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Will change. that is really disconcerting. whats your advice for consumers trying to protect themselves when it seems like these guys are going to get off scot-free? >> the first thing you do is we dont have identity theft protection, get some. you have several different companies, be careful, everybody is rushing to do this. you cant do anything with a credit freeze. if you think youre a victim right now, you can do its called a fraud alert, but you have to monitor these things. you cannot trus...

After president trump slammed it as an embarrassment to the u.s. that made some of our allies anxious, so whats the fallout if he pulls out of the deal? >> marie: even some of the critics praised the speech, but the media trash it is stupid. proving once again hes knocking a fair shot. >> sandra: all that plus our #oneluckyguy at the top of the hour. >> julie: the equifax breach put people at risk and now to other credit reporting agencies are being asked to prove that they are taking proper sec...

Page, make sure youre operating from a trusted source. and just because its an e-mail doesnt mean its i true. just remember white house.com used to be an adult entertainment site. a lot of people thought it was white house.gov, and they were redirect to that more a long time. arthel: oops. morgan wright, we leave it there. thank you. [laughter] >> you bet, arthel. rick: well, some communities could be facing a shortage of doctors thanks in part to obamacare. >> we still have a problem withs issu...

A simple little e-mail is probably the best way, if you want to invade a country. arthel: and whats the trick, finally, morgan, you may get an e-mail from a web site or a company that looks very official -- >> right. arthel: but you look at whats behind the dot, the dot.com, usually if you take a look at it, lets say, for instance, bank of america. it may not say bank of america, it may say something like bank of america info -- >> right. arthel: something very hard to look at or you usually don...

♪ ♪ rick: one person has drowned and two others are missing after their boat collided with another vessel and sank in the english channel. it happened off southeast england today. two people were rescued, one found clinging to abu by and the other pulled from the sea. rescue crews were unable to find two others, and the search has been call off. arthel: attorney general jeff sessions promising to crack down on the white house leaks. he made it clear that the flood of leaks have gotten out of...

>> rick: i guess we will watch and wait. thank you very much. ♪ >> molly: for more on this and where these leaks might be coming from and how they are transmitted, morgan wright is a cyber security analyst at the center for digital government. thank you for being here today. to start things off, the attorney general really saying they want to clamp down on this culture of leaks but that can be tough to do in this modern age, you can just snap photos of things. one of the steps to make that hap...

This down what would it be today. >> the threat of legislation so say, look, either you solve this or when we come in nobody wins when when we come in. onerous and cost you money to do. this you have to effect their profits and bottom line. you know threat of legislation. presidential election in 1998 talking about regulating critical infrastructure. first one to hop on were the banks. no one want to be regulated by the government. have to get ahead of it. threat of legislation and get these guy...

Stuff. what we have to do, yet start prosecuting people yep start creating a significant deterrent, and you have to stop making these people folk years. in my opinion, and what snowden is folk hero. riley winter is not a folk hero. these people have committed crimes against the united states, regardless of what side of the spectrum they are on. look at the actions. look what they did. not to your ideological prism, but to the prism of the safety and security of the night states. >> harris: and f...

This a threat to our basic infrastructure, air travel,, could this bring countries to its knees? >> it could. how we dodge the bullet, it may just be pure luck. tucker, you have to realize how fast this thing spread. it did hit critical infrastructure, it hit banks, to hospitals are one of the ones that i worry about most. if they do an overdraft, they dont fall over. in a hospital, they could die from locking up records, patient medications. we are not out of the woods on this yet. >> tucker: m...

Are your files at risk? they might be. morgan wright is a cyber security expert and a senior fellow at the center for digital government, he joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. >> you bet, tucker. >> tucker: how bad was this and why hasnt the united states been affected in the way other countries happen? >> number one, compared to the huge service attack, this is orders of magnitude even worse than that. it hit 150 countries, like you said, hundreds of thousands of computers. just from a ...