joining us from atlantic magazine corey bennett a cybersecurity reporter. cory, when we get into the issue of what's going on here in terms of this attack, the nsa is actually the government operation that's arming in this kind of case. one of their jobs is to protect american companies and protect us and american companies from a foreign invasion of this kind into one of these companies. and that's who's going to be deeply involved in getting at what happened here with the fbi doing the formal working of the investigation in case there's going to be any criminal prosecutions in the end. isn't that basically the way they team up? >> absolutely. we've also gotten the department of homeland security involved in this case. particularly after the threats which you mentioned. dhs got drawn in and has said there's no credible evidence that should be noted, there's no credible evidence currently of violent plots against movie theatres. but you're right about the nsa. that speaks to a larger point, we haven't defined y et in the u.s. what constitutes a cyberattack and w

then the hill reporter cory bennett discusses how we can protect ourselves from online hacking. and later dane eegly who chaired the nast's hostage working group talks about the president's review of the process the united states uses to try to recover americans taken hostage overseas. as always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] host: good morning. the republicans have added to caucus this weekend with bill cassidy. they will hold 154 seats when they reconvene in january. congress is back in session tomorrow to work on a spending plan for the rest of the fiscal year. it could be the final week of the lame-duck session. the president is hosting the arteries tonight. and on tuesday, mr. obama travels to nashville to talk about immigration. with last week's grand jury decision in new york not to a white police of

cory bennett is following the story. and dan is the former chair of the hostage working group in the bush white house to talk about u.s. policies towards hostage situations especially in light of the american who was killed over the weekend in yemen. all weekend on c-span 2 and c-span-3's american history tv we are focusing on waco, texas. and one of the locations that texas rangers hall of fame. here's a preview. >> one of the legendary rangers that spans the time period from the 1930's to the 1970's was man well gonzalez. as the name might suggest, lone wolf as he was called gonzalez was born of canadian and portuguese parents. he imgrated to mexico, became an officer in the mexican army and decided he would immigration to the united states, to texas. wound up joining the texas rangers and became a legend in the east texas oil fields in the 1930s restoring law and order. gonzalez later went on to set up the first crime lab that the texas rangers and texas department of public safety ever had. and then after retirement

professor will discuss the curriculum being used for police training, and we will be joined by cory bennettthe hill about ways americans can protect themselves from hackers online. ann compton, who recently retired as white house correspondent, on over 40 years covering the white house and the administrations of gerald ford through barack obama. >> we see second graders go through their drill. i was stunned. i looked down to my reporter's notebook. nobody interrupts the president, even in front of second graders. said heident stood and had to go. he went into a side room. and then we discovered it was tw o plane crashes in new york. eric fleischer came out in the parking lot outside the school and said, stay right here. the president will come talk to you. i said, my camera is in the cafeteria. the president has to speak there. he did not want to scare the children, but he did go into the cafeteria. he said, it is an apparent terrorist attack, and i have to return to washington. the door slammed. night.ay >> here are a few of the comments we have recently received from our viewers. >> i wan