clinton in the nsa and nsa people who know all, see all, they know about all of the leeks because theyrecords of it because they control all of the fiber optics in the country would know about this. there's hacking and there's leaking. leaking is when someone internally or remotely reveals information improperly to a third party. that's what happened to mrs. clinton. it happened day after day after day, 47, 48,000 e-mails that were leaked. hacking is when someone remotely enters an information system and altered it remotely. so that the operator of the system doesn't know there was an alteration. that is what did not happen here. no matter what the "the new york times" and the "washington post" are opining this morning, they cannot point to any evidence whatsoever that the outcome of the election was altered by foreign agents. there certainly was leaking, that leaking could have been facilitated by people in the nsa, by a rogue in mrs. clinton's campaign or by a foreign entity. but that was a leak. that was not a hack. >> judge, can did have some polling around the time that all of the

trust me, i was as disappointed as anyone to discover the nsa was a lot less like a bourne movie. there was a lot more paperwork. things that might some und repetitive to him, but to a person versed in intelligence, the person understands this is detail, this is nuance, this is significant. going back to his statements about the general hostility to the evidence for information, that it's frankly that is scary , to me. we have troops deployed around the world. the u.s. intelligence apparatus isn't just consequential to the united states, but our allies. these are areas in which we want someone to take it seriously and try to be getting it right and to have someone say, not just pdb, but intelligence, paired with this general hostility towards the intelligence community. "you guys got it wrong towards the wmd's, so who cares what you think." that to me is some of the most frightening things that we are hearing. delegated, the other doctors under him to get the x-rays and blood test and all of that kind of thing every day. >> as long as those are the doctors are the ones making the

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it is a very regulated, particularly at the nsa, regulated environment. those concerns, i had a fairly significant degree of confidence in with respect to surveillance authorities in particular. there are some other areas "later that i was in the private or civil liberties community, i would pay more attention to, but the surveillance area is one that i think we can have a significant degree of confidence in the workforce. , ih respect to the workforce guess i understand that there is concerned, certainly for people thinking about entering the workforce. there is some concern. i would say having spent a lot of time in the national security community, this is not a community of snowflakes. all right? this is people who can take a little bit of heat, and so i would say i'm not quite as concerned that people are going to flee the workforce. certainly if they have been there for a while, they have been through a lot of ups and downs, particularly in the last 15 years. they have felt political pressure. they have seen leaders come and go. there is a good chunk

most of what the nsa does overseas is not regulated by statute or by the fisa court. sharing of that information with more domestic agencies is primarily a function of executive order, 12 triple city -- 12 triple three. what the fbi can do in terms of investigating a group, hypothetical i gave up then and demanding we need to go after these groups because they are all painted by muslim extremism, that's very discretionary. and there's good reason for that actually. we wanted to have fbi offices have a good deal of discretion in these threat assessment and lower-level investigations. we have one to loosen up some of that information sharing. high walls were a problem for counterterrorism. so we've done these things and we put in place civil liberties officers like i was, general counsel offices, inspectors general. we have had more transparency, so we have counterbalanced some of that with checks and balances, but what i worry about is what i call the trump factor. does that kind of civil liberties protections, which is based on a certain degree of, you know, adhering

the dia, nsa are in the throes of organization and restructuring the greater theme of integration. to be sure, to be clear, we do have to safeguard and required by law to oversee analytic integrity. as well, each agency has an independent arm somewhere in its organization, those producing intelligence products also -- who also watch for safeguarding analytic integrity. mr. brennan: i want to open up questions from the audience. the pdb was a unique product during president ford and nixon. the entire u.s. intelligence agency is the gold standard worldwide. a lot of foreign intelligence services seek to emulate what the u.s. intelligence community is doing it, how we do our work, how we collect, how we analyzed but also how we provide the head of state and government. we have had a number of conversations with our government counterparts. do you know of any other similar type of products or services to their head of state that comes anywhere close to the pdb? mr. clapper: no. there is no other country on the planet that it goes to the lengths as we do. this is a very serious endeavor

nsa still operates under their implementation of the detail requirement for 12 triple three. under that they are supposed to also narrow as much as they can when they think there will be a significant amount of us persons information involved, so there is a narrowing. nsa, if they are going to do a query of a us person, needs attorney general approval based on probable cause. i won't, it specifically on one agency or another, but broadly speaking what we are doing is trying to get other agency protection. >> under the presidential policy directive, the handles bulk collection it's only permitted to be used for one of the six purposes and one of those purposes may be criminal, but not like this guy-- let me turn back. wait a minute. let me turn back to jennifer. >> one of the things that's a concern here is what we already know about targets gives us great pause because targets can be-- i think a lot of people think about targeting as a particular bad guy. targets can be the french government or targets can be-- and we have seen documents that some dark-- targets are doctor--

. >> nsa, national security agency, secret guys? >> again, i think the concern, i think the concern is that they don't want to be accused of having a hunta. >> too many generals? >> too many generals but at the same time the generals are the ones that donald trump seems to be relating the most to. >> he likes those tough guys. jennifer, thanks very much. we appreciate it directly ahead, we reported last night denzel washington is furious at the american press. tonight, bernie goldberg will pick up that story. then as mentioned donald trump expected to speak shortly in iowa. we are there for you. and we will be right back.

but senior intelligence officials tell nbc news it was used to spy on the nsa. >> there is that property out there in maryland. looks like quite a nice spot out there on the eastern shore. that is going to be particularr taken over essentially by the u.s. government. >> reporter: in washington the russian embassy in northwest is also affected by the u.s. sanction. the president ordered dozens of diplomats from here and san francisco to leave the country within 72 hours. it wa much of the day except for some cars coming and going. around back, the residences for diplomats and staffers live as some prepare to leave the u.s. >> the obama administration thinks that this hacking of the dnc, this interference in the u.s. elections was done at the highest levels.

emily: what does it mean for the nsa?the nsa to focus more on threats from russia or within the u.s.? dave: it has always been to monitor threats from external enemies. what is scary is president-elect trump does not see russia as an enemy as much as those on the homeland. jihadists, conspiring journalists. emily: or anybody on "snl." dave: the concern is is he going to redirect those cyber capabilities against the american population? given who his advisers are, rudy giuliani who proposed to stop and frisk on the streets of america, why not cyberspace? ,eter thiel, the billionaire whose main position was in the company he founded makes the software to monitor large populations. what is going to stop the nsa, which is part of the defense department, turning its sights on americans? the concern i have is whether general mattis will hopefully stop that kind of use of the nsa, but there are other spy agencies. emily: general mattis is interesting. he's on the board of the very controversial blood testing company theranos. he

your bio doesn't seem like you're super connected into the cia, the nsa and all that, so how hard was it for you to sort of get all the different folks to talk? >> it was, it wasn't that hard to get the lead case agents, steve carr, to talk. you know, i first came across the story like i was telling nick earlier, back in 2009 when i had gone to interview dan olson, the crip to gift who worked on case. i ended up writing a piece for "wired" magazine about the cryptology part. after i had done that i became friend with the lead agent, steve carr and, and as we talked, i could sort of gather that there was more to the story. that there was a lot more that could be told. at the time i didn't know what that was. i just had a vague notion but i kept pursuing it. ultimately i was able to get, you know, some cooperation from the fbi because, unlike most espionage cases this one had gone to trial. so there was quite a bit of information already in the public domain because of that. but then, once i started to sort of going through witness testimonies and you know, nick can tell you all about t

one part is the nsa big data collection. >> that's right. john: you have opposed this.nd i have taken heat from libertarians because i say, what obama says. it is just he metadata it is not your personal phone call and it might stop terrorism. [booing] educate me. >> the government's collection of metadata is just as dangerous as its collection of content. if the government were collecting content i would think that that's a bad thing but metadata is actually bad. people need to understand with metadata they can figure out what you're doing throughout your life. they can figure out who you're calling. figure out whether you have a medical condition. think about all the phone records that you have and all of the ways in which the government can decipher based on who you're calling, when you're calling them and how long you're talking to them, what you're doing each day. john: fellow republican, former house intelligence committee chairman, said, this program is used to stop a terrorist attack in the last few years. people do want to kill us. >> there are people on the in

most of what the nsa does overseas is not regulated by statutes or the court.nformation with more domestic agencies is primarily a function of executive order. do in terms fbi can of investigating a group -- the hypothetical i gave of bannon demanding to go after groups because they are tainted by muslim groups -- there are good reasons for that actually. fbianted to have fbi's -- offices to have discretion in these investigations. we wanted to loosen up that information sharing. we have done these things and we have put in place civil liberties officers like i was, general counsel's offices, inspect or's general am a we've had more transparency. we have counterbalanced that with checks and balances. what i worry about is the trump factor. does that kind of civil liberties protection, which is based on a certain degree of norm, isto a fixed that function in a trump administration? a georget functions in w. bush administration and a barack obama administration. i don't think it necessarily does, when you have civil liberties offices and maybe the wall street jou

most of what the nsa does overseas is not regulated by statute or by the fisa court. sharing of that information with the more domestic agencies is primarily a function of executive order, 12333. what the fbi can do in terms of investigative group, the hypothetical i gave, demanding we need to go after these groups because they are all tainted by muslim extremism, that's very discretionary. there's good reason for that actually. we wanted to have fbi officers have a good deal of discretion in these threat assessments of lower-level investigation. we wanted to loosen up some of that information sharing. those high walls were a problem for counterterrorism. so we have done these things and we put in place civil liberties officers like i was, general councils offices, inspectors general. we've had more transparency, so we counterbalanced some of that with checks and balances. but what i worry about is what i call the trump factor. does that kind of civil liberties protection, which is based on a certain degree of adhering to basic norms, does that function in a trump adm

trump's pick for ca director mike pompeo favors nsa surveillance programs it wants to execute edward snowden. i asked texas congressman ron paul which of the two appointments gary samore. >> i can play one thing the two of them they do not give me much reassurance that we are going to face washington but that i would consider them not civil libertarians are even good conservatives are more libertarian than that.t. it's very simple for me who argues the libertarian viewpoint and privacy. i've been arguing for years that we have to protect the fourth amendment and when you give people in high positions like this and with the technology now you know i keep wanting favorable changes and i'm sure you are but i don't know how this would reassure anybody has an inkling about what libertarianism is about and what privacy is all about. and even with some of theeappoin appointments with wall street and goldman sachs, it's pretty disappointing to me. kennedy: yeah civil liberties aspect of a loan is very troubling. it kind of depresses me becaused i look at this and i'm kind of taking stock of

emily: what does it mean for an organization like the nsa?xpect the nsa to focus more on threats from russia or within the united states? david: the mandate has always been to monitor threats from external enemies. what is scary is that president-elect trump does not see russia as an enemy as much as he sees enemies in the american homeland, jihadist refugees or illegal aliens or obstructive protesters or conspiring journalists. emily: for anybody on snl. david: or alec baldwin. the concern is, is he going to redirect those cyber capabilities against the american population? given to his advisers are, rudy giuliani, who proposes stop and frisk on the streets of america, why not stop and frisk cyberspace. peter thiel, whose main position is in the company he cofounded that makes the software that spy agencies use to monitor large populations. what is going to stop the nsa, part of the defense department, from turning its sights on americans? the concern i have is whether general mattis will hopefully stop that kind of use of the nsa, but there

most of what the nsa does overseas is not regulated by statutes or the court. information with more domestic agencies is primarily a function of executive order. do in terms fbi can of investigating a group -- the hypothetical i gave of bannon demanding to go after groups because they are tainted by muslim groups -- there are good reasons for that actually. fbianted to have fbi's -- offices to have discretion in these investigations. we wanted to loosen up that information sharing. we have done these things and we have put in place civil liberties officers like i was, general counsel's offices, inspect or's general am a we've had more transparency. we have counterbalanced that with checks and balances. what i worry about is the trump factor. does that kind of civil liberties protection, which is based on a certain degree of norm, isto a fixed that function in a trump administration? athink it functions in timothy: i don't to get necessarily does. when you have got civil liberties officers, and maybe the wall street journal writing about this very broad surveill

>> yes, the people in the nsa, and in most american intelligence agencies are computer experts. they explained to me, there is a leak, and there is a hack, leaking consists of reveals the contents of e-mails for whom the e-mails were not intended. that is what happened to mrs. clinton, someone leaked her e-mails to wikileak, and wikileaks leaked them to the public. hacking occurs when someone remotely enters a computer operational system and alters the operational system, an example would be to remove cash from a bank account or remove names from a address booker on alter vote totals. is there evidence that leaking? absolutely, 50,000 of mrs. clinton's colleagues e-mails were leaked to wikileak. but there is no evidence of hacking, because if you wanted to alter vote totals, you would not hack mrs. clinton or the dnc, you would hack the various state registrars who record the names of people who are registered to vote and record what the votes are. liz: what do you make of their argument that wikileak swayed the elections and russia is to blame? >> well, i have not seen the raw

we associated this even in a pre- snowden era the nsa secrets. the intelligence is often time far more valuable because of these incredibly expensive platforms if you can talk about the nro being the spy agency that no one's heard of that is a great question. why it was important the little office within the airport. there were people who worked in intelligence agencies like the fbi who had no idea what it was. the existence became known that's when they get a slight glimpse of what this agency did since the late 50s this was agency and they came up with all the technology to photograph that from space the american public didn't know anything about it. it's that's why people started to get wind of it. just images and high military installations. turns out that that particular image was not taken by the nro it was taken by another middle eastern spy agency on the book you will find whether it is relevant. you bring up a nice point. the details that they were able to show as they improved its capabilities has been instrumental in winning wars. he w

huge swathes of what the nsa does is not covered by fisa. this -- the reason for the architecture as it was designed in the 70s persistence in which would have been your state here, what happened there stayed there. now in the internet era, and this is explaining the last session. stuff that happens here is found there all the time. that is one of the reasons for why the fisa amendment that allows collection of foreign or data without a warrant reform that came under pressure that arose because of the internet. stay with alex here for a minute. one of the wrinkles arising out of a greater understanding of fisa has been an awareness that agencies have increasingly common sense 9/11 been engaged in sharing raw data with each other. data that has not had privacy protections put on it yet to screen out the names and irrelevant personal details. 70s to be the nsa only would have this or the fbi would only have it to disseminate the government they would have to process it in a protection measure. after 9/11 there was a desire to tear down barrier

. >>> welcome back: former nsa contractor edward snowden says he has advice on how to improve twitter. here's a photo of snowden speaking on the big screen at twitter headquarters in san francisco yesterday. he had a long list of suggestions on how to improve twitter including one user should not be allowed to edit their tweet after sent. he is the former nsa contractor who leaked top- secret information about government surveillance programs . >>> federal regulators want the cars of the future to be able to talk to each other with the aim of reducing the number of accident. transportation department says under the proposed rule all cars and trucks would be required to use the same technology for vehicle to vehicle communication. cars could send their location, speed and direction to other cars. regulators say that will help to avoid collisions. >>> cuisinart is recalling food products after open blades have been found in food. about 30 people have cut their mouse.-- mouse -- mouths. if your blade has 4 of those rivets that is a recall product. >>> the apple air pod has been released.

we have alleged facts showing the nsa is capping and reviewing at least some of wikimedia's chilean or more international communication. >> do i correctly understand, and this is of course probably a question or -- do i understand the government contends that if a robot searches and it's not subject to the fourth amendment? as opposed to human being? our understanding is that is one of the government's arguments. our response is there's multiple repot parts. one one is even if that were true it be a question for the mayor not a question of standing. the government is intercepting the plaintiffs communication as they travel across the wire and there's no question the interception of wikimedia versus suspicion to establish their standing to those searches. the supreme supreme court has said the questions about the legitimate scope of the definition and scope of for the moment rights are question for merit and not for the standing. but we also of course disagree with the government's contention that when the government uses a computer or uses a robot that does not implicate a party's for

that the nsa must be collecting absolutely everything. the allegations assume that the only way that nsa can successfully accomplish the program and to collect that is to collect everything and sift through. that is just your -- your speculation.- pure there is nothing in the allegations that support the program must operate that way. in fact, the report recognizes it is a targeted program, the " not collecting wide swaths of communication." it does say that it may require access to a larger body of communication than the ones with about selectors, but it does not give any indication as to the precise scope or what that sphere of communications may be collected or any details as to how that's done. those details are classified. >> but it is common ground that you need more than the to and from. >> well to, from, and about is what the nsa is collecting to -- through the upstream program. and again the report says the , government may require access to larger body to determine messages -- that is page 111 of the report. there is nothing to

when you first went to nsa. and it was obviously an embracing experience that bloomed on and expanding your mind. so what concerns about the future of the electronic infrastructure and are they salient? it does not come first chronological it is the first chapter of the book. because such a powerful experience. and then i get a phone call on. but what parts of the system is down? >> all of it. we were still collecting data but we could not move the process or analyze we have more than 72 hours that means america was pretty much not collecting intelligence over half of the week and that is a big deal. and that is for the events coming at you. we better get in gear. i have been director 10 months and then and then that is more dangerous than standing still. >> with those technological lessons and the psychic lessons and actually be without source to a private contractor and trained by the american federal budgeting to get somewhere close to the 21st in century. >> i have been concerned of the vulnerability of the

nsa whistle-blower, edward snowden. >> breaking news on that whistle-blower -- >> reporter: he's been hiding in plain sight in the russian capital. >> can you walk around freely in the streets of moscow and not be recognized? >> i walked here. >> are you ever recognized? >> if i walk out on the street, people have no idea who i am. if i walk into a computer story, everyone in the story will immediately recognize me. >> reporter: since august of 2013, he's been living in exile, provided asylum by russia after leaking an undetermined number, perhaps as high as 1.5 classified nsa documents to journalists, exposing systemic government surveillance of civilians here and abroad. a disclose your that both enraged and embarrassed the american intelligence community. he was charged under the espionage act and faces up to 30 years in prison if he returns to expire next year, his fire wall may be melting. donald trump tweeted about you, snowden is a traitor. >> i wonder when it is that he thinks america was great. we are a country that was born from an act of trees an against a government that h

and nsa employee said but this is patriotism. this is national security. we need this. as a result of discovering the program and the church commission report there were two programs that talked about. congress passed a statute called the foreign intelligence surveillance act, and in the foreign intelligence surveillance act, they thought very carefully about the companies interested with often think about electronic surveillance and privacy debate as between the government and the individual. unlike the nsa employee asked the congressional staff not to, we don't talk that much publicly about the role of the company in the surveillance statutes. but in these statutes the role of the companies and their interests are not only taken into consideration as an interest in statute, but the statutes themselves are structured around the company interest. in fives of the act passed after operation shamrock, -- fisa -- the governments that had we incentivized the companies interests to ensure that the government gets the right permission slip before it gets the information that i

. >>> he's filled some of america's top security secrets, now former nsa contractor edward snowden isistleblower and revered by others as a traitor. katie couric went to russia to talk to snowden. here is some of the conversation. >> reporter: this mild-mannered 33-year-old is arguably america's most wanted fugitive. nsa whistleblower, edward snowden. >> breaking news on that whistleblower -- >> faces almost certain criminal prosecutions. >> reporter: he's been hiding in plain sight in the russian capital. >> can you walk around freely in the streets of moscow and not be recognized? >> i walked here.. >> are you ever recognized? >> if i walk out on the street, people have no idea who i am. if i walk into a computer store, everyone in the story will immediately recognize me. >> reporter: since august of 2013, he's been living in exile, provided asylum by russia after leaking an undetermined number, perhaps as high as 1.5 million, classified nsa documents to journalists. his revelations exposing systemic government surveillance of civilians here and abroad. a disclosure that both enrage

. >> the nsa program. you're talking about data miner, that's different. >> but the point is should they work with -- look, if they were working with the obama administration into that degree, should they do it with the trump administration? >> in fact the obama administration put pressure on them to come to greg's point to say if you are able to help us find terrorists, you shouldn't be holding back. that pressure is there. the question is how far is trump willing to go and is he willing to punish them. >> this is a very interesting concept now, because if trump is a noninterventionist and has pushed against the fourth amendment violations that i think the nsa was perpetrating on america for a long time, will he say, no, we're not going to request that same type of access. >> oh, i think he is because he's anti-snowden from what i can remember. he is anti-isis. what got trump elected aside from the rebelling against the pc was his pro terror stance, his ability to say radical islam. we needed to hear that

. >> reporter: the nsa tackled some of the cyber attacks. where more than 18 million records were stolen to the destruction of sonny network by north korea and now russia. the recommendation for the new administration bundle fbi homeland security and defense department capabilities. >> by the time we respond to cyber incidents, it has affected and you need to collapse those in one organization and where we are more responsive for the nation. >> reporter: the nsa spoke about the mission that secures government systems and assists the private sector. the hackers are seeking out new targets including the russians. >> they will do it for certain on a mission objective and may get to certain intelligence that they can't get to any other way and they may use it to counter inherative that is an anti- russian thing and that nature. >> hackers took advantage of sloppy security or employee error and not hardware or software have you beenerability. they didn't have a magical tool, but relied on basic security issues, jenna. >> thank you. >>> fox news l

tonight we take an exclusive look at the nsa team tasked with stopping it. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has our story. >> reporter: are u.s. systems attacked every day and multiple times a day? >> yes, athey are attacked probably thousand of times a day. >> reporter: they've tackled some of the biggist kries easy, from china's breach of the office of personnel management to north korea's physical destruction of sony's computer networks and now russia. >> adversaries are exploiting areas where we never really saw them attack before. >> reporter: this is an elite group that works with fbi investigators and homeland security. >> they understand how to configure technology and what technology is required to really keep adversaries out and keep information secure. these are like the special forces of cybersecurity. >> reporter: in november, the nsa director said the election hacks were not an accident. >> this was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily. this was a conscious effort by a nation state to attempt to achieve a specifi

a sophisticated operation with tools like the ones used by the nsa. and president obama is promising consequences. >> i think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections, that we need to take action and we will at a time and place of our own choosing. some of it may be explicit and publicized. some of it may not be. but mr. putin is well aware of my feelings about this because i spoke to him directly about it. >> russia's message to the white house? prove it. a russia presidential spokesman says the united states should either stop talking or produce some proof at last. all of this playing out as president obama gears up for one of his final news conferences, and as president-elect trump continues to brush off the intelligence community. we're covering every angle of this story with your team of reporters both here in the united states, and in moscow. let's again with suzanne malveaux at the white house this morning. hi, suzanne. >> hi, carol. we actually saw president obama talking about the fact

tonight we take an exclusive look at the nsa team tasked with stopping it. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has our story. >> reporter: are u.s. systems attacked every day and multiple times a day? >> yes, athey are attacked probably thousand of times a day. >> reporter: they've tackled some of the biggist kries easy, from china's breach of the office of personnel management to north korea's physical destruction of sony's computer networks and now russia. >> adversaries are exploiting areas where we never really saw them attack before. >> reporter: this is an elite group that works with fbi investigators and homeland security. >> they understand how to configure technology and what technology is required to really keep adversaries out and keep information secure. these are like the special forces of cybersecurity. >> reporter: in november, the nsa director said the election hacks were not an accident. >> this was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily. this was a conscious effort by a nation state to attempt to achieve a specifi

with virtually anything by creating probable -- probable cause and walking across the hall from the nsa to at&t or something and say we need these records. we need this information. having thedea of watchers watch themselves, those employees of the organization's because they are so full of goodwill, i am greatly skeptical of that. i am greatly skeptical of almost all of the internal oversights and i hope you guys would comment on that a little bit. ori just permit -- paranoid am i particularly paranoid? >> why should people believe people who are sitting appears saying trust us, these are rigorous with its of oversight that were put in place. >> a quick comment. i am wrong.le i have -- this boils down to i know this people and i do not think -- i think they would resign. that is not a formal institutional protection. this goes to what is the strength of our faith in the institutional protections and what does look like you when i look at get this with the history of the nsa and things that occurred before i was there, the president's surveillance program. the general counsel's office w

another nsa building. h vacate that compound. we are live in northwest washington, darcy spencer, news 4. >>> right now in syria, a potential breakthrough to end the country's six-year civil war. a cease-fire has just taken effect. russia and turkey negotiated the truce. it will be followed by peace talks next month. it comes days after syria regained control of a lep e poe, the largest city. critics say the deal gets russia and iran a stronger foothold in the region. >>> we're also following new fallout to be the from that u.n. vote condemning israeli settlements. their opinions of president obama and president-elect trump are changing. >> reporter: the vote to allow the condemnation of is disturbing for rabbi stewart. he's a former president of rabbis. he blames a deterioration in the relationship between president obama and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> the relations have been cold. they have been icy. it seems as if this was an opportunity to try to before leaving office to the prime minister of israel. >> thi

the nsa, cia, dob. that is the story we were preparing. in the course of asking yahoo!about that discrepancy, something nobody saw coming, yahoo! disclosed the second breach of that data involving one billion accounts which is a huge deal. oliver: when we talk about the deal here between yahoo! and verizon, why did they raise the price of yahoo!? i can think of one reason people might leave. my dad might freak out. people like that, are they going to lose eyeballs and their advertising? will that drive the price down? >> one concern, of course, if yahoo! users start fleeing in droves, that will be a problem for verizon but that is not the primary problem. what verizon is looking at our two things. data breach lawsuits could be very expensive, especially when you are talking about loss on the skill of yahoo!. there is an interesting angle. when the vast majority companies that are breached today, the first thing the general counsel tells them to do is to issue and pay for identity theft protection services for all their users. you know this not out of the , goodwill of t

reporter: across the bay from washington, the maryland compound is 63 miles from the white house and near nsa headquarters. these pictures from inside show massive dining rooms and luxurious lounges. the sprawling 45-acre estate known for diplomatic parties flowed. closing the compound now, perhaps more symbolic than operational. >> it is possible that this is more of sending a message, almost an annoyance to the russians, saying, look, you had these nice facilities and we're no longer going to give you access to them. >> reporter: the properties were on the u.s. radar for decades, but even the reagan administration at the height of the cold war let them stay. >> if we arrested every person we suspected to be a spy and kicked them out of the country, they would do the same to us. >> reporter: tonight the two russian retreats, now under the control of the us state department. gabe gutierrez, nbc news. >>> with three weeks left in office and his legacy on the line, president obama will gather with congressional democrats next week to strategize ways to protect obamacare from republicans who wan

oliver: it included victims from the fbi, cia, nsa, and white house staffers.to a reporter. >> back in september, as yahoo! was just announcing they were going to be acquired by verizon, yahoo! announced a really big breach. it was 500 million user accounts, basically half their user base. by any standard, that is a really big deal, and it kicked off a round of conversations with verizon on whether that price, which was $4.8 billion, should be negotiated down because of the liability of that breach. come last week, yahoo! announces an even bigger breach, which is a billion user accounts. that's how many users they have. that is basically the entire company. that kicked off a round of fo furious negotiations about liability basically and what should the final price to verizon be for a company that will face years of lawsuits. carol: i feel like britney spears. oops, i did it again. this was another hack that was a few years ago. interesting, as you point out, it was military employees, government employees, intelligence employees. it was who got tapped into whic

then right after the election, the head of the nsa put a pretty fine point on it.irmed unequivocally that russia, yes, did hack into the u.s. election in order to achieve a specific result. >> there shouldn't be any doubt in anybody's mind. this was not something that was done casually, this was not something that was done by chance. this was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily. this was a conscious effort by a nation state to attempt to achieve a specific effect. >> conscious effort by a nation state, russia, to attempt to achieve a specific effect in our election. that's what we've got publicly from the u.s. government about russia messing with our presidential election this year, which is honestly profoundly unsettling even at this distance. it still raises the question about what we as a country are going to do about it. but now today we got an amazing new mysterious plot twist. and it came from the democratic senators who are on the intelligence committee. look at this. they today released this cryptic very short open letter to the president. the

oliver: it included victims from the cia, fbi, nsa, and white house staffers.to reporter jordan robinson. >> back in september, as yahoo! had just announced that they were going to be acquired by verizon, yahoo! announced a really big breach. it was 500 million user accounts. basically half their user base. , by any standard, that is a really big deal and kicks off a round of conversations with verizon about whether that deal price, $4.8 billion, should be negotiated down because of the liability of that breach. come last week, yahoo! announces an even bigger breach, which was one billion user accounts. that's how many users they have. that's basically the entire company. that has kicked off a round of pretty serious negotiations between yahoo! and verizon about liability, basically, and what should the final price to verizon be for a company that will face years of lawsuits. carol: i feel like, cue britney spears, "oops! i did it again." i mean this was another hack , that was a few years ago. it was interesting it did not come out sooner. what was also intere

it's quite clear that the cia, fbi and nsa have been looking into this for quite some time. we just didn't know what they had found. although they did say in october that there were indications russia was behind the hacking. but there were a lot of reports that russia was just messing around to mess around and make things uncertain. i'm not sure if it's a report, it's an assessment that russia was doing this purposefully to put trump in the white house. and almost more explosive, i think this is bigger than watergate now. and just as explosive is the telling of its story, that during the campaign obama went to congress, and he tried to get republicans and democrats to join with him in calling out russia for hacking dnc and messing around to make a difference in this election, and mitch mcconnell and another republican or two said no. we won't do it. which makes them useful idiots in old kgb terminology and putin's handmaiden in helping elect donald trump. >> that was the gang of 12 according to the washington post report, and that is the leaders according to the washington p

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