White house press pool how the search for a new fbi director is coming along. He very much the same what he said when he was on his way back from lynchburg, virginia. Not sure how far along they are past that, but the president says this is a search that is moving along and could be over in the next few days or after he gets back from his trip to the middle east. In terms of this idea of a staff shakeup. The prospect of a massive staff shakeup that would involve a lot of members of senior staff and his cabinet is quote nonsense although there is some speculation that the chief of staff may be on the bubble but theres been talk of that since way back in june. Also some talk about a shakeup at the communications slot. After the web of communications i think got tangled coming out of the announcement that james comey was being fired last tuesday. So nothing has been cooked yet, im told, but there could be some moves coming in the next few days. Melissa whats next on the substance of that which is the replacement of the fired fbi director . Reporter there were interviews with eight people conducted by Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, rod rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney general. Those names include the acting director of the fbi, ail leck fisher in the Justice Department a number of years ago and judge michael garcia. Federal judge from virginia, henry hudson, adam lee, former michigan congressman mike rogers who is reported by an association of fbi agents. Some think that gives him an inside track. As well as frances townsend. I am all told the idea of merritt garland chief justice of the dc court of appeals as fbi director is something thats being kicked around although some say that would be an extraordinarily bad idea. Back to you. Melissa we want to show this to you. President trump is meeting with the crown prince of abu dhadi. Lets listen. Great honor to have sheik muhammad with us today. Man i have known. Very special person. Highly respected. Loves his country, i can tell you that. Loves his country. And i think loves the United States which to us is very important. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Very good. Very good. Well be wrapping it up. Thank you all very much. Melissa so you heard that there. That was the president with the crown prince from abu dhabi. As soon as given a chance, reporters jumped in with questions about the fbi. Lets bring in chris stirewalt. You heard it. They want to know whats gonna happen next with the fbi. No . And then theyre hitting him with the tasers. Get outta here. Go. Melissa thats the press. Its the press. You gotta tase them. Do you remember how Hillary Clinton had them roped off in the parade. Melissa you have them cast as the ones being hurt here. Theyre pretty aggressive themselves. Seems like its equally match on either side. Isnt that our job . There is no bigger question in washington now because so much of President Trumps agenda and so much of the president hopes and dreams of holding on to the house and Everything Else descends out of the president choosing wisely and choosing well on this replacement for the ousted fbi director. Melissa what is more important in your mind for the president continuing or improving on his past doing everything he wanted to do. Kind of two balls up in the air. Should he have a shakeup in the white house . Or should he focus all his efforts on getting someone in that fbi post sooner rather than later . Well, nothing is everything. I believe they said on kung foo. The goal for the president is to keep this in balance. He has to have a choice for fbi director that can get the support of all the republicans and at least get an acknowledgement from democrats that this is a qualified person. Otherwise, the stuff ab special investigators and special committees, it quiets nothing. He needs that to be taken care of. Once thats taken care of, he has to get back on the side of winning these fights. He has a big package of cuts to obamacare that he wants to put through. More importantly he has a tax plan that he wants to get through. Theres a dangling thats got to be finished by the end of september. So he needs to move on to those things. Melissa for those who join us every day at this time, you know the spicer briefing kind of goes back and forth. It was supposed to be at 1 30 today. Its 35, now 36 minutes behind schedule. Chris, what do you make of that . Nothing. Melissa you dont think theres a little behind the scenes trying to decide whats going on . Nothing . No . I would imagine in any administration sometimes these suckers start late because things do develop. I would imagine in this administration where things develop quickly, i wouldnt be surprised that things are moving around. I would also say the talk about a shakeup is just beyond me. You can hardly have this would constitute even if it wasnt the scope that john was talking about. Even if it wasnt that it would still be the second or third time a major staff for a young administration. At a certain point you gotta have loyalty not just from your team. You got to have loyalty to your team. Youve got to say, we can Work Together and get this done. This would not be a good time to have more on the job training in this administration. Melissa theyre throwing cold water on it. Theres folks inside saying absolutely no truth to the idea that its going on. Do you believe this story . Do you think it was floated by someone else trying to do more damage to the trump team . You know about kids and mommy shopping and melissa i did learn that recently. I didnt know that. The thing, if you dont get the answer you want, you go from dad, so on so forth. Unfortunately for president s you are surrounded by people who will say the reason its not working is theyre not letting you be yourself. Put me in charge and ill let you do everything you want all the time. Unpopular for president s are the people who say, i know this is hard but well have to ask you to do this the harder way. The president will all be around people who are back stabbing their rivals and telling the president , just let me in there and ill let you be you. Melissa you think thats whats behind the change and its not real . It may be real. Who would know about whether or not that was of course its possible. If the president gets frustrated with the way things are going, im sure he would sack a bunch of people. The dynamic is true in every white house. Theyll shove one tkpwraoeu and guy and tell the president once i get in there everything will be great. Melissa in my house the buck stops with mommy. I do not live and doubt on that question. Melissa let me ask you, in terms of who will be the replacement, out in front. What are you hearing on the streets. It is getting increasingly interesting. As an ancillary benefit, fbi director takes it. It opens up a very Appellate Court seat that donald trump would love to be able to fill. Democrats would hardly complain about merritt garland. How could they say anything bad about him and the fbi director . Melissa all right, chris. As entertaining as always, thank you. We are still awaiting the press briefing. Leading experts desperately try to limit the damage with new reports of it spreading into asia. Benjamin hall joins us live now with more from london. What has the Global Response been . Global response from what is a global problem. Governments across the world reaching out talking to their intelligence teams to try to stop this virus and the damage that it has been causing. What this malware does, it freezes computers. It offers to return access if the users pay 300 in bit coin. Up to 200,000 computers in 150 countries have been affected in all continents targeting major institutions, banks, including rail way services and National Health services. In britain, countless hospitals were hit by the malware, some forced to cancel or delay treatment to sick patients leaving many doctors unable to access file, prescriptions, forcing many of them to revert to pen and paper. Real effects on people there around the world. Melissa. Melissa wow. What do we know about the source . Well, analysts desperately trying to find out where it came from. At the moment they dont know. It could be week, months. They might never fine out where this came from. The malware seems to be based on programs developed by the nsa and the cia which identified floors in a microsoft operating system. That malware was leaked by a source inside the Security Service and has been used by the hackers. In russia, where 1,000 computers were in the interior ministry affected the finger was pointed at the u. S. President putin blames the u. S. Security services saying they were the original source of this virus. The head of microsoft also claims one of the big problems here, software is so readily available. Almost anyone from High School Students to criminal gangs can get their hands on it and really pushing Cyber Security at the moment. Hopefully we hear more about this in the briefing that is coming up now. Melissa no doubt. Benjamin hall, thank you very much. North korea said it successfully tested one that could carry a nuclear war head, a missile, and hit u. S. Targets. All that and more sure to come up in the white house briefing. Its gonna start any minute. Were gonna take you there as soon as i does. Ready or not, here i come. Ek. anyone can dream. Making it a reality is the hard part. Northrop grumman command and control systems always let you see the complete picture. And were looking for a few dreamers to join us. Melissa we are awaiting the White House Press briefing. It should be starting any moment. Theyre about 45 minutes behind schedule. Be interesting to know what took so long. We will bring it to you live as soon as they come out. U. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Nikki haley is raising the possible of new sanctions on north korea in the wake of the latest weapons test. North korea claims it successfully launched a missile that could carry a heavy nuclear warhead. The missile flew about 30 minutes and landed in the sea of japan on sunday. Greg palcott is live in london. Why is this latest test so significant . Weve been talking to experts. Yes, they say it is the most significant launch we have seen from north korea. Why is it so significant . First you mentioned the time aloft. 30 minutes in the air. Thats the longest time any Ballistic Missile has been sent up by pyongyang. Also, it went up 1500 miles and then back down. Longterm, very dangerous. Back to you, melissa. Melissa sorry to interrupt. Here now is sean spicer. Then ill go on with the events of today and answer your questions. To tom . Thanks, sean. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and counter terrorism. Id like to start by acknowledging the Fallen Police officers that the president and Vice President acknowledged today. They are on the front lines of our Homeland Security and the event today was an honor for me to attend. On Cyber Security, as the president s Homeland Security adviser, part of my responsibility is to coordinate Cyber Security ef forts. I want to give you an up date on the ransom ware attack. Were monitoring this at the highest levels of government. Were bringing all of the capabilities of the u. S. Government to bear and were working with our partners. I spoke moments ago with my counter part in Great Britain and learned an update from them that they have a feeling of control over this ransom ware e srepb and that their affected computers seem to be tied to the effect that their Healthcare System is so large. They are painfully aware of the fact that this is a global attack. As of this morning it has reached 150 countries and infected more than 300,000 machines. The good news is the infection rates have slowed over the weekend. We have been concerned about that when last we talked. The ransom ware has affected hospitals and other organization. The uk Health Care Service announce 48 of its organizations were affect d and that resulted in inacceptable computers and until phone service. But extremely minimal effect on disruption to patient care. That was something quite evident in my conversation. Computers at the Spanish Telecommunications company were compromised. We had a small number of affected parties in the u. S. Including fedex. Secretary kelly, department of Homeland Security continues to lead operation and Public Private coordination. His team is issuing daily situation reports. Holding multiple calls per day. Among experts and Operation Centers managing our response. As of today, no federal systems are affected. Overall the u. S. Infection rate has been lower than many parts of the world but we may see additional impacts on additional areas of the world as these attacks morph and change. It appears less than 70,000 has been paid in randsomes. The Cyber Threat IntelligenceIntegration Center is also keeping us informed of the classified insights concerning the investigation into these hacks. Let me talk about the way ahead. Its important for our business and individuals to know three variants have emerged. We talked last i was here about variants of this malware. If you follow the advice published by the fbi and microsoft and patch your systems you are protected against all these variants. Its also important to know pirated stolen or unlicensed version of affected software will not receive patches. It is important to not use that unlicensed software. If you do, you will be subject to susceptible infections. It would be satisfying to hold accountable for responsible for the hack, something we are working on quite seriously, the worm is in the wild, so to speak, at this point and patching is the most Important Message as a result. Business and government have responded to upgrades and patches and this is dramatically reduced the vulnerable population over the last three days. This needs to continue to be our focus. Let me finish by repeating advice that all organizations be vigilant in updating their software and that the only computers that can be compromised by the wanna cry virus are ones that do not have the latest security patches available from microsoft. This is one episode of malware or ransom ware. Do you know from the documents and packing tools if there is se o essentially more out there. Theres a little bit of a double question there. Part of that has to do with the under lying vulnerability exploit used. I think if i could, id rather instead of directly answering that and cant speak to how we do or dont do our business as a government in that regard. Id like to instead point out that this was a vulnerability exploit as one part of a much larger tool that was put together by the culpable parties and not by the u. S. Government. This was not a tool developed by the nsa to hold randsome data. This was a tool developed by parties, potentially criminals of foreign nation have put together in such a way so that there are deliberate phishing email, put it in embedding documents and cause infection encryption and locking. I think i have said this morning the problem of the under lying vulnerability is something that is a little less of a direct point for me. Shorter way to put it is, is there more that you worry about that could lead to more attacks in the future . The United States more than any other country is careful about how they handle any vulnerables that they are worried about. This is something we know about the vulnerability. I think thats a key distinction between us and other countries and other adversaries that theyll provide any such considerations to people, customers and industry. You mentioned your british counter parts are feeling this. Was there any time that you monitored this in the states where you felt there was any lack of control over this, or that this could get out of hand here . If not, what is it about what was here that was protected that didnt exist for example in europe or other parts that have obviously taken a much bigger hit. No compare teufrb control but my conversation today led me to believe that he felt quite comfortable and my counter parts felt quite comfortable where they stood today. Was there any time you felt here that things could spiral out of control . As we were gathering more information, that was important for us to determine the parameters of this. Once we got our hands around the parameters, thats the beginning moments we were trying to get hold of. Get malware, analyze it. In that time frame you dont entirely feel in control but youre searching for information. Once we got it and realized what the situation was, we realized there were patches available and had been available since march. Operation centers and communication become the key. Theyre imperative to how we handle the response. From the british rer speckive i felt it was important to pass along two point. One that they thought it was an extremely small number of patients that might have been inconvenienced not necessarily a disruption of their Clinical Care as opposed to their administrative processes. Two, they thought some of the reports might have been misstated or overblown given how theyve gotten themselves into a position of patching. Well have to do the analysis and investigation later as to why Certain Organization systems or sectors were more greatly affected than others. Thats the point id like to elaborate. Bottom line, for the average consumer, what are you going to do to make sure it doesnt get out in the open . Bottom line for the consumer is patch your software, provide automated patch support. Turn that on. Make sure your i. T. Service providers or i. T. Folks within your organizations are patching your software. Thats the bottom line. And this particular malw