they have an inroad in yemen right now. yeah. the iraq war had the consequence of giving iran a lot more space to look at the map. you can see the potential that the iranians have. they are smelling victories. they are. look how quickly this is changed in a couple years. if you put baghdad at the center of a map and look at influence in syria and lebanon, now extending into iraq going south into yemen, you start to see influence that s not only significant for iran it s significant for sunni states like saudi arabia who say, where does this come to an end? peter, our friends, they have a new study that came out. they found at least 46,000 twitter accounts used by isis supporters in the middle east and europe as well as here in the united states. that sounds enormous to me. we have heard from the u.s. government that isis is producing 90,000-plus tweets a day. this is a group appealing to a
we re following breaking news. sources telling cnn there s evidence hackers stole the credentials of a sony official to gain access to the company s system. all of this is being watched very closely in south korea. cnn s kyung lah is joining us now live from seoul, south korea. so what s been the reaction over there? reporter: the reaction is, this certainly makes sense. it fits with the suspicions of the south korean government. that what hackers try to do is they try to find an inroad that they can then break into that company and propagate what they want. and what north korea wants, because we see all these propaganda videos where they re over the top. they want to put out a message.
martha: barack obama didn t spend a lot of time in the senate and he was able to go on. i think relationship is right, i think bob dole is a man who is out of touch with where the new republican party is going. it is true he s quick to jump on those on the right of the republican party like cruz and rand paul. but i think what he s starting to see is that s a constituency he didn t have to deal with as much when he ran. and they made inroad. when i first heard he was going to be here i thought i have got another nut. but he turned out to be a serious guy. he went to howard university. republicans never go to back forums. i always hear them cry and moan about how 97% of the blacks vote for democrats.
newspapers and television actually edited the comments o so not everyone in china even heard them. what kind of difference does this make, this kind of soft diplomacy? it has a huge impact not just in the words of michelle obama but in the model. coming to china where first ladies don t traditionally have a role in public life and taking part in this kind of open conversation, encouraging people power. some of it is the substance, some of it is the style but it makes an inroad into the chinese psyche. that creates a different type of consciousness around the united states. she s dealing in the world where more than a few governments, china, turkey, others and the bend have decided to cut off access to youtube, twitter, to make this information thing a thing. she is stepping up in a space where the u.s. still has some moral legitimacy. the open internet, despite the brouhaha over how to monitor people. gordon, i want to ask.
we don t know the impaskt how social media has changed all this. they have this perceived social isolation. i am alone and don t necessarily want to be this way. how do you fix it? is it as simple as just saying hello? you need an inroad into those people. you need to be sort of empowered as a greeter to reach out to that person in some way. the hello is the beginning of that. it s not the end. hopefully that will lead to more meaningful relationships. but right now, again, as opposed to avoiding people, you think maybe these loaners or whatever are actually reaching out to them could start something when you say hello to people in manhattan, coming from atlanta, they are like that s part of the problem, right? culture created a problem. is that we have become more isolated, more fearful of each other. and it s a problem. especially here. we re supposed to all be about