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Spread, the nsas digital break-in could mean the onslaught of cyber weapons could just be getting started. and the ukrainian got a taste of that as well on tuesday. this latest attack locked government accounting software and demanded ransom from customer attempting to withdraw cash from the countrys state-owned bank. why hasnt congress put a little more pressure on the nsa to step in and deal with this stolen cyber toolkit? head of the counterterrorism center, you know how this stuff works. wel...

You know, the key question here, theres all this talk of whether or not comey viewed this as interference, obstruction of justice, i think we really need to hear from the former director about that. there are people who are close to him who dont necessarily believe that at the time, when he had this meeting with the president at the white house, that the former director actually thought that trump was trying to interfere in the investigation. the feeling for comey based on some conversations tha...

Theres no way to turn back from that now. >> bill: im real curious. i were nunes id call susan rice next week. why do you think its going it take a while? >> normally the way this stuff works, bill, is you do a pr pre-interview with staff and bring them forward for the grand public questioning. >> bill: im prepared. >> i can tell. brit hume. "the factor" has inside information president trump is already changing his white house staff. and columbia university. >> do you believe conservatives are ...

>> its a mentally deranged person. you cant take the fact that hes using the rhetoric. it will be this individual action. >> its responsibility. >> its just a matter of time. thats how this stuff works. it works with adults when theyre in a bar drinking and it works with our president who is intoxicated by the idea of beating up the media. he thinks it works for him otherwise he wouldnt do it. >> the polls indicate that is correct. it is effective within his base. >> theyre really talking about ...

Camps to totalitarian countries to people traffickers have done all over the world for years. we know how this stuff works. weve never seen somebody become the american president and use. >> it masha gessen, check out her work. thank you. >> thank you. >> still ahead, the march for life draws its highest ranking official in its history. but first, british prime minister theresa may and van halen. thats tonights thing 1 thing 2 starting right after this break.

Camps to totalitarian countries to people traffickers have done all over the world for years. we know how this stuff works. weve never seen somebody become the american president and use. >> it masha shah guegessen, che her work. thank you. >> thank you. >> still ahead, the march for life draws its highest ranking official in its history. but first, british prime minister theresa may and van halen. thats tonights thing 1 thing 2 starting right after this break.

In this election. a politically charged thing to say. as of the same james clapper who assured the country that the nsa was not spying on americans? was he lying when he said that? >> that is the whole challenge you got. we probably need a national dialogue. im not sure we need a national debate. we need a national dialogue about how the modern world is going to work. sony gets hacked, presumably by north korea, although, we dont totally know that. the fact is, we dont have a very good grip on h...

Longer likes the phrase drain the swamp. im told he just disclaims that. he now says it was cute, but he doesnt want to use it anymore. david. >> and, and, newt said that the president has the power to pardon his kids in advance in effect saying they can do no wrong no matter what happens. newt gingrich suggesting something like that. >> yeah, well, i think -- look, newt is an interesting character and obviously he has a lot of experience in using his, you know, position as a former speaker of t...

Extraordinary experience. they lived through the cold war. theres nobody who understands how our government national security institutions work better than bob gates. read his memoirs and its the textbook on how this stuff works. you know, the fact that the president-elect is consulting bob gates asking for advice in itself is a positive factor. >> bob gates served eight presidents. you know general mattis has served eight commander in chiefs. thats extraordinary together. not as good as richard...

Deprive ourselves of our own liberties, things like the patriot act. but we wont ask for gun registration or background checks, simple common sense stuff. i dont know. sometimes i think we have just gotten used to this. where we think it is like traffic accidents. but it isnt. there are sensible procedures we can take. look, we have so much evidence from around the world that this stuff works. australia used to have mass shootings. they put in place gun laws. they have not had a single mass shoo...