really throwing shade at dnc who should be ashamed for allowing themselves to be hacked in 2016. do you agree with this? i don t. it s one of those things, not a matter of if you ll be hacked but when and why you ll respond. the private sector has been hacked. there s plenty of resources and talent. not a lack of talent or dereliction of duty wen hacked, you re a victim of a crime and it should be treated as such. does that many with the increase in hacking attempts, does it automatically mean the government isn t doing enough? it s one of those things where this is actually going to be an all of the above scenario. we have to lock arms together. the private sector has to help out more. there s more that can be done from the standpoint of telcos looking at traffic patterns. there s work that can be done on the hill, out of the white house. we can set aside grants and funds for the campaigns to help
going forward more hacking attempts, more attempts to intrude on our democratic processes because foreign adversaries see what the conversation already is in this country and know. they don t have to be particularly effective. even efforts to get into voter systems, even leaving behind sloppy malware will create conspiracy theories and concern here. the effectiveness of their attacks doesn t have to be very high. and also our responses to it. one thing that kept coming up yesterday is has president trump, this was asked numerous times by democrats. has president trump directed the intelligence community to face off against russia on this issue. what would they really like to be done here? when you look at the responses that we can actually muster, if it s a non-state actor involved in this i m sure the chinese and the russians and anyone else we don t want hacking of your voting systems. we don t know it either. north korea, good luck to try
sea of japan-u.s. pacific command said it s the first time a b-1 has conducted night training with their japanese counterparts. it comes as nbc news has exclusively learned that hackers recently targeted the u.s. power grid using spearphishing containing malware. the e-mails were sent to multiple u.s. electric power companies however there s no evidence that the hacking attempts were successful. that reporting comes as a south korean lawmaker revealed yesterday that yesterday north korean hackers reach the computer network of the south korean military and stole a trove of data including contingency plans which reportedly includes the south korean s military quote. let s go to seoul, south korea, and bring in nbc s correspondent matt bradley. the abilities to hack have been widely known. some attribute the sony hacking
congress has to look at. if you look political advertising, it s very much regulated, candidate ads are regulated. that s largely that s largely not extended in the same with the same kind of robust legal architecture to social media sites. it s one of the things that i think congress will have to take a look at. if facebook and google aren t going to police what activities happen on their sites that might be sponsored by foreign governments, that s the type of thing congress might want to take a look at in term of whether we need new laws going forward. ned, we just heard a few moments ago from senators burr and senator warner of the intelligence committee over the timeliness of the current administration s investigation into hacking attempts by russia. this is what senator warner said. take a listen.
a crack in a dam in mexico threatens millions that live down street. an earth quick struck this morning as workers were picking through the rubble of tuesday s quake. at least 300 people died in that quake. this is the third powerful quake to hit mexico this month. now to the new details in the russian probe. the department of home land security notifying 25 2 1 states yesterday of election hack ago tempts during the 2016 race that could be linked to rush yachlt those targeted states include pennsylvania, florida, and wisconsin. and joining me now is former senior associate general counsel at the office of the director of national intelligence. also a law professor at georgetown university. welcome to you. we have senator mark warner calling the delay of almost one year in publicly disclosing the hacking attempts as