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Region tend to be paramilitary organizations like husband blah in southern lebanon or in yemen as we see with the houthi rebels. not a lot of state actors are as dependent on iran as perhaps some other countries of the gulf cooperation council look as saudi arabia as the economic super way of the region and the big brother on the block. they are much more dependent on saudi arabia. theyll follow saudi arabias line a lot more so than in irans case and quite frankly, the only state actor that is a...

Acted militarily but not just militarily. weve built diplomatically a coalition of 65 countries. we have worked to cut off isils source of revenue and financing through an active counterfinancing campaign, now through trying to take out their oil production and distribution. >> lets bring in cnn national security analyst julia kay yen and jeff parks, retired ied expert with the u.s. army. good to see both of you. jeff, what do you want to hear from the president in terms of specificity, the miss...

Information from a top official at the pentagon. theyve also told similar things to other news organizations about other officials. we have yet to see, actually, any additional sensitive information being released, other than things that theyve sent us to prove that they have what they have. >> cnns laurie segall actually spoke with one of these alleged hackers. i want to play you a clip from that conversation. >> what we have most of is personal information, like his name, address, phone number...

Things, and when we saw it we manipulated it, aol, password reset on the account, it was that easy i could have done it with one hand. >> whats the latest youre hearing from your law enforcement sources, evan? have authorities identified, found this individual? >> they havent yet, wolf. theyre working on this. but you know the thing is, this is not a case where they believe it might be russians or perhaps chinese hackers. its not a state actor, as far as we know. this could be a teenager working...

D.a. in rowan county. so the attorney generals office in kentucky is looking that. the judge didnt have a lot of options. company have fined her or taking the step of putting her in jail. >> he an opportunity, gave her an opportunity for a number of different things. she wants to eat her cake and have it too. she can walk away from that position. have deposition do it. she refused to take every accommodation possible. the judge was making a strong statement government officials have sworn a resp...

The attack, a senior defense official said the attack is so sophisticated, it had to be the work of a state actor. this comes only weeks after officials discovered a breach at the office of personnel management that resulted in the theft of personal information of more than 22 million people. the white house did not make any official accusation in the breach, though, james clapper the director of national intelligence called china a leading suspect. and in december, alex, the fbi accused the nor...

Stuff like that but in terms of recruiting spies and the fbis in charge of preventing that? >> information like we just talked about, sure. in the hands of state actor, it would be a gold mine for intelligence operations. you could craft recruitment strategies you could craft the worlds best spear fishing e-mails. you could send me an e-mail that appears to be from my sister about some family event that youing if the out from think background forms with an attachment that i would click on that a...

Before. as faith mentioned, he amazeingly managed to get an acquittal for the murder and disposal of remains in a gruesome fashion -- >> i understand the two envelopes, but can they use the tape? is it admissible in court? >> theyll have to authenticate it have to prove its his voice. there will be plenty of defense objections and probably be an explanation to somehow put a lot of spin on what he said but "killed them all," of course a jury is going to get to hear that. remember prosecutors who ...

Thats the apology coming from the student seen leading a racist chant among a bus load of fraternity members in oklahoma. the president of the school expelled two students saying they created a hostile educational environment for others. the president shut down the entire fraternity from campus. >> while many agree with the universitys response, theres a question about whether it is actually legal for a public university to suspend someone, anyone, for speech even if it is racist speech. want to...

Something that could be retaliated for, not only by listing with state sponsored terrorism, and take though u.n., and demanding financial restitution, and other, either cyber or kinetic means. >> general, sure ily we know more about what is happening inside of north korea and its weirdness than our government lets on. surely thats not a place we havent been able to penetrate. thats just not true, is it? >> we know a lot about what is going on in north korea. i think china knows even more. and th...