here, what the u.s. says is that the russians, the fsb were basically interested in this for intelligence purposes. they wanted to get information to, in essence, spy on people in russia, russian journalists, diplomats, some american officials and some american military people and, to some extent, some financial entities. that s what it was in it for the russians. what was in it for the hackers is they could use the information to try to get credit card, gift card information and even do pop-up ads for erectile dysfunction drugs. pete, at this point, any reason to believe that it extends beyond those that were mentioned today? they believe they have their men? there were two big attacks on yahoo. one was in 2013 that come
into the younger voters. he gave that big filibuster speech that talkathon several months ago. the administration s drone policy. something that is also controversial with younger folks. although it is interesting with younger voters and who might be complaining against the nsa surveillance programs. and a time in which, if you are a young person on facebook, you know how much facebook tracks you, how when you go and buy something online, all of a sudden, you are getting pop-up ads from that company that just sold you something. so there s a kind of there s a difference between the government doing things and corporate america. but we re in this surveillance state whether it s the government or whether it s private america. good point, mark. thank you very much. we ll talk with you tomorrow. oscar pistorius murder trial, we re in week three with no end in sight. with potentially damaging testimony today, when will oscar himself take the stand? a gun dealer who sold gowns pistoriu
that s a good point. or is it a fair point. it is the fairest and the greatestment i love they blame it on pop up ads. there is a husband whose wife caught them or opened their computer and found porn. oh pop ups. it wasn t me. that s basically what they are doing. i wonder if they are going to ask the internet provider to give them porn to go ahead and take off the you have to. bill, you do research on transgendered and looking for trouble .org. couldn t this be for noel security reasons so you don t get in trouble? it could. i m sure there is something hotful hurtful in there. hotful? i don t think they know how pop up ads work. you can t go on a site and it is two girls and one coming at you. a pop up of porn is not going to happen. they will say look, i only
somebody s private information. i got to say, in a day and age when if you go on your own personal computer and google pop-up ads, when american political campaigns can figure out what subscription you re going to get to a magazine, how the united states intelligence service is not seeing these guys coming and not connecting the dots? we re ten years out from september 11. september 11 commission report said one of the biggest problems that led to september 11 was our intelligence communities and various parts of our intelligence apparatus wasn t talking to each other. we re making the same mistakes now. it s late in the game because why? arthel, what s happened is that the whole wave of terrorism is now changed. who is doing tryst activities in home grown terrorists. arthel: they re saying that it s hard to find the self-radicalized terrorist. do you agree with me and give may short answer cause i have to go. yeah. absolutely. and that s why it s really we got to get our game b
governor paul la page. and records smashed from the midwest to the east coast. and now a new record. this past year has been the warmest ever for america. so turn up the ac, grab a cold drunk. cnn newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. thank you so much for joining us. i m carol costello. right now, president obama is just about to head to the heartland. he is visiting the battle ground state of iowa and reaching out to middle class voters. that s who would most benefit from his plan to extend the bush era tax cuts. here s what s going to change. basically if we don t do anything, everybody s taxes go up at the end of this year. now, understand what i m proposing is 98% of america, 98% of american families, won t see their taxes go up according to my plaque. plan. the only folks who would see their taxes go up would be the top 2%, folks like me who don t need those tax breaks, are doing just fine without them. republicans will seize the spotlight first in