it was first developed by the national security agency, it appears. developed by the national security national security agency, it appears. how do you think it got out like this and into the hands of hackers? it appears that the national security agency in the united states was exploiting a vulnerability for espionage purposes, and that a group known as the shadowbrokers, widowed who it is, but we suspect they were russian. they release on the internet. they adapted the software to their own financially motivated them. —— we don't know who it is. —— they release it on the internet and somebody downloaded it. this is a challenge in cybersecurity. whether for the plot of resources, it might be possible to identify them, but thatis be possible to identify them, but that is no greater say that they would actually apprehend them. very fregley, criminal to carry out this activity are into recession such as russia, where it is hard for the united states and british authorities to reach them. and you mentioned russian interference, here. that is quite controversial, isn't it? it suggests stat

he calls up the head of the fbi, calls up the national security and director of national intelligence, national security agency, it's unbelievable. he calls up everybody he thinks can turn up a spigot. >> in a family business not publicly held. >> it's good jared doesn't have all of these jobs. >> in a family business, the pot calls the shots. you say what gets done. you go make it, so. the u.s. government is not like that. one of the things we're learning in addition to the fact that there's this now clearer prema fascia case that's being built around obstruction of justice, the obstruction of justice questions are coming into sharp relief as a focus of what director of mueller was going to have to look at. you've also got this incredible revelation day after day of how little donald trump understands about the basic of under pinnings of what the government is suppose to work and what the constitutional limits are under the presidency. he tries to run rough shot over them time and time again and also tends to do another thing what we've seen is pit the intelligence agencies against each other. as someone who

trump's conversation with admiral rogers, the head of the national security agency, was documented contemporaneously memo written by a senior nsa official, according to officials. if there's contemporaneous evidence of the president seeking that from admiral rogers, the head of the national security agency which he thought was inappropriate which dan coats, the director of national intelligence thought was inappropriate, that would be very damning. >> yes, in a special counsel investigation, that writing would work similarly to whatever we find out from the comey memos, if they're written contemporaneously. i think when you look at what's gone on here, wolf, what you see again is a situation where president trump, like gore lori said, is trying to shut it down but it's generating more suspicion. >> if there's no collusion, at the end of the day, he has succeeded in making this incrementally worse for himself and his administration by all of the things that he's spun up. >> this isn't the trump organization. this is the united states of america. when he was running the trump organization, he could tu

the irony is that security experts think hacking tool allegedly leaked from america's national security agencyapril may have been used by the attackers. and a microsoft warned about the threat this vulnerability posed and said anyone who had installed a security update to windows software the previous month would be ok. the worry is that many health service computers may not have been updated. the nhs is vulberable because typically it has not invested enough in computer security, these old computers, old systems, and if they don't keep them properly patched they will keep on getting hit by attacks like this. the health service will point out that it is just one of many organisations around the world affected by this attack. it now faces what could be a lengthy process of cleaning up its computers and making the networks safe again. i spoke without technology correspondent david lee a short time ago andi correspondent david lee a short time ago and i asked him if he knew who was behind these cyber attacks. we don't. these kind of attacks bounce from various proxies around the world meaning it

the president of microsoft, brad smith, has been highly critical of the us national security agency, have notified them when it found serious software flaws in their systems. and in the uk, the national crime agency is warning victims not to give in to ransom demands — as there's no guarantee they'll regain access to their files. our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones, reports. experts say this cyber attack was unprecedented. it was able to affect vulnerable computer systems, and in how it spread across the globe, hitting major public bodies like the nhs, but also individual users and several large multinational companies. the attack was thwarted with what has been described as a master kill switch before it could spread further, but companies that specialise in cyber security say further incidents are almost inevitable. i would say phase one is over, but i would wager there are more phases to come, both in terms of this attack, making sure companies are not vulnerable to this kind of malware, but also secondary attacks. people need to be aware of that possibility. with hund

according to sources the president asked the head of the national security agency and the director ofce to deny any collusion between trump a campaign team and the russians. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is joining us now. barbara, what kind of implication could this have specifically for director mike rogers, the director of the national security agency? >> you covered the pentagon. you know how this works. admiral rogers serves in the u.s. navy. he is a military officers. the u.s. military does not get involved in politics. the president of the united states apparently calling him up and asking him to deny this collusion, this after it comes to light that there's an fbi investigation. admiral rogers by all accounts doing the correct thing saying no, no thank you. inappropriate. i'm not going to get involved in any of this. but it is an extraordinary thing for a four-star military officer to be asked by a president to do something like this, to get involved in commenting on what are classified matters, comment on them perhaps publicly, something that is very inappropriate

the irony is that security experts think a hacking tool allegedly leaked from america's national security agencyve been used by the attackers. microsoft warned about the threat this vulnerability posed, but said anyone who had installed a security update to windows software the previous month would be ok. the worry is that many health service computers may not have been updated. the nhs is vulberable, because typically it has not invested enough in computer security, they're using old computers, old systems, and if they don't keep them properly patched, they will keep on getting hit by attacks like this. the health service will point out that it is just one of many organisations around the world affected by this attack. but it now faces what could be a lengthy process of cleaning up its computers and making the networks safe again. rory cellanjones, bbc news. as we mentioned the national health service here in britain was a major victim of the cyber attack. with many hospitals affected and surgeries cancelled, it's been declared a major national incident. our health editor hugh pym has this repo

circa news reporting obama's national security agency spied on american citizens with impunity, violated the constitution, and received a free pass from left wing national media for 8 fue full years, more than one out of 20 internet 70s conducted by nsa violated u.s. private information laws, fox news chief in washington correspondent, james rosen has our report. reporter: -- day president obama visited los angeles, last october to yuck it up with jimmy kimmel, lawyers for national security agency were quietly informing court that nsa ha systemicly violated rights of khan less americans. -- countless americans, a subject covered on kimmel's program. >> people expect the government to monitor this enough to protect them from bad guys, but, they worry that if government is in their too much then that who will protect them from government. reporter: declassified documents obtained by circa show fiso court rebuked the administration with greater frequency than previously disclosed to courts, nsa analyst used u.s. person offers to querrey the results of internet upstream collection even thoug

national security risk. as yates noted sometimes the intercepts come with the name already unmasked by the national security agency the information in the first place. you can't assume the unmasking is being done further down the line. >> steve, last year, the year 2016, according to the numbers we have been provided 1,934 names were unmasked. i have no clue if that's a lot or if it's little, just a random number to me. 1,934 people were unmasked win 2016. what's your thought about that? >> it gives you a sense, i think, of the level of security attention. i'm speculate hearing. i don't know in fact they're talking about the concerns of this being a campaign related unmasking. i don't have the ability to judge that. in this age of looking at terror connections with american citizens and concerns around the united states it doesn't surprise me at all in this hyper vigilance we have greater communications capabilities between foreign agents trying to penetrate and work or seduce moles or sleeper cells in the united states that is not happening. we're looking at the case of michael flynn or others they may have unmas

the president of microsoft, brad smith, has been highly critical of the us national security agency, them when it found serious software flaws in their systems. and in the uk, the national crime agency is warning victims not to give in to ransom demands as there's no guarantee they'll regain access to their files. wyre davies reports. experts say this cyber attack was unprecedented. in the way it was able to affect vulnerable computer systems, and also how it spread across the globe, hitting major public bodies like the nhs, but also individual users and several large multinational companies. the attack was thwarted with what has been described as a master kill switch before it could spread further, but companies that specialise in cyber security say further incidents are almost inevitable. i would say phase one is over, but i would wager there are more phases to come, both in terms of this attack, making sure companies are not vulnerable to this kind of malware, but also secondary attacks. they may be using variants of this. people need to be aware of that possibility. with hundreds

national security agency saying it weaponized a weakness in windows software and allowed it to be stolen by hackers. here's the details on this massive cyber attack. >> reporter: they are calling this on a worldwide attack on a unprecedented scale. there are 200,000 victims in at least 150 countries and warning it could get worse when people get back to work and turn on their computers. >> it's unprecedented, beyond anything we've seen before. the level of infection and the amount of damage potentially inflicting. >> reporter: britain's national health computers were the first to be affected forcing hospital emergency rooms to be shut down, stopping surgeries. doctors and hospital staff unable to access patient records or anything else on their computer networks. britain's prime minister theresa may said the system is now returning to normal. the virus known as wanna cry spread to russian banks, universities in china and federal express in the united states. the ransom ware affects computers through a bad link through e-mail. it spreads quickly throughout an organization's network, locki

but went on to point a finger at the national security agency, which originally identified the software flaw, then lost it when hackers broke into nsa computers. an equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the u.s. military having some of its tomahawk missiles stolen. in so i think the nsa should probably err on the side of disclosure. >> reporter: in seattle, kyle kosher works to defend against ha could have done more to prevent this attack. >> they could possibly figure out when these vulnerabilities are going to be rediscovered or leaked and alert the vendors before it gets out. but it doesn't seem like that happened in this case. >> reporter: microsoft says it has more than three and a half thousand working on it. >>> today the state department says it has evidence that syria as assad regime has carried out mass executions outside damascus. it released images that according to the u.s. show a crematorium. assad's forces had been pummeling the opposition in damascus and in the city of homs. but in a deal, it allowed hundreds to board buses out, and >> reporter: for year

is it connected -- [inaudible question] >> i think the national security agency, the malware we read so much about, the national security agency gets a lot of credit for that. is there one more quick question? >> why did the united states not use atomic weapons in vietnam? >> it was considered. a darpa funded group looked at that question there were reasons that would be disastrous, we were not trying to win hearts and minds. officials were confused, we are trying to help this government and people hate us. dropping tactical nuclear weapons were looks at, they were not going to be militarily effective and would have been even worse for the war. thank you for coming. i love questions, thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations]

it uses a vulnerability originally identified and stored by the us national security agency — but severale north korean connection. david campa nale reports. the wannacry ransomware cyber attack has struck around the world. its impact has been the most far reaching of cyber crimes ever committed. as government organisations and businesses world wide clean up after being caught out, attention has now turned to the people responsible. the military regime in pyongyang is assessed to have over a thousand computer experts working on cyber activities backed by thousands of support staff. california—based software expert symantec are looking into clues that may connect the attacks with programs previously attributed to north korea, including code in an earlier version of the wannacry ransomware. last month, us secretary of home and securityjohn kelly told media that a cyber attack from north korea was more likely than a military assault. but there is no hard evidence yet that proves pyongyang originated this attack. across asia, the best assessment is that the impact of the ransomware bug is not

is an unknown group called the shadow brokers which appear to have taken tools from the national security agencyand posted them online and indeed based on the evidence we have seen dusk far, it appears this has taken advantage of this. but also the nsa is self is vulnerable? right. we don't how the tools were taken from the nsa, there was an insider threat that walked off with them, it was, penetration by another intelligence service which made the thing online available. it is one the most mysterious incidents in groups we have in the sligo security space right now. we've got politicians saying we will do all we can to find the people responsible for this latest cyber attack but how realistic is that? it is a significant challenge, especially the people who carried this out our overseas in a country like russia or one that might not come with an international investigation. that is one of the things that makes fibre criminals so difficult to catch sometimes, is that they are in jury stitches that the us of the uk can't quite reach into easily. thank you for talking to us. and we'll find out how

have to differentiate between my role as commander of cyber command and director of the national security agency. the director of the national security agency as i have publicly testified before other committees, when nsa first gained initial knowledge in the summer of '15 that the russians were engaged in an effort to access political institutions, we informed the federal bureau of investigation to inform those organizations. as the director of nsa i don't deal directly with them. in turn i then made sure that d.o.d. and other elements within the government had the awareness. that's where my role as cyber command comes in. as cyber command, i become aware of efforts in terms of intrusions and hacks directed against u.s. infrastructure. i turned to myself and make sure that the d.o.d. system is optimized to withstand -- because they were coming after d.o.d. at the same time. in addition, we coordinate with the department of homeland security. is there a requirement for looking for d.o.d., for example, if we had to find voting infrastructure as critical infrastructure, then under the set of dutie

national security agency. m might have been much worse if not for two young cybersecurity researchers. one goes by the name of malware tech. he noticed every time a virus took over a computer, it pinged back to an unregistered web site. so he registered the web site ter $10. his fellow computer sleuth was watching in michigan, darien huss. >> through that registration of the domain, he activated the kill switch. >> reporter: huss said once an infected computer pinged the newly registered web site, it killed the malware, but he resisted being called a hero. >> it's kind of what i do on day-to-day basis, so for me it was just another day at the office i guess. >> reporter: the head of europol said its investigators are working closely with f.b.i. to identify the culprit, scott, in c least two prominent cyber security firms, including one in the u.s., say they're looking into technical clues that north korea may be behind the attack. >> pelley: charlie d'agata in our london newsroom. charlie, thanks. so what does

if this was a routine diplomatic exchange, why then, is the national security agency and cia trying toclean up a mess? that's the real question that if this was simply a normal diplomatic exchange there would be no need for panicking attempt to contain information and to comfort allies which is what the stories say is going on. that certainly is what these terrific journalists at the washington post at times and our colleagues at cnn will be trying to figure out in the hours and days ahead. >> for the washington post, cnn commentator and assistant editor at washington post, a lengthy story, clearly a lot of reporting going into this washington post story, new york times, now for all practical purposes and matched what washington post is reporting. you're getting these reactiones from white house officials and your reaction. >> so two quick points, wolf, in addition to everything that jeffrey david and glory said which is one, my colleagues greg miller and greg jafy are the best in the business and this is an exhaustive report that they broke about this transaction between lavrov and pr

more than one in 20 internet searches conducted by the national security agency involving americans during the obama administration violated constitutional privacy protections. that practice went on for years. the obama administration was partially rebuked by the fisa court for doing it. shocking new evidence tonight about what one sums your calls on the enormous abuse of power. james rosen has the story. >> on the day president obama visited los angeles locked october, lawyers for the national security agency were informing the court that nsa had systematically violated the rights of countless americans, a subject covered on the program. >> people expect the government to monitor this enough to protect them from bad guys. but they worry that if government is in there too much, then who's going to protect them from government? >> declassified documents show the court sharply review of the administration with greater frequency than previously disclosed. nsa analyst said used person identifiers to query the results of upstream collection. even though it was prohibited. minimization refers to

the national security agency director has a stark warning with possible russian election interference in the future. plus top republican senator lindsey graham now says he wants to investigate president trump's business dealings involving russia. joining us now are white house correspondent sara murray and manu raju. manu, you had a chance to speak with senator graham a little while ago. what did he tell you? >> that's right. we did talk about a hearing that he had yesterday in which sally yates and james clapper did testify before his committee. he did say he felt that sally yates did an incredible job and he also said that perhaps donald trump kept michael flynn in that position for 18 days as national security adviser, even as he was warned he could vehicle blackmailed because, quote, trump is very loyal to michael flynn. what intrigued lindsey graham was an exchange he had with james clapper about possible business connections between trump interests and russian interests and clapper's refusal to respond. listen to his exchange from yesterday. >> general clapper, during your inves

the malware used in the technique was stolen from the national security agency.cted the british national health service, russia's military -- ministry of the interior, logistics giant fedex. >> this is something we have not seen before. the global reach is unprecedented. the latest counties over 200,000 victims in at least 150 countries. haslinda: china's premier said they will continue with crude money policy, and they will maintain stability and financial markets. state media told christine lagarde they are continuing to manage slowing exchange rates. they say china will strike a balance between volatility, deleveraging and economic growth . a chinese aviation official said beijing is negotiating with u.s. and france for more air rights to meet growing demand for mainland airlines or direct flights. they are contacting existing rights which china says has been depleted. the talks with france are a part of china's plans to boost air road in the one world, one in trade initiative. angela merkel's christian democrats got a decisive victory in germany's most populo

and national security agency director admiral mike rogers goes later today.his all comes as nbc news confirms a "washington post" report that president trump asked coats and rogers to publicly deny the existence of any evidence of coordination between his campaign and russia during the election. mike viqueira is on capitol hill. michael, tell us about these new details coming in? >> you're right. and that approach by president trump that nbc has confirmed to mike rogers, the director of the national security agency, admiral mike rogers, and dan coats, the director of national intelligence, to publicly push back on these aelllegations or e public information made public by james comey march 20th testimony to congress there was an active investigation into russian interference in the election. we will hear from the director of national intelligence can dotes coming before the senate armed services committee. this was a prescheduled hearing on worldwide threats and mike rogers, both men were concerned enough according to the reports, to compare notes on their en

press are reporting that it seems that these cyber weapons could have been stolen from the national security agencythe timeline is interesting. a group called the shadow brokers leaked a treasured trove of tools from the nsa, so they say. in order to hit targets in the cyber arena. those were called zero day attacks. once they were out in the open, that was a free for all for any criminal enterprise and state actors to create tools based on these things found by the nsa. the question asked of the nsa is what obligation does the us government have if it finds a floor, why is it keeping that to themselves is said about applying companies like microsoft and sold the problem will quickly. ——a flaw. like microsoft and sold the problem will quickly. --a flaw. how likely that it spreads further? extremely likely. this is a sophisticated attack that targets computers that are not up to date. i have spoken to the us department of health and they are confident their system is not as badly affected and that could be attributed quite frankly by the added investment due to the way financing works over here. but

coates, the director of national intelligence and admiral mike rogers, the director of the national security agencyo publicly deny the existence of any evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. outfront now, national security correspondent for "the new york times," michael rosenberg. john avalon. and cnn legal analyst paul calen. john, this is a stunning report. >> it is a huge bombshell, because it seems to show a pattern of the president trying to tamp down, using his influence, to tamp down an ongoing investigation, direct request to the dni and head of national security agency. terrible news for the white house, again breaking late, but it's part of a pattern. and that pattern is deeply problematic and the problem is rooted in the president. >> and we are also learning tonight, paul, that as part of the investigation, that bob mueller is looking into, part of it is focus on obstruction of justice. that's what a source is telling cnn. we know as of tonight two separate appeals, the director of national intelligence, the director of the nsa, denyi inin collusion. they fel

the national security agency director mike rogers set to testify in this hour. the director of national intelligence has already responded to the report. and the former cia director told congress he was concerned that the russians may have recruited members of the trump campaign to influence our presidential election. we're live on capitol hill. it's 8:00 p.m. in manchester, england where our news teams are learning about more of the young victims and the bomber behind the u.k.'s worst terror attack in a decade. isis has claimed responsibility. did it have involvement? did it have influence? president trump are calling the terrorists evil losers. let's get to it. >> two very big stories today. the russian investigation that swept up members of team trump and the investigation in england. comprehensive coverage of both ahead. first, the suicide attack in manchester. officials now say at least 22 people are dead. some 60 others hurt after a man set off a bomb at an ariana grande concert. the bomber is 22-year-old salman abedi. british media report he was born in en

national security agency before it was leaked online.ckers exploited it when ransom where and spam e-mail attachment. it locks your computer and holding it hostage until a user pays a ransom. this is a screen shot as what it looks likes. it's alarming because of the sheer size and speed. hitting nearly 100 countries in the u.s., u.k., india, and china and russia. it affected all industries from the fedex corporation in the u.s., to the russian interior ministry, to the french carmaker, to british hospitals and medical centers. many hospitals were forced to cancel or delay routine procedures like x-rays, bio can procedures like cancer treatments. they are urging all americans to backup your data and download the windows security update. >> arthel: that's a crucial move there. thank you for the story. >> eric: president trump prepares for his first overseas trip later this week. israel and saudi arabia are on the side. concern about continuing threats with iran. one iranian predicts the regime will collapse just like the soviet union after

national security agency. this to attack computers through ransomware. either pay the ransom or your dad out will be deleted. this is a screenshot of what the data breach look like. this is attack is alarming. it included 90 countries and all types of industries from fedex, british hospitals, french carmakers, and others. it affected 20% of britain's health service. now that is back online. the uk prime minister calling the attack on hospitals disgusting. >> this is an unprecedented size of a cyber attack.>> microsoft released a security update. all microsoft mergers -- users are urged to update it as soon as possible. >>> governor jerry brown is seeking an unlikely ally, to create a high-speed train line between los angeles and san francisco. yesterday, he sent a letter to the president asking for a final environmental review. this project is behind schedule. in the past, brown and the trump administration have not seen eye to eye on environmental matters. >>> lots of sunshine out there today. let's talk with marc about the mother's day forecast. >> par

supposedly this has come from the national security agency in america.ternal blue, which was developed by kers spies and stolen and has been used to supercharge the hand of this mysterious kind of hackers. it is a massive story. it cuts right through the uk general election and is one of those stories which raises a lot of those stories which raises a lot of questions about how prepared the nhs was, about basic questions about fundamental cyber security, which the government will be quite nervous about. a lot of experts we have been speaking to sink the nhs was not the target here. itjust got caught up in this ransomware which was sent out and, unfortunately, in this ransomware which was sent outand, unfortunately, it in this ransomware which was sent out and, unfortunately, it had an effect on the health service. the big questions which will be raised is this weapon, built by the us security service and sold online and then used by hackers. questions will be raised here, we have known about this problem for a while. microsoft has a free patch available

. >> the national security agency in some of their older tours were league. this is malware. and it's taken a nasty twist anything that was originated from the nsa actually has been tweaked and customized. >> the attack puts ran somewhere on computers and requires a ransom to be paid to release its files. fedex said they have been hacked. the hackers are exposing weakness in microsoft updates. >> it's a weakness that has not been supportive by microsoft and last two or three years. thing -- the manufactures are no longer looking for security vulnerabilities. >> in england the ran somewhere attacks posted -- focused on the health system across the country. patients were asked to not come to hospital muslims emergency. this cyber attack is a good reminder to make sure your software systems and firewalls are up-to-date. in the big picture company should be vigilant about how they handle sensitive data. >>> there is a new development in the wells fargo scandal. a lawyer representing the customer say that the number of unauthorized accounts may be as high as 3.5 million. wells far

. >> they were using tools stolen from the national security agency. >> it starts guys a simple phishing-mail that spread like wild fire, attacking tens of thousands of computers at university and even hospitals. >> a number have reported suffering from this attack. >> in the united kingdom ed ksh kblap the >> it's a heinous crime. they're putting people's lives at risk. >> officials say it is time to update old i.t. system. >> whatever updates microsoft is sending out, upload them immediately. if you are already been infected i suggest you reach out to a legitimate cyber security firm and see what they suggest getting the system up. >> microsoft sent a patch to fix the loophole but without it computer he's are vulnerable. >> may take us weeks or months or we may never find out who is behind this. >> abc 7 news new york. >>> for some competitions, wins isn't everything. >>> if your mother's day plans are outside you'll want to hear the forecast. >>> look who is back, for a day an who are these people? the energy conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something... humon

the entire culture of the national security agency is focused on obeying the law, compliance with theaw, and i remember walking through with the attorney general, walking through and she stopped by a soldier, said to the soldier what you do if you find an american communications in the stream of intelligence? and he gave exactly the right answer. and afterwards, the attorney general said you're not supposed to ask a question if you don't know what the answers going to be. i said i knew exactly what the training here was going to be, what that guy had been through, and i knew he knew the answer and i'm surprise. >> tucker: but you sort of wonder, i wonder a lot of things about nsa but one is how would we really know? so it's obviously highly technical and highly classified and if i'm a member of congress on one of the committees and i call over and say that like to see this, and i'm sure i'm getting those things? status of the hardest problem with intelligence, gotta be secret and yet you want and the democracy to be sure that the government runs it and the intelligence committee is no

when he tried to kill this story by going to the national security agency head and going to the head nal intelligence, was he trying to kill the story or trying to stop the investigation? what is he up to? can you parse that? can you figure that out? >> it's an important distinction. at times he seems to be trying to stop the narrative about russia. at other times, there are allegations he may be trying to obstruct justice. >> when he says, kill the investigation of anyonflynn, is because he likes flynn or flynn has stuff on him? >> trump allies say they're friends. but a lot of reporters and republicans and democrats in washington say it's about more than friendship with general flynn, that the president's actions mean he's trying to, in some way, protect the white house, protect his presidency, for whatever reason. >> what's the general thrust of the president's defense right now? he's overseas with the pope and the vatican, he's been with benjamin netanyahu, the leaders of saudi arabia. but when he is back here, what is his plan to save himself? >> within the white house, there's a

. >> they were using tools stolen from the national security agency. >> it starts guys a simple phishing e-mail that spread like wild fire, attacking tens of thousands of computers at university and even hospitals. >> a number have reported suffering from this >> in the united kingdom ed ksh kblap the >> it's a heinous crime. they're putting people's lives at risk. >> officials say it is time to update old i.t. system. >> whatever updates microsoft is sending out, upload them immediately. if you are already been infected i suggest you reach out to a legitimate cyber security firm and see what they suggest getting the system up. >> microsoft sent a patch to fix the loophole but without it computer he's are vulnerable. >> may take us weeks or months or we may never find out who is behind this. >> abc 7 news new york. >>> for some competitions, wins isn't everything. >>> if your mother's day plans are outside you'll want to hear the forecast. >>> look who is back, for a day anywhere internet speeds 20x faster. at&t fiber sounds amazing. wait a sec, i'm not done yet. less than 12% of at&t ho

just for example, a lot of what he has to do involves getting intercepts from the national security agency involving contacts with russians and americans. the national security agency hates to disclose anything particularly anything that might become publicly disclosed because they are concerned about sources and methods. the way they gather information and data. this will be complicated and time consuming for mueller. we all want our answers yesterday as to who will be charged and were there crimes. we are, i suspect, a year off from any decisions like that. >> meanwhile, ron, senator suggested that maybe robert mueller is already interviewing people and piecing the puzzle together outside of public view. we don't know what the special counsel has done in fact. maybe michael flynn. maybe it is all quiet on the michael flynn front because he is not cooperating. working with special counsel and giving up what he knows. is that possible? >> obviously, i don't know. we don't know what the special counsel is doing. it goes to a larger question that i have been wondering about. we know robert m

national security agency. experts warn the problem will get bigger in the new work week. >> what's happening is people will go back to their offices that could have been infected and they will turn on their computer and they will have the surprise of having none of their files. >> reporter: already ransom wear locked up 200,000 computers in 150 counties. it distributed operations at helmets -- disrupted operations at hospitals. >> the principle cyber threat. >> the attack holds your system hostage forcing users to pay $300 or risk their data being erased. >> once they got into your system it is painstakingly difficult to get it out. causes a dissection of a lot of different things through the internet. >> reporter: over the weekend a cyber security engineer stumbled on a way to limit the spread of the worm. it bought precious time for organizations trying to block the attack. exadministers urge companies to update their operating software and back up data to protect themselves. microsoft put out a post that sa

and now a new report that the national security agency under former president barack obama did, in fact, routinely violate american privacy protection while scouring and did it until final days before donald trump was elected last fall. all of this new information is according to a new released once top secret document dump that chronicals what some call the most serious constitutional abuse to date by the u.s. intelligence community. fox news chief washington correspondent james rosen is here with the report. and of course, more details. james, good evening. >> cheryl, good evening to you. the foreign intelligence surveillance court known as the fisa court is so secretive, we have no pictures of it to show you. it proves 99% of the government's request to conduct surveillance on american citizens. now to classify documents first obtained that they fisa court sharply rebuked the obama administration when its lawyers quietly informed the court two weeks before election day that the national security agency had systematically violated countless americans' rights over a period of years. sp

no, the national security agency , the now where'd that we've read so much about, he ran somewhere. no, the national security agency has a lot of credit for that. is there one more quick question? >> why did the united states use atomic weapons on vietnam? >> it was considered. oddly, a darpa funded crew looked at that question. there was a lot of reasons i was going to be disastrous. part of the problem in vietnam as we were trying to win hearts and minds. pentagon officials were really confused, like we are trying to help this government and people hate us. dropping tactical nuclear weapons were looked at by this group and first of all they were going to be militarily attacked it and probably would have done even worse. i'm not a time. t thank you so much for coming. i love questions. i love seeing readers. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> your selected to best-selling nonfiction books according to the conservative book

america's national security agency warned france that it was being hacked before the election.ter's rock. i never heard her say she wanted to be prime minister until she was quite established in the shadow cabinet. donald trump's former national security advisor michael flynn was vulnerable to russian blackmail — that stunning assertion came yesterday from the former acting attorney general sally yates. she told congress she warned the white house they had a problem in general flynn. with each new revelation there is a little more intrigue, more detail and great many more questions about why mr trump hired flynn in the first place, and why, after he was warned about him, he didn't fire him earlier. we were not the only ones that knew all this. that the russians also knew about what general flynn had done and the russians also knew that general flynn had misled the vice president and others because in the media accounts it was clear from the vice president and others they were repeating what general flynn had told them and this was a problem because not only did we believe that

it claims members stole the ransomware from the national security agency, which is extremely difficultverify. >>> tonight president trump is trying to move beyond his decision to fire fbi director james comey. the justice department interviewed eight candidates for the job today. the president meantime capped his rough week with a speech to a friendly audience. abc news reporter chuck sivertsen has our story. >> reporter: president trump escaped the heat in the capitol with a commencement address at liberty university. >> no one has ever achieved anything significant without a chorus of critics standing on the sidelines explaining why it can't be done. >> reporter: the president might have been speaking to the many critics still condemning his abrupt dismissal of james comey as fbi director. mr. comey was spotted briefly today at his virginia home. mr. trump seems to think it will be easy to pick a successor. >> i think the process is going to go quicker because almost all of them are very well known. they've been vetted over their lifetime. >> reporter: and there was a steady stream o

national intelligence daniel coats and to admiral michael s rogers, the director of the national security agency, urnling them to publicly deny the existence of any evidence of collusion during the 2016 election, coats and rogers refused to comply with the requests, which they both deemed to be appropriate accordg to two current and two form officials. when asked about that in today's hearing, dan coats said this. >> i have always believed that given the nature of my position and the information in which we share, it's not appropriate for me to comment publicly on any of that so on this topic, as well as other topics, i don't feel it's appropriate to characterize discussions and conversations with the president. >> in yesterday's report, they added this, trump's conversation with rogers was documented and contemporaneously in an internal memo written by a senior nsa official according to the officials, it is unclear if a similar memo was prepared by the office of national intelligence to document trump's conversation with coats. officials said such memos could be made available to both the speci