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Rogue countries, countries that we are in dispute with, i do not need to name them, it would be in their interest to disrupt british society and how it operates and can continue, but also as you mentioned earlier, they get information, particularly from databases, medical phone lines like this one. what is that information actually then used for? lots of people will be worried this evening, we have been assured not to, but people will be worried about who has the personal private medical details...

Out the stakes. the two leaders are meeting in geneva, switzerland now meeting now after taking sharp jabs from a distance. congressman michael mccaul is on the house foreign affairs committee. what would you expect to see out of this something they might be able to agree on or where might they not be able to at all see eye-to-eye? >> i certainly hope the president brings up these cyberattacks. between the what happened with colonial pipeline, what happened with solar winds. i think we need to l...

>> john: do we have proof of that? >> of course. the usaid attack. any time you have a nation-state attack, i think our nation should respond in kind. i think theyve gotten away with this for way too long. colonial pipeline was a russian organized mafia which i believe has integrated with the oligarchs including himself. probably has tacit approval of that. so i hope the president can bring this up with putin that if you cant stop these attacks we are going to have to start responding. once we d...

Russia? >> there is no question private sector needs to do more when it comes to defending against these attacks. but we clearly delineated between what constitutes a nation state attack versus the country that har both ransom ware groups. russia has the top five ransom ware companies sitting in their own country targeting corporations in the united states. the biggest issue is there is no delineation between russia as a country that allows the organized crime groups to operate with impunity. we...

Russia? >> there is no question private sector needs to do more when it comes to defending against these attacks. but we clearly delineated between what constitutes a nation state attack versus the country that har both ransom ware groups. russia has the top five ransom ware companies sitting in their own country targeting corporations in the united states. the biggest issue is there is no delineation between russia as a country that allows the organized crime groups to operate with impunity. we...

Russia? >> there is no question private sector needs to do more when it comes to defending against these attacks. but we clearly delineated between what constitutes a nation state attack versus the country that har both ransom ware groups. russia has the top five ransom ware companies sitting in their own country targeting corporations in the united states. the biggest issue is there is no delineation between russia as a country that allows the organized crime groups to operate with impunity. we...

Russia? >> there is no question private sector needs to do more when it comes to defending against these attacks. but we clearly delineated between what constitutes a nation state attack versus the country that har both ransom ware groups. russia has the top five ransom ware companies sitting in their own country targeting corporations in the united states. the biggest issue is there is no delineation between russia as a country that allows the organized crime groups to operate with impunity. we...

Say, you dont question this. you have told the president this. i know personally that russia was behind the attacks. a long roster of cabinet members have said russia was behind the attacks. but the president has been unwilling to say this definitively and direct tly. i wanted to play some of what he said since he was elected, which is since he began getting old classified intelligence briefing. >> as far as hacking, i think it was russia. but i think he also get hacked by other countries and ot...

Your neck of the woods. were going to press pause on this story and turn to the breaking news we brought you about this yahoo! hack because right now we have nbc news justice correspondent pete williams who is joining us to talk through what this means. pete, can you lay out the nuts and bolts? what do we know and not know about this new development? >> well, its as the official said this morning, this is a nation state attack. were talking about the 2014 hack on yahoo! that compromised half a...