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Russia? >> there is no question private sector needs to do more when it comes to defending against these attacks. but we clearly delineated between what constitutes a nation state attack versus the country that har both ransom ware groups. russia has the top five ransom ware companies sitting in their own country targeting corporations in the united states. the biggest issue is there is no delineation between russia as a country that allows the organized crime groups to operate with impunity. we can't extradite them. until that delineation is removed and we hold those countries accountable, it...

Russia? >> there is no question private sector needs to do more when it comes to defending against these attacks. but we clearly delineated between what constitutes a nation state attack versus the country that har both ransom ware groups. russia has the top five ransom ware companies sitting in their own country targeting corporations in the united states. the biggest issue is there is no delineation between russia as a country that allows the organized crime groups to operate with impunity. we can't extradite them. until that delineation is removed and we hold those countries accountable, it...

Russia? >> there is no question private sector needs to do more when it comes to defending against these attacks. but we clearly delineated between what constitutes a nation state attack versus the country that har both ransom ware groups. russia has the top five ransom ware companies sitting in their own country targeting corporations in the united states. the biggest issue is there is no delineation between russia as a country that allows the organized crime groups to operate with impunity. we can't extradite them. until that delineation is removed and we hold those countries accountable, it...

Say, you don't question this. you have told the president this. i know personally that russia was behind the attacks. a long roster of cabinet members have said russia was behind the attacks. but the president has been unwilling to say this definitively and direct tly. i wanted to play some of what he said since he was elected, which is since he began getting old classified intelligence briefing. >> as far as hacking, i think it was russia. but i think he also get hacked by other countries and other people. could have been china. could have been a lot of different groups. if russia hacked. if ...

Your neck of the woods. we're going to press pause on this story and turn to the breaking news we brought you about this yahoo! hack because right now we have nbc news justice correspondent pete williams who is joining us to talk through what this means. pete, can you lay out the nuts and bolts? what do we know and not know about this new development? >> well, it's as the official said this morning, this is a nation state attack. we're talking about the 2014 hack on yahoo! that compromised half a million accounts. and what officials say is that this illustrates the sort of two-headed nature ...