give me 30 minutes i'll take you on a low yield. live from the world headquarters of r t america in our nation's capital this is the news with rick sanchez hi everybody i'm rick sanchez here to welcome our viewers from all over the world including those of you who are watching us using your phones on the portable t.v. all right so we're going to get in with 2 important questions did colonial pay the ransom to the hackers who were holding their company hostage and here's number 2 just how often does this happen 1st the news after a day 6 of this shutdown gas is flowing through the pipeline once again however widespread outages persist all the way from the top of maryland and

virginia to the tip of florida and we're now being told it's going to take at least a couple of days to refill the nation's gasoline supplies because of the panic buying which coupled with the truck driver shortage has made matters much worse as of this morning a vast 71 percent of all the gas stations in north carolina 55 percent of all of the gas stations in virginia 49 percent of all of those in georgia are without gas . now back to the question of what happened last night the 1st sign we got that something was up came from the president of the united states himself we have very very close contact with colonial pipeline which is through one area you're talking about over the one of the reasons i guess the pressures are going we know. and i think you're going to hear some good news is it's 24 hours and i think we'll be getting that under control he set it right i think you're going to be hearing

something good in just a little bit here and we're going to have it all under control well not long after that colonial announce that the pipeline was opened but nothing else they didn't mention of whether they had paid the ransom or not paid the ransom you know in america partly because of hollywood and partly because of our inflated sense of exceptionalism we tend to always think that this is what happens when somebody takes us hostage or anyone ever asks us for a ransom but just pure and simple just. you know what you. were just. bad guys always lose right right it appears in this case that's not the case now true lacking any other explanation at this point and according to a published report by bloomberg there's every reason to believe that colonial did

pay the ransom how much they do it i did they do it under the auspices of the u.s. government maybe even with a wink and a nod from the president of the united states himself. this is what we're going to be drilling down on right here on the news with rick sanchez where we believe. it's time to do news again. here we go with a list of what we think you're going to be thinking about as you watch this newscast did colonial pay a ransom did the biden administration approve are some politicians treated differently by the me too movement and how angry is china about the latest joint military exercises aimed at them right now the questions that you and i have about this bizarre scenario which has shown us that nothing else just how

vulnerable we are to cyber attack right and seemingly 3rd of the u.s. was all but shut down its gas and its energy supplies anyway by a hack joining us now to talk about this is our us correspondent. and i guess we start with the question of did colonial pay a ransom did they did they so there is no statement from them but as you mentioned bloomberg is saying that they paid $5000000.00 however we also do now as many companies would know who have also been victims of this when you have a big oil company rick 5000000 is kind of small to ask for when it's a major big oil company but we do know for certain that they do have roughly $15000000.00 in cybersecurity insurance alone you know that's interesting and as we

go through this it appears that. and i guess i don't even know how to ask this question but it looks to me like the biden administration because of what i saw the president say last night either knew or was in touch with the company or even kind of okayed the paying of this ransom right and you know one of the things that biden said in a press conference less than an hour ago he kept reiterating that he and the government could not dictate what this private company could do unlike his republican counterpart saying do something but again just over an hour ago the president had this to say when you watch it i want you to just see what he says how he says it and what he does after rectangular. so thank you also very very. amar i'm going right. back to the company. with. thank you. yeah pretty interesting how.

he's saying nobody seems to mean yes it's like he's saying the quiet part a lot a little bit there was russia's involvement in this so with that biden did address that again in this press conference take a look i'll just let him say what he said on that one and not believe the russian government was involved in this attack but we do have strong reason to believe that the criminals who did the attack are live mean she russia that's where it came from were from russia. we have been in direct communication with moscow about the imperative for responsible countries take decisive action against these ransomware networks it's interesting so he said this is not the 3rd time he has said russia was not involved in the attack right although people who were involved in the attack may live in russia and he went on to say this time and this is new that moscow and washington are cooperating in the investigation right which i know after last week and the weeks prior is a good thing i guess of course c.n.n.'s. b.c.

will provide reported differently but that's exactly. the part of the story that really fascinates me if these guys paid how often does this happen so it happens quite often record you're seeing as we saw with colonial pipeline how they had an insurance policy for cyber security alone and a lot of other companies are starting to this including like municipalities and cities across the country a report actually last month showed that $350000000.00 was paid out and cryptocurrency for these ransomware companies not you have it by executive order coming in one of the things that's interesting about this rick is it is this executive order opens communication between the service providers and the government which was not seen before most of the time these companies didn't want to disclose this to the to the our government so while it does it does happen a lot we've seen it for example in the kiev ukraine where they had a power outage and now with iran somewhere we don't know the full scope of how many

die hard isn't true for sure and it is a christmas movie too. joining us now are 2 experts on this subject we have but he's a professor of computer and data science at the university of new haven we also have our own from todd shipley the so obvious security risk analyst and the president of the dark intel are guys look this is right up your alley it looks to me and to anybody who has my mother would say can see 2 fingers in front of their face like colonial paid this ransom do you agree. will definitely you know there's no doubt i think that the issue becomes that if they hadn't paid it they wouldn't be able to respond as effectively and as fast as they did so they paid all right but let me go to you on this love to know 'd whether you think that it was done as a joint communiqué or operation with the government of the united states in other

words they were working together to say ok let's go ahead we're going to have to pay this thing. so the final decision must have been companies as was mentioned earlier the federal government does not have the tools or the power to directly dictate how the company should react in a certain sense as of course there are guidelines on recommendations coming from the. f.b.i. and each as that in new scenarios it is best not to pay the ransom to avoid encouraging these sorts of operations but those are just at their own level of our recommendations i played a clip from that movie because i think in our consciousness as americans we really believe that there's no way anybody would ever pay one of these things and that the great great majority of the times the cia busts in captain america and they catch

the bad guys and of story that's probably not the way it really happens right out. no not at all in fact you know when we know that there was at least $2400.00 companies and small minutes palate ease that were attacked last year with ransomware that it's occurring and in fact there's a whole new cottage industry that's come up about how to negotiate with these hackers and there's i t. companies that have figured out how to reduce the risk and reduce the amount you have to pay and are advising these companies on how to better negotiate with these . terrorists and what they are and get the amount of the got to pay lower byte how do they get in in the 1st place at how did they get into the colonial computer framework so that they could actually take it over how do they do that i mean not specifically but can you give us a sense. sure well as you mentioned we don't have a specific specific details of the colonial case what we do know is how it happens

in general there are different approaches you. easiest is. through social engineering and. end user 2 on the ransomware bring around somewhere inside the network and on the annoyingly end there are more sophisticated approaches finding vulnerabilities. inside and surprise networks servers computers and exploiting it to gaining access and running. a piece of malware and dyspeptic are chasing him around somewhere it is taught as it is the bill is just setting an e-mail to one of the executives in the company and having him we know meant i guess accept it and once it gets into his computer it goes into the entire system. well i mean it can't be that simple it often isn't but i mean if we look like last year remember when tesla was attacked

they had trying to get one of the employees to insert some where into the system they were going to pay that person a $1000000.00 to do it and the f.b.i. got wind of it and were able to stop that attack so there's a verity of ways like fessor says that it can be done but it's not always so simple and in this case remember there are now blackmailing these people the difference with this group is there an attack you know what the ransomware locking it up but they're stealing their data beforehand and then blackmailing them about the release of the data so this is a very different tactic than we've seen in the immediate past bloomberg by it is reporting that the company paid i believe 5000000 dollars i have a tendency to believe in higher than that what's your take. well we don't we don't know. we don't know what to do is what's been reported and said some payment has been made and apparently was

around so i $1000000.00 and you earlier mentioned that the good guys always win and lose in the real world that's economics that's always wins so any value is hired and $5000000.00 or $10000000.00 might not have been feasible for either side or any value lessened as might not have been and you go by the ransom or operations darkseid there is of course the cost of money laundering getting the money out of the exchanges critic arms exchanges and such that's factor into what the correct price should be god last question down to 30 seconds is this the way of the future are we going to see a lot more of this or do you think going to be able to get this under control. what we're seeing a lot more right now if you look at the dark sides website they've already attacked 3 other companies and posted on their website so they're going to continue and this is going to be an ongoing problem that we've got to fight wow. well i'll tell you

what it's a hell of a wake up call i mean this one has been out there for all the world to see and they're taking notes i hope it's not the wrong guys taking the notes though my thanks to both of you we certainly appreciate it behaving good stuff this is the news the rick sanchez and when we come back does that mean to move but ignore the misdeeds of the country's most powerful politicians we'll be talking to author terror read about her thoughts on this and how it affected her life will be back. our culture is awash in lives dominated by streams of never ending electronic hallucinations that merge back fiction until they are indistinguishable we have become the most deluded society on politics as a species of endless and needless political theater politicians have morphed into

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a roman senator stop quote that basically nothing will happen to you she says they can get away with it because they have the money and because 'd they are protected by the media elites who come to their defense you should also know that miss reed is a former senate aid who accused then senator joe biden of assaulting her back in 1993 and tara reid has written a book it's entitled left out when the truth doesn't fit in. thank you so much tara for joining us we appreciate you being here. so much for having me so your assertion is that when it comes to democrats the elites get a pass while the regular folks don't correct. absolutely that how christie is standing actually. you know i can't help but think that that's kind of a generalism for like the way the world works all right i mean whether it's sexual

offenses or big crimes or even little crimes or just. nuanced crimes it always seems like the powerful could get away with things that the rest of us can't isn't that a general what makes it different for democrats. but there's a history of i mean look at the clintons and you know bill clinton was. you know had had sexual assaults and charges leveled at him there were very kind of all there was police reports and i look at and see what money buys it buys relations machines and those machines are cheating the corporate media and so. you know that transcends any day danny who's now the white house senior adviser you know her public relations firm from the joe biden champ he got approximately $2200000.00 to silence stories like mine. and the hunch biden story said what i have you know but can i just counter you for just

a minute on the other hand you have the case of like al franken who was i mean obviously some people may have felt offensive and they have good reason to what he did but compared to what some other monsters out there have done it was basically just bad taste and yet he got hammered he lost his career his job everything and he's as much a institutional democrat as they come and you mentioned bill clinton he was impeached for something about the former president a republican had $24.00 women charge of him things that were much worse than what clinton the so is it really about party or is it just power and circumstance. well inclusions kids are friends whom you know broderick who. yeah she leveled and. you know a rape charge that was you know had a police report of one notch and i would have to say that what i have noticed is to lead to the establishment democrats tend to get protected like chromo like biden and you know when i initially came forward in 1903 i went through office protocol

and tried to get help and i could not and i was threatened and told to be silent currently you know what you're seeing is the point i made a point about i'm going to the other day was that i talked about the fact that progressives are being it ends their campaigns but the establishment the elite democrats like the bidens like the comma's who have all the money in the power they get a pass they people of the other way articles are not friends said there's no there's no investigation but i think if i could just challenger one more time and this is a great discussion by the way i would argue it happens on both sides you don't see matt games being covered on fox news the way you see him being covered on m.s.n. we see when you don't see donald trump being covered on imus obviously the i think there's a protection system that with that is basically ideological and people on one party protect people of their own party and that's bad you're right 100 percent by the way. you and you're right 100 percent on the chance republicans don't get

a pass either it's a it's you know sexual assault is a nonpartisan issue of sexual misconduct if you well. and what you see are that these. powerful politicians have ways of covering up their behavior in this context and also it leads to what you mentioned before it's a culture so it's almost ingrained in our culture and should not be considered important your baby in my cheek you know affected my career i didn't i lost my career because i came forward i would love to have you come back on and maybe we can we could talk about that a little bit more would you do that. absolutely and thank you so much thank you to our appreciate of the conversation all right earlier this week we reported that the u.s. has recruited australia the french and japan and joint military exercises why as a show of strength against china well today china is firing back with some tough words a chinese government news outlet has put out an editorial blasting the maneuvers

and saying that the u.s. would be defeated if any conflict were to break out in the south china sea here's r.t. correspondent alex holidays with the story. the west is flexing its muscle and china is not impressed with this so-called joint military exercises by these countries reconstructing has no impact on china at all they're just turning a little more for oil for themselves you know 1st ever japan is being joined by australia france and the u.s. in military exercises in the southwestern part of that country the drills include fighter jets and in 50 s. operation exercises as well as naval maneuvering many believe that the activity in japan is a show of force and china as japan works towards expanding in consolidating military alliances in an effort to deter the neighboring superpower however it seems that the drills may have been counterproductive in some respects irritating china instead of working to contain it according to an editorial in china's global times

newspaper the united states will be defeated if it engages in combat with china in its neighboring waters another article in china's global times said the people's liberation army doesn't even need to make pointed responses to the joint drill since it's in significant militarily pioli should make concrete steps in its own development like it did with recent drills and warship commissioning said analysts japan has had long time territorial concerns in areas of dispute with china beijing has made claims to the japanese administered some cuckoo islands and through the years there has been chinese military activity in. the area that said china has insisted that it is not a threat to anyone and its merely concerned with its own territorial integrity citing the japanese exercises as misplaced energy on behalf of the participating nations i hope we will spend so much time energy and resources more in severing their own people's interests and making my contribution to current fight against

the epidemic at home as well as international cooperation to japan drills are a part of an increase in military activity involving the u.s. and its allies in the region for t.v. i'm alex my love it joining us now is a former u.k. member of parliament george galloway to talk about this a little bit why it just doesn't seem to stop every day it seems i wake up and there's another military exercise about another military exercise and by the way it goes both ways taiwan's do not tarry exercises the us into a military that's what i want the us the military sides with australia now to do it with japan and the philippines i mean where does it sound. well and let's take a leap of imagination imagine of that the united states had 4 hostile countries i know it's almost impossible to believe imagine america had 4 enemies and imagine the 4 navies of those 4 enemies turned up off the coast

of the united states and conducted drills say in cuba where the landings amphibious landing a critical mass of warships firing missiles and so on how would the people of the united states how would the government of the united states react to that and you have to walk a mile in the other fellow's shoes in international affairs and if you try to you'll understand how irritating this must all be to china and why our spot of it must be to china's own warship development the commissioning that was just referred to there if they are not fools and i don't think they are they'll be building so many warships right now that no one will dare to steam up the yangtze or in the east china sea and threaten them in any way rick you and i are

old so we know this but a lot of our viewers don't because they were born after october of 1962 but what you just described in cuba kind of happened already in 1962 and we came this close george to world war 3 as a result of that when the shoe as you say was on the other foot. well experience is the only good thing about get and aldrich it means that we lived through the periods in which the end of the world if not now i was at least distinct possibility i recall going to bed as a child that night in 1962 and thinking that the world might end and yet now we are cavalierly dispatching huge military assets into someone else's see the east china sea the clue

is in the name now this is all very foolish and dangerous would be far better now that we're cooperating on the climate change issue if we could turn down the dial rather than turning it out and getting back to some kind of cooperation george galloway nobody says a clearer better thank you my friend. but by the way there's a caviar to this and perhaps maybe best said from a programming standpoint we're going to be looking at another issue of the united states relations with china later on today. is going to join us to talk about the accusations that go back and forth when it comes to human rights abuses between these 2 countries especially how the newest accusations against the chinese regarding the weavers he's going to join us for that conversation will be bringing that to you throughout the course of the newscast on this day meanwhile that's it for us i'm rick sanchez thanks so much for being with us a few look for you again right here when it's time to do it if.

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