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Attacks and stop them and do all the work that we can to prove who was responsible and then take action. this is going to be a major policy challenge for the biden administration if they do you attribute these attacks to a state actor like russia. ashley: really quickly, 10 seconds or so, this last question, why vienna and why now? >> viennas always been a hot spot for diplomatic and espionage activity and its quite possible the perpetrators of these attacks are seeking to cause harm to our miss...

2016. should it be concerning to people that theres not really been much movement on this as far as figuring out who is doing it and who is behind it? >> yeah, i think in the initial stages there were many who doubted whether the attacks in fact were taking place and i dont think that there was enough attention paid to the forensics, to the science, to the medical details about what those who have been targeted, what they were suffering from and we started way too late. this is something that we...

To government action. the first words of the first amendment are congress shall make no law and so it applies to the federal government, it has since been incorporated and applied against the state government and so the argument that a lot of the talking heads put out immediately after president trump filed his lawsuit is they said, well, facebook is not the government. twitter is not the government so this lawsuit will get thrown out. well, the supreme court has long recognized a line of cases ...

Academic communities that companies like this google, facebook, twitter, youtube, these large all encompassing social media companies act as essentially a state actor when they censor people. they essentially have the same power as the government. sometimes influenced or pressured by the government to do these things. theoretically you could apply the state actor theory to them and impose first amendment restrictions. its a developing area of the law. its possible this could break new ground. to...

Amendment violation, hes claiming it against private companies. you can only claim a first amendment violation against the government. right out of the gate this has no merit at all. i suspect it will be swiftly dismissed. >> so, dan, this seemed to be coordinated at some level. less than an hour after he announced the lawsuit, a text message goes out to his supporters trying to fund raise off of it. how successful will that be? how much do you think this riles up the base? >> i think it will be...

A message, there was a message that was sent. which is that if you commit a murder, whether you wear a badge or not, you can face a very serious consequences. and your role as a state actor is not going to shield you from responsibility and accountability. >> it was interesting today to see the judge talk about the aggravating factors that he used to justify northward departure, an upward departure, from what had been otherwise 12 and a half year sentence under minnesota sentencing guidelines. o...

Consequences and your role as a state actor is not going to shield you from responsibility and accountability. >> it was interesting today to see the judge talk about the aggravating factors that he used to justify northward departure, an upward departure from what had been the 12 and a half-year sentence. one of those was he actsed in a group with other individuals involved. i know that the judge -- that the case to have other three officers, the state charges against the other three officers f...

Ransomware group replaced a state actor. they did what you normally do during war, which is take out an adversaries critical infrastructure what is happening here, as long as these gangs are allowed to operate with implicit approval of vladimir putin or jinping, we have to get back to the bush doctrine. if you cross the line, youre just as responsible as the terrorists. >> shannon: the threats of biological warfare and the panels take on what happened in wuhan. thats next. >> im one of those guy...

Propublica and one of the issues is that this is a possibility that was a hacking, probably a state actor, to china or russia break into the irs and steal all of the tax documents to sow discord in the u.s.? because the more that the rest of us know about the billionaires, the more class conflict there is. so that is a possibility, is it not? we dont know, that could have happened, right? >> it certainly could have happened. and lets remind your viewers, it has happened in the past. as we point ...

Falsifying their documents? did we learn anything of tax code? no. we klearned nothing by the revelation of these documents. all we did is harm the confidentiality of individuals tax returns. >> i mean there is a possibility because of a hostile state actor which i know, does that change your analysis at all if this came from somebody inside the irs who feels an obligation to leak it and by the way carries a jail sentence. >> here is what we know for sure that this information came from the irs....