ambassador to china, nicholas burns joined me now for this action to the step. victoria coates, it's great to see you. you think about all the problems and issues that we had with china, the tension under joe biden's leadership the spy balloon most recently. you would think the people in this country found out the chinese were hacking re: e-mails and those of government officials, somebody might be concerned but they don't appear to be bothered under bothered. >> this is a bad problem. i would point out that the revelation of the attack was on june 16 which was the day secretary blinken landed in beijing. clearly china had targeted the state department which doesn't exactly have a wonderful history in terms of securing their e-mails. they were targeting the state department right before the trip so they can gain insight into what secretary blinken will be talking about. >> speaking of anthony blinken trip my understanding he was only when they got to meet with president xi jinping but we saw janet yellen go after john kerry go after her and the meeting with lowe

board to china nicholas burns and other high ranking tate department officials. the cyber guy. kurt, explain to us what's happening here. >> hey, joey, good morning to you. you know, far worse than the china spy balloon debacle, this chinese-based attack is a major cybersecurity breach of one of the most sensitive posts of any u.s. ambassadors. and it's the tip of the iceberg. it appears not only did we let our guard down for china to get the ambassador, nicholas burns, but with additional senior diplomats in china too. china hackers also got the commerce secretary, gina rah mondeaux, the u.s. strategy in detail ahead of secretary blinken's trip to china. this has sent alarms started off at the cyber curt and infrastructure security agencies, and that started back in may and june. china's breach of microsoft cloud e-mails may expose deeper problems is what we're looking at. microsoft acknowledged a breach july 1 11th, and even though they're taking steps to block this abuse, a lot of questions remain about how and when microsoft cloud services were compromised. t

ambassador to china nicholas burns. burns is just the latest named official to fall victim to a sophisticated hacking operation that began in may but wasn't discovered until a month later. microsoft determined the hackers were based in china even though the hacked government accounts were not classified, administration officials suspect that they gave beijing salvalua insights into u.s. thinking ahead of the visit by the secretary of state. >>> rishi sunak has suffered a defeat. the prime minister has struggled to reverse his plummeting fortunes in the nine months since he has held office. boris johnson quit parliament last month in anger over a report found that he lied to lawmakers. >>> now to widespread condemnation over the desecration of the koran in sweden for the second time in just weeks. an iraqi nationalist is behind both of the stunts that damaged the holy book but most of the anger seems to be directed at sweden for allowing the latest public gathering to take place. protestors stormed the embassy in baghdad

. >> hackers linked to beijing have reportedly hacked into the email account of nicholas burns, the usassador to china. according to the wall street journal, they may have compromised hundreds of thousands of us government email accounts. as we learned last week that us commerce secretary gina raimondo account was also breached. it's unclear how much sensitive information may have been exposed, if any, but the state department will only say that the investigation into the spy operation is still ongoing. >> tensions are rising on the korean peninsula, with north korea's defense minister issuing a nuclear threat after a us submarine arrived in the region. abc's martha raddatz got exclusive access to that us nuclear sub. it comes amid growing concern about the fate of a us soldier who recently defected to north korea. abc's faith abubey has the very latest. faith good morning. >> good morning to you, andrew. in light of these new threats from north korea, the pentagon is blasting the defense minister. calling his rhetoric incredibly dangerous. this morning, nuclear tensions between the us

he is greeted on the tarmac at the beijing capital airport by nicholas burns.f this was indeed a hack from china, they were trying to glean more sensitive information about those visits as well as u.s. policy as it re-engages with its allies in east asia. when we learned last week about the gina raimondo alleged hack, the administrator of foreign affairs in beijing was asked about it. they said the u.s. should account for its cyberattacks as soon as possible rather than spread false information and divert attention. at that time, the u.s. cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency said an investigation by microsoft determined hackers had accessed and taken out unclassified data from a small number of accounts. that is probably a key on the strategy of whomever did hack these individuals, they targeted a select number of people who perhaps -- you can get the kind of information they were looking for and would not be as detected as quickly as a massive attack. this is one we will keep watch on. we will have to get a comment or no comment from the u.s. state

i think it's safe to say, nicholas burns, the u.s.mbassador to china really, you know pointing that out this morning. then we know that john kerry, he's also, you know, locked in plans to come to beijing perhaps, you know, next week. so certainly things are progressing, and hopefully this will, you know, be a real reset in the u.s./china relationship. >> thank you so much for that appreciate that. >>> so much more to come here on cnn. former president donald trump campaigns in iowa and tries to spin multiple investigations to his advantage. >>> and the shooter who killed two dozen people in a texas walmart receives his sentence in federal court. we'll have that and d more afte the break. try killing bugs the worry-free way. not the other way. zevo traps use light to attract and trap flying insects with no odor and no mess. they work continuously, so you don't have to. zevo. people-friendly. bug-deadly. >>> on the campaign trail, former president donald trump has been trying to spin the multiple special counsel investigations to his ad

ambassador to china, nicholas burns and another state department official who traveled to beijing withretary of state antony blinken last month. the move may have allowed the hackers to gain insight into the u.s.'s plans ahead of their planned trip to china. florida congressman carlos jiminez grilled the state department about top biden administration officials recent trips to beijing during a house select committee hearing on china yesterday. watch. >> the point i'm trying to make is that we continue to be asking for all these high level meetings with high level officials in china. we continue to do that. please meet us, please, you know, can we go over there and doesn't it seem to you like that may be looked at around the world as a sign of weakness, that we are the junior partner? >> respectfully, sir, i completely disagree. >> fair enough, you disagree, that's fine, you disagree. i only have two minutes and 406 seconds. -- two minutes and 40 seconds. i'll accept your answer. maria: congressman carlos jiminez joins me right now. you asked the right question. i don't know how you can

ambassador to china nicholas burns.n with an intelligence gathering campaign. how did this happen on our cyber attacks too sophisticated for our internet security companies to manage? walk us through how you think this happened, where the proper precautions were not in place. >> hi, thank you for having me. absolutely. government, in general, represents right now the highest number of ransomware attacks. what we saw last quarter alone is that one in 25 organizations was attacked, and 90% of attacks are starting with phishing email. why is that? think about email. email is the most vulnerable. it is the easiest way to get into your system. you have access to email everywhere in your life, not just on your personal computer, but also on a mobile device and even on a wearable device, so it is just so pervasive and vulnerable to attack. >> why is government so vulnerable? you said it is the highest number of ransomware attacks? is the awareness perhaps not up to par as it is in the private world? >> i think it is two fold.

ambassador to china nicholas burns. cnn is told it is part of a recent targeted intelligence gathering campaign that also included accessing emails of assistant secretary of state for east asia and commerce secretary. microsoft says it began in mid may when hackers used a stolen sign-in key to burrow their way into the accounts. >>> we're le more about the gilgo beach murder investigation as detectives dig for evidence that could link to other cold cases ir states. officials believe that rex heuermann's long island home is the crime scene for some of those killings. brynn gingras has more. >> he's laying on his bunk, he's been extremely quiet. not really talkative to staff. >> reporter: accused serial killer rex heuermann alone and under suicide watch behind bars as the investigation into his alleged killings expands. >> i think in the coming days as we continue to gather evidence, anything is possible. >> reporter: his wife of more than 27 years now filing for divorce. in a statement her attorney said that the sensitiv

nicholas burns and another state department official travel to beijing with him for duplicate last monthe u.s.'s plans ahead of the trip to china. meanwhile the white house is speaking out after former secretary of state henry kinzinger met with xi jinping and beijing's defense minister. >> unfortunate citizen can meet with the defense and head of communication to the united states can't that is something that we want to solve and why we continue to get the military lines of communication back open because when they are not open and you have a time when tensions are high, miscalculations in the risk goes high. maria: they want open communication even as a chinese continue to hack into the united states institutions. joining me to preen allied commander and national security advisor in jones group international chairman general james joan is with me. it's good to see you, thank you very much for being here. >> maria my pleasure it's nice to be up at this time of the day. maria: thank you for getting up early with us. what is the right response to communist china. we have a situation that

they hacked the e-mail account of our chinese ambassadors, nicholas burns china is saying show us thepouting off about that. what do you make of all that, gordon? >> these hacks were in coordination with hy high level visits to beijing. even though cities were unclassified e-mails china got this was really important. also in china stuck not going to art making fast preparations to do it, the loss of any information even unclassified is important. the problem here is you have the biden administration continuing to try to minimize these attacks on our infrastructure and they should not be doing that. right now the biter ministration should be top on this but they are not. >> why? we know the chinese spy craft that went flying over sensitive military sites for more than a week. it was shot down. the biter ministration has said oh, let's let bygones be guided by arms, why? since the president really wants to establish lines of communication with china. he is willing to overlook anything. that is what he called the spy balloon in january and february silly. of course it wasn't it was surve

ambassador to china nicholas burns as well as assistant secretary of state of east asia who traveled to china with secretary of state antony blinken. the hackers were conducting a targeted operation gatherings u.s. intelligence and able to access hundreds of government emails. we learned chinese hackers stole emails from commerce secretary. they are up to no good. >> bill: ten minutes past. panic perhaps over your passport. airports are packed and travel is in full swing. the state department struggling to keep up with demand. can you get one, right? chad pergram has that from the hill. >> good morning. it's a tried and true maneuver. if you have problems with your passport, call your representative or senator. that doesn't work anymore. the passport office is facing a crush of requests, lawmakers can't assist. >> we are not able to diagnose what exactly is the cause but i can tell you as a former executive, it's the failure to be competent by the administration. a failure to focus on simply delivering even the most simple, basic and fundamental constituent services to americans. >>

so they contacted nicholas burns to china and they also hacked the assistant secretary of state for eastails apparently were involved. how big is this dan? how that could be? >> it is pretty big. as much as it pains me to say this is a chinese intelligent success, and a failure on our part. the goal for the intelligence community is always foot to detect threats way out west and then preempt them before any damages caused. and that includes cyber hacking, and in this case the hacking took place in the u.s. government this discovered it after the damage was done. so where in the response phase and even though these emails were reportedly unclassified but still not where you want to be. unclassified does not mean unimportant to chinese spies. >> so china continues his behavior book back on us. and now they were asked about this in a committee hearing yesterday. listen to this exchange. >> did he communicate that they would be repercussions if this actions continue to happen? >> he said that what china is doing is dangerous and this, and it will not change our operations. >> this is more, w

ambassador to china, nicholas burns is among those affected.s is the most senior state department official known to be targeted in the attack. the news comes after a tense week of diplomacy between the u.s. and china. chinese leaders are rejecting pressure from the white house to take tougher action on climate change. joining me now to discuss this is former u.s. state department and u.n. official senior fellow at the atlantic council, sjamie metzl. the biden administration's position seems to be that this is somewhat standard practice. it does happen from time to time. here are some of the reactions that we heard just in the last couple of days. >> the incident in question affected only our unclassified system. as soon as we actually at the state department -- >> that's a big deal, the unclassified system is huge. >> so we now have an ongoing investigation that will determine the impact. as soon as we detected it, which goes back some time, we took immediate steps. >> it is china doing espionage. that's what nation states do. we have to defend

ambassador to china, nicholas burns, and other officials? >> reporter: that's right.ter we learned that state and commerce departments emails were also accessed by these hackers linked to beijing. one of these email accounts belonging to commerce secretary gina raimondo. and now u.s. officials are telling my colleagues carol lee and peter alexander, that these two u.s. diplomats, the u.s. ambassador to china as well as another top diplomat at the state department were also targeted. now, it's important to note these were unclassified emails that were targeted by these hackers, but it is worth noting how heavily involved and close they were to secretary of state antony blinken's high-stakes trip to beijing last month. remember, he met with his chinese counterparts to smooth over relations with china. worth noting, the chinese government has not commented on this hack so far, so there's a lot more to learn out of this developing story, jose. >> and this comes on the same day as a high-profile meeting with leaders from seven artificial intelligence companies? what's expe

ambassador to china, nicholas burns, and the assistant secretary of state for east asia.ed from may through mid-june around the same time that secretary of state antony blinken made his historic visit to china. according to a u.s. official familiar with the matter, the hack was part of a targeted intelligence gathering campaign pu it appears the breach was limited to the diplomats unclassified email accounts. joining me live from the aspen security forum, andrea mitchell, host of "andrea mitchell reports" right here on msnbc. i know you sat down with the secretary of state antony blinken a short time ago. what did he have to say about china? >> a lot about china and the rest of the world. we did talk about what priscilla thompson and bill karins and you were just talking about, climate change because our special envoy on climate john kerry was in beijing last week and china refused to agree to any kind of reduction in missions. without china agreeing, nothing is going to happen globally. they are the world's greatest emitter of pollution, more pollutants than the other de

. >> speaking of china, the chinese hack, now china has hacked nicholas burn's emails and as well as i am told reiably by a former cyber official and other experts that 90% of the government's business is done on the unclassified -- in the unclassified space. so they were able to learn in a novel way, which is very alarming, a lot about our business. is there some indication this was going on for quite some time because of how novel their approach was, that they could learn our strategy as you're approaching your important re-establishment of relations on your big trip to beijing? >> so, first, you're exactly right. i can't speak to the direct impact of any particular incident. i can say that the incident in question affected only our unclassified system. as soon as we actually at the state department -- >> that's a big deal. that's huge. >> we have an onto going investigation that will determine the impact. as soon as we detected it, which goes back some time, we took immediate steps both to make sure we were strengthening our protections and defenses, reported it immediately to mic

officials telling nbc news hackers accessed the email account of nicholas burns, u.s.nts of assistant secretary of state for east asia, and commerce secretary gina raimondo. we're told this was limited to the diplomats' unclassified email accounts. no response from the chinese embassy in washington. >>> turning to alabama where republican lawmakers are refusing to follow an order from the supreme court. earlier this year, the high court affirmed a federal court ruling ordering the state to redraw congressional maps that include two districts where black voters make up the voting age majority. in a special session that was called to redraw the map, the republican-controlled legislature is gearing up to pass a new map with just one majority black seat. in short they're ignoring the court. joining us now is nbc ease jane timm, and former democratic congresswoman donna edwards. these lawmakers are basically refusing to abide by the supreme court decision it sounds like. >> you know, that's what democrats have been saying all week, advocates, experts say that the maps that

hackers linked to china may have broken into the official e-mail account of nicholas burns, the u.s.assador to beijing. the wall street journal and others report it's believed hundreds of thousands of unclassified u.s. government emails were accessed. it's part of a broader cyber-espionage scheme disclosed earlier this month. security has tightened in new zealand for the soccer women's world cup after a gunman attacked construction workers in auckland. the shooter killed two people at a building site where he had worked. he was found dead after a gun battle with police, near hotels where soccer teams are staying. still, fans seemed undeterred. >> i do think new zealand is doing a good job of security. there hasn't been any issues other than this morning which is tragic and unfortunate, but i do believe they were able to contain it, keep the crowd away, keep the situation under control and find alternate routes for the people to get to the games. stephanie: the competition opened with new zealand upsetting norway, 1-0, for its first-ever win in women's world cup play. co-host australi

through when you give your life to god, seriously , the priest and mother, as always, the color is burning nicholasnd i agree with him that the lord is leading you through what here are the obstacles. yes, but hmm, maybe not in a long way sometimes, but here he brought me here, i am very grateful . better sunday better and uz this. when does a hierar, uh, pray with schismatics? he himself falls into the same split with the sketch. ah, and with this, many priests from africa did not agree with this decision. i did not turn to the moscow patriarchate to find a safe canonical church that the priest wanted them to accept, no matter how long and many there were in the church, all the time i lived in russia for me this is a choice. it was heavy, but it was necessary, that is, i personally had no other choice. we stopped communicating with one of the greek friends, it also hurts when someone rather falls out in their life. who was a long time ago when we crossed the moscow patriarchate of italy will rebuild, it’s like a house church and we built a wooden ceiling to remind us of such beautiful cozy wooden

ambassador nicholas burns. she met with her counterparts like the new economics are. they xi jinping loyalist going way back. she met with li qiang, the premier. she met with you gong. she met with leo cohen of the finance ministry. she met everyone about except for xi jinping. we will have to see whether the message resonated in beijing or not. >> our chief north asian correspondent stephen engle there with us. the yuan remains in focused with chinese cpi and ppi for june week monday. that is when we are expecting to get those. the outlook for our chief rates correspondent for age and life contributor garfield reynolds. the expectations, when it comes to inflation is that it will continue to show weakness. that will be a sure thing when it comes to further downward pressure on the yuan. garfield: yeah. you can see how much downward pressure there is on the yuan by the way the gap between the vix, what the pboc says, ok, this is where the yuan can trade, either side of this. but the onshore and offshore yuan that have been considerably weaker stated like that. last ti

the beijing airport, and at the bottom of the stairs being graded by his ambassador in china, nicholas burns, who has some sensitive information in potentially classified emails. some sources telling the wall street journal that perhaps unclassified not so sensitive emails could have been potentially accessed. the wall street journal story appears to focus on a small number of individuals who however are responsible for the u.s.-china relationship. that is why those individuals were potentially targeted. when we learned the commerce secretary's emails were potentially hacked by the chinese, the minister of foreign affairs in beijing was asked about it. they said the u.s. should account for its cyberattacks as soon as possible rather than spread. information and -- spread false information and divert attention. the wall street journal says these alleged hacks from china began in may and were not discovered until mid-june. whether they are still ongoing is yet to be determined. we have not gotten a comment from any u.s. officials yet on this latest revelation from the wall street journal. haid

burned down during a fire, but what does another name not say in the city anymore? nicholasdivided before his death. lived. to dyatlov bury yourself bequeathed. how do you know in nesvizhe but also decided to leave his heart in this church, according to one version, they put him in a glass bottle because they walled him up in one wall. but in which specific one it is still not clear, yes, and was there such a thing at all? on another version, the location of the heart gave birth is still known, when you go into the costume , stand at the code and look on the right side. see columns. in it, according to local historians, a chest is hidden in the heart of the novogrudok governor in its artistic design. the temple didn’t really remind the church and vilnius and elephants, and i don’t mistaken later, historians explained that over the inner brotherhood is good. the masters of the vilnius school worked hard, as i already said in 1743 the shrine was badly damaged by fire , the best architects of that time were engaged in restoration, money for the restoration was allocated by niko

askania nova reserve where nicholas ii came and where zebras walk , like in africa by order of the pentagon why did the former staff of the reserve abandon the animals and hastily burned all the documents, and why ukraine did not develop this gigantic tourist potential bargaining is not appropriate here. why did the judge in the head at the last moment stop the deal with biden jr.'s investigation? will the father's son lead to impeachment ? . and boats and submarines 3.000 military personnel, a unique event in its entertainment every year, gathering a huge number of spectators, both on the city's embankments and scrap screens throughout the country in st. petersburg , the main naval parade was held today, hosted by the supreme commander-in-chief vladimir putin among the guests of honor this time were the heads of foreign states, who participated from st. petersburg the lights of the rostral columns soar up exactly one second after the salvo of artillery salute on the day of the navy nevskaya akvatoriya becomes a scene where the roles are thoroughly painted at the bridges at the monuments at the spiers, even the current and the winds. but the main thing, of course, bel

of liter nicholas my due in caracas is calling for his extra extradition to face trees and tractors. most of the rock is threatening to separate diplomatic ties. with sweden, if a plan burning of the koran goes ahead, it would be the 2nd time these womic holy book has been burned at a protest and stockholm, in less than a month in the iraqi capital, baghdad, hundreds of supporters of the religious leader. we'll talk outside of the store and the swedish embassy in response to the plan, burning the scale, the walls of the building and set a fire inside. the rank of government has condemned the attempt. buick a. b is a journalist for the swedish daily newspaper. dockens need to, she joins us from stockholm. orac up. what's the latest? what more can you tell us? or? so the latest is the so this gathering this uh, authorized gathering is not ongoing. i'm, it's still very quiet at the scene, so we haven't seen any kind of riots yet. we don't know. it's very well survived in by of hundreds a little bit more than 100 policemen. and they have also decided to have a lot of cameras on the spot. so it's still quite quiet. who is the remember? yes, no, go ahead please. so those. yeah, t

nicholas ii came and where zebras walk, like in africa, what arranged ukraine, one of the ukrainian biological laboratories, which worked by order pentagon why the former personnel of the reserve abandoned the animals and hastily burnedts, and why ukraine did not develop the gigantic tourist potential of the sea of ​​\u200b\u200bazov, bargaining is inappropriate here. why did the judge in the case of vere at the last moment stop the deal with the investigation of baidan jr. before impeachment, new pre-election twist. the land for which they fought and not even every local long-suffering jamu and kashmir could get here. until recently, between india and pakistan , the only land route connecting the indian casper with the steel country was dmitry melnikov personally saw the mountainous three hundred kilometer winding road. how the disputed territory changed when the disputes stopped.

askania nova reserve where nicholas ii came and where zebras walk , like in africa commissioned by the pentagon why did the former staff of the reserve abandon the animals and hastily burn all the documents, and why did ukraine not develop this gigantic tourist potential? trade here irrelevant, why did the dellaver judge stop the deal with biden jr at the last minute? will her father 's son lead to impeachment? trainer. almost five dozen ships, boats and submarines 3,000 servicemen unique in its entertainment event annually, gathering a huge number of spectators, both on the city's embankments and at television screens throughout the country, today the main naval parade was held in st. petersburg , hosted by its supreme commander -in-chief vladimir putin, and among the guests of honor this time were the heads of foreign states who participated in the summit russia africa and whom the president separately invited to kronstadt about the highlights of the parade from st. petersburg or the same goal of my colleagues, we zarif from a small rocket ship, sovetsk alexei petrova with vitaly karmazin from kronstadt alexei golovko from the corvette and yekaterina fisenko from the