activity. technical glitches, the type of down time that sometimes comes from this could be phenomenal in trying to recover from it. if it was a hacker that hacked, more likely than not, united, the new york stock exchange would be probably more silent at this point not giving any indications that it s a technical glitch versus still trying to collect information during the initial stages of a hacker attack. just quickly obviously the department of homeland security saying there s no sign of malicious activity at this time but all happening within the same two-hour period. does it give you pause even though united has said this is a routing issue, we re not clear what nyse is at this time and we don t know what the wall street journal will say, although they re back up and running. does this give you pause this could have been something considered a dry run? which is what some people are concerned about, that they ll be
you re in the situation room. we re following major breaking stories this hour including a disturbing online attack on the white house. sources telling cnn that hackers working for the russian government have accessed the white house computer system and obtained sensitive information about the president. also the deadly fighting in yemen which had been a critical u.s. ally in the fight against al qaeda. saudi-led air strikes on rebel forces reportedly hit a school killing students. the death toll is now in the hundreds and the u.s. involvement is increasing as the pentagon steps up military and intelligence assistance for the saudis. we re covering all of the breaking news with our correspondents and guests including republican congressman darrell issa a member of the house foreign affairs committee. we begin, though with cnn justice reporter evan perez. he has more on the breaking news about the white house hacker attack. evan you broke this story. tell our viewers what your
back now with jay carney and carl bernstein. carl, what were they thinking? sony? i don t know. i don t know what they were thinking. it seems to me that they had china or russia made a movie that, that its biggest studio put out a movie, showed obama s head exploding and guts flying out. i think it would be reprehensible the way we view it. it doesn t show great judgment. i ser tonalcertainly believe in right to do it. part of the difficulty here. jay? we need to uphold their right. i think sony is clearly on its heels, they have been, laid to waste digitally by the hacker attack. a lot of embarrassing information has come out. i just think they must have decided the risk of some kind of
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