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MSNBCW Andrea Mitchell Reports June 14, 2016

President server. I cannot tell you if it is correct. Shawn henry may have more information on that. That must have been one of the excuses if you will all along during this difficult entrepreneur sepisode to say the lease. I recall that. Shawn, do you have anything to add on that front . We are looking at where servers are located and clearly, they are going after organizations and we talked about the white house and the joint chiefs and the state department itself and the Government Networks and the dnc as an entity thats required or recognized as maintaining this type of information. I will add a point that andrea made, to be clear when i worked at the fbi, we looked at the source of information that was being targeted which was one of the many, many pieces that went into us doing attribution. Was this a terrorist group or an organized crime group . In this particular case, what we saw was two separate Intelligence Group operated bide the russian government or on behalf of the russian government. We did not see anything related to organized crimes. Those are the groups that would look at personally identifiable information and Social Security numbers and the sorts of data that you would then use to commit some type of financial fraud. I say that in terms of donor information, thats the type of information that you expect from an organized crime Group Operating out of the former soviet union or eastern europe. These intelligence agencies clearly are looking for policies or strategies. Those sort of things related to espionage campaign, brian. Those who are joining us seeing the graphic at the bottom of the screen, this is a story thats leading our reporting at this hour. First, broken by the Washington Post but since confirmed in all by nbc news. That is that Russian Hackers have infiltrated the Computer System of Democratic National committee and among other things, taken away opposition intel on donald trump and i would imagine all kinds of internal communications about the two other major figures this past Campaign Season in the Democratic Party and thats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. We have just into us a statement from congresswoman, debbie sholts, when we discovered the intrusion, we treated this like the serious incident it is and reached out to crowds strike immediately. Our team moves as quickly as possible to kick out the intruder and secure our network. This gentleman you are seeing here, shawn henry is a crowd strike. The question i have been curious about for some time. As a percentage how many of your client apreaproach you before t have a problem and how many after the fact. There are some who did proactive work where they want to do an assessment of their network, for those that have a breach, the vast majority of them comes to us after the fact. I cannot emphasize how much, how sophisticated these advisaries are. Thats often the case when somebody gets a knock on the door by the fbi or somebody else saying we have seen your data transcending the network and your network has been breached. They do with assessments and they determine their network had been breached for month os or years and had no visibility into it. Their data was at risk to be looked at our infiltrated by groups. Thats the case here and it is undetected for a long time are American Companies and Computer Networks getting any smarter about in casing of their most valued information some where else or strengthening their defenses . You know, i have seen a big change in the last few years where organizations at the highest lehig highest levels are taking this much seriously. Most recently boards of directors who are becoming much more understanding and aware of the sensitivity and the implications of the phase if they failed to protect their network of the data. There has to be changes in a way that organizations protect their network. Instead of being reactive and putting up defenses and hoping that nobody climbs through the network and over the firewall if you will but to be more practice tiff a proactive and looking for a sign that an advisary thats coming to your network. There are many things you can do to better protect their network or longterm prosperity. Thats starting to change. Shawn, can you share dates with us how far back this was discovered and the kind of breath of what kind of information they might have stolen. We have been talking about the Trump Opposition Research but it is not limited to that. We were originally called of the end of april, the first week of may right at that point just about six weeks ago, when we came in, we deployed our technology throughout the environment which provides us of great visibilities where we can see the attackers moving in the network and the commands they are running and the tools they are pull ing in the environment. In looking at that, our experts were able to determine that there is instance of last summer of undetected for a long period of time. The fbi had been in contact with the dnc and provided some information and visibility and our folks saw these russian advisaries. They have the ability to see anything transpiring that network including reading emails and chat or log messages and etcetera, brian. All right, thank you. Another reference to the video box to the lower right hand corner of the screen. This is where we are going to go next unrelated to the topic we have been talking about. The president has been at the ahead of the table panelling a meeting among isis and other topics. Peter alexander is next door on the white house north lawn, the scene we are looking at is treasury, next door to the white house where the meeting is taking place. Peter, what preview if you have from the president here shortly. Reporter the president has prescheduled meetings with members of national team. Here at the white house that he will not only give an update of the investigation in orlando, he will also update americans on the efforts to defeat isis over seas and i am told by these officials that the president will go right after this argument over radical islam. The words that donald trump says that president obama will not use and in directly, he will hit on the fallacy that he says about those who say they are tough on terror but had been on easy in terms of allowing suspected terrorists access to weapons like the ar 15, the assault weapon that was used by omar mateen in that deadly tragedy in orlando. Of course, there is great frustration that they have had little ability to press forward with the presence forward to place as he describes them common sense restrictions on individuals abilities to buy guns and in this case mateen had been on a terror watch list and his name was removed. Which means when he bought that ar 15, he got it the day he went into the store, they put the money out and he walked out on it. The president will address the muslim ban while he will not address donald trump. He will talk about this muslim ban with a clear statement about what it says about who we are as americans under scoring the belief here by this president of a ban and a proposed ban plays in the hands of americas enemies over seas and the president will reiterate what a danger he believes this type of thinking and this very approach is to americans across this country. Peter, can you give us some notion as to who all the parties are around the table . Reporter i can tell thaw the Vice President was be sides him and jeh johnson and and monaco is a familiar name, shes the president s top advisor and shes the one whos been briefing him at length throughout the course of several days about this situation that took place in orlando. To be clear this was a meeting that was prescheduled and hes been doing this routinely and today giving him circumstances and wanting to come an update on the state of fighting in isis and they have said, he has said specifically of the last several weeks of the u. S. Remains on the offensive that they have remained significant progress and thats the thing he want to update america on. Peter alexander is at the scene. It is an ornate background than we are used to. It is directly adjacent to the white house of the podium and flags excuse me in the news media ready awaiting the president. The breach of the Democratic National committee computers by Russian Hackers first reported by the Washington Post and now confirmed by nbc news, andrea mitchell, who we would be watching at this hour is among our reporters and analysts re reacting to this. Back to the question of donors, reestablishing your credibility with the donor basis going to be difficult, we dont mean to make this dnc specific is not just their problem, it is every organization and everbay bank a institutions thats suffering from the hack. We hired this company and it is all safe, is that going to be a long road . It can be, as shawn was saying what they were tracking was political intelligence and not critical and other kinds of banking information. I think that the sophistication of the dnc and its ability plus Hillary Clintons operation to reach out to people. These are people who are their loyal followers and in fact what they are trying to do in the coming weeks is coordinated and combining with the donor base that Bernie Sanders accumulated of a new outreach and online outreach was stunning to them. So they are trying to expand their network to this whole new arena and i think that they will probably given their close connection to the big donors at least and the threat they all feel they face from the Republican Opposition right now in the face of donald trump and the personality and the ideology of donald trump. I think theyll reassure people but they have to clean this act quickly. There is a big fundraiser going on. There is a quick point of whats happening over treasury. Part of this counter, a big part of it has been what the treasury does in tracking terror funding and trying to shut down their sources and shutting down their access to oil revenues. What they have done successfully in recent month is cracking down Terror Network thats feeding into e in in in into isis. Andrea mitchell will wait along with us. Well fit in a break as we continue to look at these two major stories. More of our reporting right after this. Thats why i have the spark cash card from capital one. 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We are within the twominute window prior to the president s remarks. Again, to quote, Peter Alexander whos just next door, this is the Treasury Department just next door at the white house. This is a previously scheduled meeting. The subject takes on a new currency and urgency for all the wrong reasons. It has dominated our news of the gunman in florida ever since. Even though the motivations of the gunman, the ties suspected, terrorist ties has been a moving target for investigators and news media alike as we go back to his actions again of whatever inspiration he drew or radicalization happened to him and how much of it he saw and how much of it with others seeking to motivate him to do what he did. With that said, isis is the fight against isis is thoroughly tied to so many agencies being with them. The president had the entire Leadership Structure couof the Homeland Security front including the secretary of the department, including the head of the fbi, the point woman at the white house in charge as well. Here they are all are accompanying the president. Everybody is all set . I met with my National Security counsel to review and intensify our campaign to destroy the terrorist group, isil. Our meeting was flanned before the terrible attack in orlando, but obviously, that tragedy, that awful loss of life shaped much of our work today. In all of our efforts the loss and the grief of people in orlando, those the friends of ours who are lesbians and gays or bisexuals who are targeted, i want to remind them they are not alone. The American People and our allies and friends are all over the world are staying with you and thinking about you and praying for you. As director coleman has said, we currently do not have any information to indicate that a Foreign Terrorist Group directed the attack in orlando. It is increasingly clear, however, the killer took in extremist information and propaganda over the internet. It appears to have been an an g angry and disturbed young man who has been radicalized. Their propagandas and videos and postings are persuasive and mores this individual seems to abosorb some of that and the killing spree of their pledge to isil. These long actors and small cell of terrorists are hard to detect and prevent. Across our government and at every levels at federal, state and local and military or civilia civilians, we are doing everything in our power to stop these kinds of attacks. We work to succeed 100 of the time. T our extraordinary personnel and our intelligence and military and Homeland Security and Law Enforcement have prevented many attacks and saved many lives and we can never thank them enough. We a despite the extraordinary hard work Something Like orlando could occur. In our meeting today, i was updated on the investigation of orlando. Secretary johnson reviewed the measures that we could take on behalf of our Homeland Security. And i want to thank secretary liu and his team here at treasury for hosting us and for their tire less efforts to cutoff the money that isil relied onto fund and its network. The offset, i want to reiterate our objective of this fight. Our mission is to destroy isil. Since i have updated the American People campaign two months ago, we see this continuously becoming a difficult fight but we are making significant process. Additional u. S. Personnel including special forces in syria assisting local forces battling isil there and working more closely with iraqis forces and additional assets including attack helicopters and Additional Support for local forces in northern iraq. Our aircraft continue to launch from the u. S. S harry truman and in the mediterranean and hitting isils with strikes. Targets are being identified and hit quickly. So far, 13,000 air strikes. This campaign at this state is firing on. As a result, isil is under pressure than ever before. Isil continue to lose key leaders. This includes the senior military of mosul. And shakirt leader of province. The top isil commander in fallujah. We have taken out top leader s d and commanders. Our message is clear, if you target our allies, you will not be safe. Isil continues to lose ground in iraq. In the past two months local forces in iraq have liberated the western town and also pushed the strategic town of heat and breaking the isil siege. Iraqis forces have surrounded fallujah and moving into the city. Now, preparing to tighten around isil and mosul. I am told that isil has lost its half territory that they once control in iraq and it will lose more. Assistant fire special operation forces, and local forces is now pressuring the key town. Which means the news tightening around isil. Our Coalition Continues to be on offense and isil is on defense and it is not been a full year since isil has been able to mount a major offense on either in syria and iraq. Isil continues to lose the money that it is its life blood. As a result of our strikes of supply lines and structure, we believe that we cut isils revenue from millions of dollars and destroy ing the site where they keep their cash. Thanks with great work of secretary liu and many others here and working with nations and Financial Institutions around the world. Isil is cutoff of the International Financial system and cutting off isils money is not dramatic but it is important and we are seeing results. Their reserves are down and it is resorting for more extortions of those trapped. Some of its own leaders have been caught stealing cash and gold. Once again isils true nature has been revealed. They have not religious warriors, they are thugs and thieves. I want to mention it is critical for our friends in the senate to confirm and exhume exhume everyone agrees hes imminently qualified and hes been working on these kinds of issues for years. It is now been more than a year since i have nominated him. More than 120 days and hes not been given a full vote. There is no good reason for it. It is inexcusable. Isils ranks are shrinking as well. Their moral has sink. As one defender and one defector says, isil is not bringing is laum islam to the world and people need to know that. In fact, our Intelligence Committee now assesses the ranks of isil fighter h

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