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Candidates despite the margin. unified government by republicans. >> right. i mean, and the employment of this unified government is basically a smash and grab operation. because with the way things are looking, the government may well not be unified come the second week in november of next year. so theyre getting it while they can. and theyre getting all the things theyve wanted for 30 years while they can. i dont think theyre going to get, for example, i dont think theyre going to get entitlem...

A man in a russian jail claims he is the one who hacked the dnc under direct orders from russian intelligence last year rehe says he left behind proof in the hack. according to mcclatchy, a man named constantine kozlovsky gave an interview saying russias intelligence agency ordered the hack, and he left behind a digital signature, a hidden data file, including the numbers of his russian passport and travel visa. only a few people have seen the details of the hack. we dont know on the outside if ...

I assure you, its smaller a the my house. how worried should i be as we see more and more devices connected to the internet? there could be more attacks like these? >> one of the biggest concerns we have in security now is what people refer to as i.o.t. the internet of things. the devices in your house. your dishwasher, refrigerator, video cameras for surveillance. theyre all connected to the network and they dont have high security. theyre built for functionality and not with security in place....

Democrats. earlier this year, "the wall street journal" laid out how the hacker, guccifer 2.0, who was widely known to be a russian cut-out, passed along massive trenches of hacked doumt democratic documents who a florida operative who passed them along to florida journalists. when the journal contacted him, he said he didnt care if the russia russians were behind it, because their interests aligned. so while all this was going on in the summer and fall of last year, house democratic leader nanc...

Aspects but it would be surprising if it were not part of the questioning. >> how extensive was the interference down ballot? >> pretty extensive. released them to bloggers across the different states and essentially trying to sow division -- russian hacker linked to intelligence. and used by republican national congressional committee, house republican arm of the rnc, used in the ads and ultimately weaponized. many of the congressional candidates used ads against the democratic opponents. wheth...

Rewarded by our press. >> august in multiple interviews stone claimed to have a back while communicating with another hacker. on august 31st stone tweeted and made this assertion days later. im almost confident mr. assange has virtually every one of the e-mails that the clinton but they had deleted. >> a week of reports of secret payments from ukraine replaced by steve bannon and kellyanne conway. she asked to reach out to help organize the clinton e-mails it was releasing.

No evidence of tampering, but the defense said it had experts who did. two of them. both of whom wrote reports. but trials have referees. and in this case, the judge ruled that neither one of those defense experts could testify about tampering. one, said the judge, wasnt sufficiently qualified. the other was brought in too late in the trial. but even if they had testified, there was one question they couldnt answer. if there was a hacker, who was it? >> i can tell you that police had access to i...

Weve allowed it to happen. weve gone backwards. were apparently okay with it. many trains used to crack 100 miles an hour with regularity back in the 1930s. well, today our high-speed line on the east coast, the acela, averages 87 miles an hour. much of the world from spain to france to china is zooming down the rails while we regress. we travel back in time. then theres hartsfield airport in atlanta, the worlds busiest, when they have electric power. they did not yesterday, thanks to an undergr...

France to china is zooming down the rails while we regress. we travel back in time. then theres hartsfield airport in atlanta, the worlds busiest, when they have electric power. they did not yesterday, thanks to an underground fire that also toasted the backup line. and as a result over 1500 flights were canceled along with all the holiday hopes and dreams of tens of thousands of air passengers idled. theres speculation tonight a power line was gnawed on by a rat. and if thats true, if something...

Transportation in this country. weve allowed it to happen. weve gone backwards. were apparently okay with it. many trains used to crack 100 miles an hour with regularity back in the 1930s. well, today our high-speed line on the east coast, the acela, averages 87 miles an hour. much of the world from spain to france to china is zooming down the rails while we regress. we travel back in time. then theres hartsfield airport in atlanta, the worlds busiest, when they have electric power. they did not...