an important objective, but it is not in its totality achieve what i hope is going to happen, which is the conditions for an alternative to assad to emerge. i don t think syria is going to be a stable yeun tarry government anytime in the near future, but i do think we can begin to take steps to provide alternatives to asd s rule. you ve got to figure out who will govern sunnis in syria because they will never again to allow themselves to be governed by the government of assad. so much to discuss here. florida republican senator marco rubio, who we ll be seeing so much more of as senate intel hearings get cranked up. senator, please come on again. thank you very much for your time. thank you. standing by for us in washington is chris matthews. chris, i watched your entire broadcast tonight. obviously you had to conduct a
over syria for all the dangers rachel just itemized. most of th russian-made and/or russian-supplied. we also mentioned malcolm nance is standing by to talk to us. he is our intelligence-gathering specialist. a veteran of the trade and of the u.s. military over the past several decades. malcolm, two-part question to start you off. your reaction to this mission, knowing what precipitated it. and what does this do to the optics that you and i have talked about for months u.s., russia? well, my initial response came right after secretary of state tillerson made a 180-degree turn on u.s. policy. and that and the information that secretary sorry vice president mike pence stated in the white house tonight. those were two key intelligence indicators that the united states was going to do something
of yahoo! accounts that actually caused a lot of problems. it didn t come out until about a year later. and the fact that there are now four indictments for that breach. two of whom are russian fsb officers. this is a very big deal. we ve got a team we ve got team coverage on these new indictments. terrorism analyst malcolm nance is standing by and joline kent is in washington covering the yahoo! hack for some time. bring us up to speed on this. this was the biggest of hacks. this is what you need to know right now. four people were indicted, and the defendants, two of them were officers from the russian federal security service. now people at home, what we need to share with you is that 30 million accounts were accessed. credit card information, debit card information was stolen and then it was used for a major e-mail scam. so we re looking through this right now. we re awaiting a reaction from yahoo! and the ceo marissa