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Do they suspected was also outside of russia in the united states? it could have happened? >> absolutely. talking to people close to me, the new investigation, the bank last year thought listen, this was just a simple computer communication going on. a spam email. bounces back and says i do not want your span email. they are now beginning to think there is a hacker all along, trying to make the impression that there is something nefarious going on. look at this story is evolution. headlines at d...

Now, there are 90 key vacancies on the federal bench that jeff sessions, the trump administration has to fill those vacancies. there is going to be extreme havoc being wreaked upon the trump agenda. roadblocks, monkey wrenches, airless lawsuits filed, some will be thrown out and some wont. this will be a constant problem they have to deal with. they have to fill these vacancies and get great judges in there who do not make the law but follow the law. >> sean: great analysis as always. also comin...

Accusing them -- where they have the capability and technology to take malware and be the hackers within the cia, but put the fingerprints of the hacking on china, iran, russia or any other country. we know this technology exists,i right, sara? >> we know this technologyry exists but there hackers outno there that have this capability as well. we just do not know. will we ever find out the truth? was this done by some kind of government entity? was this done by a separate hacker working with ano...

Scheme. >> we have reason to believe based on our evidence they were acting in their capacity as fsb officials. >> fsb agents tried to cast as wide a net as possible, using the 500 million yahoo accounts, to search for americans who served in the military or diplomatic corps and then launching spearfishing or cookie attacks. meanwhile, the alleged hacker just wanted money. erectile dysfunction drugs to a site and earning cash with each click. lastly, the suspect, baratov arrested in canada. the ...

Going to get cut that are going above and beyond what is already being stip late sod the potential is always there for any of our jobs to be cut. >> reporter: trump took to twitter a few hours ago tweeting his commitment for veterans saying, quote, we will rebuild our military,wy will keep our people safe, we will take care of our vets. i spoke to several veterans no work inside these federal agencies and they say they dont feel taken care of when they see this proposed budget. that says it it i...

criminals. its not getting much play here in russia. russians have long since tuned out the russia hacking story, believing, as one kremlin insider said, that russia is being used as a weapon and a u.s. internal political battle. here is what is not happening, mika. russian police are not running around here looking for two of the men who were named in thes charges. remember, one was arrested in canada on tuesday. another one, who was a former hacker, recruited by the fsb, was actually arrest...

now for the first time russian spies are criminally charged by the u.s. government. >> reporter: it was one of the largest data breaches ever. >> yahoo! is tedealing with a massive security breach. >> they claim it was responsible by a state sponsored hacker. >> reporter: the massive cyber attack on yahoo! launched three years ago and mad off with information on 500 million user accounts and the justice department says it was directed out of here. and run by the very russian unit responsible ...

And that is certainly raising concerns that russia may be looking to install a pro-russian leader in libya to perhaps expand its sphere of influence in the middle east and north africa as it did in syria by propping up the regime of brashr al assad the prize would be there. with its lucrative oil sector. russia lost billions in contact that it had with the gadhafi regime during arab spring. but part of for russia saying it is trying to see it stabilize to stop the spread of terror in that region...

Figures that were using these e-mail systems. then the hackers, one of the hackers, who was a known hacker and had actually been charged with crimes before, was able to use the stolen data to make money by launching phoney spam attacks and phishing attacks and directing people to a website for a commercial product. then they say they used the other known hacker to help them to get into some of the other e-mail systems. the russians wanted intelligence. the hackers were paid bit russians, the gov...

Scheme. >> we have reason to believe based on our evidence they were acting in their capacity as fsb officials. >> fsb agents tried to cast as wide a net as possible, using the 500 million yahoo accounts, to search for americans who served in the military or diplomatic corps and then launching spearfishing or cookie attacks. meanwhile, the alleged hacker just wanted money. erectile dysfunction drugs to a site and earning cash with each click. lastly, the suspect, baratov arrested in canada. the ...