happy friday, thanks so much for joining us. it is 10:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we are tracking multiple breaking news stories this friday. in texas, a community flattened by a tornado leaving three people dead and dozens hurt. the town of perrington with over 8,000 people took a direct hit. dozens of homes now wiped off the face of the earth. the trailer park that the tornado first hit, there s probably 25 to 30 of those homes that are completely destroyed. and complicating the rescue and recovery efforts, a brutal heat wave descending upon the lone star state, some areasly c degrees. we re keeping a close eye on the supreme court this morning where at any moment the justices could release decisions on major cases, the fate of affirmative action and student loan forgiveness among them. we ve got a preview straight ahead. and remember this? eight years ago today donald trump announced his campaign for president. lately he s been making m
i think there s several different ways that you can attack the problem. one thing to look at is cryptocurrencies are the mechanism by which these ransom groups are paid. if they had to go through the legal banking system, obviously they wouldn t be able to pull off these kinds of heists, at least not to the degree they do now. the second part, so much of the infrastructure and technology that all governments need to use right now is programmed in the private sector. there has to be reviews. there has to be third-party checkers of this information and the code that s being written into it. we re still finding vulnerabilities. it s very difficult to patch all of these software applications that come into the government. 15 years ago it was only a few application. now nearly every application when you re talking about moving large amounts of data, which this software was able to do, the moveit software, now you re talking about a highway of information that can be tapped into if there s a
negotiating with other governments and russia will once either a convicted terrorist like they got s, or they are going to want possibly concessions, including concessions having to do with what is going on in ukraine. how do we manage and talk about detainees when they re held by governments, as opposed to by ransom groups of bandits? i think for many, many years, some governments, where the security services and that you distilleries are ponds of the political leadership, see u.s. citizens and foreign citizens as potential targets for either arrest to capture, as a way to either punish the united states, as well as to use as bargaining chips. that is why i think the state department rightly advice as u.s. citizens to be very wary of traveling to certain countries overseas, because of the potential vulnerability of these individuals. there s some countries i would not travel to, because i could, in fact, we put in a similar
russia. jasmine wright with us from delaware. what more do you know right now about the president s call. reporter: well president biden told reporters he expects russia to act against the latest ransomware attack. now, this comes three weeks after president biden and president putin met in geneva where cybercurate was a major focus of the discussion. in this call it s front and center. white house officials say the phone call lasted about an hour. and in a readout released afterwards, they underscored that president biden they said that president biden underscored the need for russia to take action to disrupt the ransom groups operating in russia. and later president biden speaking to jeff zeleny said he issued another warning to putin about it but said he was optimistic when zeleny asked the president about putin s response. take a listen.
and perhaps hold others criminally accountable like you would money launderers, could you not? i think historically we have been reluctant to use our cyber capabilities as more than just a general deterrent. we haven t been that willing to deploy them to disrupt either the cryptocurrency luker that these ransom groups accumulate, or in the case of the northern states, the ability they have to hack our networks. i think that system is breaking down, and i think it s going to have to. i think we could use our technological means which are the greatest in the world to disrupt these networks and disrupt the government as well as private hackers. sanctions look like they ve been a failure. tell me why they haven t been, because it certainly looks like it has not deterred the behavior of putin, period.