tv The Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC June 7, 2013 6:00pm-7:01pm PDT
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not just on dreamers, on the whole community. fz. >> thank you. that's "all in" for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening, chris, happy friday. there's a lot kul coming up on the show today. it is just one of those kind of days. in the summer of 2002 a guy time inned mark cline was working at at&t in san francisco. he worked for sait for about 20 years at that point ppt he worked in new york city and whoit plains, new york. he transferred to california. he worked for at&t there. and a couple of different cities but by summer of 2002 he was in san francisco for at&t. he was a lifer at at&t. he was a trusted long time employee. then one day while at work he got a message. watch this. this is from front line on pbs. >> in 2002, i was sitting at my work station one day.
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and some e-mail came in saying that somebody from the national security agency, nsa, was going to come visit for some business. and an nsa representative showed up. i happened to be the one who opened the door. i let him in. >> he was doing background check for security clearance for one of our field engineers. he was going to be working at the folsom street office and they were building a secure building there. >> i heard from our manager, don, that he is working on some new room being built. >> so people started speculating, oh, whalts this new room being built? >> mark cline got suspicion when the workperson constructing the room treated it as as hush-hush. how do you know it isn't something already established
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for security elsewhere. >> they wouldn't need the nsa for that purpose. the odd thing is that only this one guy who had clearance from nsa could get in there. so that changed the whole context of what this is about. >> when that guy, mark cline, long time employee of at&t, when he got the metsage with b this new fangled room being built, he wag working a san francisco a few blocks away from where the mysterious new room would be constructed. if you know san francisco at all wbt office getting the secret new room was here. that's what we've marked on the map. south of market on folsom street. this is 2002. mark whine did not officially work at that office. but the following year, it so happened i got transferred to that office. so now this thing that he had been so curious about, he was working in the same building where that secret room was in
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operation secretly. about 24 feet long by will 4 feet wide labeles at room 641 s. they had keys to all of the rooms on foal son street but it not with the key to 641a. ownably that one guy had a key to that room and only ewas allowed in there. mark cline testified that at a certain point the air conditioner at 641st started dripping. dripping so much that water from the secret room started leaking through the floor on to some expensive company equipment on the next floor down. but that one guy with the nsa clearance allowed to go in 641st, he was not around. so no one could fix the problem. they left the air conditioner
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dripping for days. physical that day came back. mark klein worked on the internet side. he was high-tech guy for at&t. even though he was not allowed into that secret room in the building with the leaky air conditioner right. turns out that secret room had something to do with the kind of work he did for at&t. for. >> clooip's job was to maintain at&t's internet service for 7 million customers mp domestic and international all mixed together. >> we have millions and billions of data going up against heavy second. klein shows how the room was connected to the nas room, by a special device called a splitter. >> so the splinter intercepts that data stream and make copies of all of the date why and those copies go down on the cable to the secret room.
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>> what this thing was be a a very school pale device and send it wherever it was supposed to do but also send it off to a listening room. >> o so what exactly was going on in that listening room? cline found clues at work one day. >> i came across these three document. i fwraut back to my desk. it dawned at me all at once and i almost fell out of my chair. >> those dock the were wiring document. wiring diagrams. mark klein would later tell the washington post, this was sweeping up everything, vacuum cleaner style. nsa is getting everything. these are major pipes, everybodies. he told the post wab that was my aha moment. they are senting the entire
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entertain to the room. and he sued, filed a lawsuit to make at&t stop what it was doing in room 641 a and that office on fullsome street. meanwhile, a bunch of other stuff like this started to be exposed. new york times had reported on warrantless wiretapping and in late 2005. brave windsor connecticut, ordered to hand over information how people used the library. piece by piece it was all starting to come out. but people getting upset about it, did not make it go away. result of people getting upset about it is that it was kwodfide into law. so it become no longer illegal spying on people, it was the
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exact same spying but now legalized. that change happened once get got upset. they kept doing it, they just made them. if you only care about lawless, maybe that's progress. but if you care about spying itself, really no progress was made. none of that stuff was ever dialled back after it was exposed, every ever. the i go who saw them setting up the room to copy the whole internet, he's right, that's what they were doing and fog stopped them from do doing that, as since we know. it seems to be illegal when the government was doing that in room 641 a starting a decade ago. it got less legal all the time. one of the most contentious
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issue is what was happen to the companies who illegally company to illegal spying. to companies have done that. when the government acted illily. after much lobby be under the white house to eat reactively frant i community. all the kchs who acted illegally in helping the administration do what was now a legal thing. it appears that they had done something illegal but congress made it to the companies couldn't be sued for it for prosecuted for p. it. now here we are. 2013 with yet more details expose about them secretly copying the whole internet. everyday. this time, not just a secret room in san francisco. from the garden on wednesday night, it is verizon. wall street journal says it is also at&t and sprint and unnamed
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internas service providers. from the guardian and washington post we have ideas of the prism program. sweeping up internet everything. e-mail, photo, chat. from google, yahoo! facebook, youtube, apple. here is the thing though, this is -- this is the question of the the day. the companies are all basically denying it. back in the day that at&t story, at&t just no accounted every. we don comment on matters of national security. when the official look this week, they started off with no comments. take that with a none of stalt wp we know from the leaked court ruling, that the sort of that story, we know from that court ruling that verizon is not allow to tell anybody they are doing this that the it government is telling them to do. so now, verizon isn't confirming
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it. maybe they are. for the internet companies, prism program thing, internet skaps, it's not comment. we don't want to talk about this. neither confirm nor deny this. for internet with is flat-out, no, we are not doing this. and statement from the interyet is weird. government followed up within their own reporting. executives say they never heard of prism until contacted by the guardian for contact on it. senior officials within the tech giants say they are used by revelation and if such daughtera was taking place, without their college, without their knowledge? yahoo! says we do not provide the government with dissect access to our systems or note
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work. apple says with, we have never heard of prism. mark zumer barring said i want to report about the outrageous areas of prism. i want to respond to personally do the outageous press report about prism. facebook is not and has never given access to our servers. we have never received a blanket statement. like the oner is the microsoft denial is really specific. maybe they thought they had to be specific since their ad gain is about how much they love your privacy. check out the way and with the specificity of which mike soft denied it.
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never on a voluntarily basis. okay. so they are saying we all need to do it when we are forced to. waiting with there's more. they also say quote, in addition, we only ever comply for orders with respect about specific account or identifiers. if the government has a broader national security together, customer data, we don't participate in it. we don't participate, we aren't responding. so companies are saying, not us, we didn't do it. it is happening against our will. we would have said no, given the statement of no. why is twitter not on the list of companies? at the nsa says it's gotten this thing. this is the slide that leaked right?
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april 13, 201. all of the companies they say are in this program. twister just a billing as all of the other companies. twitter handled just as much as private information. including geo locating information as any of those companies. nsa and fba ant all of those other companies but not twitter data. are they not interested? or did they ask for user data and twitter said no. so they are not the on the list but all of the other companies are. apple didn't get into the system for five years until after microsoft got into the system. the dsna figure out a way to go around their saying now and get their data without them. the nsa presentation reported that drop box is next.
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is that because nsa found out how to raping el drop box data against drop box will? are the companies going along with this or not. are they legally aloud to say if they are. are they lying. are they immune from any legal liability from lying about tp prs you know, we know a lot more today than we did at the beginning of the woke. but some sold about the businesses for which this government is getting all of our private information that we thought was private, some of the story still didn't make sense. wlets's say have you a google comment and you use gr mail, right? if you feel mad and you just found out all of your g mail is in a military account somewhere.
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your government is holding your e-mail somewhere. you want to know, gool google is who you should be mad at about that. i can't tell you. google is saying, not it. not our fault. we never say okay to this. objectively, it is just not clear. also not clear or at least still contested that point is whether or not congress did skien off on all of this. members of congress are saying, no that's no big deal. totally authorized, nothing to see here. the president book took that line as well. multiplied big times and every members of congress knew about this. but some of the people who supposedly were briefed on it and authorized it aun all the some, some are could be testing that now too. ginning us is a sneb of the
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united states senate without spoken for these issueses. he is jeff murkly from oregon. thank you for being here. >> great to be with us. >> some some members in congress is saying, everybody in congress knew about this. were you ever briefed on the prism program. ? i doubt. i doubt very many people know anything about it. >> is it the only thing that should be briefed to the committee? >> it is deeply troubling. i can gray parallel to the cell phone side and that's a different section of the law under records. i had heard stories that were there she began gaps going on. we were talking about the extension of the patriot and of
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tfisa. it expected to me much that has been revealed be a large vacuum cleaner at work. now i couldn't say that because of a classified realm but i could say essentially there appears to be some secret law and let's make that law public. let me explain more of what i mean. you have in the law, it has a provision that says that the government can collect a tangible things related to an investigation and says facts have to be shown and reasonable cause and so forth. very consistent with what you would see in the fourth amendment. but how is it possible? how is it possible that the barriers get separate need a vast drag net and so that's what
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i wanted to understand. and when what i found out, i said, okay there appears to be a court interpretation, let's get that court interpretation into the common realm. i proposed the secret court be declassified so we could have debate about privacy and security. >> how much support did you get for that proposal. >> we had 30 plus members vote for the amendment but we also had the chair of the committee say that she supported the idea i was presenting and she would join me in lobbying for these secret opinions to be classified. and that was he is not for feinstein. she joined with me and senator widen and we wrote a letter in this case to the fisa court asking for declassification. and we didn't get back a yes.
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>> i imagine that some of those proposals may be revisited now with public outcry with the leaks this week. you may get more support from those proposals from fellow members in the senate. i don't know. i have to ask about the big picture here which is whether or not there can be effective oversight. how can you make the case for legislation when you can't explain the immediate for it because the need for it is classified. >> absolutely. that was the problem i was trying to tackle. i can't imagine how it is that there is -- that my cell phone information or your cell phone information is related to an investigation. a specific authorized investigation. i can't imagine how that is the case. and but how can we contest it if we can't discuss publicly if we
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can't know it is going on. what the president today stretched several things. he said congress had approved this program. if congress approved something with very specific standard and those standard were secretly eviscerated, gut torn out so they were meaningless, then congress hasn't approved the program at all. so i disagree with the president on that. when he said members were briefed, i think i saw a briefing on the cell phone side because of what i heard if the public press. but i don't think many others outside of the intelligence committee got that briefing. if the president believes a hundred members of congress knew the details under section 215, i think he's wrong. and in terms of the prism program which i don't -- i think very few ever heard of, i certainly never heard of it, i
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doubt that the more than the intelligence committee would have known about that. >> senator jeff merkley of oregon. thank you for explaining that. have you been more clear on that than anyone here thus far. i think you made news here tonight with that. >> thank you. >> thank you. earlier, john stanton, the i go with big eyebrows and goatee, skull rings, he said one member of the senate was playing a jedi mind trick. just go online to pay, print and have your packages picked up for free. we'll do the rest. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
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the sending letters with ricin in america is apparently falling on hard times. we had the indictment of a martial art indictment in tupelo, mississippi, charged with sending ricin filled letters to president obama, to wicker and a state court judge. he is the guy who is inex olympic ibly on-line write sert elvis impersonator. he was originally suspected to be the letter sender. it seemed like he was set up to be the ricin lender center. and it wasn't him. he just gave a speech to rub
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women's feet. >> i am a massage therapist and i will donate time to all of you ladies in mississippi who need foot therapy. >> so the elvis foot masseuse did not send the first round of ricin stuffed letters to president obama and other politicians. he was set up, allegedly, by a bitter on-line rival, the martial artist. he was been arrested, charged and he plead not guilty to sending the ricin-laced letters. that was yesterday. but today the second round of ricin letters p. these again sent to president obama, to michael bloomberg and the office of his group, mayors against illegal guns. letters were postmarked from shreveport, louisiana. today in a an arrest was made in connection with the second round of ricin letters but it is pretty much almost as weird as elvis impercent knitter foot massage martial artist internet rival one. maybe even weirder.
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the person arrested is shannon rogers peterson. when is held in texarkana, texas. the woman today called the fbi about the ricin letters. she called the fbi to claim her husband for them. she said she found something suspicious in her frige and found ricin searches on their shared computer so she called to nark out her husband. now the fbi said actually it was her. yes, if you must know, the woman arrested and charge sd an actress whose most prorment in role was her turn in the walking dead, where you see her, she playes a brains-eating blood-thirsty zombie. so the woman who tried to blame her husband is under arrest. the elvis impersonator is free. the martial artist who is
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whether or not you live in the great state of new jersey, the weather in new jersey is suddenly national political news. here is the weather forecast for this coming weekend. rain, rain, rain, rain. at this point is t is expected to rain a bunch. good for the garden state. and unless we are talking about some huge weather disaster, which this isn't, a rainy local weather forecast for the weekend usually doesn't carry any political consequences with it. but right now, new jersey's rainy weather forecast for this weekend matters. because this weekend is the last opportunity that new jersey residents have to get themselves on the ballot to become the state's next u.s. senator. monday's the deadline. monday's the filing deadline in new jersey to get on the ballot for the state's open senate seat. each potential candidate has to submit a petition by monday collecting a you this signatures in order to qualify for the
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ballot. so everyone who want to be on the ballot will be out there collecting signatures in the rain. the senate seat is open because earlier this week long time senator frank lautenberg passed away at age 89. rush holt and frank palone announced they intend to run for that seat. newark's popular mayor, corey booker, announced he also plans to run. please bring an umbrella. in terms of what is happening with the senate seat, chris christie picked his long time friend and jeff kiaza to replace senator lautenberg. if you think i don't mind saying, i think christie did a respectful thing here. he found a guy that will just be a place holder. mr. holder will not run for that senate seat, he is just a place
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holder to until the residents of new jersey can elect somebody new. massachusetts did a similar thing, when he replaced john kerry as someone who want run for the seat. governor of delaware picking a place holder in 2009 when joe biden left the senate to become vice president, picking vice president candidates. it is a descent thing to dob democracy wise. good for chris christie doing the sail thing here. he did not have to do it that way but he did. that said, that quite honorable decision stands along side the decision that governor made here overall when he decided it order new jersey tax payers to fork over $12 million they didn't have to spend to hold a special election for that this coming october. there is already an election scheduled it happen a few books later. chris christie is on that one. ballot for reelection november 5. but rather than have that election the sam day, saving the 12 million bucks it cost to hold
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an election rather than putting them both on the same day on the same ballot, chris christie decided to hold the senate election three weeks earlier. on wednesday, october 16 instead. why on a wednesday when you're about to do one three weeks later in november? because -- mayor christie's advisors conceding that adding that contest to his november 5 election would risked energizing democrats. putting corey booker on the ballot would bring lots and lots of democrats to the poll which could hurt chris christie's chances of being re-elected p. so let's let the taxpayers spend $12 million to not do that. it is a surprisingly chicken move by the supposed tough guy, chris christie. one that people probably won't
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forget in new jersey in the short term or in 2016 in the long-term. until resident have a chance to vote in the random wednesday in october special election though. this will be new jersey's new senator and while he won't be in d.c. long-term, he will be there to vote for tough stuff. this morning, just a few days before he arrives at senate, senate today started debating immigration reform. frank lautenberg was a sure vote in favor of immigration reform. new jersey's brand new place holder republican senator on the other hand, for him he says the jury is still out. >> i think the first thing we have to do is make sure borders are security i think because i come ba fr a background of law enforcement. from there, these th this is new to me. so i will work with my colleagues and do what makes the most sense. >> senator chiesa, says he is
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eager to speak to colleagues about immigration reform. someone should tell him before he gets there, those colleagues, if they care about immigration reform, should do that it quickly. they really, really need to do immigration reform. there is a clear reason why they all feel that way. you are looking at it. latinos vost by 44 point. yeah, they need to do something. take a first step to win back vote and maybe immigration reform will be the ticket. the guy who took the leads was the ambitious florida senators marco rubio. it was his job to craft the immigration bill that could be sold to his conservativeconserv. just as immigration reform is finally hitting the senate floor marco rubio says he doesn't think he has the republican votes that needs to order to
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pass it in the senate, oh, by the way, he is saying maybe he won't even vote for it now. his own beale. senator rub why backed off from that stance but today his republican colleagues got the first chance to stop immigration reform from happening. in the house this week on the issue of immigration republicans were busy voting as a block yesterday to deny young undocumented immigrants the opportunity to live and work in this country. the architect of that legislation that almost got universal republican support has been working for months to derail immigration in the senate over all. republicans all sort of agreed. at least most of them agreed that immigration reform something they needed to do if only for their own electoral survival. but now, what happened? vo: traveling you definitely end up meeting a lot more people but
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this is the bill as printed. front and back. page of each page, it was reported there would be a thousand pages and colleagues are proud, they said it was 800. but more has been added to it so it is now back over a thousand pages again. >> we need to face the fact this thousand page bureaucratic overall do not achieve their goals and they create far more
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problems than they tend to solve. >> it's so long. it's too many pages. also let's ban the oxford english dictionary. ulysses, also, let's ban that. it's too long. mike lee of utah, republican jeff sessions of alabama, arguing that their colleagues should kill the immigration reform bill because it is too many page possess. there's got to be more to the objection than that. joining us now is casey hunt, covering the immigration debate. thanks very much for being with us. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> immigration reform is one thing that everybody thought could move because republicans believed they needed to move it, if for no other reason, than their electoral survival. has that calculation changed? did the people who disagreed with that calculus win the argument in the republican caucus? >> it seems like the last week the immigration bill has run into the house of representatives where there are those voting their districts and
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this is gerrymandering their districts. they are straight up opposed to this and this is at odds with where the national party wants to go. i talk lindsay graham and he told me that the republican party is going to be quote toast in 2016 if they don't pass this bill. >> in terms of those objections, though, i feel like the calculation was always that the steve kings of the world and that the very anti-immigration stall wart would be able to say their piece. but then some combination of all of the democrats and handful of republicans that could safely vote that would would get it done. is this still a possible outcome or are there more people objection than were expected? >> you're seeing that act thing play out in the senate. what you saw on the floor with the senate with sessions objection was a concession to jeff sessions, who is leading the charge against many gracing in the senate. democrats agree to give him the floor for a few hours today.
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in exchange for being able to vote early next week to start the debate on the legislation itself. but what you're going to see next is a turn to the house of representatives where all eyes are going to be on speaker john boehner. who is going to have to decide that very question. he has a lot of control over what happens on the floor of the house. more so than in the senate for the leadership over there. and he's going to have to way, does he want to prior advertise what national republican leaders think is best for the future of the party or does he need to prioritize his own survival as speaker of the house. which could have a revolt from tea party and right wing conservatives elected over the last two election cycles? had casey, we've seen more than a handful of cases which have been aloud by republicans, allowed by john boehner to pass out of the house with all of the democrats and some minority of republicans.
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there was a -- an informal rule against the republicans letting anything like that happen. for a long time. now they seem to have slipped. and they sometimes let those things pass. is john boehner getting backlash against that as a tactic. are hard liner telling him to stop doing things like that any more. >> he is absolutely seeing backlash. washington post reported that in fact several of the conservative house rep tifs have proposed resolutires lougs to oppose boehner's ability to to that. saying would he have to have a majority of the majority in order to put a bill on the floor. and that's what, you know, he's made those decisions himself and that is something that could potentially have repercussions beyond the debate, with budget and fiscal grand bargain and variety of other things. >> debt ceiling and student loans and everything. >> well, on the issue of the senate, obviously marco rubio
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has been tip of the spear here for republicans in trying to come up with a bill that republicans can support. early on, that met him going on conservative media and lobbying con sefbtive media host. should shouldn't whip it from the conservative side and hold it against the republicans. we have since seen marco rubio doing conservative media hits, talking the bill down, saying it is a bad bill, floating the idea he would vote against it himself. john stanton from buzz feed was here earlier and said we should see what marco rubio is doing as a mind trick and that he still supports immigration reform. can you shed light on that, do you know what's going on there? >> marco rubio hung his entire political future on the success of immigration reform. no matter what it is, you'll see marco rubio pushing to get a bill passed, that's what he told reporters earlier this week.
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he said i signed up to be the person who was going to sell this to republicans. i still plan to do this. i need this bill to be what they need it to be. they're focused now on boarder security provisions and how the trigger would work. under the bill that passed out of committee, dhs, department of homeland security has to simply write a plan to say this is how we're going to secure the border. that's not good enough for some republicans that want to see either action taken, not just a plan written, or want congress to be able to certify the border has been secured before people are able to obtain legal status that would eventually allow them to apply for a green card. >> this is one of the things there's so much said over the years. to see the rubber hit the road on this in congress next week will be fascinating. kasie hunt, thanks for being here.
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called the mccain campaign to complain. here's the problem. the letter hadn't been sent yet! the letter existed only in draft form on one of the mccain campaign's computers. so how did china know what the letter said. nbc news obtained the letter. who cares what's in the letter. how did the official in the chinese government get any internal, unsent document from the mccain campaign! turns out it wasn't just the mccain campaign, it was obama campaign, too. david plouffe, the campaign manager got a phone call from the white house telling him something bad was going on, watch. >> josh bolden calls, i assume to talk about transition matters. he says we have reason to believe your campaign systems have been penetrated. we think by a foreign entity. he did not name countries at that time, if i recall, and said we need to get the fbi and law
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enforcement officials involved in investigating this. he did say it's not just your campaign, we have reason to believe and we'll tell the mccain campaign the same thing, they tried to penetrate their systems as well. >> story of the obama campaign and mccain campaigns being hacked into during the campaign in 2008. that overall story was known before, but we didn't know the extent nor did we know who did the hacking. now we do. u.s. officials tell michael isikoff it was definitely the chinese government. michael isikoff getting this news from a u.s. official last night on the eve of the new leader of china visiting the united states today to meet one on one with president obama. this is going to be their first meeting since the new chinese president got that job back in march. the one-on-one meetings are scheduled for five hours over two days, at a giant california desert estate, called sunnylands. they hosted seven previous presidents, including richard nixon who visited sunnylands
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shortly after he resigned the presidency because of watergate scandal. he signed the sunnylands guest book when you're down, you find out who your real friends are. in terms of friendship, imagine the trust level between president obama and the head of the government that hacked into his campaign computers even before he was president. maybe because of that, president obama will be spending the night at the sunnylands estate tonight, but the chinese president will not. he will be staying at a nearby hotel, maybe less buggy there, you know what i mean? here in theist, u.s. government officials timed the tip to michael isikoff it was the chinese government that hacked campaigns in 2008, they timed that tip to coincide with the first meeting of the new chinese president with president obama. meanwhile, in china, the marvelously coincidental timing there was for something different. the chinese government on the occasion of the visit to the u.s. decided to give passports to the family members of this chinese dissident who took
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refuge in our country from persecution. and his mother and brother can visit him here, all of a sudden because of this, this meeting. this was the scene in palm springs. 90 minutes ago, he greeted the chinese president and they sat down for the first of their big, important meetings. and this is kind of how these things are supposed to go on the sidelines of meetings, right? on the occasion of a high profile meeting with the president of the united states, on that occasion, you know what, kindnesses towards dissidents should suddenly become possible. other countries should think we expect that. contact with us, desire for good relations with us should turn other countries towards better civil rights policies, because that's what we are supposed to stand for. so the timing is tough now, right sf we like to think of ourselves as the good guys, where the international cost of doing business with united states of america is that you have to be less evil. it would be a lot easier for the united states to pull off the
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attempted embarrassment over the chinese government, were it not for the revelations of our own media, about our own government mercilessly hacking us. that does it for us. we will see you monday night. i have some great news before we go. turns out you do not have to go to prison tonight. tonight you're out on parole! due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. i'm going to show you what i'm made of! >> he's easily one of the most volatile inmates to peer on "lockup." but now is it possible he's discovered true love? >> we've been together four years. it's just something that happened. >> this man ranks as one of the most talked about inmates featured on "lockup." >> look at his eyes. >> they're tattooed.
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