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Troops in afghanistan. how concerned are you with that decision? >> on a scale of one to ten, probably a 12 or 14. it is a major national security problem for america. general mattis had the respect of congress, of the american people, of our allies. he was looked at as one of the most effective individuals in the white house when the national security team could influence the president, when his policies were moving in the wrong direction. he was -- he spoke his mind. he was very effective at that. he is a person who just has great credibility with our troops. the way that he has left, the re...

So that person -- the executive clicked through. it was a word file. okay, antenna problems, this is important for our business. it was actually a key logg eger then they had access to every key stroke he did. if you're working with government contracts, that could be a massive security problem. they did that with nasa's jet propulsion lab too. this is a year-long thing. >> how did they find it? >> we're good at this. the other thing is once you realize that your computer is a little funky and it's acting slower and you bring it to your i.t. guy. actually we have a massive national security pr...

Internal corporate documents came out into the public domain. so that we were able to gather hundreds if not thousands of them and examine them and really pull back and see what they knew and when they knew it. >> lisa, thank you for reporting on this. >> thank you. >> it's most and cover-up and admitting it's there. >> isn't it always? >> but it's not a question of it may have been there but we didn't know it was bad or such small amounts it doesn't cause an issue. if you knew and you covered it up -- >> that's the issue. next, been a wild year for elon musk and his car company tesla. from ...

They hired 30 security officials to get on top of the security problem. and they won't emphasize sensationalist content. but that leaves less eyeballs on screens. so it's something fundamentally wrong with the business model. if they're able to get on top of this, the business is going to take a hit. mark zuckerberg talked that it might take a hit but in the meantime, he's taking a long view. can this company get on top of this when it is a multi-billion dollar business and one of the most powerful companies in the world. >> you have spent months talking to people inside and outside of faceboo...

Some alt right organizations that doesn't necessarily have the journalistic standards of those traditionally there. >> there's two ways to get into that briefing room. one is this hard pass which essentially validates you as not a threat to the president of the united states. the other one is a day pass which requires you to e-mail the press office. that gets checked against various databases to make sure you're not a security problem. there have been sort of notable problems with that process, including within the bush administration when they fave a -- regularly gave a day pass to someone wh...