so this was not a tool developed by the n.s.a. old ransom data. >> brangham: meanwhile, there's been political fallout. in britain, where a general election looms, opposition leader jeremy corbyn and prime minister theresa may traded jibes, long distance: >> over the past seven years, our national health service has been driven into crisis after crisis. a and e departments last week, the tory cuts have exposed patient services to cyber-attack. >> cyber security is an issue that we need to address, that's why the government, when we came into government in 2010, put money into cyber security, it's >> brangham: the cyber-attack's effects in the united states have been limited, except for for the pbs newshour, i'm william brangham. >> woodruff: let's turn to microsoft now, which has been responding to the attacks and criticizing the n.s.a. for its alleged role in exploiting the vulnerability to begin with. brad smith is the president and chief legal officer of the company. he joins me from redmond, washington. brad smith, welcome back

i wrote to the n.s.a. and got back a very redacted letter that didn't say so much, but nonetheless, we have been having this challenge all along. and one of the things we put into legislation was the president's commission for protect privacy and civil liberties. reporter: madam leader, there is a story that has been out having the i.t. staffers that had worked for democrats and investigation by the capitol hill police that they have been banned from the network for suspicion for breaching security one of ng equipment and the men is still an adviser on debbie wasserman schultz's staff. what is your opinion about keeping this person under investigation and should have this role? ms. pelosi: people under investigation by the attorney general of the united states. ou have a very specific charge there. i haven't followed that so closely. we have been busy with a lot of other things. i'm not sufficiently understanding the situation to make any concern about it. but there are plenty of people who are under invest

computers. >> i think the n.s.a. should >> i think the n.s.a. should abobably err on the side of disclosure. >> reporter: in seattle, karl orscher, computer security researcher at the university of washington, works to defend against hackers and thinks the n.s.a. 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 3,500 security engineers working to keep its software safe, but as this incident shows, scott, among the hackers working to find a way in are america's own spy agencies. >> pelley: john blackstone, thanks. well today the state department said it has evidence that syria's assad regime has carried out mass executions outside damascus. it released images that according to the u.s. show a crematorium. pusad's forces have been pummeling the opposition in damascus and in the city of homs, but in a deal, it allowe

he is trying to hint that maybe the n.s.a. is to blame and homeland security is backing away. emily: brad smith is saying this should be a wakeup call. and talk about the reach of this. fed ex in the united states, major telecom giants in spain, hospitals in japan and indonesia, what does that tell you about the actual target and intention behind this attack? patrick: cybersecurity is a very important issue and reinforces that it's a weapon that can be used in the wrong hands in a way that's very bad for the global economy. and the -- this was nothing novel and put together leveraging a set of things that have been known for quite some time but done in a broadway that again it brings home how vulnerable the economy is on a global basis. emily: what is quite interesting, perhaps asia didn't kick it off. everyone was bracing and china had 40,000 of their computers, but many more thought it would be much bigger across asia. hy hasn't it been? patrick. looks like patrick is having trouble. emily: i would like to ask you about the continued fallout from this attack. caroline mention

and admiral rogers of the n.s.a. i think we need to keep reminding ourselves. why is it important? why should we care whether or not foreign governments are trying to influence the outcome of our elections? if there's anything that america stands for, it's free, open elections. host: michelle in minneapolis, independent. you're next. caller: hi, good morning. i just want to say quickly, you know, the russians interference with the u.s. elections, or the election, the european countries, is, unfortunately, nothing new. they've been trying to do it for years. i don't know the name of the individual, but i think he was a c.i.a. director, he was testifying in front of congress a couple of days ago and basically said what many people ve said, the russians, frankly, pickup kin couldn't stand clinton. he accused them of interfering with his elections a few years earlier, causing unrest in the streets, riots, and things of that nature. so what their goal was, he testified that the russians assumed clinton was going to win. it didn't matter if it was who was running against her. it was going

we've had reports that the president asked the dni director, dan coots, mike roger, the head of the n.s.a., to perhaps back off on the investigation. is the intelligence community alarmed at the president's conduct and how is that going to play out? >> we're all trying to figure out, what is the f.b.i. looking at? who are they looking at? what kind of charges might they be considering? the other line is, if you will, obstruction. this concept of obstruction. you know, is trump, who is obsessed with narrative, is he reaching out to people in the intelligence community, trying to put pressure on the f.b.i. in order to, at a minimum, change the narrative and basically, you know, muddy the waters, if you will? convince people that there is nothing there really to look at that involves him or involves those that are around him? or is he doing this in order to relieve pressure? obviously we saw the appointment of a special counsel, which was a result of pressure. and so the efforts that i think trump was making in march in particular, and then in april, of basically trying to get coates, trying

emily: there has been a lot of finger-pointing, microsoft, the n.s.a. microsoft claims the n.s.a.en doing more to warn the private sector about vulnerabilities. >> you have to separate these out. the governments who operate in the cyber battlefield are going to do what they do. they look for vulnerabilities and to exploit those. that is just going to happen. i think what is most important is companies and individuals need to make sure they have the latest patches and the latest protection in place that can identify these attacks without having signatures created in advance. crowd called strike -- strike, you guys are the ones that discovered russian interference in the d.n.c.. have you seen any change in russian cyber activity in the united states? what whether it is russia or any of the middle eastern countries allat-crime, they are formidable adversaries that come up with new ways to get into companies and siphon out data. morese the data to extract money. wanna cry is a good example. they keep getting better and better as the good guys begin to be able to identify them. it is a

show up on wikileaks and now this vulnerable stolen from the n.s.a. has affected customers around the world. microsoft said users should if they haven't already, install a security update released in march. many feared different, more harmful versions of this malware are likely to follow. >> let's come back here now to paris and the french capital is hosting the evaluation commission for the international olympic committee. paris is on the charm offensive to make sure the 2024 games are held here and not in the biggest rival for the olympics, los angeles. that three-day visit got off to a good start with the evaluation chairman giving high praise already for paris' bid for the 2024 games. france 24's sports editor told us more. >> we're here at probably one of the most famous of the paris 2024 venues, a stadium that was inaugurated just ahead of the football world cup back in 19 98. this stadium should be hosting the opening and closing ceremonies of the olympics as well as all of the athletic events and to present this stadium to the i.o.c. members of

is it the n.s.a. is it microsoft for not servicing the older platforms? is it the companies for not keeping their systems update. >> the blame has to lie with companies themselves who did not update their system, or did not pay microsoft for continued older windowse xp. they seem most to blame. you did have over the weekend microsoft write a post which he blame on the n.s.a. for stockpiling these hacker tools have a large you store of these. they're going to get out and use them in nefarious purpose. microsoft itself, some people them.inting fingers at they should have updated everybody for free even if they older operating system. they did put a patch out on this ago.onths they seem to have taken proactive steps. it's mostly the companies didn't implement the patch. >> thank you very much. joining us on .loomberg news manufacturing service company. joining them together. that mean for earnings for thermo fisher. will adjusted by 30ers. int total number coming $7.2 billion. cyberattacks as .arc chandler i want to start with you on the brief investor look.

we've gotten good cooperation thus far from the f.b.i., from the c.i.a., from the n.s.a., from the other intelligence agencies. i don't think this is going to be a problem. but it's one that-- it's going to take some discussion and some work in order to be sure that we're-- we are not stepping on each other's toes because we're all headed in the same direction. remember, this investigatio investigation, all the attention is to the trump campaign. this is about a foreign government interfering in our democratic process. and let's always remember that that's what it is, and that's why it's so important. >> woodruff: but is it also about a potential obstruction of justice or a potential effort to stop an investigation that might be harming the president? >> well, i'm not going to-- i mean, that's going to be part of the investigation. that's certainly what the deputy attorney general indicated today was that the investigation by the f.b.i. is going to undertake-- or is undertaking. it's been going on for some time. it's going to be very broad in scope. so all the facts are going to be on th

"trump asked the director of national intelligence and the head of the n.s.a. to publicly deny evidence of russia collusion." "fellas, you know that thing i'm totally innocent of? could you crush that before it gets out?" ( laughter ) just like comey, the intelligence directors trump talked to refused to help. so why did trump do it? according to one senior intelligence official, trump's goal was to "muddy the waters." let me get this straight. it goes "drain the swamp," then "muddy the waters." "muddy the waters"-- also, his environmental policy. and earlier today, the house intelligence committee heard testimony from former c.i.a. director and man asking if you've taken the picture yet, john brennan. ( laughter ) and-- and-- lovely, lovely picture. and true to pretty much all the testimony about russia, brennan said something completely shocking in the most boring way possible. >> i encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the trump campaign that i wa

trump made the same request of n.s.a. ctor mike rogers. >> have you talked about this issue with admiral rogers? >> that is-- that is something that i-- would like to withhold that question at this particular point in time. >> reporter: across the capitol, former c.i.a. director, john brennan, described in the greatest detail yet why the trump campaign team first came under scrutiny. >> i was aware of intelligence and information about contacts between russian fors and u.s. persons that raised concerns, in my mind bwhether or not those individuals were cooperating with the russians. >> reporter: by last july, he said, the volume of contacts was large enough to warrant the creation of a working group made up of agents from the c.i.a., f.b.i., and n.s.a. >> having been involved in many counter-intelligence cases in the past, i know what the russians try to do. they try to suborn individuals, and they try to get individuals, including u.s. persons, to act on their behalf, either wittingly or unwittingly. and frequently indivi

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into russia's role in the election, and today, the head of the f.b.i., james comey, and the head of the n.s.a., mike rogers, briefed that committee on capitol hill. joining me now is the top democrat on that committee, representative adam schiff from california. congressman, i can hear in the background, there are some protesters there, i take it protesting the g.o.p.'s passage of their health law. we'll talk about that in a minute. but before we get to that, i'd like to talk a little bit this hearing today. you heard from the head of the nsay, the headline of the f.b.i. i know this was a confidential, closed door hearing. you can share a little bit with us about what you heard today? >> certainly. well, i can't go into the contents, i can tell you the three areas of focus for us, and that is who we have this very public assessment by the intelligence committee-- community, rather, that the russians intervened. they did so to heartsecretary clinton, to help donald trump. and we are investigating to make sure that the conclusion reached in that report are an accurate reflection of the raw inte

there to straighten up the mess we got, because i'll tell you, not too many people trust the f.b.i., the n.s.a., or homeland security. i think actually homeland security should be abolished and the f.b.i. expanded with w people, with ethics, and that's about it. host: ok, mike from california. the "new york times" talks a little bit about behind the scenes of the decision-making process that led up to this firing, saying at first mr. trump have staff scommebs friends kept his thoig a small circle, venting his anger to vice president mike pence, the white house counsel, and son-in-law jared kushner, who told him to dismiss mr. comey. another sounding board was his security.director of host: that's just a little bit of the reporting from the "new york times" this morning. paul ryan, house speaker, on fox news, not only talked about the firing, but what happens next, also talks about his thoughts on a special prosecutor to take a look into the russia investigation. here it is. >> senator mccain can and a few others are calling for a special prosecutor. obviously democrats are in lock step on call

unexpected disclosure prompted the president's homeland security adviser, tom bosser, to notify the c.i.a. and n.s.a. sources tell cbs news some of the ioformation came from israel. onere is now concern russia could share that intelligence with some of its allies, like iran, an enemy of israel, but today the president's national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster, denied that mr. trump had done anything wrong. >> he shares information in a way that is wholly appropriate, and i should just make maybe the statement here that the president wasn't even aware, you know, where this information came from. he wasn't briefed on the source and health of the information either. >> reporter: it is unclear why the president was not aware of where the intelligence came buom, but some former and current intelligence officials fear the disclosure could jeopardize lives. n former official warned, "not p ly could a person be killed, but isis could speed up plots." n e u.s. intelligence community has been focused on the laptop threat for over a year. e february of 2016, a laptop bomb caused extensive damage to this plane

they call it "cy-watch," and it pulls in resources from the c.i.a., n.s.a., and others. y's agents are running down leads in the theft of government data. often in cases like that, the suspects are overseas. so the trouble is, in cyberspace, where do you put the handcuffs? >> comey: it's too easy for those criminals to think that "i can sit in my basement halfway around the world and steal everything that matters to an american. and it's a freebie, because i'm so far away." >> pelley: a lot of those people are operating in countries where they're not going to be given up to the united states-- russia, china, elsewhere. >> comey: yep, a challenge that we face, so we try to approach that two ways. one, work with all foreign nations to try and have them understand that it's in nobody's interest to have criminal thugs in your country, and second, again, to look to lay hands on them if they leave those safe havens to impose a real cost on them. we want them looking over their shoulders when they're sitting at the keyboard. >> pelley: when the phone rings in the middle of the n

finger toward russia in terms of getting this stockpile of vulnerabilities that was amassed by the nasdaq 100 -- n.s.ailable to hackers. somebody got it and built this ransomware attack around that. so that's -- again, researchers are pointing the finger at highly sophisticated within the russian intelligence. vonnie: and all they were asking for was $300 worth of bitcoin. if it was a sophisticated operation to be a little bit more than that. no? >> yeah in terms of the price. what's interesting too is so far, researchers are telling us that about $50,000 has been paid. so there could be a few reasons for that. as i mentioned, possibly just so many of the victims or the people who were targeting had already updated their systems maybe they've got them backed up on the cloud, you know. they can just junk their c.p.u. and just move on. and in some cases, bitcoin is just hard for people to use. some people just don't get how to use it. vonnie: tom giles, thank you for that update. much appreciated. he's executive editor of globaltec nothing from san francisco. time for the latest business stories in the

the senate select intelligence committee investigates worldwide threats this morning. c.i.a. director mike pompy, n.s.a. director michael rogers, and national intelligence director dan coates testify. our live coverage begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern. later, the middle east policy council looks at cooperation between the u.s. and saudi arabia on counter terrorism. in the next hour, heather mcghee talks about the progressive agenda and the trump presidency. then george washington university law school professor jonathan turley on the firing of james comey by president trump. president trump: he was not doing a good job, very simple. he was not doing a good job. host: that was president trump's reaction on why he decided to fire james comey, reporting this morning includes the fact while this decision was made on monday, it was the white house chief strategist, steve bannon, who questioned if the timing was right. also "the washington post" reporting this morning that the man behind the memo that started the process, steve rosenstein, who just got the job of deputy attorney general, threatened to resign ove

the kremlin. president trump denied any ties between his campaign and russian officials. washington reported monday trump asked dan coats and michael rogers in march of n.s.a. to publicly deny any evidence of collusion. joining me adam schiff, ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee. pleased to have him back ton this program. congressman, thank you for joining us. this has been a day of a lot of news including the president being in israel and including the fact that we've had this awful tragedy in manchester. but let me begin and come back because when the president comes back, this will once again be at the top of the news. what did we learn today from john brennan? >> well, we learned from john brennan that he was concerned about the context he saw between russian officials and those associated with the trump campaign that he forwarded the information to the f.b.i. for a counterintelligence investigation. he, i think, talked about how alarm bells went off with him when he saw these contacts and it weren't that they were just contacts. of course, there are contacts between russians and americans all the time, but it was happening with the pr

this is the 050 account which includes n.s.a. and department of energy and other things not all strictly pentagon. >> this is not trying to change the long standing practice of putting base costs in the oco account. in other words there are some people who have been saying what we should try to do is take all of this, quote-unquote, war costs in the overseas contingency operation budget many of which are now base budget related and try to put them back in the base. you don't have enough money here to do that, right? this is not accomplishing that goal. >> it does not. i think that is a worth while conversation to have. what concerns me is that if there is just transfers from o.c.o. into the base budget and people call it a defense increase it will not be accurate. it will not tell you the facts, which is you really haven't increased anything at all. you just changed the label on the money. i still think it is a worth while conversation to have mainly because putting base requirements into o.c.o. makes it very difficult to plan and

is in the lead and n.s.a. and there are a lot of defensive organizations within our government, but on that particular point, the fact that millions, i believe, of systems were infected around the world and barely got into the united states. a handful of individual computers and that was a direct result not just d.h.s. but to a large degree of d.h.s. and how it was detected and working with our partners outside the u.s. government as well as inside. as far as the u.s. government goes, we have to up our game. there is an e.o.o. from the president holding everybody accountable. i have not heard more discussion on anything else in cyber. senator lankford: we want to work with you on that. of the many things you are doing which is quite a bit, it is easy to get distracted and it is complex and expensive. but for someone who has the point on all of our systems across all of government, it is exceptionally important to us to stay on that supply chain and managing software and hardware. give me the status of the fundi

the roll. quorum call: quorum call: n.s.a. mr. nelson: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. nelson: i ask consent that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. nelson: mr. president, most everybody has seen the news of another disturbance with regard to an airline and an airline terminal. and, indeed, what has happened at the fort lauderdale hollywood airport just in the last day has been a disturbance that they had to call in the broward county sheriff's department to put down the disturbance because there were some upset people. i have just gotten off the phone with the c.e.o. of spirit airlines as well as the head of the airline pilots association and basically have told them that they should get this thing fixed and get it fixed quick. there is not so much a labor dispute because they are in negotiations and, i think, are reaching final conclusions, but as a result of some things with the schedule it caused a number of flights to be canceled, and unfortunately, canceled right at the last

that is going to be in the case of 702 is going to be n.s.a. and for my part and in my six ars at d.n.i., i asked for identities to be unmasked to understand the con tech. and what we are concerned about is the behavior of the validated foreign intelligence target, as hat target trying to cow o', and it is difficult to understand the labels u.s. person one and u.s. person two. and as well, doing that on a basis, one report at a time in which you need to look at, is there a pattern here. . i did feel i should attempt to understand the context and who this person was because it had a huge bearing on how important or critical it was and what threat might be posed by virtue of the, again, the behavior of the validated foreign intelligence target. so our focus was on the target, not as much as the u.s. person only to understand the context. >> well, the fact that some appropriate authority might request and receive the unmasking of the name of the u.s. person does not then authorize the release of that information, that classified information into th

n.s.a. for supposedly lying to vice president mike pence about the communications with the russian officials in the transition. michelle: that news breaks today as president trump continues his first oversea trip in office. nancy: he reassured them to the united states is on their side. michelle: stephanie ramos takes us on the high-takes trip. stephanie: as president trump mingles with the leaders on the can't seem to leave behind the controversy over russia. before the trip, president trump revealed highly classified intelligence to russian officials that believed to have come from israel. >> i never mentioned the word or the name "israel." never mentioned it in the conversation. stephanie: the president confirming israel provided the highly classified intel that might have put lives at risk. today israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu still all smiles. according to the "new york times" at the same oval office meeting the president told russian officials, "i just fired the head of the f.b.i. he was crazy. a real nut job. i face great pressure because of russia." that has taken off. >>

the d.n.c. never let a f.b.i., c.i.a., n.s.a. federal agent never let them examine the d.n.c. computer system before they said, oh, yeah, it's definitely the russians. really? how can you say it is the russians? that's the way things he been going lately, but this is regarding congresonal computer syem. and we need to get to the bottom of this. how badly has our system been compromised in addition to the thefts and making over $4 million since 2010, having people they owed money to. at least one put on the system and now we learn he never visitedhe hill. a lot of issues needto be dried up, cleared up. but those are mor issues that need to be clarifd. no evidence of russian collusion, but there is definitely evidence of pakistani collusion and corruption rough the firne democratic congress members that they worked for. we just don't kw how badly they corrupted the system. we know they got money that they surely should not have. let's have an investigation into that. in the meantime, we owe it to all of those who gave ther last full measure of devotion for this country. we owe i