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Powell were the ones they went after first. this is how you find out who people talk to. >> reporter: the targeting happened in recent months. google wouldnt say who was targeted but attempts were made at both democratic and republican staffs. google and senate sources are also not saying whether any of the attempted hacks have been successful? >> how vulnerable are senators personal e-mail accounts? >> it depends on the member of congress and their staff and whether theyve done things like used...

No-brainer. these personal accounts are low-hanging fruit. the fact is if you look at 2016, what you saw is the personal accounts -- particularly of people like john podesta and colin powell -- were the ones they went after first because this is how you find out where people go, who they talk to. >> reporter: cnn learned the targeting of senator e-mails occurred in recent months. neither senate aides nor google would tell cnn which were targeted. attempts were made at democratic and republican s...

Brett kavanaugh can exhale after two days of tough questioning. the supreme court nominee left with few missteps over the confirmation hearing. we learned one thing with the final day of testimony. cor yer cor yerks book -- cory booker is running for president. >> the democratic senator releasing e-mails despite designation as committee confidential in what he called an "i am spartacus" moment. kavanaugh has written he favors race neutral security practices. senator booker calls the decision to ...

Running for president. >> the democratic senator releasing e-mails despite designation as committee confidential in what he called an "i am spartacus" moment. kavanaugh has written he favors race neutral security practices. senator booker calls the decision to release the e-mails an act of civil disobedience. "the wall street journal" writes this doesnt change our opinions about judge kavanaugh and how the senate is willing to defeat a nominee. booker should be tossed off the judiciary committ...

Using an insecure phone. he has multiple phones. one he uses for social media and twitter. the other he uses for phone calls. it has voice activation and camera making it vulnerable as other presidents have not been to being hacked. >> i saw the report. i dont know what devices. >> we have not confirmed this. >> i want to make sure thats clear. its very prorimportant that the president not compromise security. i think its important for the president to engage in best security practices. just las...

United technologies. they closed marginally higher, not huge but up. i looked at health care, hospital stocks. part of the $131 billion in domestic spending, 6 billion is going towards addressing the opioid crisis. investors may be waiting for the houseboat before aggressively buying stocks in either of those groups. >> shannon: that can be a real hurdle in getting this done. thank you very much. up next, concerns over security practices at the u.s. northern border. first beyond our borders toni...

Publication, quote, unconstitutional. in an email to employees, the ceo the publishing company has no intention of honoring the president have cease-and-desist letter. he told staff this with the first amendment fight and, quote, much more than the book itself. >> a $650,000 settlement with the federal trade commission after accusations of violation of us childrens privacy laws claiming a massive data breach allowed kids personal information to be collected through smart toys. and the hong kong ...

Security moving forward. he says, well i cant erase the past, can i commit on part of every uber employee that we will learn from our mistakes. this uber ceo is the new one, the last one got canned. they have a great record. in august, he took over. now, lets just remember, that ubers record of hiring is quite scary, considering new yorks biggest terror attack since 911 was an uber driver. raises the risk when i get into an uber am i safe. when does the ceo take responsibility. >> and the ceo, t...

Laptop was breached. the anti-virus software. question is how do they walk out with this stuff? we have to quit blaming the third parties and start holding people in positions of power accountable. >> jon: the government says no more kaspersky software in u.s. government computers and 940 days to get rid of it. thats closing the door after the horse has gotten out of the barn. >> the threat from your mom. ill give you three hours to stop this. the damage is done. they should have thought about t...

The policy in detail is detached from where we are. >> last night the presidents twitter account went down for 11 minutes people had fun with that. there you see what they saw during those 11 minutes, but there are some national security concerns if some employee can randomly shut goun dodown that can some random employee post statements in the name of the president? >> theres a concern of the presidents use of unsecure cell phones and twitter and social media. manage the kind of mischief that y...