there. it s absolutely unbelievable. when you set foot in really any city in america, you could throw a rock and probably hit something that has been touched in some way by ransomware. i m standing in from of ucsf, the premier medical research hospital of this region. exactly a year ago today it announced it had to pay a little more than a million dollars to free up academic research held on servers that had been captured by ransomware actors. here s the thing, if i take a bus here, you re going to see one go by me in a moment, that system, the san francisco muni system was hit in 2016 and they had to make a free ride for everybody for a full day. back then it was quaint they paid only $73,000 to release that ransomware attack. if i walk two blocks that way, i ll hit a bar that might serve me something from molson coors hit this year, across the park,
will stick to that and not turn it into that, and we hope too that we never see the spectacle of our military force being on display as a show of force to our own people. politico reports there s concern about white house aides about their ability to pull off what trump expects to see. reporter nancy cook, who joins me in a moment, writes white house and the republican national committee have spent the last week scrambling to distribute vip tickets. white house officials and allies are wringing their hands over the risk of the hastily arranged event morphing into trump s inauguration 2.0 in which the size of the crowd and the ensuing media coverage do not meet the president s own outsized expectations for the event. they started this too late and everyone has plans already, says dan eberhart, a republican donor. once again, this is all
it into that, and we hope too that we never see the spectacle of our military force being on display as a show of force to our own people. politico reports there s concern about white house aides about their ability to pull off what trump expects to see. reporter nancy cook, who joins me in a moment, writes white house and the republican national committee have spent the last week scrambling to distribute vip tickets. white house officials and allies are wringing their hands over the risk of the hastily arranged event morphing into trump s inauguration 2.0 in which the size of the crowd and the ensuing media coverage do not meet the president s own outsized expectations for the event. they started this too late and everyone has plans already, says dan eberhart, a republican donor. once again, this is all happening as critics are slamming the administration for
concern among white house aides about their ability to pull off what trump expects to see. reporter nancy cook, who joins me in a moment, writes white house and the republican national committee have spent the last week scrambling to distribute vip tickets. white house officials and allies are wringing their hands over the risk of the hastily arranged event morphing into trump s inauguration 2.0 in which the size of the crowd and the ensuing media coverage do not meet the president s own outsized expectations for the event. they started this too late and everyone has plans already, says dan eberhart, a republican donor. once again, this is all happening as critics are slamming the administration for its handling of the situation at the southern border. just yesterday a homeland security inspector general s report detailed the squalid overcrowded and dangerous conditions in which many migrants are being held. it quoted a senior border
confidence vote on her leadership. also, i m happy to tell you that colin powell s top aide joins me to rebut donald trump s attack on this navy s.e.a.l. who helped kill osama bin laden. but, we begin tonight right now with important developments in this battle between president trump and the justice department, a fight that as we all know by now has defined donald trump s first term, at least ever since he fired the fbi director and sparked bob mueller s probe, and trump s new pick for attorney general is now under new pressure tonight. ky tell you three democratic senators suing to block this appointment, including senator richard blumenthal who joins me in a moment. his effort zeros in on a technicality. but the larger battle is over. matt whitaker s criticisms of this mueller probe, which trump claims he didn t know about despite donald trump s habit of watching tv news and yes, fixating on criticism of bob mueller. did you know before you