announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and ann curry, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and welcome today on this monday morning. i m ann curry. i m david gregory in this monday for matt who has the morning off. a lot of buildup surrounding the greek elections particularly the import for our own economy back here. in the end a party that supports a bailout for the country s troubled economy pulled off a narrow victory. and the results caused the world market to rally. this morning there s already growing concern over similar debt crisis in other parts of europe the u.s. has even closer ties with, david. a live report from athens straight ahead this morning. also this morning a california family that s lucky to be alive. we were just talking about this. it s an amazing story. they survived a plane crash but left them stranded on a remote snow covered mountain in idaho and they were dressed for much warmer weather. it took rescuers 15 hours
documentation of the way that president obama confronted what to do when the secret got out in 2010, and actually decided to expand the cyber war, and the outcome really is not written. no, it is not and the program is still under way. thank you very much, david. thanks to joining us today. thank you, andrea. and up next, will the cyber war help israel decide not to take a military action against iran s nuclear program, and we will get a reality check from israel to the u.s. and the well heeled joining forces to raise money for the president. e backboard. [ laughs ] dad! [ laughs ] whoo! oh! you re up! oh! oh! so close! now where were we? ok, this one s good for two. score! [ male announcer ] share what you love with who you love. kellogg s frosted flakes. they re gr-r-eat!
kasic, the ohio governor who has had his own problems with the rollbacks on the union bargaining rights. sure. this is john kasich on meet the press where david greg i have asking him about giving the president some credit for the better employment in the auto industry in ohio and other states in the midwest as a result of the auto bailout. is there not some credit for the president there? david, the fact is that we are thrilled with the auto jobs and thrilled that the auto industry has been mitt romney would not have bailed them out. well, we are thrilled with the auto industry, and give me the facts, 73,000 jobs created since 11. and you know how many direct jobs in the auto industry? 1,800. of course, with governor kasich is not acknowledging is the jobs that would have been lost in the auto industry and the other industries and the companies that are reliant on it. if that bailout had not taken place, so shouldn t you guys be giving the president some credit
ambassador warren. the u.s. role has been long suspected and iran s role is long suspected and what david s book says that it was launched under president bush and expa expanded under president obama, and having a window into all of this that israel was able to see in real time the plant as we were and then to see what could be accomplished through the secret cyber attack, and of all without confirming israel s role or has it helped slow down any kind of military action? nope. first of all, good afternoon, andrea, and always good to be with you. i don t know anything about the cyber warfare or worms or vir virus viruses, but focus on what we do know. iran has 10,000 centrifuges up and working and amassed a sufficient nuclear materiel for enriching nuclear capability. and now they have enriched to a higher level, and what we know is that they have accelerated
bolstering the president s election year credentials at the expense of the national security. it is adapted from the new book confront and conceal and this is what set it all off. david sanger is the chief correspondent for the washington times and the author of the book and joins me now. david, congratulations on uncovering a whole lot of stuff, and you have caused a storm as you know, and first of all, did you have a second thought about publishing this, because a lot of reports and rumors about the computer war against iran s nuclear program, and nef before reported that it originated with the bush white house, that it was expanded by president obama, and only then that israel got into it. and you even have the details as to how we actually accomplished this. well, andrea, i tried to be careful in the course of what i did. obviously, the iranians knew a