the federal government s efforts prevent a major cyber attack may have suffered a serious blow. nbc news has confirmed russian hackers stole important details about how the nsa defends against cyber attacks. for more i m joined by nbc news intelligence and national security reporter ken dilinian. ken, what is the latest? katy, this is an incredible story. a contractor at the nsa apparently took home highly classified material including hacking tools that the nsa uses to break into computers and eavesdrop on communications. and this contractor was using a russian made antivirus software on his home computer made by kaspersky labs, and apparently it was flagged through a
michael flynn paid nearly $34,000 for his speech at the rt anniversary nner, the documents show flynn got two payments of $11,250 from a russian cargo airline company and a russia-based cyber security firm. the cyber security firm, kaspersky labs and its founder was educated as a kgb sponsored cryptography school and worked as a russian intelligence agent. congressman elijah cummings wants the trump administration to share information on flynn s security clearance, considering the payment he received from state-sponsored rt writing in a letter today i cannot recall any time in our nation s history the president selected as his national security adviser someone who violated the constitution. by accepting tens of thousands of dollars from the agent of a global adversary that attacked our democracy. up next, trump is 0 for 2 on his attempt to ban visitors from certain muslim majority
folks at that went over there to well, i m asking you. you d know if you were paid. yeah, i went over there as a speaking event. it was a speaking event. what difference does that make? does somebody go oh, he s paid by the russians ? well, donald trump has made a lot of the fact that hillary clinton has taken money from wall street. i didn t take money from russia, if that s what you re asking me. well, then who paid you? my speakers bureau. ask them. well, that s exactly what the house oversight committee did and his speaker s bureau complied sending the committee documents showing not only was michael flynn paid nearly $34,000 for his speech at the rt anniversary dinner, the documents show flynn got two payments of $11,250 from a russian cargo airline company and a russia-based cyber security firm. the cyber security firm, kaspersky labs and its founder was educated as a kgb sponsored cryptography school and worked as a russian intelligence agent. congressman elij