this is an incredibly serious step. i believe the merrick garland approve this himself, he will be investigated by kevin mccarthy, as you said earlier. we are in a very new and dangerous stage. but all the justice department people that i ve been speaking to for a book that i m working on, say they re being incredibly careful. that they would only act if there is crystal clear evidence, they don t to be political. this will be perceived as political by half the country, so it s a monumental development, and we ll see if the evidence holds up in court. it s just a shocking series of events tonight. given what is going on at the u.s. justice department tonight, we are blessed a david rohde, executive editor for the new york times.com, is right now working on a book about what s happening at the justice department. i thank you for that, sir. david, thanks for making time for joining us tonight. thank you. all right, that will do it for me for now, ali velshi is gonna be he
this is an incredibly serious step. i believe the merrick garland approve this himself, he will be investigated by kevin mccarthy, as you said earlier. we are in a very new and dangerous stage. but all the justice department people that i ve been speaking to for a book that i m working on, say they re being incredibly careful. that they would only act if there is crystal clear evidence, they don t to be political. this will be perceived as political by half the country, so it s a monumental development, and we ll see if the evidence holds up in court. it s just a shocking series of events tonight. given what is going on at the u.s. justice department tonight, we are blessed a david rohde, executive editor for the new york times.com, is right now working on a book about what s happening at the justice department. i thank you for that, sir. david, thanks for making time for joining us tonight. thank you. all right, that will do it for me for now, ali velshi is gonna be here tomorro
but for many they choose to the to. and steroids? oh no, no, no. body image issues. new york times.com. someone responded to him and he had what he thought was a private direct message conversation. it wasn t. he was tweeting out the messages to the public the whole time. the public began reveling in his foolish mistake. after deleting the tweets he said it was a private twitter conversation with a friend and they weren t intended for the public domain. the public said that s no excuse and continued to demand he answer for them. i say, yes, it is an excuse and no he doesn t have to answer for them. there is a difference between speech made for the public and speech that isn t and yet we seem unwilling to admit there is a difference. we shouldn t have to defend them in the public arena. just like if he left his bathroom door open and somebody put a picture of him on the internet. the public and the private. two different things.
while we have built systems, protections and a framework to identify attacks and intrusions, share information with the private sector and across the government and develop plans and capabilities to mitigate the damage, more must be done and must be done quickly. jon: cyber terrorism expert and former adviser to the state department s anti-terrorism assistance program and also the c.e.o. of connected to the case, he joins us now. how worrisome is this attack on the times, morgan? you know, jon, what it has the effect of doing is creating distrust in the public. it s an economic issue for them, too. people pay to get content. they go there. what s happening, it s not so much an tack on the site as it is an attack on the service that translates the name of the new york times .com into the i.p. address that gets it there. if you take out that piece of it, pretty much that site becomes unavailable even though i ve never actually physically touched the new york times site.
captions by vitac www.vitac.com good mornings, everyone, i m randi kaye and thank you for starting the morning with us. we begin this hour with the h t heat. it has been so bad that 30 deaths across the united states are blame hed on the heat wave. we get more from melissa rainy. reporter: saturday brought another day of blistering heat and in some areas that is more triple temperatures. people are looking for relief wherever they can find it. it feels great. it feels so wonderful. it beats the heat for sure. reporter: in chicago, the heat buckled roadways and some residents gave up and fled the city. in chicago, it was 105 and felt like 112, so we came up here to escape the heat. reporter: but a cold front is expect ed expected in the coming days. looking forward to the 80 degree weather and even 89 sounds great. reporter: forecasters say that cooler air will move across the upper midwest and into the great lakes and the northeast which brings some comfor