a.p. reported on how fancy bear has gone after journalist and people in the national security kounls and wi counsel and retired generals. do you remember when the new president of france was elected and right before, right before his election, a huge bunch of e-mails stolen from his campaign were dumped online by wikileaks. remember that? apparently that was fancy bear two and a firm called trend micro who figured out that macron hack was fancy bear, they figured out that it was them and how they did it. that security firm now says that same hacking group, fancy bear, russian military intelligence set up the same system they used to get macron s e-mails with the same trick except here it is targeting the e-mail system of
hacking culture is weird that s what security firms call hackers associated with russian military intelligence and that hack done by fancy bear was a big part how russia tried to tilt the election for trump by stealing e-mails and documents and releasing them online. since the election, the associated press got its hands on a list of people and inls constitutions who fancy bear targeted around the world with online traps and tricks to steal the e-mails and clinton e-mails. a.p. reported on how fancy bear has gone after journalist and people in the national security counsel and retired generals. do you remember when the new president of france was elected and right before, right before his election, a huge bunch of e-mails stolen from his campaign were dumped online by wikileaks. remember that? apparently that was fancy bear two and a firm called trend micro who figured out that macron hack was fancy bear, they figured out that it was them and how they did it.
she s smart. she doesn t look like anything you saw on law and order. she s got a big future. people call her the female barack obama. the late great journalist gwen eiffel telling david letterman if he s looking for the next big thing in the democratic party, he should look at this san francisco district attorney kamala harris. she became california s attorney general and in 2016 on the same night donald trump won the presidency, kamala harris became only the second black woman ever elected to the united states senate and honestly, the way she won, she made it look easy. today there is a problem in the united states senate. after the president chose an oval office meeting attended by a bunch of senators yesterday as the occasion she was going to describe immigrants from africa and haiti as coming from bleep hole countries.
i knew somebody at the times who told me that at 6:30 in the morning you used to be able to tell when he would tweet. he would tweet when the paper copy of the new york times. he would look at the headline as bof the fold, didn t read the jump obviously, and reacted with a tweet. thank you so much. you guys are the pros on this one. robert kos tarks congratulations on your new important role, and i mean that. it s a classic role. congrats from me too. shout out. appreciate it. thank you. both of us to you. gwen eiffel, great shoes to fill. up next, is trump off the wall? little fun there on the pun. is he sending mixed messages about the wall he promised on the border? is he going to build it or not? you re watching hardball, where the action is.
malik taylor better known as tribe called quest fight dog died at the age of 45. just after he d been recording the group s long awaited sixth album. and of course there was the death that none of us saw coming and couldn t imagine. 2016 was the year we lost prince. the news business also suffered devastating losses this year. john mcglauf lin died in august at age 89. and just in the last month, we lost the great gwen eiffel who in 2013 became the first black journalist who co-host the pbz news hour. of course that wasn t the only devastating loss that few could predict. 2016 also brought us the shocking political upset that robbed america of one of the most qualified people to ever seek the american presidency. and the potential first woman president. and it left our country in the stubby and very tiny hands of a reality show star who to put it mildo one ever, ever, ever, ever, ever imagined as president