yet those sophisticated attackers didn't make the slightest effort to hide their locations and he tom dick or harry can throw their ip address to make it look like they're based anywhere in the world and yet all the ip addresses were russian a similar situation was seen in germany not long before their national election took place again the conclusion was that moscow was behind the hack because the ip addresses are. native and russia however we've seen the exact opposite as well when south korean government computers were the targets of cyber attacks during the winter olympics the ip addresses used were from inside north korea but it was determined the hackers were russians they were simply masking their locations this time around damned if you do damned if you don't. you know everything that goes wrong must be russia we have a police saying that actually it's going to take months to try and find up trying work out what happened build the other dental chain and yes on another hand as well we have the british media immediately stampeding to say it must be the kremlin it must be russia so th

like the spontaneity, a disruptor in chief and could make his own decisions but not consult every tom, dickairy in washington to get things done. are you upset by the turnover? >> i'm not upset. but the turnover makes me nervous. if this is how donald trump runs his businesses no question why he had so many bankruptcies. >> and a billionaire. >> i don't know. let's see his taxes to find out if he actually is. emescorted out by the police. people fired by twitter, we have real issues going on now. we have russia, china, north korea. we need -- trish: he is working on that too. >> he will have the meeting. we need semblance of normality. we need other countries to know where we stand. trish: you don't want to necessarily, in interest of semblance of normality how this all looks, tom, wind up with the wrong people in place? >> but it is the best people. trish: is it really? >> i don't think. trish: if you think he had the best people. he wants best people for him. >> right. at first he want ad diverse group of people. boy, did he have that, activist steve bannon, to establishment reince priebu

ashley: leave it there, andy, john, kevin, phil, todd, tom, dick and harry, thanks for joining us.own 729 points. down 3% on the dow. [closing bell rings] briefly touched correction territory. it has been that kind of a day. nasdaq down 2%. that will do it for the "countdown," david asman, melissa francis, "after the bell." david: ashley, thank you very much. big news out of washington making a big dent on wall street. stocks slammed on fears of a trade war with china, out of control government spending, maybe another shoed dropping in the mueller investigation, and there is still the hangover from the federal reserve announcement yesterday. not to mention a whole dust-up with social media. this is perfect storm, leading to tumbling on the dow. it tumbled into the close, not at the lowest point. that was 745. down about 721. it is still 3%, we're in correction territory, ladies and gentlemen. melissa: big move. david: good to have you with us. i'm david asman. melissa: i'm melissa francis this is "after the bell." s&p and nasdaq ending down m

dicks. he was telling me about their process. for why they did what they did. and he said, you know, tom, if the young people can lead, why couldn't corporate america lead. and lead he did. they were preparing for the worst. they understood this could have serious economic consequences. but this is doing what dr. king says, which it is always the right time to do the right thing. and you know what, he was wrong in his assessment that there would be a backlash. what they have gotten is an unrelenting response in the positive from people, members of the nra included, who have said, second amendment freedoms and common sense gun violence reduction measures can coexist. thank you for your moral leadership. that's what we wethey were sayi him. and you know what they said? if young people can exercise leadership, then we can exercise leadership in corporate america. if we can exercise leadership in corporate america, why can't elected officials exercise leadership? and you know what? the way to make that happen is to elect more democrats. that's exactly what we're doing. and you know, i've bee

dick's. you know, he was telling me about their process. for why they did what they did. he said, you know, tom, if the young people can lead, why couldn't corporate america lead? that's what he said. and lead he did. and when they led, they weren't sure what was going to happen. they were preparing for the worst. they understood that this could have serious economic consequences. but moral leadership is not about looking at economic consequences. it's doing what dr. king said, which is it's always the right time to do the right thing. and do you know what? he was wrong in his assessment that there would be a backlash. what they have gotten is an unrelenting response in the positive from people, members of the nra included who have said second amendment freedoms and common sense gun violence reduction measures can coexist. thank you for your moral leadership. that's what they were saying to him. and you know what he said? if the young people can exercise leadership, then we can exercise leadership in corporate america. and if we can exercise leadership in corporate america, why can't elected of

tom: he was a writer for the austin texas monthly or something, but was a speechwriter for lbj from 1957 until 1959. he would've been a contemporary of ted sorensen and dick goodwin who was writing speeches for john kennedy, he was writing speeches for l.b.j. and they had a falling out. he went back to texas. he wrote this satirical book about lbj but he made him governor of texas. this book turns out to be a book -- and this is why political reporters admires it bargaining and agreement negotiating. he has lbj as governor of texas. it hur fenstimaker and delightfully captures texas politics and legislative politics. it's actually three novels in one. one of the things i tried to do in this book was have books that talked about politics elsewhere in the country, not just washington, d.c. i have eight or 10 washington, d.c. -- but i have a book about politics in new hampshire, the progressive movement in new hampshire. i have hamlin garland's book bout politics in iowa. ill billy brammer's book in texas. one wrote a book about governorship in california. and of course "gone with the wind." historically southern. i tried to have books representative of the