things. comparable incidents of knife attacks. it means that it looks like the previous one by scenario, but we cannot determine the motives of the perpetrator. so for this reason, the authorities in great britain are sending the message that the scenario that they ve seen on that bridge, which by the way is telling many experts that the british public is reacting differently because of that knowledge from past cases and the british security forces have reacted much faster than before. but of course they have to wait for two things. number one to determine the identity of the person and the minute they determine the identity the few hours after that they ll determine social media possible connections but that s early at this point in time. connell: let s go back to june of 2017 as you say is the compareson that people are making even though the situation is different. the comparison is being made
they couldn t get anyone striking up the band for impeachment. if cnn can t find someone in wisconsin, you know it s bad for the democrats. the democrats did bank, of course, on career civil servants bringing the drama in the hill hearings. got four more today. last week kent and taylor came across as amiable but kind of professorial folks and yovanovitch was just irrelevant to the underlying conduct in question. none of it worked. but you don t have to take my word for it. the television ratings from last week s performances are in and it s not pretty. 13.8 million people across multiple broadcast and cable outlets watched the first day of the hearings. that s a 19% drop from the number who watched jim comey s testimony before the senate intel committee back in june of 2017, and as joe concha notes in the hill it s also 1.5 million fewer than the number who tuned in to the first democratic debates which didn t have the benefit of being on most of the
laura: that s on cnn. they couldn t get anyone striking up the band for impeachment. of course there was the career civil servants, but lastly kenton taylor came across as amiable and kind of professorial folks. yovanovitch was irrelevant to the underlying conduct in question. but you don t have to take my word for it. the television ratings are in and it s not pretty. while 13.8 million people across multiple broadcast and cable outputs watch the first day of the hearing and that s a 19% drop from the number who watched jim comey s testimony with the senate intel committee back in june of 2017. and as joe concha notes in the hill, that s also fewer than tuned in to the first democratic
civilians twice. the first ever blackouts caused by hackers. so this is russia turning off the power in ukraine. in the midst of this ukrainian war, this invasion of ukraine by russia they ve launched a cyber war there. and over these years i and a bunch of cybersecurity researchers who are the characters of some of the characters that book, they ve been trying to warn that is what is happening in ukraine is russia is using the country, the entire country as a test lab for cyberwar. but what was happening in ukraine would soon spill out, this cyber war would hit us in the west too. and ultimately that is what happens in june of 2017, as you said, this piece of malware released by and is worm, the hackners my book, hit ukraine, devastated the country s internet, took down hundreds of ukrainian companies, hospitals, every government agency, multiple power companies were hit by this as well. but then within hours spread beyond ukraine s borders,
correlations, but the first go-around, the quid pro quo part of it is not nearly clear cut. in terms of what mr. giuliani was talking to them about, some things you were describing there in terms of the business pursuits he was having, the for-show meetings we know he was having at the time, certainly it was probably a prestige thing for a number of ukrainian figures to be seen meeting with him, have their picture with him. do we have any do you have any reporting or do we have any understanding about whether or not giuliani might have been talking to this ukrainian prosecutor about the special counsel investigation? about the manafort prosecution? about whether or not ukraine was going to offer cooperation and assistance to what was happening at the justice department at the time? i mean, we do know that he did meet with that prosecutor at one point. as our understanding is, this was in june of 2017. giuliani insists in a conversation that he had with maggie haberman, one of my