of qatar. the fbi sent in a team of investigators into doha to help the government investigate the allege hacking incident. russia continues to try to use some of the same cyber hacking measures on u.s. allies that it used to meddle in the u.s. election in 2016. qatar, as you know, hosts one of the largest u.s. military bases in the region, and u.s. officials say that the russian goal here appears to be to cause a rift between the u.s. and its allies in the renagion, don. do investigators believe this is russian government or russian hackers? is the government in fact behind this? is that what they believe? right. it s not so clear whether the u.s. has tracked the hackers in this incident to russian criminal organizations or the security services that are blamed for the election hacks here in the united states. one official told us that based on past intelligence, however, not much happens in that country
defeat to those interfering with democracy. the media says kinlt talk about that. she writes. so a reference clearly to the hack attack on macron s campaign and the attack that she also felt during the election here in the u.s. david, what is your reaction to her reaction? well, we know now how about it eastern frustrated she is on her comments here if the last few days. so i m not surprised that she has come out this way. she ll have a better feel for this than i do. but my sense is that, you know, the macron was the polls in france are very good. historically, they re very g they were very good in the first round here, for example. but, you know, macron is about a. head 60/40. he won by significant more. on just coming right after this hacking incident, so there is an interesting question that she might answer. did the hacking actually work in his favor because people felt he d been, you know, that the
with this season. montgomery to tallahassee. it s unbelievable to see the power of just a small tornado. it can be that narrow and that confined and then picking up a car just like that, yeah. bill, thanks so much for that. let s turn to business and a major announcement about the verizon deal that will combine yahoo! and aol brands. aol and yahoo! are getting an interesting new name and word is current yahoo! ceo marissa mayer will not be following the new company. that s right, louis. the ceo of aol tim armstrong tweeted out the new brand name for merged entity called oath. it s not entirely clear whether marissa mayer will be involve in the new combined entity after the hacking incident at yahoo!. really damaged the purchase price. that s probably unlikely, according to a number of reports out there.
the c.i.a. and f.b.i. but i think the american people appreciate he is taking his time drawing these conclusions about what went on in the hacking incident. bill: does the trump team believe the intelligence community has become too political or not? well, you know, i think it s too early to make that statement. i think that s something if you invite me on in a couple of months and ask me that question i ll give you a direct and honest answer. my guess is, though, i would give the benefit of the doubt to these agencies that they aren t really political but political decisions probably were made in terms of staffing, potential cutbacks on the field agency side. that s the authority and the purview of the president of the united states. president obama and his team probably made those decisions and the agencies had to comply with that. i have think the president-elect and vice president pence, congressman
the car industry is 20 years behind the health care industry. talk us back through the ransom wear part of this. we saw video from wired that did the story of the jeep getting hijacked. it is my understanding it is encryption and my understanding of encryption is limited admit admitted admittedingly. if someone uses encryption they are the only ones that know the answer. is that true? here is how it would work with a car. cars are mobile computers. you can access them wirelessly and the hacking incident and what you showed was that cars can be hijacked because it is a computer. it means i can introduce malware into the computer because there is nothing to stop it and it can take control of the operating system and hold it for hostage. you have an $80,000 luxury car with bells and whistles and i say unless i get $2-$5,000 from