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And defend the airspace? >> brian, i have to apologize, somebody was talking to me right as you were asking. youre asking about the reporting out of the los angeles times? >> yes. >> back in september, a los angeles times reporter david willman wrote about this pentagon system, that weve been talking about all afternoon. the pentagon has apparently spent nearly $3 billion developing this system of blimps that weve been talking about. the idea as youve said all afternoon was to provide early warn...

Days breaking stories. president obamas deputy national security adviser ben rhodes is stranding by at the white house to take questions. first, lets go to cnn justice reporter evan perez with the breaking news on the white house hack. evan what have you learned? >> wolf, these russian hackers got access to the sensitive parts of the white house e-mail system, they could see the presidents schedule the non-public parts of it in realtime. they got access to all of this in a clever way, through th...

Doing, this how they got in through the state department and the kinds of things they saw, including the presidents schedule and other sensitive things wolf. >> because we interviewed ben rhodes the white house deputy national security adviser in the last hour. he really didnt want to get into a lot of the details specifically. he didnt want to specifically say that russia was responsible for this hack. but thats your information. thats what you learned? >> thats right. you know theres a lot of ...

>> to do a fiving expedition. >> you could be phishing, do a man in the middle type exercises where you follow that piece of information back over onto what they would call the high side or classified side in those cyber systems. so, again, they got into the state department clearly by the news that you all broke and then followed it back to the white house. this is exactly the way they do it in the private sector when theyre trying to penetrate companies. this is exactly the way theyre doing it...

With the ability to do substantial damage to an institution like sony or steal the f-35 plans as the chinese did. terrorists are not at that point but they could get there. there is a twitter feed which is insignificant in the grand scheme of things but certainly thats the trend where were seeing terrorists experimenting with these kinds of attacks. >> they could get into the white house computer system and might be able to get into the pentagon system as well. you used to work there. what do yo...

To sensitive information, if you penetrated that wall either at the state department or the white house, its not all that difficult to get involved in fishing expeditions and penetrate classified information as well. >> well you know what i was told by some of the investigators who have been working on this they were shocked to see the kinds of stuff thats shared on this on classified e-mail system. theres a lot of stuff that is not technically classified but it is things that even in law enforc...

Is more severe than we had previously assessed. >> wolf the white house said in october that it had noticed some of the suspicious activity. it shut down the system to make sure that it could lock the doors, make sure the hackers could not get back in. but one of the things that we cant begin to sort of understand is how further this will go. the u.s. and russia are obviously at odds over many policy issues including ukraine and syria, and so officials tell me they expect a lot more of this acti...

Of the house intelligence committee national security commentatore oror mike rodgers and tom fuentes. mike rodgers, you were chairman of the intelligence community. is this a surprise evan perez, our justice reporter breaking the story here this hour that we knew the state department had been hacked, but now hes saying the hackers were russian hackers working directly for the russian government and they not only hacked into the state department but then they got into the white house computers as...

Has confirmed that that hack that took place at the state department which was publicized at the time was actually done by hackers working for therussian government. eventually they managed to get into the white house computer system as well. what can you tell us about that? >> well wolf first of all, im not going to get into details about our cyber security efforts. what i can say, though, is as you said, we were public about the fact that we were dealing with cyber intrusions in the state depa...