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Friday night before a holiday weekend. whatd i tell you? what did i tell you at the top of this hour? huh? huh? last night the "wall street journal" broke a story it was a very important. it was the first detailed reporting we ever had that describes what appears to have been an effort at american collusion with a russian attack on our election last year. it named peter smith who is now deceased, who is 81-years-old, he died earlier this year and peter smith as a man who over labor day weekend l...

Friday night before a holiday weekend. what did i tell you. what did i tell you at top of the hour, huh? okay. last night the "wall street journal" broke a story that was very important. it was the first detailed reporting weve ever had, the first reporting weve had that describes what appears to have been an effort at american collusion with a russian attack on our election year. it named peter smith, he is 81 years old and died this year and who over labor day weekend last year tried to put to...

There was another $25,000 that he gave to a troopergate whistle-blower fund to help protect and defend the troopers from a lot of attacks that they were getting from the clinton camp. and then probably most interestingly and most significantly, he did play a role in sort of recruiting this set of lawyers who i call the elves in the book, who were very sharp, conservative lawyers who were writing the briefs and helping to set the legal strategy in the paula jones case. paula jones had some public...

National security adviser. he took advice from people who helped write arizona anti-immigration bill. its an example of that bigotry. its a look at the toll it will take on people in the world. >> brian, your reaction to that? >> i think it reflects why so many reasons why people voted for donald trump because theyre tired of being called bigots. theyre not willing to see their country change so fast. were not bringing in engineers and technology experts. were bringing in people who -- with low ...

>> bill: here is martha now. >> martha: all right. amazon echo becoming more popular across the country. smart products that can respond to voice commands to do things like order me a pizza or add items to your grocery list? are they too smart to lurk around your house? casey staoeg el to talk more about it. >> these things have a mind of their own. millions of americans received these digital assistance for the holiday season. you may have seen the amazon commercials advertising its popular ech...

Stop interfering in our politics. he did not say anything like that. that has led some in the intelligence community to worry he is buying into the russian line that he along with some parts of the american public believe some of the fake news stories put out or at the very least believe vladimir putin is on the u.s. side or at least his side when what the spies will tell you is that they are doing what is good for russia and the next thing they do might not be good for donald trump. >> donald t...

Sarcasm about everything being resolved. my concern is about what he is doing. releasing people from guantanamo bay because you want to keep a campaign promise is dangerous. i am worried more about that than anything else. >> it makes you wonder what he will feature as his biggest legacy. >> i am glad kennedy brought up i-pods. i am curious if he has this level of friendship with people who can fix technology why they didnt apply to the the health care website. >> or trying to fight isis. the bi...

>> theres a question of what is even on these servers. all of the reporting was that it was wiped clean by hillary clinton. do we have any sense of what theyll find when they look at these servers? >> technology experts differ on that. its unclear how she did that and what they would find. many people think that you cant really wipe it clean, that there would be evidence still there, that e-mails would still be there. >> all right. thank you so much. what can you get out of a scrubbed server? ca...

Still, the trading halt bringing up concerns about cyber safety and how we actually can track hackers. technology experts saying recent breakdowns should be seens a wake-up call for companies to protect networks better. government officials admitting they have limitations. >> people watch tv and think the bureau can do lots of things. we cannot break strong encryption. if i get a court order under the fourth amendment to intercept the communication traveling over the wires i will get gobbledygoo...

Miles per hour twice posted speed limit when it jumped rails in spain in 2013 79 people killed. speed to blame in the crash of the new york commuter train that killed four. unlike on airplanewise two pilots in the cockpit the train engineer is often alone in the cab aided by positive train control or ptc, an electronic system which can take control of the train if it is traveling too fast. sections of the northeast corridor from new haven, connecticut to boston and philadelphia to washington hav...