microsoft claims russian hackers are added again by targeting us. while listing. the giant took the chance to push its own problems. and as the syrian army gears up to retake the rebel held on claims of western media outlets and warned of a civilian massacre the same outlets fail to mention that much of the area is under the control of hardline islamist groups accuse. the other two lovers watching in northern michigan traverse city or just here in moscow this is international and we are certainly glad to have you with us. all right sanctions were high on the agenda in washington this tuesday with yet more calls to tighten restrictions against russia over a series of issues for which moscow is being blamed for the british foreign secretary whose son who is on his first official visit to the u.s. urged the western partners to ramp up the pressure on russia. those who do. use need to know that there will always be a serious price to pay if red lines across but today the united kingdom its allies to go further by calling on the european union to ensure its sanctions a

but microsoft insists the threat is there and oh how convenient already has a solution on stand by microsoft account god will be provided for free to complains and candidates it will alert them of potential threats and educate how to keep the network secure so a threat of no threat microsoft has nothing to lose but this new product of theirs won't market itself. the syrian army is gearing up for an offensive on the last major rubble stronghold it live the battle for the enclave marks the final stages of the syrian war and if assad's forces manage to retake it it will bring almost the entire country back under government control however ahead of the campaign many western media outlets have been doubling down on the narrative against a mask this was some saying the assad forces are certain to inflict heavy civilian casualties the same media though fail to mention that over sixty percent of the enclave is under the control of hardline islamic groups that have been accused of war crimes it between go takes a closer look. these yagur a few of the syrian civil war has strong it's now pretty much a

as it goes down of takes us through microsoft's claims microsoft is ringing the alarm russians are at it again apparently how has set up a bunch of websites doppelganger of those belonging to prominent political groups and the u.s. senate this technique is known as phishing designed to lure unsuspecting users to pages that look just like the real thing and then basically steal their data according to microsoft if they recognize this tactic from a few years back we saw this during the united states general election in twenty sixteen last major in the french presidential election and now in a broadening way as americans are preparing for the november midterm elections. midterms are a big deal in the states for those of you unfamiliar that's elections in congress with close to all seats up for grabs this november for russians to mess it up would be the second worst thing after rigging the presidential race except microsoft's panic post has raised doubts among the i.t. crowd one you don't have to be a hacker let alone a member of any organization to create a fake website or the senate or

it is important what microsoft did.hey took out these domains that russian hackers are accused of being behind the 2016 election hacks and the united states. what they actually disclosed today is they took down six kind phishing campaigns. this looks more like preparation. it is great that companies are taking more initiative and taking down the sides, being more proactive about countering russian hacking. but reading the release, it looked more like a public announcement than a real security announcement. that is not to takeaway from the fact that it is important to take these sites out. this is the kind of thing that might have gone unnoticed a couple of years back. emily: during the interview with microsoft, president rod smith, officials in russia called rush on a witchhunt and rest assured there would be no which is at the end and rush is indeed behind this. if so, isn't it important that these sites have been thwarted? and has a thread on democracy been diffused or do you think this is no bigger? >> i think it is

microsoft says russian hackers set up several domain names which were removed last week by microsoft pretty quickly they say without any damage being done but these domain names resemble other web sites that people are familiar with users all familiar with they end their web addresses with words like senate group senate services hudson org. or go to the international republican institute dot org it's where phishing campaign trying to get users to log on to these web addresses and enter their credentials they think they're communicating with the senate or the right wing think tank but in fact by giving their credentials to hackers the russians deny any involvement this is what a kremlin spokesperson said we do not know what hackers they're talking about we don't know what is meant by influence on election we hear confirmations for america that there was no influence on elections who exactly are they talking about we don't understand what the proof and the basis for them drawing these kind of conclusions such information or proof is lacking microsoft hasn't really furnished us with any

i would argue that your staff takes us through microsoft's questions. microsoft is ringing the alarm russians are added again apparently how has set up a bunch of websites doppelganger is of those belonging to prominent political groups and the us senate this technique is known as fishing designed to lure unsuspecting users to pages that look just like the real thing and then basically steal their data according to microsoft or they recognize this tactic from a few years back we saw this during the united states general election in twenty sixteen last major in the french presidential election and now in a broadening way as americans are preparing for the november midterm elections. midterms are a big deal in the states for those of you unfamiliar that's elections in congress with close to all seats up for grabs this november for russians to mess it up would be the second worst thing after rigging the presidential race except microsoft's panic post has raised doubts among the i.t. crowd one you don't have to be a hacker let alone a member of any organiza

senate and conservative think tanks but mainstream outlets reporting on microsoft's findings rushed to draw their usual conclusion about who might ultimately be behind it. attempts by russia to hack u.s. senate and conservative groups by hacking group affiliated with the russian government russian military operation the intelligence operation the russian military intelligence you know well basically what the companies they've seized control of from some group that they believe are russian hackers over a bunch of websites that were recently created and designed to copycat this is the websites of some republican groups conservative groups of the congress and so on and so forth this technique in the i.t. talk is called fishing and it's basically designed to lure people in to deceive them to make them believe that they're visiting the actual web site while they're not and then the perpetrator can pretty much do anything they want and microsoft is saying that it is resembling this situation and developed right before the presidential elections in twenty sixteen have a listen we saw this dur

computers and even if they weren't microsoft computers then the other computers had the microsoft word on it they had all the programs on it and then in one thousand nine hundred eight there was a really this big first court case take it from there all right the it's a fascinating case d.o.j. was alleging there that microsoft had a monopoly in the operating system basically windows and they probably had about ninety percent market share something to that effect and microsoft at the time was concerned back in the mid ninety's netscape had come out with an internet browser and that was the most popular browser around the netscape doesn't exist today and that's what this case was about. you know so they had a very high market share and microsoft was concerned that netscape was going to basically take over that it was going to be a threat to its operating system so instead of just competing fairly and coming out with a new internet browser to compete fairly what they did is they came out with internet explorer and they integrated it with the operating system. and at the same time they ente

we're the only set of twins to both sell companies to microsoft. lot of the things we have done are similar. i think i'm more of a stress case. my brother is more easy-going comparatively. emily: you were born in tehran. you were six years old when the iran-iraq war broke out. what was living through that like? >> it was pretty horrific. my childhood, i remember feeling scared most of the time. either scared of my neighborhood being bombed, which is certainly was, and i also remember always being worried about something bad would happen to my parents. that i would come home from school and i wouldn't have my parents there anymore. there was a period during the bombardment when we would spend overnights in the basement holding our ears, because our neighborhood was actually being bombed. so it was pretty rough. i will say though, having gotten out of that, it is certainly something that makes me feel much stronger, because i feel like i can take on anything. and you know, if you can survive that, it makes day-to-day problems today seem much easier t

also this hour microsoft claims russian hackers are out it again by targeting u.s. senate and conservative think tanks and all listing the suppose that culprits the tech giant used to claim to push its own products. and as the syrian army gears up to retake the militant held play both western media outlets warn of a civilian massacre the same outlets though fail to mention the area is under the control of jihad as groups accused of war crimes. a warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q and moscow thanks for joining us for a live news update this hour sanctions is definitely the buzz word in washington this tuesday with yet more calls to tighten restrictions against russia over a series of issues for which moscow is being blamed i got more details earlier from our correspondents killed and some america killed the british foreign secretary is on his first official visit to america but he's got russia and his sights hasn't to . yes now we heard him speak to the u.s. peace institute he made his remarks and essentially he called for more hostility to ru

microsoft, give microsoft a lot of credit.scovering this and how did they inform you? >> i was enjoying the last day of vacation on sunday and microsoft sent an e-mail that it was urgent and needed to talk to the top cyber security expert. got on the call. i was surprised but not shocked to learn about this attempted spear phishing by this unit to try to get our friends to try to log in and to pass their contact information on and so that their computers essentially taken over by the gru. >> was the fbi, law enforcement involved? did microsoft inform them? >> microsoft in touch with law enforcement. the fbi and the department of homeland security have been in touch with us over time, not immediately over this case but we have been in touch with them because there's other foreign governments trying to get in, chinese, iranians and probably others. >> what was the damage done? >> none whatsoever. >> how come? you would think that -- how long has this been going on? >> well, microsoft caught this, they saw that somebody tried to

the world's biggest software company microsoft says russian hackers launched cyber attacks on the u.s. senate and political parties the firm says it stopped fake web sites that were set up to steal logon information from visitors to think tanks the hudson institute and the enter national republican institute have their websites copied microsoft says it's part of a russian plot to influence november midterm elections deny the allegations and is accuse microsoft of taking part in what it calls a witch hunt chairman thomas who joins us live now from washington d.c. . they are using the word witch hunt which coincidentally is also what donald trump often tweets when he talks about the russian mr case and what else do we know about what microsoft is saying. right well actually there i mean we do have to remember that since these allegations have surfaced over the last over the last year a lot of technology companies technology experts or something sprung up and it's a very lucrative business to talk up the russian threats and and say that the russians are attacking all of our systems are a

was alleging there that microsoft. had a monopoly in the operating system basically windows and they probably had about ninety percent market share or something to that effect and microsoft at the time was concerned back in the mid ninety's netscape had come out with an internet browser and that was the most popular browser around obviously netscape doesn't exist today and that's what this case was about. you know so they had very high market share and microsoft was concerned that netscape was going to basically take over that it was going to be a threat to its operating system so instead of just competing fairly and coming out with a new internet browser to compete fairly what they did is they came out with internet explorer and they integrated it with the operating system and at the same time they entered into exclusive contracts with the p.c. manufacturers that would would make sure that the default was always going to be the internet explorer this basically ran netscape out of business and that was what the case wa

microsoft claims russian hackers are added again by targeting u.s. senate and conservative think tanks bob while listing the supposed culprits at the tech giant took the chance to push its own products. that the syrian army gears up to retake in the rebel held on paper label western media outlets warned of a civilian a massacre the same outlets though failed to meet. but much of the area is under the control of hardline islamist groups accused of war crimes. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us now sanctions was definitely the buzzword in washington this tuesday with yet more calls to tighten restrictions against russia over a series of issues for which moscow's being blamed the british foreign secretary who is on his first official visit to the u.s. or urged western partners to ramp up the pressure on russia. those. values need to know that there will always be a serious price to pay if red lines across and stay the united kingdom its allies to go further by

microsoft says russian hackers set up several domain names which were removed last week by microsoft pretty quickly they say without any damage being done but these domain names resemble other web sites that people are familiar with users all familiar with they end their web addresses with words like senate group senate dot services hudson org. or go to the international republican institute dot org it's where phishing campaign trying to get users to log on to these web addresses and enter their credentials they think they're communicating with the senate or the right wing think tank but in fact by giving their credentials to hackers the russians deny any involvement this is what a kremlin spokesperson said we do not know what hackers they're talking about we don't know what is meant by influence on election we hear confirmations for america that there was no influence on elections who exactly are they talking about we don't understand what the proof and the basis for them drawing these kind of conclusions such information or proof is lacking microsoft hasn't really furnished us with

microsoft says it was. we're just 77 days before the november midterm elections, so what's the trump administration going to do to stop these russian attacks? we'll speak to the reuters reporter who interviewed the president yesterday afternoon. we'll talk to him very shortly. let's begin our coverage with cnn's alex marquardt live in washington with the breaking news about this attempted russian hack. alex. >> good morning, john. microsoft announced overnight that last week it had taken control of six different websites that it says were set up by the hacker group fancy bear. you may remember that name. that's that group that is linked to russian military intelligence that was behind the 2016 hack of the dnc. and what's really remarkable about this latest effort by russia is that it shows what microsoft calls a broadening of the types of groups and people that russia is now going after ahead of these midterm elections. this now includes republicans. if you look at the names of these fake internet domains,

so she had tell us more about these microsoft accusations. right well in fact they took down these domain names last week microsoft is just announcing it all today because part of some marketing push to the cyber security now is a big business a very profitable business for these companies out there it's in their interest really to talk up the threat but what they say is that there were these several domain names which were part of a spear phishing campaign that is they look like web sites that people are familiar with but are in fact set up by hackers and then you end users unwittingly click on to these links and potentially put in their credentials however microsoft says they took them down almost immediately no no no damage was done but as you said that the sort of dumaine names we're talking about had the word senate in the senate group senate build services senate email and hudson org which is which would presumably refer to the hudson institute a right wing think tank and my dash ira right. dot org international republican institute ano

microsoft. said it did foil the attack warned candidates and other political groups would have been at risk. all of this coming as president trump once again doubts russia was responsible for interference in the presidential election. we learn that in a new interview with reuters when the president questioned the conclusion of his intelligence community saying, quote, if it was russia, which may sound familiar because it's simila

people talk about new microsoft versus old microsoft.re i think that will make a big difference is what the policies are for customers. enterprise software is an enormous category. microsoft is the single biggest company in that category, but it is still only 5% of all revenue, so there is another 95%. the reality is customers make their choices. they will use one product from one company for one part of their business and another for another. and the degree to which they can can interoperate or integrate with one another is really important for the added value you can create. first of all, i think it's good validation for us. emily: so, you are not worried about it? stewart: no. emily: you said you are running the company to get ready to go public, but you are not necessarily going public. where are you now in that? stewart: kind of in the same position. i think it's difficult to contemplate -- there are not many outcomes where we don't end up going public. i don't have any kind of timeline. we are not in a rush to achieve that. it is a

microsoft stopped the attack last week. the company took control of six web sites operated by the same group of the dnc hack of 2016. let's bring in fred pleitgen. fred. >> reporter: good morning, dave. the group fancy wear was behind the attack. that group is directed by russia ya 's military intelligence. they targeted conservatives and two think tanks close to the party, but both of which are critical of the politics of vladimir putin. there is no evidence these attacks were successful, but it comes a month after attorney general rod rosenstein indicted 13 members of russia's intelligence for meddling in the 2016 election. of course, we know president trump a short time after that cited against the intelligence services together with vladimir putin in helsinki. in an interview with reuters he would be willing to look at sanctions relief if he helped on syria and ukraine. i was in syria with the russian military last week. they would like to cooperate with the u.s., but they want to take the leading role and on a final no

emily: brad smith joining us from microsoft headquarters.or joining us this morning. shery: gray confirmation -- great conversation. hit a new0 now has milestone, a record high of 287 2. the last record high was on generate 26 when the -- january 26 when the market peaked. now reaching a new record high. we have abigail doolittle here with us. we are now seeing an all-time high for the s&p 500. depending on your definition, it could also be the longest u.s. bull market. yes, talking about the possibility of the longest bull market ever, but it does depend on how they define it. coming.een a long time the last one in january, a few days after president trump launched tariffs on wash machines and solar panels. trade war was hitting stocks back then. then there was a period volatility. the last record high, hitting it again just now. the bulls taking charge. some of the bowl -- some of the internals are not as high. it will be interesting whether or not this sticks around. david: what is driving this? abigail: investors are looking past these h

he is talking about this midnight news drop from microsoft. overnight, the tech company is announcing it cyber hack that targeted conservative thinktanks. microsoft said it shut down six websites that have recently been created by hackers linked to russian intelligence. the sites looked like pages from the hudson institute whether or not the international republican institute. they're known for promoting human rights. they have chairs like mitt romney, john mccain, and hr mcmaster. they intercepted before attacks went down. but we are less than three months from the midterm electi n elections. joining me now, the former director of the national terror center and the national security and intelligence analyst. jeff and betsy are here, as well. the headline, russia is still at it. >> what i took away from the reporting overnight was two things. first, it tells us it is concrete reaffirmation of what we already knew. we knew this from the director of national intelligence, dan coats, and chris wray, who said the campaign, the effort to mess with

among the biggest tech contributors microsoft, amazon, nvidia and netflix.

microsoft says it has ta ken steps to stop interference in us elections. the tech giant last week shut down six internet sites it says were linked to the russian military and were targetting the us senate and us think tanks. microsoft's announcement suggests russia is stepping up attacks ahead of the important mid—term elections in november. and yet donald trump says he might lift sanctions against moscow. speaking to the reuters news agency, mr trump said he would consider it if russia "did something that would be good for us" but he added he wouldn't consider it without that. in the same interview mr trump once again raised doubts about whether russia did actually meddle in the 2016 election. even though all us intelligence agencies say they did. in regard to russian involvement in the mid—term elections, we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by

microsoft says russian hackers set up several domain names which were removed last week by microsoft pretty quickly they say without any damage being done but these domain names resemble other web sites that people are familiar with users all familiar with they end their web addresses with words like senate group senate dot services hudson org i r i organize the international republican institute dot org it's where phishing campaign trying to get users to log on to these and web addresses and enter their credentials they think they're communicating with the senate or the right wing think tank but in fact by giving their credentials to hackers the russians deny any involvement this is what a kremlin spokesperson said we do not know what hackers they're talking about we don't know what is meant by influence on election we hear confirmations for america but there is no influence on elections who exactly are they talking about we don't understand what the proof and the basis for them drawing these kind of conclusions such information or proof is lacking microsoft hasn't really furnished

moscow has denied allegations from microsoft that it has tried to in the upcoming midterm elections. according to thh tech giant, packers tied to the russian -- packers tied to the russian government attempted to hack websites.% the hacks have been thwarted bb democracy.ng that is the goal of new russian hacking attempts according to the tech giants digital crimes unit uncovered six fake internet domaans. two appeared to mimic american conservative think tanks the huston institute and the international republican instiiute. others were deeigned to look like the u.s. senate website. the microsoft president says the hack was designed to allow the hackers to steal data from the political organization, as well as any users they tricked into attackers want their attacks to look as realistic as possible p and they therefore creete -pwebsites that look like sites the targetee victimsswould expect to receive emaii from. >> microsoft says russian efforts have failed and believed the -- and blames the fancy bare hhcking group for the attack. >> we are concerned these posts appeared he threats

several of the other domains listed in this report by microsoft include the word senate. indicating that they may have been targeting different senators and their offices, but right now it's unclear which senators, which offices may have been potential targets. to be clear, these latest efforts by russia were not successful. there was a similar attempted attack that we learned about last month also carried out by russian military intelligence against the office of senator claire mccaskill of missouri, one of the most vulnerable republicans running this year. they are saying, quote, despite last week's steps, we are concerned by the continued activity targeting these and other sites and directed towards elected officials, politicians, political groups and think tanks across the political spectrum in the united states. taken together, this pattern mirrors the type of activity we saw prior to the 2016 election in the united states and the 2017 election in france. alisyn and john, microsoft overnight said they are rolling out cyber campaign protection service to offer for fre

microsoft in this statement. mccaskell said we are concerned by the continued activity targeting these and other sites toward elected officials, politicians, political groups and think tanks across the political spectrum in the united states. taken together this pattern mirrors the type of activity we spau saw in the 2016 election in the united states and the 2017 election in france. so microsoft stepping up their game helping out with election meddling and the federal agencies who need the help they can get ahead of these mid-term s. i want to read a remarkable statement. they say in part from the u.s. we hear that there was not any meddling in this election. whom exactly are they talking about? what is the proof? what ground are they reaching such conclusions? not only are they denying, listen to that line. from the u.s. we hear there was any meddling in the elections. everybody at the highest levels of government in this country except for the president of the united states said there's no doubt the russians m

is this a victory for microsoft? it's is this a victory for microsoft? november. the more companies keeping an eye on this issue and more people who are alerted to it, the better chance we have protecting and preventing this type of activity. the worst thing for a foreign intelligence to have their operation exposed, and you have this operation exposed at such early stages a good thing. and microsoft is saying they have stopped russian hackers. how do you think it would know they were russian hackers? just ik physical crime scene, cyber crime and cyber espionage have fingerprints that traced back to a pretty unique infrastructure, technique and procedures that are identifiable and can be used to attribute this type of activity to a known actor. is russia, is the united states under attack effectively by russia in terms of cyber orfor attack effectively by russia in terms of cyber or for the moment? attack effectively by russia in terms of cyber orfor the moment? is this is this just one of many attacks that microsoft has boiled? this is this just one of

foreword to the future compute a book published by microsoft about how artificial intelligence will change society. this is one hour. good afternoon from everybody and welcome to the lecture. i am the professor of computer science and public affairs and the rector of the technology policy here at princeton and i have the honor of introducing today's speaker, brad smith. first i want to thank everyone who helped make this possible, thanks to emily carter, professor jennifer and everyone else who has helped. you are in for a treat. brad is one of my favorite speakers in the community. an adviser he is one of the people whose the trusty able to provide counsel to the university. right now the tech industry is at a crossroads because the public attitudes and the attitude of the political system towards technology has shifted. in a couple of ways. first, they realize it isn't just a one time small change, that the technology is having a long-term effect in many aspects of people's lives. at the same time there's been an increased emphasis on the role of the tech industry in our society a

microsoft is not far behind.hey are contributing 8% of the rally and amazon is outperforming as well. these companies are so important because of the huge market cap and importance to the rest of the market. when you look at the facebook, alphabet, netflix, and overall as well as the amazons and other companies, you are seeing microsoft and apple are really contributing to the overall importance of this sector and overall heavy lifting. amazon in particular, i think the big ones will be amazon, apple, and microsoft in the last six months. emily: amazon hit another all-time high this weekend. on the flipside, facebook is reeling after the $100 billion wiped off its market cap. how do you expect those two stories to play out? dan: looking in microsoft and everything happening on the cloud, that has been the golden touch. you are seeing it on the aws side as well. there's a massive shift going on and that has been a tailwind for amazon. when you look at facebook and social media in light of privacy post cambridge, t

microsoft president brad smith explains.nt years with this group in particular is a variety of tactics, but often the creation of these kinds of fake internet sites that are then used to hack into and download e—mails from political campaigns or candidates or other political organisations. we saw the focus of attacking the united states in 2016 presidential election, we sought across—the—board in the french presidential election last year, we sought again in 2018 and we're seeing it's notjust against democrats but also in this instance, two think tanks that are more commonly associated with republicans, we're seeing it with a variety of domains that are clearly focused on members of the united states senate. as microsoft's president just said there — hackers targeted the us senate. and two thinktanks, the hudson institute and the international republican institute, or the iri as its known. both thinktanks have ties to the republican party — and have been critical of president putin. the iri board features some familiarfaces

microsoft, but the company they were getting their paychecks from.hings took a darker turn for those workers a couple of years later when in 2016, they found out that the entire bargaining unit was being laid off and all those jobs were being eliminated in washington state. the union filed a charge with the national labor relations board alleging first this was illegal, they were being retaliated against, and second, that microscopic -- microsoft was liable, as well. microsoft was in legal terminology called a "joint employer," a company that has enough control about a group of workers that it is responsible if the law is violated against them. taylor: this brings out the broader problem that it is not only microsoft, but a lot of other companies are spending time and energy and money lobbying to make sure they can maintain their rights and have employees perhaps not be able to unionize. what is that bigger fight? that's right. here in california, there was a state supreme court victory for people that wanted to make it easier for workers to be treat

romaine: is it just microsoft doing this? other tech companies finding some of these attacks or behaviors? >> we have had reports from other companies, facebook has talked about trying to police fake content or content being posted on facebook. looking like it is from legitimate places but being generated out of groups linked to the russian government that are trying to create divisive content and make it look legitimate. dina bass,a bass -- fantastic story. 2867, very close. ♪ several nonpartisan forecast give democrat above even odds of taking control of the house which would be a dramatic shift that would all but grind president trump's legislative agenda to a halt. even if republicans managed to cling to a majority it is virtually guaranteed to be smaller than it is today. house speaker paul ryan's retirement will spark a leadership battle in the party. his designated heir, kevin mccarthy of california is facing a challenge from ohio's jim jordan. it is likely to revive a familiar divide between trump style nativism and p

microsoft says russian hackers set up several domain names which were removed last week by microsoft pretty quickly they say without any damage being done but these domain names resemble other web sites that people are familiar with users all familiar with they end their web addresses with words like send that group senate services hughson org. or go to the international republican institute. it's a swift campaign trying to get users to log on to these and web addresses and enter their credentials they think they're communicating with the senate or the right wing think tank but in fact by giving their credentials to hackers the russians deny any involvement this is what a kremlin spokesperson said we do not know what hackers they're talking about we don't know what is meant by influence on election we hear confirmations for america but there is no influence on elections who exactly are they talking about we don't understand what the proof and the basis for them drawing these kind of conclusions such informational proof is lacking microsoft hasn't really furnished us with any real evi

microsoft is the recent revelation.t deterred by anything president trump is had to say. it is incumbent on the senate to act. we have a bipartisan bill that would create vast economic punishments if we catch them again interfering. the us has been tougher than europe has been, but even us sanctionsjudging by than europe has been, but even us sanctions judging by what microsoft has found have not stopped the russians from trying to mess around with american and other european elections. have these sanctions had much impact? they have not had an impact on russian interference in oui’ impact on russian interference in our elections which is exactly why i am saying we have to adopt and do it quickly this legislation that the senator and i have introduced that says clearly that if we catch russia in 2018 there are harsh penalties and not just against in 2018 there are harsh penalties and notjust against a few oligarchs. they would be tough penalties against the russian banking system, energy sector, so if you are putin and