lisa garre v.a., cybersecurity attorney. it s odd that these keep happening even though they keep happening, but odder still that we generally. shrug our shoulders at it now because it happens so often. what do you think? i want us to not shrug our shoulders at this, and my hope in speaking with you is we won t anymore. you re exactly right. s this is a cold war that has heated up for many, many years. the russian organization behind this series of attacks has actually been around since 2018, and international law enforcement has gone after them, successfully at one point, then they go underground and they remerge even more powerful. and they ve gone after organizations in the u.s. federal government, state government, private sector, health care, academia, and they re also going after many of our allies in the e. e.u., they are dangerous, and they ve taken advantage of a vulnerability and a very common piece of software. the software companies actually based in the u.s., but they
take s teixeria took photos of documents and posted them on 3450ed. meade. the u.s. as cessing the damage from a cyberattack that impacted several goempts agencies. the breach is blamed on russian hackers. natasha bertran is in washington with details. reporter: several u.s. federal government agencies have been hit in a global cyberattack in which hackers have managed to exploit a flaw in a widely used software. the agency told cnn thursday that it is providing support to several federal agencies that have experienced intrusions affecting their move it applications and is working to understand impacts and ensure timely remediation. move it is a software that hackers appear to have found a vulnerability in and began good flighting in late may.
joining me now is nbc s chief foreign correspondent from kyiv, richard, congratulations on the big interview. what else did the president have to stay about the state of the war at this critical moment? reporter: we talked about domestic politics in the united states. that s because this country s future, its survival is dependent on the united states. every night there are attacks on kyiv these days. we heard the air raid sirens last night. this city is protected because of american missile defense systems. if the u.s. support for ukraine stops, russia could make advances. this country could lose its independence, could lose the war. people in this country, the government in this country, president zelenskyy are all watching political developments in the u.s. very closely. they are watching the statements from now the republican presidential candidates. i specifically asked him about
are there any signs the support in the maga world is wavering? or is the backing of him ironclad? nothing is ever ironclad. i wouldn t be surprised to see he gets a bump in his approval ratings, the next time we get polling. over the last eight years, trump and his allies have spent that time so degrading and debasing the justice system and the levers of government, our very democratic institutions here, that his supporters are considered to think that any break that cuts against him is somehow a part of this massive conspiracy to deny him and his political movement power. i don t john kelly obviously is a very accomplished, smart
i think it s really telling is that 31 documents that jack smith cites in the indictment were all documents that were that donald trump failed to return after being asked. particularly after a subpoena. the documents he did return early on, he didn t get charged for. he got charged when he resisted efforts to return the documents. he didn t get charged for just taking them, if he gave them back in a timely basis. i think that s telling. that tells you what the calculation went into jack smith s decision to prosecute here. of course, what really triggers prosecutors is the idea that somebody in the process of an investigation is doing what he can to impede it, is trying to hide evidence, trying to convince wiltwitnesses to provi false affidavits, trying to deceive the government. that s what put this really on a hot track, i think, for an indictment. it s very possible he could have