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ongoing long time relationship. i really think this is sort of quibbling. >> president obama is expected to speak this hour. will he also address the controversy? third time is a charm. mitt romney hints at another run for the white house. how will that play with jeb bush? >> jeb never respected mitt romney's decision to -- flip on immigration and he's basically held it against mitt romney ever since. >> it would be a messy race more about whose turn is it romney or bush rather than who's more conservative? >> hollywood's golden night, the entertainment world stands up for free speech. >> today we will stand united against anyone who would repress free speech anywhere from north korea to paris. ♪
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good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. in france today, 10,000 troops spread out across the country. a security blanket for a nation that stood united against terror threats during sunday's solidarity march a historic gathering of 40 world leaders, notably lacking in any high level representation from the united states. the investigation hit somewhat of a roadblock. officials say hayat boumediene is in syria. ron, what is the latest from the investigation? >> reporter: well, that development that you just cited, andrea that boumediene is in syria and that she left the country apparently before all of this began back on january 2nd. a couple of things that means. a, there was perhaps an even greater level of planning about
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all of this than has been revealed and officials here investigators here are trying to get to the bottom of all of that. it also means there were obviously other people involved in this whole episode. another thing they are trying to get to the bottom of this. we know the gunmen claimed links to al qaeda and isis and that is a big worry here. whether there is an active cell here that includes other people with capability and what that capability might be and whether they intend to use it. now, in the coming days -- not down the road but there's still this concern about a possible imminent threat which is why security has been so beefed up here. and a significant part of that security is going to the jewish community here to protect schools and synagogues. after what happened at the grocery store where four jews were killed targeted because of who they are and anti-semitic acts and because so many people
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fled that community for israel because of the fear of living here in france those are the reasons that there's so much security being added there now. all of that underscores what has happened here is an ongoing problem all the world's attention was focused on france and paris specifically because of the attacks of the past few days. there's a huge problem that i'm sure i know you're well aware of, that the world is now focused on of terrorism and the home grown kind. >> ron, one of the issues now is the publication of "charlie hebdo" the substitute editor they are going to publish a new edition. she spoke with ronan farrow. >> no matter what we'll continue. you can kill our colleague or friends. you won't kill the spirit of
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liberty or the spirit of blass femmy. >> a lot of courage on the part of that publication. >> reporter: a lot of courage. a lot of admiration and respect and still grieving. over here behind me in the center of the plaza, there's still crowds gathering to pay respects. and you see the words up there perhaps, charlie je suis charlie. when you talk to people about this whole thing, it's about liberty and freedom. there's a very high mindedness about what has happened here. when you think about it the magazine "charlie hebdo" was a small circulation magazine 30,000, not that big. it's more of a novelty item if you will and unique because of
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the nature of the satire it contained. that attack on that entity has brought out what it has brought out and millions that came out yesterday. that is because people see this as we've said more of an attack on the values and the underpinnings of this country, not just a group of journalists if you will. and the idea of freedom of expression not just the idea of freedom -- idea of freedom of speech. not just the idea of the ability to write in a journal. which has been impressive here. why i think so many world leaders came here yesterday and why i think so many millions of people poured into the streets perhaps as many as 3.7 million is the estimate i've heard, not just in paris but other cities across france. and just standing here in all of that yesterday, i have to tell you, i was trying to think what you compare that to. it was just a very unique experience. there were several hours during which we could not move from
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this position. i couldn't move this far without it taking very long time because people were so packed in. it was calm and it was nonviolent. there wasn't a single incident that i heard reported of violence or confrontation. and that was remarkable. and just to see those scenes and to be part of those scenes. the french say it was historic it was historic -- why they really wanted to see a high level visit by president obama and vice president biden and secretary kerry, someone from the united states and eric holder being here people don't understand why he didn't take part in the march, even symbolically. >> ron allen, i know you spent many years overseas as a foreign correspondent for nbc news you've had a lot of experience in that part of the world. your reactions are so significant to me. ambassador, thank you so much for being with us.
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our condolences to you on behalf of all of us here and me personally, i can't even imagine what you and the people of france are going through right now. >> thank you very much. you know actually we have been overwhelmed by the expression of solid solidarity and grief and all corners of the american people, from the highest level of the administration since president obama came to the french embassy and secretary kerry, to the ordinary americans. i can say americans are compassionate people. >> you can understand there is controversy here the newspaper filled with it. we as well have been talking about it because eric holder the attorney general was in paris, he was doing network interviews and the president was in the white house and vice president was ats home in delaware. secretary kerry was in asia and india and on his way to pakistan. he was previously engaged. but there is a question as to why no cabinet level or higher
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presence when you had 44 world leaders, including the prime minister of israel and others who are also under security protection. >> to be very frank, the first impression we had is the support, expressed by president obama. secretary kerry made a speech the speech in france and come back to paris before the end of the week. so from the french side there is absolutely no feeling -- no hard feelings. >> the tradition of free speech it all began in france during the 1700s and 18th century. but there are laws in france laws that say you cannot deny the holocaust, laws that say you cannot deny the army -- why is
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it -- this is a debate we're having in the united states as well you know. >> there is no law of denial of genocide only one law of denial of the holocaust. it's not an opinion. it took place. you don't express an opinion when the holocaust took place, it's a fact against the victims and jewish community. for us it's not an opinion. but apart of the holocaust, everything is allowed. of course if there is no libel, you know against one person an individual. >> what about the investigation now? was there a failure of intelligence these people were known to the french and known on a no-fly list to america. should they have been followed after one of them got out of jail after the yemen trip?
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>> one correction i think this guy was not on a no-fly list of americans but he couldn't get a visa to go -- couldn't get the -- from the american administration. but there was no fly zone -- no fly -- he was not on this list. the problem we are facing you have a few thousand young people radicalized. and they went to syria or coming back from syria. and if you -- the fact you are radical, it's not enough to get arrested. you can't arrest somebody on its opinions. we have to monitor them. but a few thousand people to monitor one person you need ten agents. it's simply that you can't monitor all of these people 24/7. so of course there will be an investigation to say what went wrong, certainly something went
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wrong at some moment. but at the same time the fight we are facing is really very very specifics. >> what about boumeddiene and what threat she could still pose? >> apparently she was -- but again we're in first hours of the investigation. she was married to coulibaly, the murderer of the jewish grocery shop. we didn't know -- she was in contact right away. she was in contact with one of the girlfriends or wives of the two other terrorists and exchanged hundreds of phone calls in the last year. so she was part of that. she left she's apparently in syria. so we have to see, really what was her role. the question was whether she had an active role or whether she
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was supporting her husband? >> one of the questions is that the men may have understood they were under watch and women may have been been communicating to do the operational planning. are there any other accomplices at large? >> we don't know. really it's -- for some time the french authorities have been theorying such a terrorist attack. the minister of interior who is now the prime minister told me personally sooner or later there will be something because we simply can't prevent hundreds of people from doing it. it happened. in a sense it was worse than what we were expecting because these people were acting in a professional way as a military command o, obviously we are not over with this fight. >> one other political question
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you have the forces right wing do you fear an anti-muslim backlash? do you fear that france could go too far? there are suggestions that this country went too far after 9/11 in some of the security procedures. there's been a lot of criticism. how do you achieve a balance and not lose what is sacred in france? >> you know we are facing the same challenges as our american friends. there were a lot of incidents against muslims in france today. so of course it's it's a blessing for -- in a sense, really, it's a good argument for the extreme right, which everywhere in europe germany and u.k. and france was very anti-muslims. so at the same time, you saw what happened in paris. it was moving. i was moved to tears. it was really a will of the french people to affirm the national unity and message of the president of the french republic. let's hope we keep the spirit of
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national unity. >> mr. ambassador, thanks so much. >> thank you very much. >> it was an icy, slippery and dangerous commute for millions of americans this morning. mike seidel is in savage maryland with more. >> reporter: good afternoon, from interstate 95 we're midway between d.c. and baltimore. looking at northbound traffic on a wet interstate. 695, that's the beltway, 11 miles, 11 minutes, traffic is moving at a pretty good clip. the roads are wet but not icy. temperatures have been hovering around 34. there have been issues during the morning hours across parts of maryland virginia and west virginia primarily north and west of the baltimore d.c. area. icing reports on some of the neighborhood streets and overpasses at an dulles and frederick and towards the pennsylvania line. as temperatures there dropped right down to freezing and some
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of the moisture froze up on cold surfaces because it was so cold last week. now temperatures in most areas have risen above freezing. those advisories will fall off the boards and through the afternoon we'll see temperatures in d.c. and baltimore warm up to the mid to upper 30s. rain will end this evening then it will be cold and blustery again tomorrow much like last week with highs only around freezing. as far as schools, most had a two-hour delay. a couple did throw in the towel eventually. at the airports some cancellations, about three dozen flights canceled out of reagan nearly 20 at dulles. delays have been minimal too. two dozen flights delayed at reagan national 5% of their monday schedule. overall, not a major impact from this situation here in washington and baltimore. back to you. >> thank you so much mike seidel from the weather channel. back in a moment with adam schiff. fort. absorbs 2x more than you may need.
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why did the terrorists who attacked paris escape the net of french intelligence? they had been on u.s. and french watch lists but not being tracked adequately apparently. joining me now is adam schiff thank you very much for being with us. >> thanks, andrea. >> there is a question as the ambassador said, how can you put everyone under watch? they have such a large percent of not just muslims but have been back and forth to syria, many more than we have in the united states. >> that's exactly right. i can certainly empathize with the challenge they face it's not as if they went on vacation they went to surveil other people that may have been a greater threat or viewed as a greater threat. this is a challenge we face but
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because there's so many foreign miters that have lift france to join the fight and jurpeuropeans who can come to france easily. they are inundated with the request for surveillance. >> do you think there are any american security changes warranted? or do you think this will slow down the president's efforts to release people who have been vetted from guantanamo? what are the implications for the united states? >> well you can already see people making the argument as indeed the case after every tragedy to support a policy position that they've advocated before the tragedy. so it will have an impact potentially on guantanamo and impact potentially on the metadata program and fisa court. i saw the director of the nsa making the argument, we can't reform the metadata program now. that's not true. yes, we need the capability, but doesn't mean the government has
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to hold on to all of that data. we have to be careful not to use things that don't lead us to the same conclusion that some of the advocates are pushing. but it will affect the debate. in terms of our own security processes here at home i think it will accelerate some of the imperative that we better coordinate at the community level that we work even more closely with american-muslim community, part of the solution. that we make sure that we are having good information sharing with our foreign partners which is ongoing, but we'll have to intensify. >> here in the united states the muslim community is far better assimilated as much as it in france and other parts of europe. i want to ask about this failure of any cabinet level or higher official to show up at the march. 44 leaders. there's been a lot of criticism. >> i can't explain why it wasn't possible for the president or vice president.
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we did have high level people in france, the attorney general, the deputy secretary of homeland security were there for a security conference. the president made a personal condolence call. i think as a practical matter the french know and understand our close solid dart with them in the close time of need and apart from the symbolism, which is important, the most important thing, do we have a level of cooperation with the french. there's no question about that on either side of the atlantic. we have intense cooperation. one of our closest allies and that's only going to continue and intensify. >> congressman adam schiff. thanks for being with us. big developments in the search for airasia 8501. they have found the data recorder but not the cockpit voice recorder. >> reporter: andrea that flight data recorder has been brought back to investigators in ja
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carta. air speed, altitude what the engines were doing. it will take them time to go through it possibly two weeks, maybe more. maybe more like four weeks. as for that cockpit voice recorder, they believe they know where it is on bottom of the sea. the problem is it's under very heavy wreckage. what they may have to do is lift the wreckage out of the way using flow tags devices like they used to lift the tail section of the plane over the weekend. they'll take another look at first light at about six hours' time. >> thank you so much. and up next from paris to syria, tracking the woman wanted in connection with the "charlie hebdo" massacre. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. ♪
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. an army of 10,000 french soldiers is being deployed and the risk of more attacks in france is very real. 5,000 extra police will be on patrol by tomorrow. isis posted a video warning it had -- it's a video warning that it had first circulated back in september. this is not a new threat. but it repeats the threat from last september against the u.s. and other allies. attorney general eric holder on "meet the press." >> one has to understand it is very difficult to maintain a good contact to stay in touch with all of the people who are potentially going to do these kinds of things. that is the thing that keeps me up most at night, this concern about the lone wolf who goes undetected. we're doing as i said the best that we can, marshaling the resources that we have. >> joining me now is terrorism
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analyst evan coleman and nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. evan if i can go to you first. let's talk about this video threat because it's recycled but the issue is how much should anyone be alarmed by this or is this isis trying to take advantage of whatever, quote, success the terror attacks had and try to sort of climb on the bandwagon? >> this is something pete and i have been discussing this morning. as it happens, there's something important to understand about this video, it wasn't issued by isis, the original videos in it were issued by isis, back in september and november. this is an isis supporter who took the videos and created a mash-up. this doesn't represent what isis is thinking and other groups are thinking. this is just april lone extremist on the internet. i think people are getting
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worked up about threats that may be very real but they aren't recent and there's no indication the latest video has any significance in terms of ramping up the threat. people may have gotten worked up here about something that doesn't mean that much. >> partly because the nypd put out some indications yesterday that this was a new threat when it was not a new threat. >> correct. >> pete let's talk about whether it matters anymore, whether it's isis or al qaeda based in yemen, our experts are advising that this is in fact as pierational and inspirational to jihadis and almost doesn't matter which group is operationally involved. >> it does in one sense and it doesn't another. in one sense it does if the continued campaign against al qaeda in pakistan or al qaeda in the arare yan peninsula in
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yemen, go after specific leaders to get them. it matters in that sense. the part it doesn't matter if it's a person in the united states who is responding to this propaganda and thinking about doing something here whether the message comes from inspire magazine or whether it comes from an isis propaganda video or video recycled by someone else it still is of concern to the u.s. so it's just a very difficult thing to know who to keep an eye on. i think one difference between the u.s. and french experiences is this according to people i've talked to for the past couple of days. one is yemen is more of a red flag to the u.s. perhaps more than it is to the french. and the u.s. rarely tracks anybody who has been to yemen. they would get extra scrutiny whether that would have had made a difference in france is impossible to say. the second thing is the american sentencing procedures and way people are put in prison, it's a very odd thing in france that one of these guys who was sort
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of an inspiration for the people involved in this attack is someone who had tried to bomb the u.s. embassy in paris and under house arrest. they two repeatedly go visit him. he in turn was a disciple of the radical cleric from london. so there's some question about whether these people who were out of prison if this happened in the u.s. would have been able to get access to someone who apparently was a big inspiration for them. there are a number of differences, andrea. >> and what about evan the woman who got away and may or may not have been operational. once she's in syria, it's going to be almost impossible for western authorities to get to her. >> yeah, i mean right now based on cell phone signal evidence it seems she is in syria and certainly given the fact her last known destination was just over the syrian border in turkey unfortunately at this point unless she chooses to come home or she's killed in a drone
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strike this is a woman now beyond the hands of justice. it's a question will we ever see her again? there is also a question of who uploaded the video that features mr. coulibaly onto the internet. was it miss boumeddiene from syria or somebody else? are there others out there maybe still in france, who connected or participated at least in terms of helping them spread news of this if not something more significant? >> evan coleman and pete williams thank you both so much. next back to paris as tributes are pouring in for the victims security ramping around the city and country. one potential primary match-up in the race for 2016 republican nomination. you're watching msnbc. ♪ ah, push it. ♪ ♪ ♪ push it. ♪ ♪ p...push it real good! ♪ ♪ ♪
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there's new video from the police operation to rescue hostages in paris last friday. a close-up look at the activity inside the market as well and near the entrance during the final moments of the raid. including an explosion and heavy gunfire. israel's prime minister netanyahu went to the kosher supermarket today where hostages had been killed as part of that second terror attack. and there are newly released pictures inside the market. take a look at these, showing how hostages hid for hours in a cold meat locker. they were texting out and trying to get help and also helping the police with their surveillance. to politics now, and to the potential 2016 match-up that could get really personal. now that mitt romney has teased political watchers with word he's eyeing another run after jeb bush launched a political action committee and started recruiting staff and donors. we're watching two men part of
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competing political dynasties and there is history that could turn this into quite a showdown. joining me mao now, political correspondent for "washington post" and casey hunt at the white house. karen, first to you, all of this talk sparked by mitt romney telling donors on friday that he is now considering it. and the word has gone out that his wife is no longer against his running again. it does seem to be sparked in part by jeb bush's very aggressive preliminary efforts towards a run for the white house. >> that's right. i think -- and you know oddly enough jeb bush's effort to get out as early as he did was partly sparked by all of the mitt romney talk that was happening late last fall. what's going on here is that both of these guys realize that to -- they've got to get the donors at this point. they've got to get the big
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republican money men and money women. they don't want to let the other one lay claim to them. >> and casey hunt jeb bush has actually spoken to a reporter about romney on immigration and took a real shot at him saying -- i guess he was talking to a tv station in miami and said romney got sucked into other people's agendas and it hurt him a little bit. winning with intig receipt is what i'm trying to talk about. take that. you can see the rivalry between the two men. >> 100% and andrea talking about mitt romney's integrity in that way is one of quickest ways to get under his skin. in many ways romney has been goeded into this by the way bush has proceeded. if you remember back through the history. they know each other but they are not particularly close. jeb bush waited until very late in the 2012 cycle in march until romney almost had the nomination wrapped up before he endorsed.
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he didn't endorse in florida where romney backers thought he could have made the most difference. with the way that bush has approached this and that's not the only swipe he's taken at romney either. he alluded to how romney handled the defense of his record in business suggesting that romney wasn't aggressive enough in saying this is who i am making money is not a bad thing. that bush himself would do it differently. and it's pretty clear that's gotten the backs up at least in romney's sort of tight loyal core of supporters. >> just one other note karen, take a look at what our friend peter hart the nbc wall street journal poller he did a focus group outside of denver the other day. what he discover the, much to even his surprise, real reaction among the dozen republicans and democrats and independents against any of the dynasty candidates. they wanted somebody new. even republicans said they were
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more interested in elizabeth warren. didn't want hillary clinton, didn't want jeb bush. they want somebody with new ideas. >> well, at this point, you have to be -- if you are 38 years old or younger, you have lived through only one election in your life where there hasn't been a bush or clinton either running for president or on the ticket somewhere. so there is a sense in both parties of desire for something fresh. oddly enough this is sort of contrarian view. i think mitt romney getting into the republican field is probably the only thing you could imagine that would make anyone named bush look like a fresh face. so you know there are potential ways that jeb bush could play this to his advantage. but i think the real loser in all of this is chris christie because it's really hard to imagine where the space is for yet another sort of establishment candidate in this field. >> and where was chris christie
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yesterday, of course with his beloved cowboys in lambeau field and paul ryan from wisconsin tweeted very pointedly, governor christie do you need a hug now after dallas lost? of course we have i think a picture of chris christie's reaction angry reaction if you can see that picture in the box -- i guess maybe he's cheering there. if we were looking at another picture where he was reacting very angrily to the completed pass that would have changed -- could have changed the outcome there, which of course didn't. >> i guess that sweater is not so lucky anymore. >> i guess we're going to ditch the orange sweater. >> there's a metaphor. >> if you're watching "the good wife" last night, you might have noticed a familiar presence hard ball chris matthews starring as the moderator who kept calling time on the
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institute. you've written in "time" magazine, the need to have a better way of tracking some of the open source feeds such as twitter. >> absolutely. it's been 40 years since we've had the internet and protocols and they were built in a certain way where you can't track them back. it's a package which distributed network and took only nine months, to create the internet protocols. i would hope we could create a new set of protocols at some point that said for some people who want it here's a secure internet. you can track back where things came from. if you got an e-mail that said deposit this money in a nigerian bank account or if you were sony, it could be traced back. we should have a parallel internet that is secure and awe thenty indicated and people can track where things came from. >> within the hour the authorized twitter feed has been hacked by a group claiming to be
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isis with threats against u.s. soldiers. this is centcom. >> very hard to have cyber security when you have an unawe unauthentic unauthenticated internet. you want to have that type of internet for every day use but also if you're centcomm or my bank, you want to say, i know that it's coming from this ip address, i've been able to trace it back. it has an authenticated key. all right they are working on domain key secure ways of doing that. i think that's something we need to push now after sony and all of these things have happened. >> i wanted to ask you about the book, the innovateors and one of the key figures, allen touring, the main character in "the imitation game", an extraordinary movie -- >> we saw it together. >> very compelling.
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this story of this genius mathematician who led the effort to break the nazi code saving millions of lives. >> he comes up with a notion of the universal computing machine but then applies it to breaking the code. it's interesting these days. we talk about after the paris thing. do we want to be able to eavesdrop and track on everything? certainly when we were at war during world war ii yes, we're going to crack the german high command codes. how much of these can we track? how much code breaking can we do? and how much should we be eavesdropping. >> i want to play a little clip from the movie when he is proposing his way to try to break the code with this new machine. >> of course that's what you're working on. you also haven't got anywhere with it if you had you wouldn't be hiring cryptographers out of university. i like solving problems
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commander. and enigma is the most difficult problem in the world. >> it isn't difficult, it's impossible. the americans and russians and french, the germans, everyone thinks enigma is unbreakable. >> good. let me try. >> he had the arrogance and intellect to do it. but one of the issues that came up during the golden globes he was prosecuted. here he is the hero who breaks the code enigma machine and prosecuted for being homosexual and ended up committing suicide rather than going to prison. >> the good thing is last year the queen pardoned him. you see changes that have happened in 50 years. but yes, it's just a reminder of all how human we are in our -- our different ways and how that's got to be respected. alan turing is getting respect he deserves now but benedict
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and continuing on the breaking news of the hacking, it appears that the centcomm twitter page has been hacked. the front page has been changed. there are threatening tweets posted which we're not going to show you here. jim miklaszewski joins us from the pentagon. how does this happen? >> it's unclear exactly how it happened but the centcom twitter has absolutely clearly been hacked. and according to officials they
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are scrambling to get a hold and deal with this situation. and also to figure out where it's coming from. these messages are being posted under the #cybercaliphate. one says american soldiers we're coming. watch your back isis we won't stop, we know everything about you and your wives and children according to another posting. in another posting, they have a long list of general and flag officers and their contact phone numbers. again, the twitter feed is not a classified site. it's a way that the u.s. military and in this case centcom will send out general messages to the general public. so according to officials there appears to be no danger that any classified information is being compromised at this point. but this has been going on now for about 20 minutes and it's not clear yet that centcom or
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anybody else in the u.s. military or pentagon has a handle on this. andrea. >> we understand as well their youtube page has been hacked and it's a wonder -- you say no classified information but you've got phone numbers that have been put out, you would think they would pull down the twitter feed completely at this point. >> we've been trying to get some information from those who are involved in this operation and quite frankly it appears that everything at this point is so frantic, that we haven't been able to get any concrete information on what they've been able to do or what is they haven't been able to do more importantly in trying to get control of this situation. >> jim in this casemiklaszewski, thank you very much. that does it for us for this busy edition of "andrea mitchell reports." my colleague, ronan far row is
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. welcome, everybody to the program. we're here in paris. it's of course 1:00 p.m. on the east coast but 7:00 p.m. here and people are still gathered here in the place de la republique laying wreaths and trinkets on the cobble stones are marked with je suis charlie. one thing we're hearing, the french got government is dispatching 10,000 military personnel across the country. a particular focus on the jewish community and securing them after this attack. more resources in terms of security to be dispatched to jewish schools and synagogues. another news story everyone is watching the manhunt for hayat
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boumeddiene. we have new closed circuit tv footage showing her crossing out of the country. she's in istanbul at passport control. turkey being one of the major getways into syria, calling into question whether there are going to be obstacles to even finding her if she crosses over that border. we also have an international breaking security story, a story about the twitter of centcom following that in washington for us is jim miklaszewski. what's the latest you have? >> ronan, it's not only the twitter account of centcom that has apparently been hacked but also centcom's youtube account as well. according to senior defense officials here the centcom twitter account has clearly been hacked. under the #cybercaliphate, sending
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