lets turn to our experts. our chief political analyst. gloria, you heard that exchange we just had between the hillary clinton campaign and the bernie sanders campaign. this is getting ugly. >> yeah, its civil war with the clinton campaign accusing the sanders of campaign of what amounts to grand larceny. stealing their data. they had a phone call with journalists in which top people on the clinton campaign said thi...

End the year with serious concerns about his strategy. ill ask the chairman of the senate homeland security committee for his response to the presidents news conference and his assessment of the terror threat. inside the arrest. were learning more about the friend of the san bernardino gunman. the charges hes now facing and the secrets he told investigators about an earlier terror plot. democrats at war. bernie sanders campaign just filed a lawsuit against the democratic national committee a...

I dont speak on behalf of the democratic party, im not the chair of the party. but look, this was a breach. there was a bug that the software company found the bug in the system, they tried to fix it in the time that it was being fixed someone breached it. and they found out that the official was from the sanders campaign. the sanders campaign has fired that official, or fired that staff person, and now i think the parties have to come together. and i think there will be some work done to fix th...