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The federal governments efforts prevent a major cyber attack may have suffered a serious blow. nbc news has confirmed russian hackers stole important details about how the nsa defends against cyber attacks. for more im joined by nbc news intelligence and national security reporter ken dilinian. ken, what is the latest? >> katy, this is an incredible story. a contractor at the nsa apparently took home highly classified material including hacking tools that the nsa uses to break into computers and...

Or hackers in order to sow chaos overseas or even potentially back here at home? >> it is highly disturbing the last two global massive hack attacks have been linked to nsa malware, that our government designed, and now those hacking tools are out in the public domain. i have introduced bipartisan legislation called the patch act with both members of congress an senators to bring transparency to the process and how the nsa decides to right and hoard malware versus telling companies and manufactu...

And the u.s. its targeting government agencies and global firms including companies like merck, and wpp. agencies have been hit particularly hard including the monitoring system at the nuclear power plant. this virus is similar to wannacry. ransom ware infects and locks a computer and demands $300 in bit coin to open it up. microsoft did release a security patch in march but the virus targets anyone that hasnt updated their system. we dont know yet the source of the attack. while some experts sa...

Infection. while it would be satisfying to hold accountable those responsible for this hack, something we are working on quite seriously, the worm is in the wild, so to speak, at this point, and patching is the most important message as a result. business and government have responded to upgrades and patches and this has dramatically reduced the invasion of the last three days. this continues to be our focus. let me finish by repeating advice that all organizations be vigilant in updating their ...

Is about to enter a recession or is it because were about to spend money in the morning or is it because we have a windbag who says a lot of nonsense? >> ed: how can you take a cheap shot like that? >> hes using his rhetoric in te illegal immigration is coming down, thats all you want to address the president of the ad states. >> the present is taken every imposition possible throughout his career. >> ed: put his come down and you wont fully acknowledge that if you decided to throw a cheap shot ...

Wikileaks founder julian assange is offering to share cia ho hacking tools to help companies. he says wikileaks has a lot of information that claims the cia to use peoples phones to spy on them. the question is do you cooperate with a fugitive to fix products or is assange too toxic? lets bring in samuel burke live in london. good morning, samuel. very helpful julian assange. >> reporter: good morning, dave. what is interesting is just because theres been unauthorized release of classified infor...

Access, knowledge of these hacking tools. they have to go through the 200 2,000 and the contractors, they have a lot of interviews to do. whether they are going to find who leaked it, we dont know but it looks like it could be a contractor. >> bret: should wikileaks be liable? >> of course they should. but i agree with what judge napolitano assange paid out think anyone can trust the intelligence agency, given what we know about the incompetency of guarding their own secrets. >> i have never tru...

Lot of them, older white people who live away from the cities. according to the -- would be here by this plan. >> for the low income individuals, this is something many republican senators are putting out there basically saying you need to make sure that the states have flexibilities, they are asking for that medicaid expansion, which is a topic of controversy for conservatives. this is where negotiations are going to take place, and well see where it falls. its going to be hard for them to pass...

Used in these investigations. >> the russian foreign minister seemed to relish the chaos. >> translator: when we were blamed of doing something, they presented evidence such as fingerprints of hackers. now it is being known that the cia is able to get access to such fingerprints and probably use them. >> the republican chairman of the house armed services committee told fox news he believes wikileaks is being used by moscow. >> we have never seen wikileaks release information about russian or ch...

Immigration travel ban is growing. washington state and massachusetts are joining hawaii. oregon and new york are reportedly interested in joining as well. washington state attorney general says he will ask the judge who issued the restraining order against the presidents first ban that it applies to the second as well. stocks were up slightly. fbi is on a mole hunt. the bureau is trying to find out who gave top-secret details of cia hacking tools to wikileaks. chief intelligence correspondent c...