tom? mr. bossert: thanks. thank you. good afternoon. i'm tom bossert. byould like to start acknowledging the following police officers that the president and vice president acknowledge today, the frontline of our land security. on cyber security, as the president's advisor, part of my response abilities to coordinate homeland security efforts. i want to bring your attention to it. we are closely monitoring the situation around the clock. bringing all the capabilities of the u.s. government to bear and working side-by-side with our partners in the private sector and international partners. i spoke moments ago with my counterpart in great britain and learned an update that they have a feeling of control over this ransomware event. ir affected computers seem to be tied to the health care affected computers seem to be tied to the health care system, their painfully aware that this is a global attack. as of this morning, it has approximately 150 countries and infected more than 300,000 machines. the good news is the infection rate slowed over the weekend. ra

[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> next, homeland security advisor for president trump, tom bosserthe global ransom or cyber attack. he says the malware has affected 300,000 computers and 150 countries but the cyber attack has its impact u.s. government systems. then, white house secretary sean spicer took information on a number of topics including questions a new fbi director. he was asked about possible tape conversations between the president and former fbi director, james comey. >> good afternoon. before we get started i want to bring homeland security tom bossert back up here to discuss the administration's response to the ransom were hacking. they will gone with the events today and answer your questions. tom. >> good afternoon. i'm time, assistant to the president

>> next, homeland security advisor for president trump, tom bossert briefs white house reporters on the global ransom or cyber attack. he says the malware has affected 300,000 computers and 150 countries but the cyber attack has its impact u.s. government systems. then, white house secretary sean spicer took information on a number of topics including questions a new fbi director. he was asked about possible tape conversations between the president and former fbi director, james comey. >> good afternoon. before we get started i want to bring homeland security tom bossert back up here to discuss the administration's response to the ransom were hacking. they will gone with the events today and answer your questions. tom. >> good afternoon. i'm time, assistant to the president of the counterterrorism. i'd like to acknowledge the fallen police officers that the president vice president acknowledged today. there the front lines of our homeland security. the event today was an honor for me to attend. on cyber security, as the president's homeland security advisor part of my responsibilities c

thursday's white house briefing, tom bossert announced details for the new executive to improve cyberecurity. afterwards, the white house principal deputy secretary fielded questions from the of fbir about the firing director james comey. this is 45 minutes.

th a simple way to respond is that there were concerns in the white house on the part of tom bossert.t's talk about the opportunity lost. the schedule was to be cleared to prepare this president, and instead, asize from one meeting, there was so many self inflicted problems, that they have been in damage control for two weeks. >> yes, i can't help but think that the president has not been, you know, he has not had a real world crisis to deal with. they are their own enemy. i'm sure the white house would love to talk about something else. his first foreign trip is coming up and he will be dogged with questions about why he fired the fbi director, if was responsible for him in any way to do the leaking. this is not a way to proactively governor. from our own reporting, we have foreign officials that are reassessing how much they can trust nichgs. that is not the kind of thing you want to be dealing with. it is having real world consequences now. >> some of the republicans are circling the wagon, and some are expressing concern. they want answers as well. even the speaker, paul ryan, wan

tom bossert: thank you. thank you very much for your time. a couple things positive to report. the first is that president trump about an hour ago signed an executive order on cyber security. that executive order is going to keep his promise that he has made to the american people to keep americans safe. including in cyberspace. i would like to do a few things. i promise we will district -- distribute the executive order. i will preview it for you, walk you through it and then take your questions. among other things, at least as an observation for me i think , the trend going in the wrong direction in cyberspace. it is time to stop that transfer -- trend and reverse it on behalf of the american people. we have seen increasing attacks from allies, adversaries, primarily nationstates and not nation state actors. sitting by and doing nothing is no longer an option. president trump's actions today is a very heartening one. there are three sections. they are in priority order. the first priority for the president and for our federal government is protecting our federal networks. i t

. >> that was tom bossert briefing white house report orders the biggest cyber attack in history.he malware doubled wannacry has hit the hundreds of thousands of computers across the globe. it encrypts files and then demands a ransom to get your data back. the vulnerability was made public when hackers stole it from the national security agency last summer. sometime nsa doesn't tell the public about holes that make it vulnerable to hackers. joining me, the former filibuster executive director and the chief officer from crowd strike. if these headacackers are demana ransom yrgs is it so difficult to track they will down? >> well, first of all, they are using bitcoin, an online currency. and it is very, very difficult to track it. everything can be done anonymously and that's one of the ways we can track hackers. there are other ways as well. and there's analysis being done of the code, of the way it has been launched. and those may tend to identify who these actors are. but it will take some time. >> could there be more code out there that the nsa has not revealed that hackers coul

. >> brangham: but at the white house today, tom bossert, president trump's homeland security adviserid the n.s.a. had never intended its tool to be used by foreign criminals. >> this was a vulnerability exploit as one part of a much larger tool that was put together by the culpable parties and not by the u.s. government. so this was not a tool developed by the n.s.a. to hold 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 microso

s/ tom bossert, asesor en seguridad nacional (nat) que el gobierno no creo ese virus.an sus sistemas al da y que instalen los programas que los protegen. no se sabe con seguridad quin lo hizo ni de dnde provino el ataque. en washington randy serrano telemundo cesar --- corea del norte lanz nuevamente otro misil dejando preocupados a algunos pases como a estados unidos --- blanca ---y es que se dice....que tiene una capacidad de transportar una "ojiva" nuclear capaz de llegar a una base militar estadounidense en el pacifico. ---nancy miramontes con el informe. take pkg :01 :45 01:29 pkg la prueba de misil fue realizada ayer domingo en corea del norte y fue la mas exitosa que ha llevado a cabo ese pais. se trata de un nuevo cohete balstico capaz de transportar una pesada ojiva nuclear de grandes dimensiones. el lder norcoreano kim jong un supervis la prueba del nuevo misil y luego expreso agradecimiento a funiconarios de investigacin de cohetes, as lo describi la agencia central de noticias de corea. funcionarios japoneses comentarn que el misil estuvo en el aire durante

esto el departamento de seguridad nacional aseguro que en estados unidos hubo menos de 10 victimas tom bosserter than many parts of the world. but we may still see significant impacts on addition networks as these attacks often change." "en general, la tasa de infección en los estados unidos ha sido menor que en muchas partes del mundo. pero todavía podemos ver impactos significativos en mas redes ya que estos ataques cambian con frecuencia" por lo menos 300 mil computadoras en mas de 150 paises resultaron afectadas, incluyendo hospitales, redes de telecomunicaciones, escuelas y negocios, entre ellos fedex entretanto existen diferentes versiones de donde pudo haberse originado el ataque mientras varios investigadores dicen haber encontrado pistas que podrian vincular el virus con corea del norte el presidente ruso vladimir putin y el presidente de microsoft acusan al servicio de inteligencia de los estados unidos con la teoria que tanto la cia como la agencia de seguridad nacional guardan demasiados codigos los cuales han llegado a manos de los piratas ciberneticos. ivette machin, telemundo ta

we're very fortunate to have us tom bossert, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism what ining us for what they believe is his first memorial service. thank you for being here. to welcome an honor our good friend, elaine chao, secretary of the u.s. department of transportation. attended many of these services and delivered the thesee address at one of events. welcome back, madam secretary. we'd also like to welcome long-time friend of the f.o.p., labor secretary, alex acosta. being, alex. please welcome your homeland john kelly,retary, who is attending our service for the first time. you, mr. secretary. andalso very grateful honored to welcome the u.s. attorney general, jeff sessions. been a friend of law enforcement when you were a senator and i'm sure you will continue as attorney general. thank you. i'm very honored to welcome to this event the vice president of the united states, michael pence. president hinny will be introducing the vice president for comments in a few moments. and finally, it's my great honor and privilege to have with us states, of the united

and the unexpected disclosure prompted tom bossert to notify the nsa and cia. of the information came from israel. there's now concern russia to 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 denies 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 where this yfgs came from. he wasn't briefed on the source or method of the information either. >> reporter: it is unclear of why the president wasn't aware of where the information came from. but some officials fear that the disclosure could general ard iesz lives. a former official warns not only could a person be killed but isis could speed up plots. the u.s. intelligence community has been focussed on the laptop threat for over a year. in february of 2016, a laptop bonl caused extensive damage to this plane in somalia, even though the pilot managed to land. the white house says av

. >> before we get started i want to bring homeland security tom bossert back of her to the vexations response to the ransomware hacking and then i will go on with events today and answer questions. without further ado, tom. >> thanks john. thank you. good afternoon. if i could i like to start today by acknowledging the fallen police officers the president vice president acknowledged today. they are the front lines of our homeland security and today's event was off me to attend. on cybersecurity, as the president -- courtney efforts to iowa to give you an update today on the ransomware attack that's been known as wannacry. we continue closely monitoring the situation on the clock. the highest levels of the government when bringing all the capabilities to bear on this issue and a working side-by-side with the partners in the private sector and our international partners. i spoke months ago with my counterpart of great britain and learned an update from them that they have the feeling of control over this ransomware event and that as they'r their infected cs can be tied to the fact that

and that is the homeland security adviser to the president, tom bossert who clearly when was not in theting and didn't have firsthand experience and knowledge of what the president really did say to the russian ambassador felt that this is something that needs to be passed along to the intelligence community and does just that. that got into the bloodstream and ended up because of people who were concerned wanting to make it public in "the washington post." that's kind of that part of the story. we're also learning more about what happened inside that meeting with the russian foreign minister and ambassador and i should tell you that this is from an administration source who is familiar with, again, the content of the context of it and that is that when the president was talking about this classified information, it was through the prism of a plea to the russians to be more helpful and to be more of a partner with the united states in helping to call out bad actors, namely, assad and syria. this is the context in which the president told the story that included the classified informatio

homeland security adviser tom bossert.ttack called problems for more than 150 countries including the u.s. it freezes your computer and rather than stealing your files, it holds them hostage and requires you to pay a ransom to get your own access to your own feels. investigators are still trying to figure out who is behind this. cold to malware tech, a group that monitors this sort of thing, the dots on this map show where the so-called wanna cry virus -- that's what they call it -- where it's hit in the last 24 hours. it started this time friday and has been going through the weekend. a lot of people got hit today after the weekend. there it is. bossert does confirm it's hit american issues. fed ex reported issues friday. affected britain's national health services and russian's foreign ministry. now the sun newspaper, which is a corporate cousin of ours, reports that the russian president vladimir putin is blaming the united states government. the hackers used vulnerability from leaked nsa documents. here's a look at wha

mcmaster had not spoken to tom bossert about why he alerted the agencies about donald trump's commentd on the nuances of what donald trump said in the oval office when he was meeting with kislyak and lavrov. when you look at the big picture, this is a huge question of judgment. h.r. mcmaster is saying that his behavior was wholly appropriate. donald trump has created a huge communication crisis. he's tweeted more than 40 times about the russians and/or department of justice officials since it was known to us that he was under investigation. and one of those tweets was about tapes. it was a provocative veiled threat about james comey warning him not to leak because there may be tapes. now it's coming back to haunt him. if you have tapes, we want transcripts and we want to hear what you've said to the russians. he's created huge questions about his judgment. >> cedric, we just heard the president say that it was a great meeting with the foreign minister of russia, very successful meeting. you worked in the u.s. military. you dealt with very sensitive intelligence. what's your analysis?

homeland security advisor tom bossert says so far they haven't gotten much from their victims. >> appears that less than $70,000 has been paid in ransoms. we're not aware if payments led to any data recovery. reporter: intelligence and law enforcement officials that may foreshadow a wave of similarly damaging attacks as copycat criminals try to make use of digital weapons. melissa: tracee, thank you for that. here is morgan write, cybersecurity analyst and center for digital government senior fellow. we learned interesting things in the presser this afternoon. number one, that some people actually paid out, they said they collected about $70,000 but that no one who paid money got any of their data back or anything they had been promised. that money was down the drain. does that sound right to you? >> it doesn't surprise me either. these folks that did this, you don't have to be clever anymore. you have to have access to bunch of software and internet connection. that's what they did. the bad part they weren't that sophisticated. the that is the good part. they weren't that sophisticated a

thursday's white house briefing, tom bossert announced details for the new executive to improve cyber security. afterwards, the white house principal deputy secretary fielded questions from the of fbir about the firing director james comey. this is 45 minutes. >> another light crowd today. good afternoon. first off, before we get started i would like to bring up homeland security adviser tom mosser to tell you about executive order on cyber security at the president just signed. he will take a few of your questions and respectfully i ask that you keep your questions for him on the topic of the executive orders. don't worry, i will come back and answer all the rest of your pressing questions as soon as he wraps up. i will turn it over to tom. >> thank you. thank you very much for your time. a couple things positive to report. about one hour ago president trump signed an executive order on cyber security. that executive order is going to keep his promise that he has made to the american people to keep americans safe. i would like to do a few things. if i could preview the executive orde

and they've made a big mountain out of a molehill, and why the "washington post" did this and why tom bossertled nsa and cia, i think that's where the leaks came from, that's how the system works, and those were mistake that i think were amateur on the amateurish on the white house side. the fact is there's nothing do with national security of any value and the democrats are making a big issue of it again, liz, to hide their problems with hillary clinton and barack obama. liz: you know, general, we have general mcmaster's sound bite, let's take a listen. i'd like your reaction. >> the president was meeting with the foreign minister about the terrorist threat. he also raised difficult issues, what we expected in terms of different behavior from russia in key areas like ukraine and as in syria, but then the president was emphasizing. we have common interests here. we have to work together in critical areas and have area of cooperation with transnational operations, isis in particular, where a russian airliner was taken down. >> we're at a point where the media and certain critics of the preside

we already heard from tom bossert, even the money paid, i think he said $70,000 has not resulted in recoveryny files. should people be paying? >> i think right now we don't have any confirmed instances of people who have paid, getting a dekripgs key that would enable them to recover their files. i certainly couldn't urge that people pay. instead, i would urge people to be and restore their systems from back-ups. >> microsoft president said he used exploits stolen from the national security agency. what does that mean? >> i can't comment on the specifics of whether or not this particular set of exploits was taken from the national security agency. what we do know is that the wannacry malware seems to be a cut and paste job from some exploits that were released on to the web by the shadow brokers group in mid-april. they claim to have gotten those from nsa. i can't speak to the veracity of that. >> he also wrote this in a blog post saying this attack provides yet another example of why the stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments is such a problem. what does that mean? and do you agree? f

today, tom bossert, who had been in the bush administration, very knowledgeable on cyber, came to theress room and described the steps being taken to limit this. but when he was asked where the weapons came from, he said that the provenance of them is not interesting. what is interesting is what you do to stop them. but i think the provenance of them is interesting. ben: having recently been in government, i'm not going to talk about the provenance. this is all new space for the united states. i think what needs to happen is a parallel track. there needs to be more dialogue between government and industry. we talked about this a lot with the obama administration. how can we work with industry to develop information sharing about vulnerabilities and protections? also, there has to be dialogue with other countries. that often means dialogue with cyber adversaries like russia and china, which is harder in the environment we have been in recently, where russia has used all sorts of means of cyber attacks on american democracy. but we need to do is establish a new set of international norm

. >> however, after reading a summary of the meeting homeland security adviser tom bossert enough to contact the cia and nsa about the tactic of disguising bombs in computer laptops to take down airlines. it's worried that russia could figure out the source used to gather the intelligence >> you don't get intelligence out of thin air, because we deploy spies and people who are willing to put their lives on the line and because we work with other intelligence agencies around the world that help provide that kind of information, but it's done on the basis of confidence and trust. >> reporter: now both democratic and republican lawmakers worry that israel might withhold crucial information in the future. >> if the source is a sister intelligence agency of a friendly country, that country could decide it can't trust the united states with information or worse that it can't trust the president of the united states with information, that obviously has very serious repercussions and particularly if we're talking about information about a threat to americans posed by isis. >> reporter: as pa

excerpt from the "washington post" article referring to president trump's homeland security officer, tom bossert post" reports called the nsa and cia after this meeting to let them know what had happened. "one of bossert's subordinates also called for the problematic portion of trump's discussion to be stricken from internal memos and the full transcript to be limited to a small circle of recipients. efforts to prevent sensitive details from being disseminated further or leaked." do you expect the senate to subpoena this transcript? >> well, first of all what remain classified to protect sources and keep people out of harm will most likely remain classified. that's the last thing people want to do and why sources and methods weren't identified in the "post" article. beyond that, what the senate needs to do, our oversight role, first of all, the intelligence committee has to figure out what happened and what damage is done here. foreign relations people will be involved as well. you already saw senator mccain once had to work things out with the australian government and then you'll have the work

white house homeland security advisor tom bossert said that will help protect the nation's critical infrastructure from attacks. >> the trend is going in the wrong direction in cyberspace and it's time to stop that trend and reverse it on behalf of the american people. we've seen increasing attacks from allies, adversaries, primarily nation states but also non-nation state actors and sitting by and doing nothing is no longer an option. >> woodruff: president trump's second executive order established a bipartisan commission to review claims of voter fraud in the u.s. mr. trump has alleged, without evidence, that three to five million people voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election. the city of new orleans today removed a statue of the president of the confederacy, jefferson davis. it's the second of four confederate monuments slated to come down. in the dark, wee hours of the morning, workers wearing bulletproof vests and helmets removed the statue from where it stood since 1911, as protesters cheered. there was no advance public notice of the operation due to threats of violence against

i'm tom bossert, assistants to the president on counterterrorism. i would like to honor the fallen police officers that the president and vice president ak non knowledged today. they are the front lines of our security. on cyber security, our responsibility is to coordinate government cyber security efforts. i want to give you an update on the ransom attack that's been known as warner crypt. we continue to monitor that at the highest sources of government. we are bringing all the capabilities on this issue and working side by side with our partners in the private sector and our international partners. i spoke moments ago with my counterpart in great britain and learned an update from them, that they have a feeling of control over this ransomware event, and that as their affected computers seemed to be tied to this given their health care is so large in the network, they are painfully aware it was a global attack, as are we. as of this morning it reached 150 countries and affected more than 300,000 machines. the good news is it has slowed over the we

that the with white house's counter terrorism adviser, one of those advisors, a man by the name of tom bossert alerted the cia, alerted the nsa, shortly after that meeting. what do you make of that, bruce? if what was said in that room was not such a big deal, why then would the counter terrorism adviser feel the need to pick up the phone call the nsa and call the cia and say hey, guys, just a head's up here's what the boss just said? >> well, like once again, craig, none of russ in the room. we don't have any witnesses that know exactly what went on. but i will tell you this, from president trump's perspective, president trump has the number one interest to protect the united states by any means necessary and knows that he has to have a compilation of russia, turkey and all the folks in the region to put an end to this terrible thing called isis, craig. we can have all kinds of theories he said/she said but at the end of the day none of us are privileged to be in the talks in these closed meetings, highly classified secure meetings, of what goes on to have some level of strategy to help the u

you saw tom bossert talking about national security, whether it's securing the border, whether it's protecting people abroad here. >> during the election, was it a threat to national security? >> i haven't had the chance to ask him about that. i think we're waiting for the final conclusion of the investigation. >> or he doesn't know? >> i think anytime we have someone interfering in our election, that would be considered a problem, and i think the president would certainly recognize that. matthew? >> two questions. first, as has been mentioned, vice president pence yesterday said the firing was based on the recommendation of the attorney general and deputy attorney general. we know now that that's not true. was the vice president misled again, or did he mislead the american people? >> i believe i've answered that question. >> if you have, i don't think i caught it. because the vice president said yesterday that the president chose to accept and support the decision of the deputy attorney general and attorney general. >> he certainly accepted the deputy attorney -- that doesn't mean that he sti

you just saw tom bossert here talking about cybersecurity, on all fronts, whether it's securing the border. whether it's protecting people abroad here, the president has been focused on -- >> -- election was a threat to u.s. national security? >> you know, i haven't had the chance to ask him about that. i think we're still waiting on the final conclusion of that investigation. look, i think anytime we have someone interfering with our election, that would be considered a problem and i think the president would certainly recognize that. matthew? >> two questions. first, as has been mentioned, vice president pence yesterday said the firing was based on the recommendation of the attorney general and deputy attorney general. we know now that that's not true. was the vice president misled again or did he mislead the american people? >> i believe i've answered that question. if you have, i don't think i caught it. because the vice president said yesterday that the president chose to accept and support the decision of the deputy attorney general and attorney general -- >> he certainly accepted th

first off, before we get started, i would like to bring up homeland security advisor tom bossert to tell you about an executive order on cyber security that the president just signed. he will take a few of your questions and respectfully, i ask that you keep your questions for him on the topic of the executive order and do not worry, i will come back and answer all of the rest of your pressing questions as soon as he wraps up here with that, i will turn it over to tom. >> thank you, sarah. thank you very much for your time. a couple things positive to report today. the first is that president trump about an hour ago signed an executive order on cybersecurity. that executive order among other things is going to keep his promise that he has made to the american people to keep them safe including in cyberspace. i would like to do a few things. i promise that we will distribute the executive order, but if i could, i will preview the executive order for you, walk you through three primary sections and then we can take your questions. among other things, at least as an observation of for me, i

. >> martha: this source, it's not tom bossert, who has been sort of pointed to as the homeland security advisor who read to the readout and alerted the cia and the nsa? >> i think there were multiple sources but no, that is not mine. a >> martha: in terms of what happens next, give us your reaction to this new story tonight, from "the new york times," once again, anonymous sources, and the memo was not in their hands, but they learned about this memo, and as we have talked about, the oversight committee would like to see this memo. what do you think? >> martha, there's a prevailing theme with a president. he's not a professional politician, the american people voted for someone who is not a professional politician. we should expect and give him grace to make mistakes that a normal politician wouldn't make because -- >> martha: he is not getting that grace. >> he's not. but the problem for the president, though, because this job is different than he expected and he's not a professional politician, he needs to do a better job of listening to people's advice, stay off twitter. the presiden

tom bossert: while it would be satisfying to hold accountable those responsible for this hack -- somethingwe are working on quite seriously -- the worm is in the wild so to speak at this point, and patching is the most important message.the good news is, the infection rates have slowed over the weekend. we had been concerned about that.as of today, no federal systems are affected. attempts to contain the virus seem to be working....led by a young british computerexpert who's credited with cracking the wanna cry cyber attack. some security researchers are looking at possible connections with north korea...although they warn that the connection is "weak." meantime investigators believe that there are more companies in the u.s. which have been affected - but haven't yet come forward to report the attacks. pam and steve? ( steve ) the president's travel ban comes underfire during a court hearing. how his campaign message may derail his executive order. ( pam ) and new details are coming out about the united passenger who was seen dragged off a plane... bloodied. what we now know about one of t

. >> before we get started i want to bring homeland security tom bossert back of her to the vexations response to the ransomware hacking and then i will go on with events today and answer questions. without further ado, tom. >> thanks john. thank you. good afternoon. if i could i like to start today by acknowledging the fallen police officers the president vice president acknowledged today. they are the front lines of our homeland security and today's event was off me to attend.

i believe it was tom bossert, homeland security adviser to reach out and said this is what went on.eed the feedback loop so the next meeting we can move forward with the agenda. i don't buy that this was a 9-1-1 call on behalf of the staff and i don't buy that the people around 10 either misinformed him for lying about what was said. tree to wear a minute away from. what is the rule of thumb? a president cannot recite talk about anything he wants to talk about with anyone he wants to talk about it with. you know, he has free rein there. what are the rules in place for classified information that might compromise the source of the information, particularly when you are sharing our potentially sharing it with the russians? >> said there is what he can do and what he should do. neil: hang on there, colonel. the president and the later. >> i am shocked. it is a great pleasure to welcome president erdogan for his first visit to the white house in years. the american and turkish peoples have been friends and allies for many, many decades. turkey was a pillar in the cold war against commun

first off before we get started, i'd like to bring up homeland security advisor tom bossert, to tellecutive order on cybersecurity the president just signed. he will take a few of your questions, and respectfully i ask that you keep your questions for him on the topic of the executive order, and don't worry, i will come back and answer all of the rest of your pressing questions as soon as he wraps up. with that i turn it over to tom. >> thank you, sarah. thank you very much for your time. couple of things positive to report today. the first is that president trump about an hour ago signed an executive order on cybersecurity, and that executive order among other things is going to keep his promise he made to the american people to keep america safe including in cyberspace. i would like to do a few things, i promise you we distribute the executive order, but if i could, i will preview the executive order for you, walk you through three primary sections, wave tops and take your questions. among other things, at least as an observation for me i think the trend is going in the wrong direc

the trump administration sign the cyber executive order right before this last week, we've seen tom bossert for homeland and counterterrorism specifically go up to the podium and speak at the white house press briefing on this. the fbi and our allies are all globally aligning against this, and they're seeking those who perpetrated it. so i think from the perspective of a teachable moment, this is the most high profile cyber ransomware attack we've seen. and i think it's helping to elevate public awareness on the need for fighting this type of threat through management and advanced cybersecurity. >> chad, clearly there's an issue whether you're pointing at the government, or individual companies, at detecting these types of attacks. but more broadly, should there be a bigger discussion about more severe punishments for those that carry it out, such that there's a bigger disincentive for people to ever kind of start to think about doing these things in the first place? >> absolutely. i mean right now we're living in what i would call the wild, wild net. meaning, it's in many ways lawless. and