First up to a story we are watching right now. The irs data breach. It is getting much bigger than we realized. We are now learning of an additional 220,000 possible victims and the total number of taxpayers to 334,000. For more on this story lets go , to washington dc and bloomberg jordan roberts. What can you tell us about this new breach . It seems to be more focused. Jordan before and thing to remember is that while we are not talking huge numbers, 300, 400,000 people at this point, these are highly targeted attacks and and the reason they were able to get that was because they already knew a lot about victims anyway. Comesere going after vick they believed they could get a big refund from them if they committed tax refund fraud. Matt this is not a case of them going through each person will each person pause individual account. Right . They breached the irs system at large. Jordan but what they were doing is they came in over the a lot of information about their potential victims.
About the National Security apparatus, do they have what they need post9 11 from the federal government . Or are there still things outstanding that they would like to be done . He mentioned that he felt spread were thinly because the threat has morphed into different countries. There talking about how is a priority on whats going on with prices in the philippines, africa, he even mentioned north africa. I got the impression that he feels like the resources were spread thin. Washe big event this week about ambush in niger, are there more questions to be asked . Do we know enough about whats happening as an American Public . We dont know that much about ambush. Pened in the the u. S. Military is doing an after action report right now. There are early signs that the group that ambushed the special forces unit had connections to Islamic State. Its known that Islamic State and al qaeda are trying to play off of travel robberies in that region to bolster their presence there. We have a lot
Watch the new night at 9 00 eastern and pacific here on cspan. Cspan. Orgo go to and find video past Prime Ministers questions and other British Public affairs programs. Monday on the communicators, russias involvement in the 20 16th election with reporter julia. Facebook has said they learn that a bunch of ads placed during the election were placed by russian outfits under anonymous accounts. They were politically divisive ads, not necessarily aimed at one candidate or another, but aimed at selling divisiveness. Watch the communicators monday not at 8 00 eastern on cspan two. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson and the qatari minister spoke in doha. He responded to questions about Iraqi Security and the ongoing blockade of qatar imposed by saudi arabia and other middle east states. Michelle from npr. Question. A first of all, how much i you worried about the iranians helping iraq retake parts of turkey took . What is next for the kurds . Tell me about what you tried to do to head off the
As the National Constitution Center Awards the 2017 Liberty Medal to senator john mccain. [applause] throughout his career, senator mccain has put his the devotion to the u. S. Constitution above faction or party. He is the kind of independent citizen statesman James Madison envisioned when he stressed that the u. S. Constitution created not a direct democracy, but a representative republic. Madison and the framers of the constitution believed that direct democracies have led in greece and rome to rule by demagogues and the mob. By contrast, in a representative republic, citizens would delegate power to enlighten representatives. A chosen body of citizens whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations. Its especially meaningful that senator mccain will be awarded the Liberty Medal accompanied by the chair of the National Constitution Center Vice Preside
The comedian refuses to testify. Only on cbs this morning this lawyer is here. We begin with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Our relationships with russia are at a very low point and theyve been deteriorating. Newly leaked documents detail russian hacking. Russian military intelligence was trying to break into u. S. Election systems. The department of justice charging a federal contractor with leaking top secret information to the media. You cannot put that out there just because you think it would be a good idea. I want people in handcuffs and i want to see people behind bars. The president attacking his own Justice Department trying to make the case for his travel ban. Is it a travel ban . Look, i dont think the president cares what you call it. People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want i am calling it what we need and what we need, a travel ban. British police named the three men who carried out the terror attack in london. One was know