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This comes after president trump walked away with the two sides failed to reach denuclearization agreement at the summit in vietnam. an expert at mits security program and im happy to have you here with us today. >> happy st. patricks day. i see youre wearing the appropriate color desk. what is up, you blew it. >> i did. youd think id know better. arthel: is kim jong bluffing? >> is this thing started to unravel? one of the things that struck me in pyongyang as they went out of their way not to ...

Crucial topic. >> it is a complicated one. "washington post" technology and policy reporter tony ram is joining us. lets dig into this because equifaxs ceo says the cybersecurity program was fully staffed and monitoring users accounts. take a listen. >> the fact that equifax suffered a data breach does not mean that the company did not have appropriate data security program or that the company failed to take cybersecurity seriously. i understand that before the attack the companys security progr...

>> the fact equifax suffered a data breach does not mean the company did not have appropriate data security program or that the company failed to take cyber security seriously. i understand that before the attack the companys security program was well funded and staffed and leveraged strong administrative and technical safeguards. >> it entirely means the company wasnt doing the tliengt. marriotts breach, by the way, separate thing, last november 2018, affected up to -- big one, 383 million cust...

That are offended by this, but it may make some difference in what this individual eventually gets charged with. >> and let me bring frank and charles back into the conversation. the officials said if you see something weird in the mail, definitely say something. there are a massive amount of packages september through the po -- sent through the postal service every day. what advice do you have for folks? >> the postal service has a comprehensive security program, if you will. that starts with t...

Misinformation campaign and news and things like that. definitely major target for nation states, right now its too soon to tell who the attackers are behind it but this type of flawed does require level of understanding on how to attack web applications and how to go after the facebook platform which facebook has a solid security program. that was no ease feat. whether thats organized crime trying to gather more information to sell and we have no indication that that information is being sold o...

Irrational it might be, sure. but remember, the u.s. marshals service runs a witness security program, wit sec. you see it all the time. its a real thing. and if a witness has information that is help to feel the government, he or she, typically he could apply to the witness security program through the department of justice through the u.s. marshals. we can protect witnesses. >> chuck, one last question for you. bob woodwards book "fear" came out a couple of days ago in which he said there was ...

The department of transportation. she joins me to talk more about this. mary, not to put too fine of a point on this tragedy but simply, how could this have happened? >> reporter: you know, failures in security and access control is probably the foremost thing that comes to mind. they have their own security program. the airline has to have a security program so unauthorized people cannot get access to the flight controls or deck and perform unauthorized functions. the government approves or acc...

If youre a commercial pilot and cover questions of mental stability and if youre taking any kind of depression drugs or mental drugs or things that might impair your judgment. so that is how you get those checks for the pilots, but once they do that and if thats what their program requires for security for the airline and the federal government has accepted their security program, thats whats required. so no, they wouldnt have put him through psychological testing. >> excellent information. mary...

>> thats interesting. thank you so much. joining me to discuss this further is mary schiavo. shes a former inspector general for the department of transportation. good to see you. >> thank you. >> from what we heard -- theres a lot of detail thats not provided. from what we heard, do you think this is an effective strategy to screen for dangerous people because of some of the things they are pointing out? >> most of the data that show us whats really effective in thwarts attacks have come out ...

She died earlier this month in southern england after she and her partner were exposed to a chemical nerve agent. funeral organizers say they followed the advice of public health officials to make the service as safe as possible. sturgiss partner, charlie rowley survived. he told a british tv network what he thought perfume bottle who gave to it sturgis who sprayed it on her rest. police have not confirmed that was the source of the nerve agent. it came four months after a former russian spy and...