again, of all of the agencies that have been doing cyber long before it was cool, the national security agency is at the very top of the list. george has arguably the most important george at the agency because you've got -- i think you've got all of the headaches and you've got all of the opportunities. so i'm really thrill that you can join us today and maybe start with a couple of opening thoughts. >> sure. >> and then i definitely want to get into some of the cyber command kind of decisions right now. >> certainly. is my mike on? can everybody hear me? >> please. >> great, great. so it is opportune that rob joyce went before me, not only for the topic matter but because we worked together for years, and i think it is a great testament that based on his background he's in the position that he's in because he has worked both the foreign intelligence side in the cyber realm and others as well as the information insurance or cybersecurity side. i thought i would open up with some comments about nsa and where we are these days. obviously the world is rapidly changing under our feet as a nation

as a member of the national security agency and intelligence ensuring for our nation and-- [inaudible] we make a mistake sadly no matter how motivated and how stro strong-- [inaudible] when you make a mistake, stand up, acknowledge it-- i thank you all very, very much. >> we're going to have a 30 minute break before the director of fbi arrives. please provide questions that you wish to-- where is david? sarah will, i think you're somewhere in here, and we'll proceed from there. thank you. [applause]

. >>> russian intrusion, disturping reports that hackers used oo a virus to steal from a national security agency employee. we'll discuss it with a rare interview with a national security advisor. >>> cryptic warning, the white house further muddies the waters stirred by president trump's mysterious remark about a coming storm. the president himself stoking confusion telling reporters to wait and see. >>> heading for new orleans, another storm closing in on the united states tonight. mandatory evacuation orders have been issued as millions of people along the gulf coast brace for what's expected to be hurricane nate. we have a brand new forecast just out. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room". >>> breaking news tonight, chilling new information about the las vegas massacre and the gunman's effort to take even more lives. cnn has learned that stephen paddock's car contained 50 pounds of explosives and may have been rigged to detonate and he also tried to sbooi buy special be bullets that light up when fired to

they were trying to get authorization and approval and green light from various national security agenciesm jfk files would not compromise them in any way and objections came back from the various national security agencies. so what the president decided to do -- and we're hearing it was decision made in the last several hours -- punt this off to six months from now. 2,800 files were released this evening, but vast majority of those files are still undergoing interagency review. we're not going to see those files potentially until six months from now. anderson, the question has to be asked, will the agencies raise the same red flags and objections six months from now and we're not going to get to bottom of these files? i tried to ask the question on conference call with administration officials earlier this evening, had conference call with reporters, is there any evidence of conspiracy behind the assassination of president john kennedy and they said just can't comment on the records. get the sense as they release the information, they don't even know what is in the files at this point. >>

>> well, i'm waiting to see if national security agency materials are open. the review board, in its final report said they looked at national code breaking materials, decided they were not relevant to the lee harvey oswald case. one interesting document that i noticed, i haven't looked at all of them, is a document from two days after the assassination. 23 you want to see examples of federal bungling, this is a document that the house assassination committee found from j. ed guard hoover where hoover was explaining why he does not want an independent investigation of ruby's killing of oswald and oswald's killing of the president. he says, we were intercepting oswald's conversation in mexico city and we intercepted a male going to the soviet embassy in washington, both of them had information relating to oswald's state of mind and that didn't go to the secretary service. that's j. edgar hoover. it shows you the level of bungling and they were already thinking of a coverup, not because it killed kennedy but because it hadn't done what it should have done to pr

national security agency director michael rodgers and fbi director christopher wray called on congress to renew the law and discussed its relevance to national security. from the heritage foundation in washington, d.c., this is just under two hours. >> good morning, everyone. we are delighted to have you here on friday the 13th. we are accommodating the director of national intelligence, it gives me great honor to introduce him. director of national intelligence dan coats. he became the fifth dni this past march. in this role, he leads the u.s. intelligence community and serves as the principal intelligence advisor to the president. he provides the intelligence briefing for the president virtually every morning in the oval office. director coates previously served in the u.s. house of representatives and the u.s. senate from 1981-1999, then returned to the senate again in service to our nation from 2011-2016. during that time, he was not sitting idly in indiana. in fact, having served on the senate armed services committee, the senate select intelligence committee, he worked on ways to

they were trying to get authorization and approval and a green light from these various national security agencies that this information that's coming out of these jfk files would not compromise them in any way. and there were objections that came back from those various national security agencies. and so what the president decided to do and we're hearing that this was a decision that was made in the last several hours was essentially punt this off to six months from now. so 2,800 files were released this evening, but the vast majority of those files are still undergoing an enter agency review. so we're not going to see those files potentially six months from now. and around sop, i think the question has to be asked will the agencies raise the same objections six months from now and we're not going to get to the bottom of these files. i tried to ask the question on a conference call with the administration officials earlier this evening. they had a conference call with reporters on this. is there any evidence of a conspiracy behind the assassination of president kennedy? and they said well, we jus

national security. to aportedly contributes quarter of all national security agency surveillance and has been tod on multiple occasions detect and prevent horrific terrorist plots against our country. itse congress designed authority to target non-us persons located outside the united states, it is clear that the section 702 surveillance program can and does incidentally collect information about u.s. persons when they communicate with a foreign targets of section 702 surveillance. the program must be reauthorized with reforms to better safeguard american's civil liberties and strengthen national security. today we are pleased to announce that we have reached a bipartisan agreement to do just that. tomorrow we plan to introduce the usa liberty act. this bill preserves the corporate is a section 702. the commission of human indications by targeted non-us persons in order to identify and fort terrorist plot -- and thwart. terrorist plots. the bill also creates a new framework for transparency requirements to make sure the government's use of 702 court with principles enshrined in our constitution that protect

as a member of the national security agency, and the intelligence community, we are committed to ensuring safety for our nation, and ensuring the privacy of our citizens is well-respected. -- and when wed make a mistake, sadly, no matter they will make mistakes. [indiscernible] admiral rogers: when we make a mistake we will stand up and ensureedge it, so we can the safety of people. i thank you all very much. mr. shedd: we will go on a 30 minute break before the director of the fbi arrives. please provide questions you i think you-- and will, i think you are in here, and we will proceed from there. thank you. [applause] [chatter]

talking about sources and methods, the federal government, the cia, the fbi, all of the national security agencies do have to err well on the side of caution when it comes to national security. so this isn't a tie goes to one side or the other. this needs to be a gap that the public should know this. so i think we should give them the benefit of the doubt but keep an eye on it. >> neil: do you think oswald did it alone? >> you're asking -- yeah. i'm going with yeah. >> neil: okay. buck sexton, thanks very much. good seeing you. >> thank you. >> neil: the budget did pass yesterday. the closest vote going. 216 to 212. 20 republicans did not vote for it. 20 of them. meet one next. zar: one of our investors was in his late 50s right in the heart of the financial crisis, and saw his portfolio drop by double digits. it really scared him out of the markets. his advisor ran the numbers and showed that he wouldn't be able to retire until he was 68. the client realized, "i need to get back into the markets- i need to get back on track with my plan." the financial advisor was able to work with this client. h

national security? one area we have done well is in the personal side -- in the personnel side. it draws people into working whether it is in the military itself or working for the national security agency on the civilian side. if you talk to the leaderships, that is what they will tell you. the people attracted can make more money elsewhere, are not going to change it. we can make it better. what they cannot do anywhere is the type of work they are doing on behalf of the u.s. government to protect it. the types of offensive cyber activity they can learn and do with that sense of national purpose. we have to continue to validate it an. >> i agree. when we talk about going forward in the cyber age, this is a brave new world for all of us. social media has only been in full bloom for about a decade. it -- we do not know if we hit the zenith. , artificial reality intelligence, we know we are going to keep moving further in this world. how do you keep off the threat of other nations and nonstate actors, as we have been been a fairly -- as we have been i barely been able to keep up with technology? it is a way for russia and other countries to hold their methods and exploit this newness and

draws people ultimately into working either for the military itself or a presence in the national security agency. and on the civilian side. people in the cyber security round, that is what they tell you. yes, they can make a lot of money elsewhere and we're not going to change that although we can make it better, but what they cannot do anywhere else, we hope, is the type of work they are doing on behalf of the u.s. government to protect it. the types of offense if several activity that they can learn and they can do with a sense of national purpose. we need to continue to validate and value that. aboutgree, when we talk going forward in the cyber age, this really is a brave new world for all of us, because, as i mentioned earlier, social media has only been around for a decade. we do not know if we have hit the zenith. reality, artificial intelligence, we know that we are just going to keep moving further in this world. so, how do you keep off the threats of other nations and not the actor -- nonstate actors. we have been able to keep up with technology but it has provided a platform or a way f

the reason that there needs to be a greater response of the current national security agency has been one of the strongest advocates for the tufty turns response. in other words, he's been advocating that the cost of entry into this realm of information, cyber influence is so low that it's irresistible for the enemies to engage in it. sthat. so if there is a greater cost the couple have a deterring effect if you have the united states he will be attacked back and that will change the equation. >> host: i think it highlights an important question for policymakers that we are grappling with because it is a nongovernmental agency, what role should prefer the defense play when we are discussing admiral rogers, what should they play in combating and making sure we are sharing information with nongovernmental organizations of cyber threats? >> guest: they allow the government to be able to do things very blurred. most of the infrastructure is in private companies in charge of their own security. the government has a great resource of securities and they are kind of restrained from using it.

as the head of the national security agency, head of the fbi have all testified. >> i'm going to take five minutes now. during your june 13 hearing before the select committee on intelligence, you testified you had discussed the issue of james comey's firing with deputy attorney general rosenstein before either of you were confirmed for your current position. mr. comey was fired may 9. why did you talk to deputy attorney general rosenstein about the firing of mr. comey, and what did you discuss with him? when did you come to the conclusion that james comey needed to be terminated? a.g. sessions: in my view, after discussing with director comey, excuse me, my possible new deputy attorney general rosenstein, we discussed it. he was the united states attorney 12 years, i was the united states attorney 12 years. we love the department. we know about it. it was my best judgment, as i expressed it, that a fresh start at the fbi was appropriate. >> why did you think mr. comey needed to be removed? a.g. sessions: i don't think he was essential at that time, but that was my best judgment. and

r m m us navy retired former director of the national security agency. but they know if he is thinking about running again he's going to need money for his campaign. so alleging that he's blood libeling is gonna rouse the jewish donors the israeli government hired teams of lawyers some of whom were close friends of lyndon johnson and began an all out offensive they lent on the media to kill critical stories and slanted others in favor of israel. there was a campaign mounted to see if what could be done about returning johnson to his normal. predictable pro israeli position at the time johnson was still undecided as to whether to run for president the following year efforts were to be made to remind the president of the delicacy of his own position that he personally. might lose support. for his run for reelection in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight israeli tactics were clever they identified johnson soft spot the war in vietnam and gave him two extraordinary gifts neither of which were made public at the time the first was political. johnson's compl

and by the time i got there there were a number of people from the national security agency they are they were there to make sure that i didn't speak to anyone from the press and i didn't. they stayed night and day back in the mediterranean the liberty was now listing at ten degrees a massive hole in the hull above and below the waterline the planes that they said they were sending to us never arrived where i was afraid of what i think most of us was that we were going to sink next. was pretty much littered with the wound looks like something out of a horror movie with people standing around or lying wounded and dead and stunned heads missing parts of their bodies the liberty had only one doctor on board with very limited medical resources there was not a table that wasn't being usual the body honor wanted body and the doctor fixed compound fractures and treated but it entrap the wounds while blood transfusions were given to. it was. it was real bad and the doctor said to him you want me to operate he says you're probably going to die if i do and you'll certainly die if i don't and h

department of defense and state department and national security agency policy. i am afraid we might not be able to change it back. again, you can't legislate this out of existence. we have a saying in the intelligence community, common sense is the least used intelligence analysis tool ass do we really need to get back to applying that and we have organizations that are now trying to create this true fact food label that will go on determining whether a website is primarily a propaganda organ or whether they just live or whether aliens really do control people and are living in human skin. this is what we're up against. how can i put it? trying to regain the meaning of truth as we in the intelligence agency know it, i see it, it's empirical, i can determine its behaviors on the basis of its actions and what they will do next and that is gone in this last year. that is what we need to work on the most. >> in a moment we will be inviting you to come up for questions one dimension of the cyber security challenges the personnel and staffing in the private sector for

software to get classified information from the foreign intelligence and security agencies and kloden americas and as a national security agency the paper claims this information is coming from israel's officials who shared it with n.s.a. the n.s.a. the south refused to give any comment say they just would violate policy leaving all these quite clear well german is cyber security agency has been quick to claim that no evidence had been found to back these media reports and we say reports because shortly after the new york times article was published a lot of media picked up the story with quite catchy headlines like russia turned kaspersky lab software into a tool for spying because person has called these allegations groundless kaspersky has never held will help any government in the world would sign the espionage yes it's private held russia based kaspersky lab has been repeatedly accused of being involved in certain spike t.v. in the last two years eight has been always denying all accusations and all allegations but we still hear at them just recently washington has fun as far as going as far as banning all

later on, i was interrogated by the bulgarian national security agency. and trud daily decided to terminate my contract just a few hours after my interrogation. narrator: since then, she's been unemployed. her credibility was publicly undermined. tihomir bezlov of the center for the study of democracy in sofia speculates gaytandzhieva had been deliberately led to the arms in aleppo for the purpose of exposing nato member, bulgaria. >> it was a russian initiative to take a bulgarian reporter and her camera team to that particular place and show it to her. what was shown to us in aleppo is worth discussing. narrator: opposition politician and mid-east expert slavcho velkov takes a different view. he sees gaytandzhieva's findings as credible. >> bearing in mind that al-nusra was the leading jihadist force in east aleppo, it should come as no surprise that bulgarian and other arms would end up in their hands. the interest in weapons is very great, and the hot spots in the middle east are not a great distance from bulgaria. narrator: according to our own resea

yesterday president trump said he was going to give national security agencies 180 days to review the documents and decide if they should be released. literally minutes ago he tweeted that he is going to release all of these j, if k files in the -- jfk files in the interests of transparency. he is doing this after consulting with kelly and other agencies. >>> a scientist at stanford will begin examining the brain of the las vegas mass shooter. still a mystery, what led steven paddock to kill 58 people at an outdoor concert before taking his own life. now the director of neuropathology at stanford's medical center and his team will take a look at paddock's brain tissue, searching for any signs of disorder. >>> today the shooter's brother was in court in los angeles facing child pornography charges. bruce paddock is accused of possessing more than 600 lewd images of exploiting children. he pleaded not guilty to all counts. >>> there are reports that amazon is interested in the pharmacy business. >> the markets closed up today. here's the closing numbers from wall street. >>> another liv

i was interrogated by the bulgarian national security agency and. it's still there. just feel i was soft on my own. since then she's been unemployed her credibility was publicly undermined. the center for the study of democracy in sofia speculates had been deliberately led to the arms in aleppo for the purpose of exposing nato member bulgaria. it was a russian initiative to talk about carrying reporter and her camera team to that particular place and show it to or what was shown to us in aleppo is worth discussing. opposition politician and mideast expert. takes a different view he sees guy findings as credible. bearing in mind that was the leading jihadist force in east of the pope it should come as no surprise that bob kerrey and other arms would end up in their hands. the interest in weapons is very great. and the hot spots in the middle east are not a great distance from bulgaria. so we flew according to our own research bulgaria exported around one billion euros worth of arms in twenty sixteen an increase of about sixty percent over the previous year a great man

we don't think it worked out very well, so we have jurisdiction over the various national security agencies and want to get as much information as we can so we can see what happened. rep. nunes: next we will go to mr. king, of particular relevance not only because he chairs the subcommittee that oversees fbi and doj and treasury, but also because he was a chairman back at the time and sent a letter in opposition, questioning the sale of this geithner atecretary the time, the treasury secretary. we are happy he is still here and will be the point person from our committee on this investigation. rep. king: thank you chairman. it was back in october 2010 when i was a ranking member and home security, myself and three other ranking members sent a letter raising very real concerns about why we would allow a russian owned company to get access to 20% of america's uranium supply. wasobjections we raised brought to the highest levels. i got a letter in response from treasury secretary geithner saying that this was getting full scrutiny. this was brought to the highest levels of the obama administra

. >> the white house says the release could be delayed if national security agencies believe the information could be damaging. kenneth moton has what they could rereel. >> reporter: the mother of all conspiracy theories reignited with president trump tweeting i will be allowing as president the long blocked and classified jfk files to be opened. the release of 3,000 secret documents set into motion by congress in 1992. the documents many from the fbi and cia may reveal more answers about the shooting and the killer lee harvey oswald. >> the lack of evidence has never stopped theorists. >> reporter: the recent abc news/"washington post" poll finds 62% of americans believe others besides oswald was involved. the commission finding oswald fired from his perch at the book depository but the question, was there a second gunman on this grassy knoll. also fueling decades of speculation, jack ruby's shocking murder of oswald on live tv. and questions about the role of the russian, the cubans, the mafia, even the >> what we will find out is possibly what the fbi and the cia knew about oswald and did

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the information but actually take care of the valid concerns that may be on out there by national security agenciesou know, there are certain things we just don't want to release right now. >> i'm not buying it after 50 years. they have had 25 years for this. the deadline didn't sneak up on them. it is is like a college student cramming for an exam. >> why is that? >> i think they have been in denial this would ever come because they they could convince the president. good on for trump for making this a priority. he has had his hand forced at the last minute. there is a governmental force toward secrecy. >> the deep state boys will undermine the president's order by tkabgting and withholding as much information as they can. the kgb thought lbj did it.rtkas much information as they can. the kgb thought lbj did it.etka as much information as they can. the kgb thought lbj did it.dtka as much information as they can. the kgb thought lbj did it.aqtk withholding as much information as they can. the kgb thought lbj did it.ctka withholding as much information as they can. the kgb thought lbj did it.dqct wi

this is a moment in time when the president and homeland security and all of the national-security agenciese country need to be forthright with the united states -- the people of the united states -- that these attacks will undermine our democracy. had they gained access to the election commissions of the 50 states, just a small number of changes of votes which no one in a counting mode would've noticed, could've changed the outcome of the election. donald trump is president. he's gonna be president for whatever period of time that's going to be. it's time for him to look at the future and make sure that the democracy that he is now so concerned about as nfl players kneel on the sidelines of a football field are preserved for the rest of us. >> what about the public? i mean, a lot of people are gullible, and not only that, studies prove that once a lie is out there, the truth never overshadows the lie, no matter how many times you try and say it. >> and that was the mission of these troll farms -- to take "fake news," to use the president's word, and just drive it out there. and the folks w

moving on, confirmed report of how -- defend against cyber attacks after a national security agency contractor placed that information on his home computer. such a breach could enable russia to evade nsa surveillance and infiltrate u.s. networks more easily. with me one of the "the wall street journal" reporters who broke this story. he joins me along with nbc's ken delanian. gordon, talk to me about the gravity of this hack and what it means for not only 2016 but for the future. >> yeah. it's a significant discovery that they made in 2016 that this contractor had absconded with material from the nsa campus, put it on his home computer, it was running this software which we now know enabled russian hackers to potentially suck it out of the computer and make copies of it. it's significant because it demonstrates the power of russian hacking in some of -- with some of the america's best kept secrets. these are sources and methods and they show the russians hackers a lot about what can be -- what the u.s. capabilities are. >> and, ken, what's the government doing about it? >> well, they're saying

. >> matt, the national security agency has a real problem with independent contractors. snowden, 2013, took very sophisticated materials, went to china, went to russia. our security suffered as a result. now we find out in 2015 there was another contractor who took materials from the nsa home, put it on his computer where he had kaspersky antivirus. kaspersky is located in moscow. now we find out that the russians have hacked some of our most sophisticated offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. >> that's "inside story." see you later. >> i'm nydia han along with gray hall. >> coming up on "action news." >>> nate came ashore as a category one sure -- hurricane. >>> more than two weeks after hurricane maria devastated puerto rico how volunteers in our area are trying to make a difference. those stories and accuweather forecast next on "action news." >> good afternoon it is sunday, october 8. >> here's a look at some of the stories we're following on "action news." a look at how the now tropical

and the national security agency earned the public's attention following and snowden's revelations about the agency's intrusive surveillance methods but what isn't covered as extensively are the internal cronyism and politics that enable these arguably unlawful tactics karen stewart is a twenty eight year veteran of the intelligence community with having served with distinction as a linguistics officer in the n.s.a. but after blowing the whistle on what she claims were internal malpractises and harassment stuart saw her last race career suddenly over to previously join sharon stone to discuss the culture of entry at the n.s.a. and she shared with us the specifics of her case. but what ultimately led you to your breakthrough realizing that. enough was enough for that you had to start to make reports to supervisors and try to basically alleviate your situation but it only got worse well it turns out that the best work of my career ended my career. i had actually been writing reports in and doing research and writing reports in support of operation reckon. freedom while i was at the weapons

in our latest report that torture is done on a massive scale is systematic mostly by the national security agency and it could be considered a crime against humanity. listening in the audience the daughter of an al jazeera journalist arrested in egypt last december mahmoud a sane has now spent months in solitary confinement made out he was confused he was so depressed he was he was keeping from getting stuff because he spent his spend days and nights without anything anyone being allowed to get out of the very very tiny prison cell people have high hopes when countries actually champion liberal values but then when he decided to ignore them for political expediency it's extremely frustrating egypt is the number one customer for france's military industrial complex spending more than six billion dollars over the last two years including the purchase of twenty four raffle jet fighters. smaller man who is facing two situations his success will depend on how ill balanced those two situations are on the one hand and searing the cold from n.g.o.s and the arab street and on the other end satisfying the