"the new york times," they had a big day with the photography, and the dummies won, and the daily news won in the public service journalist category, and the phoney, "washington post," he won for national reporting and especially his reporting on donald trump. that will do it for us on this monday night, thank you for joining us. good night from new york. there is a lot going on in the news right now. today we got a new united states supreme court justice who many people will now call justice neil gorsuch. but many other people will

insist on calling him justice merrick garland because it will never ever, ever, ever ever be normal that senate republicans wouldn't allow president obama to appoint a justice to fill that seat on the court simply because he was a president from the democratic party. that will never ever, ever be normal. so as far as i'm concerned today, justice neal merrick garland gorsuch got sworn in, and the court is back to nine members. and the president has now established from in our country, no president will get to establish the supreme court justice, unless their party controls the senate. that is the new standard from our country, but with gorsuch/garland being sworn in today that is officially the way it will be from now on. also today, a big policy plan scrapped which was to redo the

tax code after their face plant trying to redo obamacare, apparently they're getting shy about trying to do a taxes overhaul as well, congress on recess this week. the plan to redo the tax code has been a convenient hook for constituents back home to berate the members of congress that donald trump should not be able to do anything about tax code as long as he has not released his own taxes. so we can see if he is checking to make new tax codes to try to help himself. but this president doesn't want to release his taxes and apparently he will not be overhauling the americans' taxes either, the republicans are giving up on that now. and today, jim mattis said the air base strike destroyed 20% of the operational aircraft

in the syrian air force. now, if you're trying to keep track of this particular statistic, let's be clear of why it's hard to keep track of this. so far the administration has said that that missile strike last thursday destroyed 20 planes at that one base. they have also said that it destroyed 20% of the planes in one wing of the syrian air force. they also said it destroyed 20% of the planes that are actually operational in the syrian air force and they have also said that it destroyed 20% of all the planes total in the syrian air force. all of those things cannot be true simultaneously. which of those things is true? who knows? but by tomorrow, the way this is going they will presumably be telling us the strike destroyed 20% of all the planes in syria, and 20,000 of the muslim planes

everywhere. you guys have to figure this one out. it's been five days. today, the national security adviser lost her job, they're going to try to send her to singapore, reportedly after she lobbied for a job that would keep her in d.c., this administration has not been around long, but already a second deputy left, and the international security adviser left after 20 days on the job. we saw a communications guy named boris mysteriously get the boot a couple of weeks ago. and the white house chief of staff got the boot a week ago, that is not even including steve bannon getting demoted a week ago, nor does it count the staffers who got demoted after failing their background checks. this administration is not even three months old now but already is shedding staff like water off a lame duck.

tonight at this hour on the show we have the latest from alabama, with the political reporter who was absolutely tip of the spear when it came to the sex and ethics scandal that today resulted in the resignation of the governor of alabama, robert bentley. we also have a fascinating report on why all the tornado sirens went off in dallas at the same time. did you hear that? the emergency signals all went off on friday night when they were not supposed to. wait until you hear why it happened. that story is absolutely nuts. we'll have that not. and we have a report on the special elections that will be held in kansas and georgia. elections to fill the congressional seats of the members who got bumped up to take seats in the trump administration. these are both red districts in red straights but the republican

party is freaking out about the prospect that these seats may be at risk in kansas and georgia. we have that story ahead tonight as well, there is a lot going on. i want to start tonight with an intriguing piece of news out of spain. now, this is an fbi story, but the fbi is officially not commenting on it. so i will tell you at the outset we're on our own. this is a website called spamhaus which sounds like a delicious idea for a downscale retro hawaiian fast food place. but spamhaus.org is basically a clearing house for news and statistics and leads, about the ways people use the internet to

commit crimes and steal stuff. it's about spam and hacking and malware, all the things people use to mount on-line attacks. and they have done what they could at spamhaus, this is the sort of crime you can commit without anybody ever laying eyes on you. but spamhaus is creating a list for spammers, up to 80% of spam targeted at internet users around the world is generated by a hard-core group of about 100 known persistent spam gangs whose names and aliases are in the known operational data base. they post that explanation right along with what is basically their version of the ten most wanted list. this top ten chart of spammers

is based on their view of the highest threat, least repentant, and the worst of the spammers causing the most damage on the internet. the top ten list, and if you need to puff up your patriotic pride a little bit and are worried that the united states is not holding our own when it comes to the depth of the criminal world, rest assured we're doing great. of the top ten worst spammers in the world, seven out of the ten of them are usa, usa! two of the ten are from ukraine and there is one guy on the list who has been on that list for a long time who is russian. and this is the news. the russian guy just got arrested. he is known on line as peter severa, or peter levashof, and

he is a spammer who writes and sells virus spamming spamware, and is probably involved in writing viruses and trojans. and probably one of the longest running crime lords on the spam internet. now, the reason why this kind of arrest is now american politics is because one of the things we've all had to learn in reporting and understanding the story of the russian government hacking our presidential election last year one of the things we have had to get familiar with in terms of how the russian government, the russian military and intelligence services mount those kind of attacks, we have had to learn about the overlap in russian between criminal hacking, you know, hacking for profit. hacking just for thievery, but yes, america is still king of the world when it comes to on-line criminal hacking, spam,

stealing and stuff. but russia is pretty good, too, and in the past few years, the russian government, including their military intelligence services they have moved beyond just trying to tap bright young computer science undergrads to enlist and join the spy services, they have moved beyond recruiting and they instead have moved into the criminal part of the hacking world. they have taken great pains to co-op the most successful criminal hackers and spam artists operating legally in russia. rather than hack them, they use them. piggy backing onto that criminal enterprise. so russian hackers are stealing

financial information from hundreds of millions of users of yahoo!.com. okay, they're doing that for profit. but russian intelligence then uses that hack to especially target journalists and opposition figures who they want to go after for political reasons and government reasons. that is the way it works. and with this guy who just got arrested in spain, that particular overlap between criminal work and intelligence work for russia, that overlap is very, very clear for him. as long ago as 2012 there was evidence that he went from just becoming a criminal hacker to working as a successful worker for the kgb, reportedly making the pitch the other hackers in on-line forums asking other hackers to do work on behalf of the russian government and the russian spy service. also his own on-line criminal activity was implicated in a

pro-putin russian government operation. i'll quote this. peter severa's spam system ran a sophisticated evolving family of computer viruses, called kelihos and walladac, the kelihos virus had been made to send spam, but during the election it was made to send e-mails to computer accounts. and those e-mails saying that the business man who ran across vladimir putin had come out as gay. so this guy was one of the most famous criminal spam king pins in the world. these viruses and botnet operations that he built for his spam entire apparently had made

him very rich. when buzz feed wrote this, they described him as living a life-style so lavish, quote, it would have embarrassed angry oligarch, so he is a lavish king pin recruiting others to work for the russian intelligence service. his own viruses were put in a russian election years ago spreading fake news that putin's opponent was gay. and now he was arrested in spain, get this, arrested in spain at the request of the fbi. hm. and the fbi is not talking about why they wanted him arrested or what this was about. but in russian language media reporting on this arrest today and in spanish media reporting on this arrest today because again, the arrest was in spain. multiple publications have run quotes from his wife who was

with him in barcelona when he got arrested. and she said what he told her when he was arrested, it had to do with a computer virus that was related to donald trump winning the presidential election in the united states last year. so this guy is a famous spammer for years, for years. but he has traveled freely around the world. he has never been arrested that we know of. he has never behaved as if he feared arrest. certainly he never behaved as if he feared arrest by the fbi by traveling to a country who had an extradition treaty with the united states. he got picked up in barcelona, and is in a prison in spain, because the fbi asked authorities to pick him up. the question is why now? should we believe his wife, who said his arrest had something to do with the u.s. election. we don't know. the fbi will not say.

for what it's worth, the no comment that the fbi is giving crime from the criminal division of the fbi, not the national security of the fbi. so maybe the origin of the no comment is significant in some way. but it does come at a time when some new pieces are starting to fall in place in terms of the pace and scope and focus of the investigation into whether or not in investigation into the trump campaign was involved in it. questions on the fbi creating a special unit to oversee the aspects of the investigation, it was previously reported that the fbi was spread out over offices around the country. apparently they will now operate out of a single office in washington. cbs reports that although the investigation didn't start until last year according to cbs the focus of the fbi investigation has now shifted to months

earlier than that. cbs reports that the fbi is now looking at the initial russian hack of the democratic party, which happened all the way back in march. they are reportedly looking into whether or not people associated with the trump campaign may have helped that attack, directed the russian efforts as early as march when the hacking and stealing first started. in addition to that on thursday night as the u.s. navy launch e tomahawk missiles, one thing that got lost in the sauce as everybody covered the military strike was word that the cia had covered the attack and the trump campaign's connections to the attack, that the cia found alarming. according to the times, last year the fbi director was so concerned about what the cia was

seeing about the increased russian meddling in the election, that he began briefings for eight top members of congress, quote, it's unclear what may have happened with the briefings, but concern was growing about a possible russian brief of the democratic national committee and the cia, this is important, the cia began to see signs of a possible connection to the trump campaign. in a briefing, the hearing submitted that there could be names mentioned that interfered in the election. so the cia thought it was enough of a possibility that they needed to individually start briefing senior members in congress, not just the russian attack, but the trump involvement in the attack. so the cia can only handle the

foreign part of this, right? the cia can only handle the russian attack part of this. when it comes to the possibility of the trump campaign or any other americans helping that effort, well, then you're talking about americans. that is an american issue. and becomes an american law enforcement operation, right? and that sort of thing is not handled by the cia. that has to be handled by the fbi. but this new reporting indicates that the cia last summer somehow came into possession of what sounds alarming that the director did one-on-one meetings, not to tell them about the election but russian interfering with the election and the distinct possibility that the trump campaign was helping russia do that. so the trump campaign side of that is something the fbi would have to handle ultimately, not the cia. and because of that, because that is fbi territory at that point the investigation becomes a black box to us in terms of what we know about it or at

least in terms of what the fbi will say about it. but whether or not they are talking about these things we can see what they're doing. and one of the things they have just done is request the arrest of this russian intelligence-linked criminal mega hacker who is now sitting in jail in barcelona, presumably about to be extradited to the united states and the fbi will not say beep about it. so there is a lot going on in the world, in poelitics, a lot going on in politics with the news that doesn't look like politics. and as this administration continues to enjoy its first real bout of shallow good press about their bombing attempt in syria, one good thing about this scandal that really is still moving. tonight it's moving in barcelona.

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tom kelay really pioneered the genre, but he had words that were dazzling, oh, and rick perry. this is the way it's done, when it's time for your mug shot, sir, make sure you smile. i don't know who trained politicians to take their mug shots like this. but alabama governor robert bentley clearly got the memo, smile, sir. we have been covering the robert bentley story for months, the

first outlet to spend significant time on the story. we were on the robert bentley story even before the tape came out. i think, i'm not going to promise you but i think i can tell you this is the last time we're ever going to play it. >> you'd kiss me. i love that. you know i do love that. that -- when you know what -- when i stand behind you, and i put my arms around you, and i put my hands on your breasts. and i put my head on you, and just pull you real close, i love that too. if we're going -- if we're going to do what we did the other day we're going to have to start locking the door. if we're going to do what we did the other day we're going to

have to start locking the door. >> i think that is it. i think we are now officially -- i was going to say we can put that to bed. but -- it's like -- it pollutes all words that get anywhere near it. anyway, i think we are done with that now. because today this thing arrived at its inevitable political conclusi conclusion, it resulted in a plea deal in which he pled guilty to two misdemeanor accounts, resigning as governor of alabama and pledged to never run for public office again. he agreed to pay back funds that he misused and he will do dozens of hours of unpaid community service. now it is possible that he could still be put in jail on the misdemeanor he pled guilty to today, but nobody really expects jail time. alabama is basically a one party state, republicans dominating

all levels of government. just over the course of one year, over the space of one year, the republican speaker of the house was arrested, convicted and sentenced to four years in prison on corruption charges. not long after that the elected chief justice of the state supreme court was thrown off the bench for violating judicial ethics, and today, smile, the governor resigned and had his mug shot taken, as lieutenant governor kay ivey took the oath today. started to think there was something poetic about a governor cheating on his wife and then used state funds to cover it up, that resulted in a woman becoming the alabama governor for the second time in the state's history. we may not be able to write the end of this thing today. this may not be over. alabama reporter john archibald broke many aspects of the story

today. he says that now there may be other shoes to drop. the head of the alabama law enforcement agency is implicated here. the utility company that was paying the alleged girlfriend's salary. they are implicated here. also, luther strange, who governor robert bentley appointed to a united states senate seat right in the middle of this whole event, there are questions that will need to be answered. now he may be all mixed up in this too. john archibald is the reporter who busted this story open in the first place, saying it may not be over just as the governor resigns today. john archibald joins us next.

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the time has come for me to look at new ways to serve the good people of our great state. i have decided it is time for me to step down as alabama's governor. i'm leaving this office that i have held, that i have respected. that i have loved for seven years to focus on other and possibly more effective areas of service. >> now former alabama governor robert bentley resigning from office today. i don't know what he thinks his more effective areas of service

are going to be but as governor he had ceased to be effective a long time ago when the sex and ethics scandal first broke in the alabama news. the man who broke this story, john archibald, reports tonight that the resignation of the governor may not be the end of the story. mr. archibald, good to have you with us, it's been a very busy day for you. >> yes, it has, thank you for having me. >> first let me just ask about the governor's decision here. this was not a simple resignation. it was part of a plea deal, for people who have not been following the criminal part of this carefully could you tell us sort of the distance between the charges he was facing and what he actually pled to today? while he resigned? >> sure, last week, the ethics commission referred the prosecutors four charges which are all felonies, ethics charges and campaign violations which each carried a 20-year maximum

prison sentence. so going from there to two misdemeanor seems like a long way to fall. but there are other conditions. and that is why he was able to make that deal. >> and if the -- obviously, him resigning as governor, him pledging to never stand for public office again, him repaying some of the funds that he is accused of misusing, there are a lot of -- i mean, he is paying a penalty here. will this be a controversial plea deal in alabama? will people want him to have seen jail time? will the people who made this deal have to answer for it? >> i think initially a lot of people were really upset. honestly, it's one of the strangest things that this is one of the most unifying things in alabama in a long time. because republicans and democrats looked at this and said this is crazy, he should have resigned a long time ago. i think there is some anger initially that it's not worse,

but when people start to realize the cost of a trial is going to be avoided. and he really has lost everything. i think that people will probably be more forgiving. >> in terms of the not gone effect here, not just his career, one of the things that you were highlighting today when you wrote up at aol.com, when you wrote up basically the overview of what happened today is that there may be some other shoes the drop here. there is a lot of stuff that came out in that report that was just released. and all of those thousands of pages of exhibits there is a utility company that seems to have inexplicably had the alleged governor's mistress on his payroll. the head of the alabama law enforcement agency seems to have been sort of an insider in terms of this affair and maybe the effort to cover it up. do you think those things will be pursued? >> i think some things will be pursued. i think the head of the law

enforcement agency is particularly in trouble because he has been painted time and time again by sworn witnesses of having intimate knowledge of the affairs and text messages, but when he was immediately sworn in as the head of law enforcement he stood beside the governor and said he had no knowledge of it. and in terms of that, it is inexplicable and unexplainable. and rebecca mays, she will face scrutiny. and this will not wash off of luther strange. >> he was appointed during that time, why might this be a problem for him? >> well, we all know that it's difficult to unseat a sitting senator. but he was supposed to be in charge of the investigation that was looking into bently lbentle

implored the house of representatives not to proceed with impeachment because his office was agent going to handl then he immediately, when the session seat became available went to the governor and parlayed that into an appointment as senator. and i just think he under estimated how much alabama will hold him responsible for that. >> john archibald, columnist for the alabama news, again, did more than anybody to break this story. john, i know this is still a continuing story for you. thank you for letting us know. and it's weird to say congratulations on this, but as a feat in reporting, you deserve a lot of credit on this. >> thank you, rachel. >> thank you, stay with us. much more ahead. hey, need fast heartburn relief?

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spring last year, toward the end of the presidential primary season, the city of dallas started to experience something weird. outbreak of tampering with road signs. road side traffic warnings instead were turning into political messages. >> this is the kind of information you would expect to be posted on one of these traffic signs along i 30, but earlier today the message was urging voters to feel the better than. another sign displayed the statement "donald trump is a

shape shifting lizard." >> hacking into road signs, i know how that one ends, it's still funny to see. hacking into road sees to call donald trump a shape-shifting lizard, but, i should also mention it's a felony. in the trump is a shape-lifting lizard did it by trail physically breaking into the highway signs, cutting into the locks of the signs and reprogramming what they would actually say. i should say the dallas authorities actually never caught who did it last year but that was may of last year. then dallas got hacked again. except this time it was way worse, way louder and less funny. if you were in dallas, texas on friday night between the hours of 11:40 p.m. and 1:20 a.m.,

this is what it sounded like everywhere. a calm, otherwise warm, normal night suddenly interrupted by the sound of -- listen to that. all 156 of the city's emergency sirens going off simultaneously. these are emergency sirens that warn in the event of tornadoes or other big weather emergencies but there were not tornadoes or anything else going on that would warrant all of these things going off, but all 156 of them started to go off almost continuously for an hour and a half. ultimately the only way the officials could stop the see re-- s sirens was basically to pull the plug on all of them, citizens were calling in saying what is the message, what is the emergency. but later found to be a hack. but not a hack in the way we

traditionally think of hacking, it was remotely done, in fact, they're not operated by a computer system at all. they're radio controlled. they get turned on and off by radio transmissions, by sounds, it appears somebody took control of the frequency and transmitted the tones that took off all across the city. well, today the sirens are all back up and running. they're not discussing the details of how the infrastructure was targeted but they do say they believe the attack on the sirens came from the dallas area. they say quote we are taking friday night's incident very seriously. as for who might have done this whether it was just a benign hack designed to point out a security weakness or was just done for fun or with more malicious intent, we have no

idea. dallas pd and the fbi are investigating. joining us now, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, rachel. it's you who is the hero. >> let's just end this here. it seems like we've peaked. >> when i first heard this story i assume it was a computer-based hack. when i heard it was a sound-based hack, the first thing that occurred to me was this is like the beginning of hacker's school. this is how people used to hack long distance phone calls, right? th >> this is og hacking school. back in the day, in the early '90s, hackers like kevin mitnik and a dude named captain crunch were taking the whistles out of cereal boxes. when you pick up a touch tone phone, a land line phone and you touch the numbers you know how there are two different tones?

well, that is an example of a tone that municipalities may use to say turn on an alert system or control waters or like control a dam or flood control systems. the idea of these systems is that they were pre-internet, they're radio broadcasts, so if there is a legitimate emergency they cannot be shut down. let's say all the power goes out and chances are you can broadcast the sound to these alarms and the reason you had 156 of them going on for 90 seconds each 15 different times nobody is sure exactly how it was pulled off but they didn't have to actually gain access to a computer. it seems like according to the smartest tech forensic minds i have spoken to it seems there was a combination of somebody having access to the codes, perhaps somebody in dallas having access to the physical boxes and somebody knowing the exact frequencies.

>> and jenny, in terms of infrastructure hacks obviously we all learn about different types of hacking with every news story that makes it more relevant to our lives. we're all learning about russian intelligence services and their hacking strategies because for instance, this trump story. is there a culture or sub-culture that is especially about showing off what you can do with infrastructure, which is about embarrassing cities and governments in terms of having old school tech that they may not be protecting very well. >> not only is it a sub-culture, this is an epic hack, you woke everybody up and freaked everybody out. so in terms of pranks, whoever pulled this off got good bragging rights. what is frightening about this, as i recall it was the first night we were bombing syria and who knows maybe people were frightened they were in imminent danger themselves.

but beyond the initial reaction that people could have had when they were frightened, what if it were the water system or the electric system, hacks like these are low probability and high impact event. part of the trickery here we know that municipal governments in the u.s., part of their i.t. budget, if they even have an i.t. budget, it has been trumped before our very eyes, what is going to happen on the state and local level on this very unisexy high impact infrastructure. in my opinion, there should be a chief security officer for every city in america, that is not going to happen. but could we see maybe where somebody like google or facebook, saying this should be protected. let's create a new kind of security infrastructure, i don't know how that will play out now under trump, but you know not

all the hacks are digital and not all the infrastructure risks can be seen in terms of bridges that fall down. >> yeah, and dallas going through something like that, maybe -- we may see change of that time, the sort of demonstration project change of that type come through dallas, the high profile, annoying but not ultimately dangerous. >> that is right, they have been touched by real terror scares as well. this is more than just a joke. and everybody is on edge. jenny, great to see you. >> thank you, rachel. we got unexpected news tonight on the fierce and current battle for the control of congress. congress will not just be decided by the mid-terms next year, it's happening right now. stay with us, just ahead. what the road demands, the gs delivers. experience high performance through high technology,

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talk price is our nation's new secretary of health and human services. he is also a walking, talking billboard advertising what it means to have conflicts of interest while holding a top position in government. while holding office, he was trading in stocks while voting on legislation that would affect the prices of those company's stocks, he got special deals from a bio-tech company where he got stock cheaper from the company. he is accused of severely under-valuing on his disclosure

forms. all that came to light while he was confirmed. since then, there is more. it was reported on the same day, tom price that same day, quote, arranged a call to a top u.s. health official to try to convince that official to get rid of a rule that could have hurt the profit of that company. this is not been good news for tom price and it keeps stacking up. i mean, the silver lining for us the american people in terms of not being deprived of honest services here, is that tom price can no longer get campaign donations from the industries he has been serving so well now that he is no longer in congress, right? you know who can, though? his wife, named betty price, since her husband tom price was nominated to be the health and human services secretary, health

companies from outside her state, certainly from outside her district have suddenly become very interested in her little house district and started flooding her with money. and it does open this new avenue of questioning as to whether it is appropriate for the wife of the health and human services secretary to continue to receive donations from the health care industry that her husband is now intimately involved with. and now he is playing an active role in the special election to replace her husband in georgia's sixth congressional district. betty price just cut a brand-new radio ad in support of republicans in the upcoming election. the race, the race to replace tom price, the sixth congressional district in georgia is getting a lot of attention now in part because national players are intimately involved with the politics back home, but also because that race is one of the first tests of the trump effect, what the nation's reaction to trump looks like

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in red states but republicans are worried, actually a little bit about all of them, kansas, south carolina, georgia, montana, could democrats take one of these congressional seats, more than one? republicans are pouring in resources to try to stop that from happening, so ted cruz, you were there today trying to save a kansas congressional seat that was occupied before by mike pompeo, who is now running the cia. they sent robo calls, the president won the district by 27 points. they should not have to help there. the kansas race happens tomorrow, the neck wext week, w from tomorrow, it's georgia, to fill the seat that used to be filled by tom price. look at the field of people trying to replace him. look at this, 18 candidates all lumped together in the same list regardless of party, if anybody

clears 50 votes the person will win the seat outright. if not, there will be a runoff, essentially they're all slugging it out for the same votes but the democrats are behind the support of asaf, he is not far off, his candidacy has been a lightning rod for democrats around the country, he has a ton of attention and support, over $8 million in his campaign war chest, which is bonanza money, for candidate who essentially nobody had ever heard of him before this. they are surprised that ossoff could actually win it tomorrow. trump won it by less than two points. now in this special election, republicans are pounding john ossoff with attack ads, all of

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