media. this would be a very dark new chapter in the story. not a chapter that will be written. there are constraints thankfully on presidential fantasy about this. even last night there was a report in the daily beast the justice department under jeff sessions is going to be focused on at least pursuing leakers if not the reporters that s different. that s different. leakers are coming from the white house or wherever, but journalists can publish that information. it s not illegal. right. we ve not seen in the past prosecutions of journalists directly for publishing information. but look it always got a little dicey. this isn t bedrock. it was an allowance over time. remember when comey was testifying a couple of weeks ago, seems like forever where he kind of came out of nowhere in response to a question, maybe directly and said journalists will not be viewed for prosecution in any criminal
it could be publishing information that the russian government doesn t want us to publish. it could be sanctions. it could be yanking divisions of i.t., their network which they run. they kind of pretend it s a normal media outlet, but in fact it s russian government propaganda, much of it quite false, in fact, if you just look today on the stories that they re carrying. there are a number of things that we could do. we could obviously also covertly or clandestinely do something to disable part of the russian military computer system. that might be a little bit more escalatory in nature. we need to do something publicly. it s not just the russian government that s watching, it s the chinese government, any government that wants to meddle in our elections using cyber
his speech he sounded like a candidate and made it clear he still intends to play a role in the campaign, saying and i m quoting him now, i will not be silent. the other breaking story we re following, the cia director john brennan s personal e-mails now allegedly in the hands of wikileaks which claims it s publishing information that was obtained by a young hacker. we re covering all of that and much more this hour with our correspondents and our guests including the chairman of the house homeland security committee republican congressman mike mccaul and the communications director for hillary for america jennifer palmieri. let s begin with jim acosta, you were there for biden s announcement. that s right, wolf. senior administration official says vice president joe biden made this decision last night and that there was no changing his mind back and forth that he made one call and one alone. the decision was based on his assessment that he had simply run out of time to raise the mon
sector and the electrical grid, they are years behind probably what sony had. we re vulnerable when it comes to the types of attacks we see across countries. as you mentioned, we don t know who is behind this attack. that s right. we pointed the finger at north korea. based on your own analysis, what groups or individuals could be capable of pulling it off? there s different democrat graph ins. i don t believe this came from north korea. their cyber capabilities are pretty behind the times when it comes to other different countries. what we look at with groups and the motives behind it. there s different reasons. it could be more monetary gain, to gain money from a fraud perspective. in most cases if you look at the groups, a lot of it is for publishing information, exposing companies. they released a lot of movies that hadn t been released yet. there s a lot of motives behind it. it could be affiliated with anonymous or other groups. we don t know. you say there s new inform
look very far apart. the obama administration and secretary carry don t support a boycott, only saying that is to be an awareness in israel, there is a real potential these boycotts could spread and grow if a deal isn t reached by the end of april. jenna: a story we will continue to watch. thank you. jon: new york police made for arrests in the death of philip seymour hoffman. for those who sold the drugs be charged in the death? as they continue to mourn his death. could reporters who broke stories about the nsa surveillance be prosecuted for publishing information edward snowden let them have? we will have a live report on the latest nsa fallout next. they re going to school on u.s. intelligence sources, methods and trades. the insights they are gaining are making our job much, much