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Apple has clarified that the alerts sent to individuals in 150 countries about state-sponsored attackers targeting their iPhones may be "false alarms"

It hurt the clinton campaign because it cutit into the trump bashing by the press, which is almost nonstop. joining us now with his assessment, brit hume is in florida this evening. now, first of all, do you think trump is being too soft on putin? >> yeah, i think he probably is. sure, look vladimir putin is a bad actor. two prior presidents, two of trumps immediate predecessors tried to make common cause with him. it didnt work in either case. i think trump will eventually figure thiss out. but...

Joining us now with his assessment, brit hume is in florida this evening. now, first of all, do you think trump is being too soft on putin? >> yeah, i think he probably is. look vladimir putin is a bad actor. two prior presidents, two of trumps immediate predecessors try to make common cause with him. it didnt work in either case. i think trump will eventually figure this out. buts, so far, i think he nurses this notion that he, by virtue of his personality and his way, will be able to stand sho...

Press, which is almost nonstop. joining us now with his assessment, brit hume is in florida this evening. now, first of all, do you think trump is being too soft on putin? >> yeah, i think he probably is. look vladimir putin is a bad actor. two prior presidents, two of trumps immediate predecessors try to make common cause with him. it didnt work in either case. i think trump will eventually figure this out. buts, so far, i think he nurses this notion that he, by virtue of his personality and hi...

Cap pain after a ferry fire killed 23. the boat reportedly caught fire after a sort circuit in the generator. hundreds of people were headed to jakarta at the time. heres how one survivor described the chaos. >> translator: thick smoke suddenly emerged, blanketing the cabin. all passengers panicked and ran up to the deck to throw floats in the water. in a split second, the fire became bigger. it was coming from where the fuel is stored. >> authorities say 17 people are still missing. and still...

Lindsey graham all believing that russia was at fault here, and donald trump saying no, its very difficult to prove. i think the american people have to see the proof. >> abby, i want to play the latest pushback from team trump on the hacking controversy. heres what sean spicer said on cnn this morning talking about what trump and the u.s. intelligence community claim to know. >> as president-elect, he is privy to information that most people arent, and he is able to understand what the intellig...

The hacking controversy. >> that response yesterday from president-elect trump. no word yet from the president to be. definitely, an international situation. >> theyre telling me vladimir putin is weighing in. ez saying, ha, ha, ha. thats all you got? honestly, theyre expelling 35 russian diplomats. get them out of here. the two we will call them cells. one in maryland, one on the west coast, they will close them down. they were spying machines. you should have done that a long time ago. as far ...

Conditions, when china swooped in and took it. and the u.s. president is leaving little doubt on who he holds responsible for cyberhackingings during the u.s. election. the man you see here, the president of russia, vladimir putin putin. barack obama told putin to "cut it out" when the two were at the g-20 summit in china. mr. obama says the hacking stopped, but the damage had already been done with hacked emails posted on wikileaks. the fact that president-elect trump is openly skeptical ab...

Russian hacking and the election. hans, this was the longest news conference of his presidency, and much of it centered on the hacking controversy. what stood out to you? >> the distinction between hacking into e-mails and he mentioned john podesta by name, and the interference on election day balloting, and his base may have wanted to hear more about the outcome and he was defensive on how he handled the whole russia issue, but if you listen closely theres a subtle mess toeupbmess -- message to...

Who wha is your takeaway from this hacking controversy? here you have ten years of john podestas gmails being perused and dumped out by wikileaks. >> hacking was an issue running aol, we had a team protecting the system. clearly its coming to another level when you have other countries hacking into our system to influence elections. thats unfortunate. more broadly, whats unfortunate, this is where the country now stands. last week hi a wonderful, optimistic week, spent time on the road, meeting ...