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And this attack saw hundreds of members of parliament locked out of their remote access to their email accounts over the weekend as british officials shut down much of the email system that contained what they called a sustained assault. investigators blamed weak email passwords for this breach and while they suspect a state actor like russia, rather than an individual cyber criminal law enforcement cautioned the investigations are still in their early days and they havent made a final determina...

And a different thing the dire so his message becomes clouded and it isnt as clear i suspect as not only he wants to get across but also that his voters want to hear from him. >> now, james, to you, the big question here is how do we deter russia from doing this? president obama enacting some economic sanctions against russian intelligence agencies, kicking out those 30-odd diplomats from russia, closing down those two compounds, one of them which may be opened again, have we done enough already...

Clear case, perhaps beyond a reasonable doubt, mr. gowdy, that the russian government was behind the hacks into the dnc based on everything i was seeing. in terms of attribution, there are normal considerations about when one makes public attribution to a state actor who is engaged in some type of cyberattack. my personal opinion was that and is that those normal considerations were out the window and that we had an independent overriding need to inform the voting public of what we saw going on....

They celebrated in 2016. including probing into state election, of the database, seeing if theres some way to get in. no one has put forth one ounce of evidence that they changed the outcome of the election. but whats clear is that in 2016 they tried with the warning theyre going to try it again. >> state election officials are very sensitive about what they perceive to be federal intrusion into their process. i heard that firsthand over and over. this is our process, its our sovereign responsib...

And it was long planned. >> the american interceptor has a spotty track record. is this the only system to combat an international baa ballistbli -- ballistic missile? >> yes. its been operational 11 years now. what this is, you have a battery in alaska. a battery in california. two are responsible for trying to intercept a full handful of icbms. this is not to counter from a state actor like russia or china. they simply have too many missiles. it could overwhelm the u.s. system. if they knock t...

Conventional military engagement in iraq and syria. this obviously as any start to lose territory which everybody expects that they will lose. this didnt mean that the fight becomes any less serious, but are equipped to handle isis as a terrorist organization as opposed to isis as a state actor? >> we have to do both. we have to eliminate isis and its caliphate. and were doing a pretty effective job in taking back the territory both in iraq and syria. but we also have to deal with homegrown terr...

Beyond the initial intention of the attack. >> neil: how does it do that? you get every major country on earth affected, how does that happen? >> well, they could be going after different large systems. once they penetrate, the computers are connected on networks. in this case, they targeted multiple countries. we dont know who the perpetrators were. its possible they were targeting specific institutions linked to other networks. as weve seen in the past, they typically do spread beyond the init...

Russia so often the fingers pointed at them for government spying. in this case, china and russia, some of the biggest victims of this ransomware. every expert with whom i have spoken has said this is in all likelihood not a state actor, not a government, this is probably a small group of cyber criminals using this exploit to really take advantage of thousands just going after the money. >> all right, update your windows. make sure you click on your windows update this morning. >> reporter: that...

We are actually going to engage the world in a realistic fashion -- leland: so is this a little bit of a victory tour post the syria airstrike? >> i certainly think so. certainly from the, you know, the way that youre seeing mattis engage with the arab partners, saying we need to do more with saudi arabia, saying that iran is a clear, you know, state actor that is influencing everything in terms of hezbollah, you know, syria, the militias in syria and certainly the houthi-backed rebels in yemen....

Case is changed and the statements that assange has made or evidence that has come to light of a conspiracy. i think what is interesting is you look at the cases not as wikileaks as an organization not like the new york times, but somehow working with those who are breaking the law to gets information and then publishing thats information. were they working with a state actor like russia to hack information and publish it. i think it would be evidence of conspiracy which would go beyond where th...