on the show tonight, obama versus kim iran versus rubio. at a press conference late today , at new york city police headquarters, i asked the mayor about how he is dealing with the crisis. it's as you eat the city through this very difficult time, you're getting a lot of criticism from across the board. have you learned anything or adjusted your behavior particularly those who say you have not been outspoken enough criticizing some of the rhetoric used against the police department? >> the point is, we are in a very difficult moment. our focus has to be on these families, and we are in a season that suggests we have to find a way forward. it's supposed to be a time of peace and reconciliation. i have throughout my public life expressed tremendous respect for the nypd. it is very well-documented. i will continue to. i also think in a democracy that people express their desire for more fair society, and that is right and proper as well, but they must do it peacefully. there certainly can be no violence against those who protect us and who rep

on the show tonight, obama versus kim iran versus rubio.ress conference late , at new york city police headquarters, i asked the mayor about how he is dealing with the crisis. city throughat the this very difficult

forcing thousands to flee the province what, little is left will remain a battle ground, kim vinnel, or. >>> iranfirmed it has joined the fight against the islamic state of iraq and the levant were air raids were carried out at the request of the iraqi government. iran hasn't been coordinating its attacks with the u.s.-led coalition. and in a bid to stop the advance of isil, teheran says it will hold an international conference against the world called the world against extremism and violence, 40 countries are expected to attends the event and including representatives from syria and iraq. the u.s., however, will not take part in the conference. >>> reports say a washington post journalist being held in iran has been charged. the post says it is not clear what charges have been filed against jason, who is chief of the paper's teheran bureau. he was arrested in july with his wife and fellow journalist. she was, however, released on bail in october. meanwhile, the u.s. secretary of state john kerry has weighed in on the detention and kerry said the case has dismayed him as he has been discussing it

. >> we have iran, north korea, kim jong-un saying we didn't do it. now iran.t come from. >> i impolitic in these kiend of attacks. nrz there's a film about the leader of north korea that is about to come out and they are quoting to the movie as the movie of terrorism. there's a motive out there they say whether it is north korea or something they knew about or sponsored or facilitated we don't know. but there's a particular reason to think this is the reason it happened. >> will be interesting to see how well the movie does. and sony pictures getting a lot of publicitiy and they're going forward with the release on christmas day, correct. >> yeah, amy is reliant about it said no one can tell us what we can and can't release. they're going ahead with the release on christmas. >> in tonight's poll. how far should we go in getting information from an enemy in the time of war?z@1ñ . >>> breaking news out of the senate working late on this saturday night. a major procedural hurdle has been cleared. they are voting on the final passage of the spending bill. chad? >>

kim zetter. what is or what was stuxnet? virus/worm used to attack iran's nuclear plant. uranium enrichment plant. the worm was designed to manipulate the computers that control and slow them up and speak to them down to degrade the level of uranium enrichment and also to do some wear and tear on the centrifuges and destroy them. >> what was unique about stuxnet ? >> stuxnet was sophisticated. this was a virus that was designed to physically destroy something. in the past home a webzine malware that steals credit card debt credit cards and passwords. we never saw something that physically distort and leap out of the digital world into the physical round and have connectivity. that was the first thing that made stuxnet unique. it was sophisticated. andas designed to increase slow the speed of the centrifuges. while it was doing that, it did this remarkable trick which was to make the operators of the plant think the operations were perfectly normal. it recorded normal activity on put itputers and then back to the monitoring machines when it was doing the sabotage. that was

kim jong-un. china, russia and iran have made more serious cyber attack again the us experts say targeting americancture and federal agencies. but the hackers from north korea took cyber insecurity to a new level. threatening 9/11 style attacks on theaters that showed the movie. that zen the us government and law epp force many officials scrambling. >> if we don't put in place the kind of architecture that can prevent these attacks from taking place, this is not just going to be affecting movies much this is going to be affecting our entire economy in ways that are extraordinary significant. >> reporter: cyber attacks are soaring. annual survey, consulting firm pwc reported cyber security incidents against private companies globally rose by 48% in 2014 to nearly 43 million. a separate study estimated the annual cost of cyber attacks on a typical energy or utility company at 26 and half million dollars this year. it was nearly 22 million for a typical defense contractor and nearly 21 million for an average financial services company. in some respects you can say it's the virtual -- in some cases the

. >> monday night on "the communicators" kim zetter on what he calls the world's first digital network. the uter virus used to iran nuclear. >> this was a virus that was designed to physically destroy something. stole credit it card numbers, things like that but we've never seen anything destroy out of the digital world into the physical world and have some kind of kinetic activity. it was very sophisticated. as i mentioned it had a desire to increase and slow the speed of the centrifuges. but while it was doing that it had this remarkable trick which was to make the operators of the plant think that the operations were perfectly normal. it recorded normal activities on the commuters first and then it played back that normal activity to the monitoring machine when it was doing the sabotage. >> up next "q&a" with news correspondent ann compton. hen british minister david cameron. and later hl hillary clinton alks about middle east issues. >> starting december 22nd on c-span. >> this week, our guest is ann compton. she recently retired after 40 years of covering the white house for abc news. she talks about gerald f

kim jong un in this knew year's message this week. >> harry fawcett speaking to us from soul of the south. >> well iran says one of its most senior revolutionary guard commanders has been killed in iraq. the brigadier died in samarra. the germ was advising -- general was advising iraqi troops in the fight against islamic state of iraq and levant. iran maintains that its forces are not involved in active military duty in iran >>> the syrian observatory for human rights says i.s.i.l. murdered nearly 2,000 people in syria. the monitoring group documents 1,878 killings, 930 victims said to belong with the tribe in the day az u province. i.s.i.l. killed 120 of its own members mostly for trying to return to their own country >>> as syria enters the fourth year, children are the most affected. hundreds of thousands are not in school. many are forced to work. every morning 10-year-old mustafa leaves home - not for food but for work. he sells corn to make money for his family. my mother prepares corn for me. i wait for the school to open so i can go and sell some beer. >> three years of war devastated the economy. forcing boys like mustafa to work whil

also on c-span3. >> tonight on "the communicators" kim zeder on the world's first digital weapon, stutsnet, a computer virus used to sabotage iran's program. it steals passwords and credit card numbers and things like that. we have never seen something designed to physically destroy and leap out of the digital world into the physical realm and have kinetic activity. that was the first thing that made it unique. other than that it was sophisticated while it was doing that, it did this remarkable trick which was to make the operators of the plant think that the operations were perfectly normal. what it did was recorded normal activity on the computers 50 and played back that normal activity to the monitoring machines when they were doing the sabotage. >> at 8:00 eastern on the communicators on c-span 2. >> here on c-span 3, we complement the hearings. on weekends, c-span 3 is the home to american history tv, the presentlies that tell our nation's story. six unique series. the civil war's 150th anniversary with battlefields and touring museums and historic site to discover what americans reveal about the past. history bookshelf with

kim jong-il came to power. no headway there. the regime on several levels, culturally and linguistically, no one speaks english in the top leadership. at least and iranou have a president who was educated in scotland. you have a nuclear negotiator that was educated in the u.s. there are cultural ties despite all the obvious difference is to north korea, you had the sense that you really have almost no way of making any contact, of really getting in touch. culturally, linguistically, on any real level. as far as not knowing how to respond, this is a nuclear arms state to a lot of people and charitably call north korea a freak show state. it is so unpredictable. you have no idea what it is about. it is a bizarre dictatorship, to say the least. you have to because his spirit that is one reason the barack obama administration is taking a cautious line, trying not to escalate things too much. it is either above south korea. you do not want a nuclear arms state lashing out and predict bleak. >> the president will have plenty of time to consider a response. i believe he leaves for a holiday today with his family for hawaii. when he comes back, he is going t

iran. so regardless of the testing they did, they missed something and that caused it to get exposed. >> host: kim zetter, four years is a long time in the tech world. has there been a stuxnet 2.0 developed yet? >> guest: we assume there is. just like it was hidden for three years we assume there are other things out there. we can get a hint with the snowden documents, the level of the espionage and offensive programs. the offensive ones are doing the attacks. there is a lot of activity and a flurry of activity. but stuxnet showed us the rules of engagement were not formulated when stuxnet was released. so they are catching up for how and when they can release this and that has slowed down the use of attack weapons, at least, to a certain extent. there are people saying stuxnet was the first released because of the legal issues and the concerns of collateral damage and the proof of concept to show something like this is possible. but i don't know that for sure. i am assuming there are other weapons that have been unleashed or developed. >> would you consider this the stuxnet attack a form of cyber

. >> all right, we have north korea, kim jong-un saying we didn't do it, we didn't do it. whoever did it, kudos to them. now iranntioned. where is that coming from? >> well, iran is one of the countries implicated in these types of attacks. now, north korea there is a particular film about the leader of north korea that is about to come out. and in fact, these people that are hacking, which they call themselves the guardians of peace, they have specifically referred to the quote, movie of terrorism, which is their words for this movie, the interview. so there is -- as they say there is a motive out there. whether it is north korea or whether it is something they knew about or sponsored or facilitated, we don't know. but there is a particular reason to think that this is the reason it happened. >> should be interesting to see how well that movie does. and sony pictures -- >> type of publicity. >> and they're going forward with the release on christmas day, correct? >> yeah, amy pascal has been very defiant about this. she says nobody is going to tell us what movies they can and can't release. and they're going ah

kim zetter. what is or what was stuxnet? virus/worm used to attack iran's nuclear plant.nium enrichment plant. the worm was designed to manipulate the computers that control and slow them up and speak to them down to degrade the level of uranium enrichment and also to do some wear and tear on the centrifuges and destroy them. >> what was unique about stuxnet ? >> stuxnet was sophisticated. this was a virus that was designed to physically destroy something. in the past home a webzine malware that steals credit card debt credit cards and passwords. we never saw something that physically

iran followed closely behind, you see russia, syria and china rounding out the top five, north korea's kimopped the list of least popular leaders. if you've been paying attention we're about to get hacked, 84% of those polled have an unfavorable opinion of him followed by fidel castro, putin, rouhani and syrian president bashar al assad. >>> health officials recommend gay men who abstained from sex for one year could donate blood in 2015. if approved this would end a lifetime ban on the group. officials say evidence shows the change in policy would not create a risk to the nation's blood supply. >>> coming up for you here on cnn, we'll look at two brothers orphaned by the 2004 tsunami and how they transformed their grief. stay with us. ♪ make the best entertainment part of your holidays. catch all the hottest handpicked titles on the winter watchlist, only with xfinity from comcast. >>> we are approaching now the 10th anniversary of the devastating indian ocean tsunami. it was december 26th, 2004 when the tsunami surged across the ocean with such violent power. it was brought on when a 9.1

kim zetter. ms. zetter, what is or what was stuxnet? >> guest: stuxnet was a virus/worm that was used to attack iran's nuclear plant in at tans, is and so the work was designed to manipulate the computers that control the centrifuges and speed them up and slow them down in order to degrade the level of uranium enrichment and also do some wear and tear on the centrifuges and destroy them. >> host: what was unique about stuxnet? >> guest: stuxnet was really sophisticated. it's, first of all, i guess the most unique thing was this was a virus that was designed to physically destroy something n. the past we've seen malware that steals passwords, credit card numbers, things like that, but we'd never seen something that was designed to physically destroy, essentially, leap out of the digital world into the physical realm and have some kind of kinetic activity. that was the first thing that made stuxnet unique. other than that, it was really sophisticated. as i mentioned, it's designed to increase and slow the speed to have centrifuges, but while it was doing that, it also did remarkable trick which was to make the operators at the plant think

. >>> tonight on the communicators, kim zeter on what she calls the world's first weapon, a computer virus used to sabotage iran's nuclear program. >> this was a virus designed to physically destroy something. in the past we've seen malware that steals passwords, credit card numbers, things like that, but we've never seen something that was designed to destroy, at least leap out of the digital world into the physical realm and have some kind of kinetic activity. that's one thing that made it unique. it was really sophisticated. it was, as i mentioned, it's designed to increase and slow the speed of the centrifuges. while it was doing that, it also did this remarkable trick, which was to make the operators at the plant think that the operations were perfectly normal. so what it did is it recorded normal activity on the computers first, and then it played back that normal activity to the monitoring machines when it was actually doing the sabotage. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on "the communicators" on c-span2. >>> next, foreign policy experts and journalists discuss north korea, touching on the north korean economy,

iran. this was not an attack we want to break in and release movies, this physically took down sony and we know the issue with kimn and the movie coming out, they declared it as an act of war. maybe they thought this was preventive strike on the united states. jon: there is a seth rogen comedy coming out about a couple of guys who get hired to kill kim jong-un, the leader of north korea. they are not very happy about it and the pitcher will be released by sony pictures, north korea has written a letter of complaint to the u.n. about it and so forth. how should the united states respond to something like this targeted at a private business? >> this is a huge policy issue. we have talked to general mcinerney with colonel peters. we are missing a huge opportunity to create an effective policy. you and i have talked before, heather and i have talked about we are the good guys. this is an area we have to start going on offense. somebody in the government has got to come together to say what is our policy when a nationstate comes into the united states and attacks our infrastructure. when do we say enough is enough, cr

. >>> tonight on the communicators, kim zeter on what she calls the world's first digital weapon, a computer virus used in iran's nuclear program. >> in the past, we see malwear that steals credit card numbers things like that, we've never seen anything designed to essentially destroy, and we've never seen something come out of the digital realm. other than that, it was really sophisticated. it was designed to increase and slow the speed of the centrifuges, while it was doing that, it also did this remarkable trick which was to make the operators at the plant think that the operations were perfectly normal. so what it did was it recorded normal activity on the computers first and then it played back that normal activity to the monitoring machines when the sabotage was occurring. >> tonight on the communicators on c span 2. >>> on the next washington journal, north carolina congressman, david price looks at federal government funding set to expire this thursday, december 11th. after that, doug collins discusses the transparency in the health care law. plus your facebook comments and tweets. washington journal is

kim jung un. with the pulling of the movie and the u.s. not responding, it may not just be north korea with the upper hand, but our other adversaries across the world. irania, and china. >>> coming up on "the real story" the president's plans to change u.s. policy towards cuba taking some heat from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. what do some of the potential 2016 white house candidates think about it all? >>> plus, an american plumber's truck seen on the frontlines in the middle east? why he is now getting hate messages on social media from all over the world even though he has no idea how his truck ended up there. >>> and one company selling tens of thousands of boxes filled with cow poop this christmas season. yep. cow poop. that brings us to our question of the day. what is the worst christmas gift you have ever received? tweet me@gretchen carlson. use the _#the real story. go to my facebook page as well and post something there, and we'll he read your comments coming up. ♪ i'm an idaho potato farmer and our big idaho potato truck is still missing. so my buddy here is going to help me find it. here we go. woo who, woah, woah, woah. it's out the

iran, north korea. china sits in the middle of all of this. they have an official agency. north korea has an agency that works with china. vladimir putin invites kim to russia. they're teaming up because the more they degrade america, this is warfare. the nazis wanted to blow up power plants in world war ii in america right here in new york city. then they had to go plant a bomb. now they just need a cyber bomb. now they just need to shut down our systems or go in and, say, change the water mix in water treatment plants. >> do you know what we call what just happened to sony on the real world? practice. >> they're probing us. they look at our response, and they act just like terrorists probe us. the underwear bomber failed, but others succeeded. >> well, a lot of people have questioned why didn't the government move in quicker. well, the fbi was on it, and i will say this, i look at it in reverse. if the government had intervened very early on with what was going on with sony, we would say why is government getting involved in private business? sony was hacked back in 2011 on its playstation network, didn't learn any lessons. its security wasn't a

kim jong-un would be right behind you. >> we can't let this happen. what are we going to allow putin, is he going to weigh-in on movies and books we write? >> ridiculous. >> in irant them decide the editorial content of what we're going to put out there? this is a dangerous precedent. what sony has done here is cowardly as far as i'm concerned. it's surrender. more importantly, what is the president going to do, juan? how is he going to stand up to north korea? >> well, the thing is at home there are calls for ensuring the theaters, ensuring american businesses against attacks tharks that is stalled in the congress at the moment because of concern that it would change the way that insurance is done across the board, across the country. but i think we've got to take a stand and say, listen, american business has to function. we will not only protect american citizens and ensure businesses, but we will go after. we will not standstill and be bullied by this guy. there has got to be some retaliatory action. >> i want the president to really show the world here. i want him to take a stand. i want hollywood -- it's so disappointing. what do you want the president to d

kim jong-un. >> no one's calling for censor but they're ticked off. foreign governments losing their heads over depictions of their countries is nothing particularly new. >> reporter: iranbattle between the greeks and persians saying the film was distorted history and then there's the documentary "borat." >> officials in kazakhstan were not at all pleased with his depiction of them as raging dumb sashages. they went as far as to sousa sa. >> it's an extraordinarily powerful thing and the pakistanis and other governments know that. >> for "cbs this morning," carter evans, los angeles. >>> it goes to show you how powerful american entertainment is. >> a lot of people were talking about it. >> norah hasn't watched it yet. >> i know. i'm catching up. >>> all right. it was anything but an icy reception. a birthday greeting for the creator of the ice bucket challenge. did you see at chili's, fresh is now. and now we've got fresh mex bowls. it's a big bowl of delicious paired with soup or salad. now on our lunch combo menu, starting at six bucks. il chi's -- fresh is happening now. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. yeah, everybody kn

kim will present information on climate change. this will be on c-span two. >> monday night in the words firsts, the digital weapon. a computer virus used to sabotage iran's nuclear and richmond company. a virus that was defined to specifically destroy something. passwords, credit card numbers, things like that. what if never seen something that was designed to physically destroy a something using kinetic activity. other than that, it was very sophisticated. as i mentioned, it was designed flow of thehe centrifuges. while doing that, it also did this remarkable trick which was to make the operators at the operations that the were perfectly normal. but it did was a recorded normal activity on the computer's first, then played back that normal activity to the military machines when it was actually doing the sabotage. >> monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. >> here are a few of the comments were a solution from bureaus. here are a few of the comments we have recently received from viewers. congratulate you for putting together two different ideologies like you did this morning. i think you need more programming that way among people who are conducting t

iran, now it's cuba. >> there is a lot of reaction on this to both side. liz cheney will join us with her reaction on this later. martha: has kim jong-un won? did we just lose the first cyber war? bill: vladimir putin is under fire and the ruble has collapsed. why he's pinning some of that blame on the united states. but specifically what he he is to blame. plus there is this ... martha: that's terrifying. have you seen it in chaos on an american airlines flight. passengers tossed around in their seats. they are praying and screaming. this went on for an hour. >> it was surreal. it was like a crazy hollywood movie. >> the cyber attack is very serious. we are investigating and we are taking it seriously. we'll be vigilant. if we see something that we think is serious we'll alert the public. my recommendation is people go to the mostes. bill: the u.s. may have lost our first cyber war. tucker carlson, how are you? good morning. the president also said there is no credible evidence of a serious threat to theaters. where are you on this? >> we didn't lose a cyber war. we lost a war of will, principle and courage. hollywood caved to

and with respect to iran i think we can expect the same outcome if we continue on this path but we can also, the stakes are qualitatively high. with north korea kim jong-il and kim jong-un they are radical. they are extreme but they are fundamentally megalomaniacal narcissists, both father and son which means some degree of rational deterrence as possible. both father and son understood if they ever actually used a nuclear weapon that day their regime would end. the danger with iran is when you have leaders that are animated by religious extremism by an embrace of a fanaticism that welcomes death and glorifies suicide, the ordinary cost-benefit analysis of deterrence doesn't play out the same way. .. the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism using its nuclear power to increase that role, and that, bill, is the is the bank got scenario, the good outcome. and yet the administration seems hell-bent on pursuing a foolhardy deal just for the sake of the a deal. i think it is extraordinarily dangerous, and it is my hope and belief that with the new senate being sworn in you will see real leaders prevent a bad deal. >> and how many democrats might

and with respect to iran, i think we can expect the same outcome if we continue on this path but we can also, mistakes are qualitativelily higher. with north korea, kim jong-il, kim jong-un, they're radical, they're extreme but they're fundamentally meg low maniacal narcissists. both father and son. which means some degree of rational deterrence is possible. both father and son actually understood if they actually use ad nuclear weapon, that day their regime would end. the danger with iran and khomeni and mullahs, when you have leaders that are animated by religious extremism. by an embrace of a fanaticism that welcomes death and glorifies suicide. the ordinary cost benefit analysis of deterrents doesn't play out the same way. in my view the odds are unacceptably high. if iran ever acquired a nuclear weapon, that it would use that nuclear weapon either in the skies of tel aviv or new york or los angeles. and, if iran were to use a nuclear weapon over tel aviv, it would murder vast numbers of palestinians and the danger is that the iranians would find those perfectly acceptable collateral consequences to further their stated be a objective of annihila

and with respect to iran, i think we can expect the same outcome if we continue on this path. but we can also the stakes are qualitatively higher. with north korea, kim jong-il, kim jong-un, they're radical, they're extreme, but they're fundamentally narcissists, both father and son. which means, some degree of rational deterrence is possible. both father and son understood if they ever actually used a nuclear weapon, that day their regime would end. the danger with iran, is when you have leaders that are animated by religious extremism, by an embrace of a fanaticism that welcomes death and glorifies suicide, the ordinary cost benefit analysis of deterrence doesn't play out the same way. and in my view, the odds are unacceptably high. if iran ever acquired a nuclear weapon, that it would use that nuclear weapon either in the skies of tel aviv or new york or los angeles. and if iran were to use a nuclear weapon over tel aviv, it would murder vast numbers of palestinians. and the danger is that the iranians would find those perfectly acceptable collateral consequences to further their stated objective of annihilating the nation of israel. and look, nob