with speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than centurylink. we do business where you do business. . joining us now time magazine senior correspondent maximo calibrese. inside he details a previously undisclosed 15-page plan that lays out how the obama white house was preparing for a possible election day cyber incident, which he writes including on november 1st the white house went so far as to war games, an election day attack over the course of five hours. the national security council ran a fictionalized sequence of
social media platforms to sew confusion and chaos. a parallel concern is an 11th hour release of fake documents implicating one of the candidates in an explosive way without time for it to be fact checked. and it isn t just the russians. multiple intelligence and law enforcement officials tell nbc news that concern is just as much about nonstate actors, hackers, political activists, and criminal mischief makers. while multiple intelligence officials tell nbc they have no specific warning about an election day attack, they also say they consider the massive and sophisticated internet disruption last month a rehearsal or an inspiration for the real thing. the activity that occurred on the 21st of october has definitely been seen by many in cyber security field as potentially a drill associated with a real event. it had all the signs of what you
experts we ve been speaking to that spain has become a hot bed of jihadist activity especially in madrid. they have been anticipating something like this for quite some time. as you remember in 2004, there was a devastating al qaeda attack that killed almost 200 people. they have been waiting for this moment and unfortunately, it s happened. ari. it did have some echoes of that election day attack. just horrific. thank you for your reporting. we ll stay on that and update as warranted as nightfalls there. this week here in the united states began with a debate about removing the statue of a politician. today for some it s turned to a debate about removing an actual politician. a democratic congressman making a new impeachment push and al gore proposing faster way to get rid of trump. if you had to give trump one piece of advice, what would it be? resign. there are markers in the sand