Resigned tonight. The robust way he stood up to the Trump Administration and to trump himself on ethics issues and the president s unprecedented financial conflicts of interest. His name is walter shoeb. He said he was not forced out of the Office Of Government Ethics. He basically says hes leaving because the u. S. Governmentestics rules are not Strong Enough to allow him to stand up to what this president and his family are doing so he is leaving his jb at the Office Of Government Ethics in order to try to strengthen the rules from the outside. Very interesting resignation today. Weve got more on that story ahead. Theres a lot going on. Weve got a big show tonight. I said at the very end of last nights show weve got a scoop to share with you tonight. This is that scoop. Inhouse on your staff weve been talking about this as and inside, kind of an insideout
story. Not your typical news story, not your particular scoop. But i think its important. One of the few times weve ever had a sco
in new york city they are asking parents to tell their children about making threats on social media that could jeopardize their bright futures. the police commissioner in new york said anyone with access to the internet can create fear. you take a stock photo of a weapon and write i have guns and i will shoot up the school. affording to the fbi posting a hoax threat against a school is a federal crime. the consequences are real, up to 5 years in federal prison. bret: thank you. up next fears over a new hacking system that could allow anyone in the world to break into any computer in the world. i have never seen such focus on
was unreasonable? i didn t want to hurt anybody. [sobbing]. she is charged with 1st and 2nd degree manslaughter and faces up to 15 years in prison. the jury will hear closing arguments on monday before they begin their deliberations. bret: thanks. there are growing fears tonight about a new hacking system that could threaten any computer. jennifer griffin tells us with it from the pentagon. it departments are scrambling to cause a gap in software used by every computer around the world. they fear a cyber armageddon if companies don t patch the problem. an employee at a chinese tech
2016 election. the u.s. report that said et went on for longer than previously disclosed within wider than priestly disclosed and they got further in their attack than had been previously disclosed. quoting from the intercept. russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on one u.s. voting software supplier and spear speer phishing e-mails to hundreds of local officials days before last year s presidential election. russian government hackers were part of a team with a mandate specifically focused on the elections. they focused on the hacking system. russian hacking may have breached om elements of the u.s. voting system. and all of this explosive stuff is cited to, quote, a highly classified intelligence report obtained by the intercept.
as well as the x-box game consoles. so in that situation, it was a group calling itself or identifying itself as lizard squad. yeah. it seems they now also have their hacking capabilities for hire they have a kit that you can almost buy to hack. it s crazy, right? is that legal? it s certainly not. not, right. and i think what we re seeing now is you know the internet in general is essentially aneeds to be protected and defended whether it s a company like sony or servers that relate to the u.s. government or other u.s. corporations. and i think the fact that we are that much more interconnected gives hackers, both big and small access. let me ask this though. no doubt hacking is illegal. but selling a hacking system is illegal? i m not a legal expert. yeah. so i don t know what the fine line around that is. anyone who would partake and make use of it i guess the