. >> brad smith: i think from a software engineering perspective, it's probably fair to say that thisk the world has ever seen. >> whitaker: brad smith is president of microsoft. he learned about the hack after the presidential election this past november. by that time, the stealthy intruders had spread throughout the tech giants' computer network, and stolen some of its proprietary source code used to build its software products. more alarming? hohow the hackckers got inin-- - babacking on a a piece of f thi- party softftware used d to conn, mananage and mononitor compuputr networksks. what makes this so momentous? >> smith: one of the really disconcerting aspects of this attack was the widespread and indiscriminate nature of it. what this attacker did was identify network management software from a company called solarwinds. they installed malware into an update for a solarwinds product. when that update went out to 18,000 organizations around the world, so did ththis malware. >> the orion platform is the underlying foundation... >> whitaker: solarwinds orioions one of the most ubiq

since then, brad smith, microsoft president, has cold front end to the over use of secret gag orders, arguing prosecutors exploit technology to abuse americans, fundamental freedoms still, the attorney general merit garland has said that the justice department will abandon its practice of seizing reporter records and will formalize that stamps soon. meantime, some lawmakers are calling for reforms to guard against future overreach, by justice department, prosecutors, and idea that was expressed both by democrats and republicans on the house judiciary committee reporting in new york, trinity chavez, r t. you basically, journalist not to america has pen swan told his he. com, protect the anonymity of his sources, is a government can access his information. you know, i'm highly critical, big tech companies all the time. here's one area where i think they did the right thing by coming forward and saying, look at the abuse of this program and the abuse of these gag borders and the secrecy orders by the government. as a journalist, as an investigative journalist, i have many sources in the

brad smith, microsoft's president has called for an end to the over use of secret gag orders, arguing prosecutors exploit technology to abuse americans, fundamental freedoms still, the attorney general merit garland has said that the justice department will abandon its practice of seizing reporter records and will formalize that stamps soon. meantime, some lawmakers are calling for reforms to guard against future overreach, by justice department, prosecutors, and idea that was expressed both by democrats and republicans on the house judiciary committee. reporting in new york, trinity chavez, r t. boned them for investigative journalist not to spend swan and comparing stored personal day to the private letters, which he said shouldn't be accessed unless there's a police more entity. so i think the biggest thing is, is that the cloud computing and cloud storage services, data storage for messaging, text messages for the on social networks as well as your email cloud services all need to be treated like it's in your home. so if you walk into someone's home as a federal agent, you can't j

brad smith, microsoft's president, has called for an end to the over use of secret gag orders, arguing prosecutors exploit technology to abuse america, fundamental freedoms still though attorney general merrick garland has said that the justice department will abandon its practice of seizing reporter records. and we'll formalize that stamps soon. meantime, some lawmakers are calling for reforms to guard against future overreach. by justice department, prosecutors, an idea that was expressed both by democrats and republicans on the house judiciary committee, reporting for boom, bust trinity job as r t. let's go deeper on the story and bring in boom bus co host an investigative journalist, ben swan. now ben, this all came out during testimony before the house judiciary committee. so what sorts of updates to the law are needed right now? well, i think there's a number of things that need to be updated here. rachel, i think the biggest thing is kind of what jerry natalie was saying there, which is that there doesn't have to be a warrant in order for many of these justice, department offici

brad: you look at his twitter history because he's the unusual amazon ceo who will get up and start cutting those with people. if this ongoing thing about fred smithhe ceo of fedex, to try to him. and tends to critique coverage of amazon. have you ever been the subject of a tweet from descartes. i'll start throwing elbows. any sort of like maybe even refreshingly how to combat it because executives will probably just, sat there quietly. he says what he believes. the reputation and i talked to a ton of time operation folks and putting together my portrait. and nina people that felt discarded or trampled upon, is t his bedside manner was not good which is quite a number of people, there was an admiration, maybe a originally admiration but maybe sort of an astonishment like this guy built this huge network and he has lebuilt jeff bezos dream and controlling the amazon package from the fulfillment center to the customer's front door that allows the control of the customer experience when you see amazon site package will be there between nine and 11 then a follow-up e-mail, says it or delayed will be sometime early afternoon pretty that's because amazo

harry smith visits a high school in alabama where students learn the skills to build homes and then they move in. >>> later, a new in-person "sunday sitdown" on station at ryman auditorium with brad paisley as he heads back out on tour after a long year off the road and headlines a massive concert in nashville tonight. >> when you take something away for a year and a half, they could do a local community theater production and they'll have 300,000 people, i think. >> a "sunday sitdown" with brad paisley. another life well lived a bit later in the show. >>> let's begin with plans to demolish what is still standing of the condominium complex in surfside, florida, that collapsed last week, crews scrambling to get ahead of tropical storm elsa which is bringing heavy rains and wind. the effect could be felt as early as tomorrow morning in surfside and that's where we find vaughn hillyard this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, willie. crews are trying to set up for the implosion of the remaining part of this 12-story unsturdy building. but with 121 unaccounted for, the difficulty of these next 24 hours is not lost on anyone. this morning, crews preparing to implode the

smith, thank you for being with us. i will continue to follow that. >> thank you, jacqui. jacqui: coming up, we'll talk to a congressman from california member of the mouse financial services committee brad sherman about his party's priorities as congress prepares for the august break. >> some areas now reinstating mask mandates and intensifying their vaccination push as covid cases climb back up. charles watson joins us live with the latest, good afternoon, charles. >> hey, good afternoon, griff. every single state in the country is seeing a rise in new covid cases as the delta variant tips-- continues to dominate. st. louis county, for example, is mandating everyone over age five is having everyone wear a mask indoors regardless of vaccination. and indoor mask wearing for everyone. >> i'm vaccinated. i vaccinated for a reason to not have to wear a mask, but, i don't know. >> i think it's easier to understand that we're going to need to do this because it's travelling around the world. and it's not just us. >> and getting vaccinated is the key. governor john bel edwards has been trying to make in louisiana, vaccination numbers are among the lowest. since monday nearly 17,000 new covid c