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kentucky today to sell the new gop plan to repeal and replace obamacare. >> after a good and vigorous debate we know kentucky will be there and we will repeal and replace obamacare once and for all. >> president trump is throwing his weight behind the replacement plan but will his lobbying enough to swear leery republicans. much more in just a moment. plus developing news from the white house. the secret service confirms it arrested an intruder who scaled a fence outside the white house late last night. while president trump was in the executive mansion. we begin with the trump administration's sales pitch on health care. vice president mike pence on the road in kentucky this saturday delivering a sharp rebuke against president obama's affordable care act. >> the obamacare nightmare is
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about to end. obamacare has failed the people of kentucky. it's failed the people of america and obamacare must go. but democratic mayor is urging some caution. in a statement released before the vice president's speech today mayor greg fisher called on the white house and congress to quote, slow down and get health care right. specifically for the 100,000 residents who gained coverage under obamacare. mary ana is live in louville. thanks for joining me. what was the vice president's message today? >> reporter: well, first of all, stephanie i'll tell you that the length of his stay was very quick. this was a very quick visit for the v.p. he just flew on out of here and the event was held in this energy services company behind me. mike pence's message today was arguing to repeal and replace obamacare and selling kentuckians on the new gop
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health care plan and even admitting to local resistance. let's listen. >> supports our plan to repeal and replace obamacare. i know your former governor steve beshear has been defending obamacare all over the country. i welcome the debate. i really do. steve beshear's actually a friend of mine but your former governor is wrong about obamacare. [ applause ] obamacare has failed the people of kentucky, it's failed the people of america and obamacare must go. >> reporter: he may also have been referring of course to senator rand paul very popular here in kentucky and he has been one of the harshest critics. president trump even tweeting at rand paul, i saying sure that my
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friend will come along with the new and great health care program because he knows obamacare is a disaster. but stephanie, not everyone in kentucky agrees as the vice president was inside this event venue we saw a few dozen protesters outside demanding affordable health care for everyone and protesting any repeal that would go on here. for many kentuckians we spoke to it will come down to the numbers in the end. we chatted with an employee of humana who was at the event and humana is based here in louisville. obamacare is too expensive for insurance companies to stand with. they're pulling out next year but he said he still needs to see those numbers behind the new gop health care programs and those numbers still a big
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mystery. >> got critics on both sides there. thank you very much. back in washington. we're following developments at the white house. an individual was arrested by the secret service late last night after breeching white house grounds. kelly o'donnell is thank you white house with the latest. how is the president reacting all of this? >> reporter: the president has left the white house and went out to one of his golf clubs in virginia with some cabinet members for what officials are describing as working lunch talking about everything from the economy to health care and he goes there with a travel media pool. we talk about this often. the small group of rotating reporters and journalists and they asked the president for his reaction to what happened last night when he was at home here at 20 minutes before midnight at the white house residence when that intruder came over the wall and the president said the service, referring to the secret service did a fantastic job. it was a troubled person. it was very sad.
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now we will have that on camera later but we're so accustomed to everything being live these days but it's not unusual for an event like this where the president is off campus that those events are recorded. so we'll see those comments on camera later today. the officials here at the white house directed us to the secret service and they're information is this, the individual went over the fence at about 20 minutes to 12 last night on the treasury building side, that is on the side that you can see is closer to -- if the front of the picture of the white house it would be it would be on the right side there. if the front is up, you would see it on the left side. people who have been to washington, if you're looking at the white house, that's to the left. they had a backpack. they searched that backpack. the person, the individual as well as the grounds and tell us that there were no hazardous substances or weapons
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identified. we have been told by sources that the individual expressed to the secret service that he had an appointment with the president, wanted to see the president. that is not entirely unusual when these instances have happened over time. it is the first instance with president trump in office and it comes when there has been a multi-year plan to try to change the white house fence to increase its height to make it more difficult for people to get over the fence to make security at the perimeter easier. that has been something that's been in the works for a few years. it will be costly. it's been going through various phases in part because i can tell you the fence as it exists today is crowded with tourists and the dilemma is, this is the people's house. a public building that belongs to the people and to not make it look unaccessible from the tourist point of view. so that's been part of the debate going on over these years. tours of the white house which
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are arranged through individuals congressional districts are happening today. so it gives you a sense that this was an incident that they believe was handled, put behind them and we don't have a different posture of security here at the white house today. >> alarming that someone was able to jump the fence like that but everyone relieved that everything is okay. thank you very much. >> you bet. >> and president trump is staying on message today tweeting that republicans are quote, making great progress with health care. but some in the conservative wing remain opposed to the bill particularly unhappy with speaker ryan's push to get the legislation through the house as quickly as possible. joining me to discuss are erin mcpike, white house correspondent for the independent journal review and jonathan swan. thank you so much for joining me today. erin, the white house tells us the president will be hitting the road soon to sell the health care bill. is he going to have the message disciplined he needs here?
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>> so far in the past week he has. i think we've seen a couple of months of chaos come from the white house in particular with respect to their messaging because donald trump himself often throws off the messaging but over the past week they have been quite disciplined on health care from start to finish throughout the week. he was obviously quite a bit quieter this week and let his staff do a lot of that messaging for him. i think they saw some pretty good results. now i would say that he is bending to conservatives in some ways and that might help the effort in the house but then it begs the question, how does he then get to some of the more moderate republicans in the senate and what the deal he cuts with them? it may be seeing momentum from a house fronts. >> jonathan, turning to the bill itself. which specific provisions right now are being debated and is there one in particular that is the most contentious? >> the most contentious is the tax credits, but i've spoken to
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folks who sat down with the president in the last few days and it just seems that that's off the table as a matter of negotiation. but medicaid is probably the one that's seems to be a contentious and b, up for negotiation. there seemed to be some flexibility in the meeting over the time line for phasing that out and perhaps to appease some of the conservative members of the house, they might move it up from 2020 to 2018. we're still getting mixed signals on that. we don't know what's happening there and my understanding is that the president is still keeping this as a negotiation chip and he doesn't want to give away concessions too quickly. >> erin, turning to michael flynn who manages to keep himself in the news. msnbc news has learned that he attended intelligence briefing while being paid to lobby on the behalf of turkey. >> we heard a little bit from
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yesterday. michael flynn apparently did give the white house lawyers some notice that he was doing that but didn't obviously register as a foreign agent with the justice department in time. the white house is saying he could've made that call on his own. i think the bigger problem here is when donald trump and his team are saying that they're goal in washington is to drain the swamp and yet they didn't force michael flynn to clarify ahead of time. it does conflict with their overall message and i think that's something they're going to have to defend going forward with even their own supporters. >> stay on it for just a moment. it's unclear where the information came in that michael flynn was had briefed people in the trump administration before and after the election. is there any sense that flynn is just angry about how all this went down? >> from my own reporting, i don't know that that's the case. obviously vice president mike pence has been upset with michael flynn but i don't know that anybody has a good sense of
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how michael flynn feels. i know there's worry about that and if he could retaliate in some fashion but i don't think that we know yet how michael flynn feels. >> jonathan, turning to you. the house intelligence committee heads are asking the justice department to turn over any information related to president trump's wiretapping claims by monday. is the white house planning to meet that deadline? >> well, this is the topic that they're not being very forthcoming about. they try to take it off the table. basically they know they have no good things to say about this. donald trump tweeted we now know that wasn't based on any classified information. that was based on a report in breitbart and then of course it's cleanup time and they've said we now kicking this to the congressional committees. we don't know how the white house is going to handle this. it could be handled very quickly. donald trump has access to the entire intelligence community if he wanted to provide them of the evidence of this claim he could
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do that very quickly. >> the issue not going away. all right. thank you guys. coming up next, the fallout from wikileaks release of what it claims are thousands of classified cia documents. just how damaging could this release be to the agency? and if those wikileaks documents are authentic what do they say about the government's ability to use your own technology to spy on you and is there anything you can do to stop it? or fill a big order or expand your office and take on whatever comes next. find out how american express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open.com.
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hacking capacity to get into your smart phone, car, tv and more. with the organizations founder julian assange telling the world there are potentially more revelations to come. wikileaks now says those 9,000 pages are just 1% of what they've been able to steal from the cia and while vice president mike pence says those involved will be met with the quote, full force of the law, at least one senator is directly asking the department of justice on its plans to prosecute assange. but today, new questions on the timing behind the breach and what, if any, role russia may have played behind the scenes? >> the timing is relevant because this scandal didn't just drop from the clear blue sky. the intelligence community has been pushing back on russian interference in our election and many people inside the intelligence committee believe this may be russia's revenge, its effort to embarrass the
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intelligence community just when they're calling russia on the carpet. >> joining us for more, former fbi double agent naveed jamali. thank you very much for joining me. >> great to be here. >> could this massive leak be russia's so-called revenge? >> absolutely. i mean i think that in the past the russians would collect intelligence and use it to counter our capabilities but now they see that it's much more effective to release it to the public domain to simply embarrass us and humiliate us and that's what they're doing with wikileaks. >> and the humiliation is what exactly? that this information was as vulnerable as it was? >> i think that it plays into this -- a lot of russians back in russia will think of the authoritarian state that the intelligence community spies on its people, the police enforce government rule and clearly that's not what we do but it plays into this narrative that i think a lot of people want to believe, that the u.s. -- we
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don't have true freedom or democracy and this is something that the russians really try to push especially to former soviet states. i think that's probably their main thing that they're trying to do here is essentially make question the validity of our democracy. >> and also our ability to protect sensitive information. this is the first week. >> absolutely. that's absolutely true. these have real consequences. when you release this stuff and these tools are meant to collect intelligence. they're meant to collect intelligence from afar and when you release them you essentially jeopardize that capability and that means we can't use them. we have to send s.e.a.l.s to collect intelligence and that puts people at risk. exposing these capabilities isn't about embarrassing us, it has really tangible, real world security implications for both of the u.s. and others. >> cyber tools like this, these weapons have become an incredibly important part of our
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arsenal to keep the country safe, haven't they? >> absolutely. again, we hear a lot about oh, can we turn on -- can the cia turn on your samsung tv and the capabilities exists, the difference is that the cia, the intelligence community does not collect on u.s. persons. it's executive order 12333. you can go to jail if you do that. there's a big distinction between using intelligence to look outside of the united states, look at people in yemen and people in russia, versus law enforcement where a wiretap would have to be approved by a judge to listen to a u.s. person. because we have these capabilities, because we collect intelligence against foreign targets does not mean that we're using those domestically. it's a very important distinction but one that seems to get lost unfortunately and muddled with people like wikileaks. >> let me ask you about assange himself. a former government contractor was spreading the docks around online. do you take aadvantage's claim
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at face value? should we believe this guy? >> no. it's really frustrating to see someone like julian assange be given the same journalistic protection that's afforded frankly real journalists, the "the washington post," msnbc. this is not someone who's taking an objective approach double checking facts. this is someone who's only goal is to report things -- push out information against the united states. he's not covering russia, he's not covering -- we can't look at assange and say he's anything more than a laundry mat service for russian propaganda. >> all right. thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks. >> the fallout from this breach could reach into millions of homes across the country with many asking if the cia has a blue print for spying on you through smartphones and tvs. do terrorists and cyber criminals now have that capability as wl?
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joining us for more, former u.s. chief technology officer, thank you so much for joining me. >> thanks for having me. >> first of off, some tech companies have already said they've patched several of the vulnerable bilts identified in this leak. should americans be concerned they'll be spied on and not know it? >> i would follow on the discussion you just had. the u.s. government has obviously policies and procedures to make sure that the average american isn't spied on as you've just heard but it's very likely that we remain at risk for cyber attacks from those who wish to do us harm to steal our identities so the issue of cybersecurity remains a very important one and the race is between the services we want in our personal lives to make our lives better but then the ability to catch up to make sure they're secure enough so that what we have is a service for us isn't used against us by those who wish to do us harm. >> is it fair to say that
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anything you have whether it be a tv or your phone, whatever it might be that's online is vulnerable in some way? >> what i would say is we take advantage of this power called the internet, this infrastructure and that does a lot of good for us. it allows us to communicate in ways that allow that device in our home that may be broadcasting our kids sleeping to our phones so we can make sure they're safe but because we're using the same highway, if you will that others might have access to, it adds to the level of vulnerability. the industry has been aware of this, the broader tech community so we're trying to build security by design as they ship these products but certainly the amount of what you would call service area for attack continues to grow as more and more of our devices in our home become internet connected. we're north of 25 billion such devices globally and growing fast. >> the internet makes our lives so convenient in so many
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different ways, do we as a country have to dial back a little bit on that convenience just to stay a little bit more secure? >> what i would say is that, at least for president obama, he put forward a set of principals what we call the consumer internet privacy bill of rights. if we had more regulatory clarity on what you need to do as a tech company to make available these retail services or these consumer facing services, then maybe that would sort of strengthen the business case for companies to get this right the first time. absent any clarity around what we have to do, you might find a scenario where devices that are sold to you may be cheaper, might have skimped on their cybersecurity capabilities. we had called for this internet privacy bill of rights which would have strengthened the infrastructure. i think that continues to be a policy debate for the country. what do we need to do to make sure we've got the right business case to get security by design on all the things that make our lives better. >> it's alarming and important issues there.
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thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> when we come back, one small town's fight against a big drug company. >> there's people that are dying every day over because of what they've done. >> what civic leaders say the drug company is to blame for the town's drug epidemic and why this case could open a new front in the fight against prescription drug abuse. and be sure to catch an encor presentation of the rachel mad dowshow. she'll have much more on the trump administration's ties to russia.
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turning now to a new attempt to fight back against the national opioid crisis. a city in washington state has filed a lawsuit against the makers of oxycontin putting the blame on the company's for the high number of drug addicts. the company has paid out tens of millions of dollars to settle lawsuits brought by states over
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its marketing practices in the past but this suit goes even further. >> he have ret, washington a proud working class town now like so many places, this city is being crushed under the weight of an opioid epidemic. homeless addicts in doorways, overdoses in bars. fed up and desperate for more resources, have launched an unpre unprecedented fight against perdew. >> they need to be help accountable for not taking the action they should have taken that allowed their drugs to hit the streets and make addicts of many of my citizens. >> one mayor taking on a big drug company deciding to sue after reading a los angeles times investition. the lawsuit alleges purdue supplied to obviously suspicious physicians and pharmacies accusing the company of turning a blind eye to illegal drug
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trafficking. in a 2009 e-mail cited in the lawsuit, a purdue employee raises flag about a clinic in l.a. now shut down. the line was out the door with people who looked like gang members. i feel very certain that this is an organized drug ring. the lawsuit claims the pills were then illegally trafficked up to washington state and the company never notified the dea which is required to do by law. >> is it your sense that this was a problem that could have been avoided at least partially? >> it absolutely is. >> the oxy was wherever. everybody's a dealer. >> recovering heroine addict is describing avenue ret 15 years ago when she got hooked 15 years. >> people don't have their mother and people are dying every day because of what they've done. >> purdue says it's a leader in a abuse deterrent medications we are deeply troubled by the abuse and misuse of our medication.
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>> our products account for less than 2% of all opioid prescriptions. this lawsuit paints a flawed and inaccurate portrayal of events that led to the crisis in everett. the federal government has not criminally charged the company. legal experts say if everett wins the case it'll just be the beginning. >> this could lead to an avalanche of cases from every city and state in the country that needs money. >> are you getting calls from other ayors? >> yes. >> a lot of them? >> fair amount. >> everett wants purdue to pay tens of millions of dollars to expand an medical wing at the county jail for addicts going for withdraw or the kind of services richards needs not to ends up homeless again. >> how scared are you that you could end up back here? >> very scared. >> taking care of the addicts and the streets seems never ending. this dump truck is here three times a week. now everett it says it's time
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the secret service says the intruder had a backpack which did not contain weapons or hazardous material. vice president pence is back in washington after touting republicans obamacare replacement plan to business leaders in kentucky this morning. a busy weekend for california congressman darrell issa facing tough questions in his second town hall today in front of a packed room of constituents, including comments he made on bill mar about a special prosecutor to look into president trump's ties to russia. we don't have that sound byte. cal, a couple of town halls today. is it a gluten for punishment? >> reporter: yeah. it certainly appears so. this is a congressman who's been facing protests outside of his office for a month.
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people pushing him to do these town halls. people both inside and outside were concerned about the russian involvement in the election. the congressman saying that he supports a full investigation into russia's involvement into the election that did receive a sort of roaring applause, this is a tough crowd for the congressman. he's an eight term congressman, the richest man in congress and this district like much of the country is really headed the other way from where it is right now. it's been a republican district for a long, long time but certainly congressman issa is going to have a tough fight. the top topics, affordable care act, immigration, those were the things people wanted to talk about. another big issue, medicare and it medicaid. listen to what he had to say on that. >> one of the challenges i have because when i go back to washington, this isn't a new problem, governor schwartz negativer tried to deal with it during his time -- california needs to step up the plate for a 50/50 on medicaid and if we do
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it should work. >> reporter: you saw there a little bit of that tough crowd. again, it's going to be an interesting sort of next race here for the 49th congressional district. southern california so many of the issues hit home here not just immigration or affordable care act but, of course the economy. his credit he was out here, he seemed very unflabable he promised that he was going to do more of these town halls in the coming weeks. >> thanks. cal perry in oceanside, california. as house republicans move ahead with their promise, they are leaving some popular features of the legislation in place. for instance, children can still stay on their parents insurance plans until the age of 26. and insurers will continue to cover people with preexisting conditions. joining us now to discuss what's in the bill is rhode island
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congressman david suslini. what in the replacement bill are you opposed to? >> the replacement bill is a great deal if you're an insurance company or drug company or one of the wealthiest people in this country but for hard working everyday americans it's a terrible deal. you just made reference to the preexisting conditions that only is available if you have continuous coverage. if your coverage lapses they can impose additional costs but this is a program which is a huge giveway so the wealthiest people in this country and huge tax cut of about $7 million each for the 400 richest families in this country. it makes devastating cuts to medicare to the trust fund, devastating cuts to medicaid which is our most vulnerable populations, people with disability, children, nursing home residents, the most vulnerable communities. it allows insurance companies to charge more based on your age so older americans will face higher
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premiums. this will raise premiums, reduce the quality of care, undermine core programs like medicare and medicaid and the estimates are that 15 million americans will lose insurance well republican plans. so the president said we're going to have a better plan, it's going to be cheaper and more people are going to have access. this is just the opposite. it reduces the quality of care. it increases costs and it makes it impossible for about 50 million people to continue to have coverage. so this is a terrible plan. the republicans have been trying to jam this threw even before the congressional budget office gives us an analysis because what they're going to learn, what the american people are learning is that this is very good if you're an insurance company, very good if you're one of the richest people in america, very good if you're a drug company but very bad for everyone else. >> congressman, the gop proposal is headed to the budget committee which will vote on it next week. take a listen to what senator
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tom cotton told my colleague this week. >> we've got lots of time to get this right and i'd rather get it right than fast. this bill as written today simply would not pass the senate because it would not the reduce prices for insurance and make care affordable and personalize. >> what is the hurry? can you envision any scenario where house leaders could hit the brakes? >> i think tom cotton is exactly right. this does not reduce costs or make insurance more available. i wish he would speak to his republican colleagues in the house who seem absolutely committed to moving forward. in fact, they forced a vote in the two committees of jurisdiction immediately they worked through the night like for 24 hours or something because i think they wanted to get a vote before the congressional budget office revealed a very dire consequences for the american people if this act is passed. so they seem very committed to it. the president seems very committed to it. it took almost two years, hundreds of hearings, many amendments to do the affordable
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care act. the president said the other day, who knew health care reform was this complicated. well, we knew. it's very complicated and we ought to be willing to fix the things that need to be fixed but it's working. it has produced tremendous benefits for millions of americans and we ought to be prepared to work together in a bipartisan way to make it better and to strengthen it but this idea of repealing and replacing with a plan that would hurt the american people and cost 50 million americans their insurance really undermine medicaid and medicare, be a real boom to prescription drug companies and to the wealthiest americans, it's a huge tax cut, enormous tax kurt for the richest people in the country and whose going to pay for it, the health care of working people? this is a terrible plan. >> what are you hearing from your constituents at home? >> my constituents in rhode island are asking us to continue to fight hard to protect the affordable care act. they have already seen the benefits, rhode island has 97%
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of our residents have access to affordable health care care which is the highest rate of insurance we've ever had. almost every rhode islanders is covered. they want to be sure we're fighting hard to protect it. they're no longer life time caps on insurance policies, making sure preexisting conditions are never penalized, making sure people are not discriminated against because of that and making sure that health care's affordable and to be sure that the subsidies that are necessary so working people can afford to buy insurance remain in place. this is working and look we should be willing to focus on anything that needs to be fixed. i think democrats have always been willing to do that but what the republicans are proposing does just the opposite. it makes it harder for people to have insurance, less people will be covered and their coverage will be lower quality. we've got to stop them. i think they're hearing from their constituents when they're home this weekend and hopefully they'll come back to washington with a firmer understanding,
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they represent the people in their districts. >> we're going to have to wrap it up there. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. the private facebook group of maernz that shared nude photos of women may have been busted but it now appears marines continue to share those pictures in new private groups. we'll be joined by one of the reporters that broke that story after this break. and gigi stone woods will be with your next hour and she'll have the job reports and whether it means you'll be paying more for a loan.
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>> reporter: today the marine corp investigation is accelerating after more nude photos of female service members emerged. new pictures on the web side anon ib the web sides users encourage participants to find and post naked pictures without their consent. on friday defense secretary jim mattis weighing in on the scandal for the first time. >> we will not excuse or tolerate such behavior if we are to uphold our values and maintain our ability to defeat the enemy on the battlefield. the nude fote others are now forcing the army and ars force to join the navy and marines to look deeper into the alleges inappropriate behavior. >> to what extent is this a cultural problem within the marine corp. >> i'm not going to lay this off on anybody else. this is our problem and i own it. >> some marines are behind the times. male marines not giving their female counter parts their due. >> come on, guys. they just want to do their job.
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let them do their job. and you do yours. >> reporter: the general's comments unlike to quell the controversy. >> where was this task for over the last four years over which he allowed this issue to me stat ties into the cancer. >> reporter: the number of victims still unknown, who left last june telling nbc news tonight that the marine should meet with female marines who were victims. hans nichols, the pentagon. the marines united facebook group at the center of the scandal may have been taking down. this isn't going away. a report from the daily beast says new pages with the same purpose are popping up. joining me now is james la port the journalist behind that report and a former marine who served with the intelligence committees. how many groups were created since the initial page were
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shutdown? >> that's a great question. there's just an unknown number of these groups between marines united pages like just the tip of the spear, there's just so many and marines united case what we found is that s there are literally chapters of marines united around the country and just in different communities. their membership sizes range three members to more than 500. so there's those groups plus there's also offsets of the main marine united group. we now see marines united 2.0 which over the few days they've grown and dropped in numbers. right now they're hovering around 2,000 members. there's now marines united 3.0 so there's just so many of these groups and they're all secret. so unless you're a member of these groups you're not going to
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be able to see what they're posting. >> james, you've had a chance to see some of the comments on these group pages. what's the tone? do they sound apologetic? problem not. >> no i see no signs that there's a contrigs among the group. there's any guilt that they have towards what they've done. it's literally been -- i've seen comments about sel self-presidentervation how legally they're not touchable, how legally they didn't commit a crime. some are outraged that, you know, the good things that they were doing in the group have not been highlighted enough in the press. like i said, they were doing good things in terms of if there was a marine or someone struggling with ptsd, they needed help, the group would work very hard to get someone there to help them. that good work doesn't excuse the exploitation of female marines or women who don't know
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that there are photos are being shared to 30,000 member audience. >> you have top officials including james mattis speaking out against this but are people going out and trying to take these extra pages that are popping up, trying to take them down? >> i would imagine that there's been a lot of reporting as these pages are popping up. now i'm -- i don't want to diet every single marines united group. i had seen some local chapters specifically a marines united main chapter that had nothing wrong. they were doing everything right. they were not sharing these nude photos. they were not sharing these external links to drop box accounts that contained perhaps hundreds or thousands of these photos so there are some marines united groups that are doing the right thing and not a part of what these groups are doing. other local chapters that have been doing the same activities what the main group was doing.
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so but in terms of people reporting these groups, it's hard to know what is going on with inside the groups because they're secret. and it's also hard to search for the groups because the administrators of these groups continue to keep changing the names and mestasizing. as we learn if you read tasking purposes articles, they're posting these photos as porn hub. if you look at paul's reporting over at business insider, you know, they're posting on these other sites that are outside facebook's control. >> some incredible reporting there, important reporting. thank you very much. that was daily beast james la porta. we'll be right back. yup! i did... n't. smartmade frozen meals. real ingredients, grilled and roasted.
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we now know the fate of one of those federal prosecutors. the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york has been fired from his post. bhara saying moments ago. i did not resign. i was fired. being the u.s. attorney will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life. his fate came into question because he met with then president trump during the transition where he agreed he would stay on during the trump administration. that's all for me this hour. i'll be back with you at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. gigi stone woods picks up our coverage next. she'll have much more on this breaking development at the top of the hour. or fill a big order
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