was some enthusiasm every time he said justify s going to win. [laughter] you ve got the mint jewish lip at the derby, blackize susans at the prescribing black eye susans at the preakness. i m concerned with other matters. elizabeth: no, i m also concerned with this. [laughter] reporter: you know, i actually do not know. i really do not know. you know why? it s early here leland: see reporter: i ll find out. leland: this was a trick question. i do know the answer. it was just to see if you ve been on your game and not attending the bar. it s called the belmont breeze which is bourbon with orange and cranberry juice. so have one and report back to us. that s your new assign isment. [laughter] reporter: well, you see, i ve got money on the line here on the horses, not the drinks. i was too busy studying that and not the drink. leland: good man. reporter: i appreciate that. i ll go try it out at 8:00
much more intense. and it seems to be lingering. i think the reason for that is that although privacy advocates have this abstract interest in privacy and they try to spread the message that other people should care, i think a lot of ordinary people are like i have nothing to hide. if they re just using it to show me ads for something i m interested in in, i m fine with that. there s something different about it because it s attached itself to this continuing male drama that trump is president because the russians tricked the country into making him president which the center to the left believes not the right. so now that feeling of recent sment not going to go away. i also wonder if it s broken in the national consciousness because of the scale of this. these are huge numbers. and the whistleblower in all of this was on with my colleague chuck todd to talk about just how many people could have been affected. listen. do you believe the number 87 million is the high end or do you
for months. our next guest wrote about the threat last sment. joining us now is andy green brg, senior writer for wired. good morning to you. the u.s. power grid is probably too complex to cut power across the country all at once. so how big, how broad is the threat of these siper attacks? it s certainly serious. believe it or not, hackers have been 3epenetrating the u.s. gri and other grids for decades. but six months ago, a security firm warned us about something unusual, that state sponsored sophisticated hackers had gained deep enough access to the u.s. grid that in a handful of utilities, they had actual hands-on controls. they had direct operational access. they could have started flipping switches. now, the news this week is that the white house has pinned those attacks on the russian government. and that s especially serious because the russian government is simply so brazen.
the president. we own the power of the purse. speaker ryan should be right here on the floor of the capital doing his job. do you worry at all that with all the publicity for this that the democrats are overplaying their hand here? do you think it is lost on the american public, that there s a republican in the white house and republicans control both houses of congress because all they re seeing right now is government shutdowns? so democrats are trying to reopen government. the senate democrats propose a short three-day extension, house democrats propose a four-day extension to reopen government to solve all these issues. we couldn t even get a vote on it in either house because we don t control government. i think the american public understand that and if you see the amazing women s marches yesterday, you understand the public sent sment on the side of the democrats. i get the public sentiment, but if you look at what a majority of americans are saying, there s 56% out there
colleague, michael bennet, who is a democrat, to introduce a version of the d.r.e.a.m. act in sment because the president ended the executive order that provided those protections. you support that, so why not deal with it now? well, we are. i would like to see this done as soon as possible. we re making good progress. but we have time to do this. i don t think it makes a solution easier to reach if you shut the government down. in fact, i think it actually hurts our efforts to find a solution. senator schumer talked about the fact you have time to deal with c.h.i.p., too. it s also up in march and so is daca. so isn t you re saying one thing for c.h.i.p. but it s the same thing for daca which you say you have time to deal with. i have been a co-sponsor of c.h.i.p. for months. we have received numbers of letters from governors across the country. these are things people support. what i m saying is how on earth does it make it easier to solve problems by creating a bigger prob