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Maybe the justice department would let that go but not secretary shulkin. he suggested that maybe that e-mail was doctored by a hacker. huh? well, this morning the secretary arrived on capitol hill for what was supposed to be a budget oversight hearing. watch his response when a lawmaker suggests that actually they should take this hacking allegation quite seriously. >> i would just say before moving on to the budget, the allegations of a potential hacking of a v.a. computer system with ill inte...

Award but he changed the e-mails to lie and say he did. the justice department decided not to pursue criminal prosecution. but not secretary shulkin, he suggested last night that maybe that e-mail was doctored by a hacker. huh? this morning secretary arrived on capitol hill for what was supposed to be a budget oversight hearing. watch his response when a lawmaker suggested they should take the hacking quite seriously. >> i would say before moving to the budget the allegations of a potential hack...

Up president obama and what he did -- >> a favorite past time of his. >> he said president obama knew about russian hacking and did nothing about it. president trump had this weird quote. people say president obama choked. i dont think he choked but he did nothing. your reaction? >> first of all, last summer when president obama learned that there was a potential hacking taking place, he asked the intelligence committee to look into that. they did that. he asked them to issue a new report that c...

I think were starting to see that because its frankly on the news every and the front page of newspapers. >> one more for you. you worked in the obama administration. president trump oversees brought up president obama and what he did -- >> a favorite past time of his. >> he said president obama knew about russian hacking and did nothing about it. president trump had this weird quote. people say president obama choked. i dont think he choked but he did nothing. your reaction? >> first of all, la...

Conspiracy theories. heres her back in 2010 explaining away anthony weiners graphic, lewd tweet. making excuses for little anthony. >> if he was prank, how would that work? how could a person do that, what would that look like? if someone looks at the image of the account and judging from the pick civilization and some other visual clues, it concludes the image was a composite -- a number of other blogs have different versions of the theory of a potential hacking. it looks at the information emb...

What would it look like? look at the image of the congressmans twitter account, and judging from the pixel is asian of the images, some other clues, he concludes that the damage was a composite, saved a number of times, indicating that it had been photoshopped, for a theory with fewer stops, other blogs have a theory of a potential hacking that looks at the information in bedded -- embedded in this controversial picture. a third by final theory has to do with the sharing service that i was talki...

Lets look in the hearing room and look as members of this subcommittee get settled. there at the center is john cornyn. beyond him is lindsey graham, sheldon, white house of rye. jim rosenthal of connecticut is joining them non a council seat. he is not a member of this particular subcommittee. >> this is a subcommittee, the subcommittee on crime and terrorism of the full judiciary committee. we should know, brian, that the crime theyre looking into is espionage, the potential hacking into of ou...

Thinking is not particularly persuasive to the american people. this is an election. in this bitter and divisive election, the american people are looking for a positive way forward that will protect our rights to vote. not only against republicans, but against democrats, and as we know, there are concerns about three states in particular as examples of potential hacking. there was likewise in the democratic primary. i myself was very disappointed and bernie sanders did not mount a challenge. th...

It could be north korea itself trying to fend off a potential hacking or cyber attack and shutting off their own internet band. >> the timing is certainly curious, though. is the u.s. do you think inching towards cyber warfare with north korea or are we already there? >> well, obviously we dont know if the u.s. has done anything yet so we dont know if were inside but dont forget, north korean internet is very small and not necessarily in north korea. so if the u.s. wanted to do some kind of prop...

Support sony, i think the gut reaction on behalf of everybody whos a decision maker says oh we dont know how this is going to play out. the safest thing to do is not do anything at all. >> before i let you go real quick the president says this sets a dangerous precedent. do you think it is likely that other film companies would buckle or respond to the same kind of pressure or respond to any other potential hacking that could happen? >> i do think thats a possibility. and i hate to think were in...