shannon: he talked about the fact that one of the things he learned when he took over dhs, he is a military guy, decades in service. he said i was so blown away how fantastic the people of dhs are and no idea what they re dealing with every day. a lot of praise for them. isis is claiming responsibility for yet another attack this week. a deadly siege in melbourne, australia. bill: we re getting new reaction from the white house and president trump on the situation unfolding over the country of qatar. how his overseas trip and call for unification might be spurred action from seven countries. shannon: the big story of the day. an nsa contractor leaking information about russia. this information gets put into the washington post and
committee weighed in. you can see the problem. they have hundreds of thousands people with security clearances that can do that. there are supposed to be safeguards in there. when we talk to the state department and the department of justice and the nsa they assure you they have the safeguards. how many times do we need to see this story happen? when confronted by the f.b.i. on saturday she admitted to taking the report, retaining it and mailing it to reporters not authorized to receive it. those are the elements required for a violation of 18usc79 36789 shannon: if it s accurate and legitimate this document, how serious was the russian hacking attempt? the document first report evidence by the intercept website is based on recently-acquired data that suggests russian military intelligence known as the gru executed a cyberattack on a u.s. voting software supplier in august of last year and days before the election hackers
this administration has been trying to shift the subject from russian investigation or whatever is potentially embarrassing to the leak of classified information. now, as somebody who has received more than her share of classified documents that have been leaked i can tell you this is going to continue. on in every on. administration. it drove president obama crazy. they re using the same 100-year law against this 25-year-old contractor. they ll try to make a terrible example of her. shannon: about how many people who handled classified information are employees versus contractors. there are 60,000 people that work for the nsa. fewer than 5,000 are employees of the government. do the math. 55,000 private americans employed by many, many, many contractors hired by the federal government. they all take the same oath and
launched a phishing campaign. the nsa data doesn t change the intelligence community s conclusion the russian effort did not alter votes but the intelligence report does conflict with russian president s vladimir putin s statement that the allegations have no basis. shannon: thank you. bill: breaking news on the london terror attack. the identity was released of the third terror suspect. seen far right here. 22-year-old youssef zaghba. one of three attackers who killed seven people and injured more than 40 others saturday night. authorities now trying to piece together exactly what happened and learn more about the attackers and david lee miller is reaching out to his contacts on the ground in london with more. david lee, the latest from central london. bill, a moment of silence was observed all throughout the u.k. today in memory of the victims.
advance what the saudis are trying to do. bill: let s talk about samantha power. former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. you were one as well. when this issue comes up in front of james comey on thursday, why is the question about why she requested the unmasking of american names potentially so important, if indeed it happened? it s rare to ask for a name to be unmasked in an intelligence report and you have to have a good reason for it. and if it is a good reason, it s normally approved. if it s for a political person that is completely illegitimate. she wouldn t ask nsa to unmask a name for a political purpose. it would be for something else. there are good records of these requests and what action was taken. if in her case or susan rice s case or anybody else s case there is a political pattern here it s a serious abuse of power. bill: did you ever ask for the unmasking of a name when you were in that position? not when i was u.n.