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Again. today the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack congress approved three hundred eighty million dollars in march this year for all fifty states to share so they can beef up cyber security measures local the u.s. the park in the form and security has formed special task forces and offer services to state officials responsible for the cyber safe conduct of the november elections alice miller is thankful for the help and we work very closely with us we have homeland security advisors in place on each level we have cyber security advisors that we work with we have smaller groups within our own network that we work with we always communicate with each other however some critics say all of this is a step in the right direction but comes too late case in point this year s def-con in las vegas nevada our conference for what are known as white hat hackers also ....
As much of a problem. i think he makes a good point, david. there is plenty of threats out there. there is plenty of threats and the role for the president and the whole government to take all of them seriously, not to decide which ones they want to pick and choose to address. hopefully, he and the top homeland security advisors are taking it very seriously. this is a serious threat for the whole country right now. all right, guys. standby. we ll have more on the breaking bruise on the terror attack in barcelona, spain. also north korea and the threat from there, but is the president s chief strategist now undercutting everything they re saying? (vo) my name is bryan. i m proud to make dog chow in davenport, iowa. dog chow s been a part of my family s life for over 40 years. my grandfather made it and now i m making it. as a micro-biologist i ensure that dog chow leads with high quality ingredients. when did you see the sign? when i needed to jumpstart sales. ....
Wrestle them from the hands of isis continues to rage on peer there also cease-fire talks scheduled to begin in order to stop their long-running brutal and bloody ambitious civil war. it has actually been at humanitarian catastrophe. john huddy, thank you. syria is widely expected to be a topic on the table with the president s face-to-face meeting with the russian president, vladimir putin. the white house says the two leaders will meet this week. the president is now under immense pressure to the russian interference in the us general election. while also trying to hammer out some pretty significant differences with the kremlin the homeland security advisors talk about the balance earlier today. the president would ....
Pressure cooker does not mean it s definitive towards a foreign or domestic source. catherine. thank you. you re welcome. bret: now to the president. he gave a very short statement this morning. white house reporter wendell goler reports it was notable for one particular word. his second address to the american people on the boston marathon attack was the first in which president obama labeled it terrorism. given what we now know about what took place, the fbi is investigating it as an act of terrorism. any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror. of course, he knew bombs were used when he first spoke about the attack three hours after it occurred and mr. obama didn t mention terrorism then. aides say the president has been briefed regularly by senior homeland security advisors but on this day he said there is plenty we still don t know. who carried out this attack or why, whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organization. fo ....
Can you give us any more specifics on that, jay? well, i can tell you, bill, as i m sure your viewers know, that since the raid in abad bad in pakistan, that brought justice to osama bin laden, we have known from information gathered that al-qaeda, not surprisingly, has been focused on an, in a general way, significant dates, and the ten-year anniversary of 9-11 is certainly one of them. for the past four months, homeland security advisors to the president, john brennan, has been running a process to make sure we re preparing appropriately for this anniversary, taking all necessary precautions, just two days ago the president chaired a meeting of his homeland security team to look at the preparations, to make sure we were doing everything that was necessary to be hyper vigilant in this situation. and you can be sure that in relation to the bill: we have nothing to be worried about at this point. you got it under control. we have to be vigilant all the time. that s what we re do ....