craft? i think when we talk about u.s. presidential elections, we know the russians were trying to influence outcomes, as well as perceptions back to the 1960s, i believe. but again, the cyber environment now really provides so much more opportunity for a variety of trouble making, and the russians take advantage of it. so the ability to go in and to collect and to use different types ofechniques, spearfishing, whatever else, so they can then gain access to people s e-mails, computer systems and networks, it is something that the russians are quite adept at. what we ve seen recently is the collaboration between russian intelligence services and organized criminals. i think it was in march the department of justice indicted four individuals. well-known organized criminal hackers because of the pillaging
well, i think when we talk about u.s. presidential elections, and we know that the russians were trying to influence outcomes as well as perceptions, back to the 1960s, i believe. but again, the cyber environment now really provides so much more opportunity for a variety of trouble-making, and the russians take advantage of it. so, the ability to go in and to collect and to use different types of techniques, fear-phishing, whatever else, so they can then gain access to people s e-mails, computer systems and networks, it is something that the russians are quite adept at. and what we ve seen recently is the collaboration between russian intelligence services and organized criminals. i think it was in march that the department of justice indicted four individuals, two members of the fsb and two well-known organized criminal hackers, because of the pillaging of the
days with president trump, and perhaps fewer from his time under president obama or none or whatever the case is, i think we have to accept the fact that that is a function not of any sort of political preference, but of his experience in the trump administration, feeling put under the gun and perhaps boxed in. of course, at this time, the russians trying to hack into the american election, so that puts a different set of circumstances on all of this. appreciate your time to both of you. have a good weekend, guys. thank you. let s see what you re saying today. would joe lieberman be a good choiceo lead the fbi. he is the front-runner at the moment. only 2% say yes. 98% say no to the man who did run on the democratic ticket with vice president al gore back when he was running in 2000. there is still time to weigh in at pulse.msnbc.com.
that would be of enormous help, but there are lots of problems. they haven t even nominated people for key positions in treasury, in state, in the labor department, federal reserve. basically throughout the executive branch, there are all of these important openings that have not been filled. take tax reform for example. this is supposedly one of the president s most important priorities and if you look at the top jobs in the treasury, you know, there are a number of political appointees who are supposed to be in charge of tax and they don t even have names for possible nominees. so even if you got rid of the distraction of trump aggravating the internet through various kinds of, you know, social media use, whatever else, that still wouldn t address the problem. they don t have the personnel in place. they don t have any interest in
so i think we have a number of investigations that should go forward, that will complement one another. and will get to the bottom of whatever happened. congressman, as you know, the president is leaving on his first foreign trip. it s a pretty big one. do you have any concerns? i think the honest answer is, i have a lot of concerns about this president dealing with foreign policy. i think during the course of the campaign, during the last weeks as president of the united states, he has said and done things which undermine the confidence that our allies have in us. it s important from our own interest to have their confidence, but it s important for the stability and security of the global community for them to have confidence in the united states of america and in its president. so i am certainly hopeful tt he will not either say or do things in this trip that will further undermine and erode the