he s someone who has consistently doubled down in the face of controversy. we have no reason to believe that the firing is going to bevy different. you can look at how the white house handled it on friday. sean spicer said in response to many questions about the quote/unquote tapes about trump tweeted about, sean spicer said, well, the president has nothing further to add on that. that s something that the president has done throughout his time in politics. he s always doubled down. never felt he needed to comment on questions. it s going ton an unapologetic search for a new fbi director. and really a dismissal of questions still remaining, although they re very valid, as to what led to the firing in the first place. president showing no signs of backing off. nbc s kelly o donnell at the white house. ali vitaly in lynchburg, virginia. thank you, both. the investigation lee mains a hot topic.
dinner? well, president trump suggests that james comey sought the dinner. and that during the dinner james comey asked to be retained as fbi director. people close to james comey said that is not true. the other thing about that dinner, it happened the day after sally yates came to the white house raising concerns about mike flynn potentially being blackmailable by the russians, leading to the conversation with the russian ambassador. a few days before that, mike flynn had been interviewed in the white house by fbi agents. so donald trump would have been briefed about that matter so he would have gone into that dinner knowing this. comey would have been involved in it. it just sets an vesting picture. nbc s ken delanie, thank you. today, attorney general jeff sessions and rod rosenstein are
hospital in l.a. paid $17,000 to unlock their files. in januarys, a hotel in austria was hit. the department of homeland security warned u.s. users to protect themselves with updating with the latest, and not download or clicking on e-mails and backing up data. microsoft says it s making updates and fixes free for everyone, including everyone on older systems. but euro poll along with british intelligence agencies are vesting. keir. all right. nbc s kelly cobiella. thank you for for more on this, i m joined by cyber security expert lisa garver. how do you begin to figure out who s behind this? that s the difficult part. and that s going to be a very lengthy digital forensics investigation. and also in that investigation, whether the information was
candidate. nbc is in tehran with more of the upcoming election. we want the viewers to know, elliott, we have a slight audio delay. we ll deal with that. how does it look from the u.s. president, from iranian s delegate? reporter: well, the regime here likely sees the american political system in disarray. they think that anything discredits america and the process here is that if the united states is in in its own domestic problems then the away from iran. there s also massive propaganda on here.
computer at home you re likely accepting these daily updates as you should. it s called good impurity hygiene. if you just deleast e-mate e-ma this. but in this case, these systems weren t updated. thank you for joining us. turning to washington, d.c.ing where the search is on for james comey s replacement. new video show the former fbi director getting into his car outside of his home just a short time ago. in d.c., attorney general jeff sessions and attorney general rod rosenstein are interviewing a number of candidates today. it comes as president trump delivered a commencement address at liberty school. joining us now, nbc s kelly o donnell at the white house. and let s start with you, kelly, is it possible that the