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National security including russia and the threat they are to the united states and were in a hyper divided nation right now, bill. i would love to hear a message of unity. finding those things that all of us as americans agree on. maybe just because im getting old and been here six years. what unites us surpasses what divides us. i with like to hear a message of unity. >> bill: we call the leaders down together and have them shake hands on camera. that would be a start. thank you, shannon, what...

That "i cant make absolute assurances there are no risks associated with refugees coming into this country," and the former head of the dni who says there is a concern about isis trying to infiltrate operatives into the refugees. >> theres always room for improvement in terms of how we vet people coming into the country. the greater threat the country faces isnt coming from these countries. its coming from europe. its people that have gone from europe to iraq and syria to fight, have come back t...

Conversations with moscow before the inauguration. we have live coverage beginning right now. welcome back to "early start." im christine romans. >> im john berman. great to see you. 30 minutes after the hour. a stunning turn of events. 25 days into the trump administration, just 25 days, the presidents national securities adviser michael flynn is out. this comes that flynn spoke to the russians during the transition about sanctions and lied about it to top officials or misled them. now the ques...

With general flynn and the vulnerability there. we dont know where it goes beyond so yes, we want to know the specifics of the general flynn contact, not so much as it relates to general flynn but as it relates to vulnerabilities that we have with russias activities here in the united states. >> in and of itself, would it have been appropriate for mike flynn to have discussed these issues with the russian diplomat, the logan act has never been pursued by the courts, so what would be wrong about ...

Credibility is questioned. >> and his credibility coming in was already questioned i was talking to career military retired who were offended what he did in the campaign shouting "lock her up" that even a retired officer should not speak that way politically. >> he got this job because he stood by trumps side. president-elect trump and now president trump has successfully brought to his administration several decorated military officers, so now there are some others but flynn really got that job...

National refugee database. the system riddled with vulnerabilities for years apparently. how easy would it be for hackers to break into it? >> bill: also as we await the ruling out of san francisco, the white house insisting the president has the law on his side and he is hitting back at critics for making it a political fight as he says. >> lets be very clear about this fact. no alien in a foreign land has a right to demand entry into the united states of america. they can never have such a rig...

Thermostats and home sprinkler systems to their wi-fi networks, they could be vulnerable to cyber crooks. tom costello is here with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. three out of four home wi-fi networks are vulnerable to a hacker. so why would anyone want to hack into my tv or coffee maker? that is not what they are after. so visit the johnson home in san francisco -- >> i tap the red circle and it unlocks and i walk inside. >> reporter: is to walk into a living app-controlle...

Honing his leveraging of the media to his advantage. he senses vulnerabilities and what he does is lying ted, crooking hillary. he senses these vulnerabilities that exist amongst people and he boils it down into some sort of mo moniker. they stick because hes able to fair it out what that vulnerability that exists is and exploit it. i think people underestimate him. they often refer to him as being stupid or dumb or things like that. i think thats a mistake. i dont think he should be underestima...

Favorite target. >> they used to pick on him all the time. called him retarded. fat, ugly, stupid. >> robert said he tried to ignore it, but they knew his vulnerabilities. >> i tried to keep my distance from them when i could and stay cordial when we were in close proximity to each other. >> safer that way, said robert. in any case, the detectives paid a visit to the fugetts house where they learned enough to march the pair down to police headquarters two days later for questioning. rocky admitt...

Combat cyber espionage, cyber attacks against our financial infrastructure, our electric grid and, you know, other information that can influence politics, so its difficult not an emerging issue, but a paramount inor shoe -- issue this our national security realm. more hr. can we do anything about it? -- maria: can we do anything about it? >> first, we need to acknowledge were in a cyber war with many countries around the world. approximately one trillion in financial losses around the world fro...