mentioned, you know, there s been numerous incidents this year, it has been scandal after scandal for the company. in september, they announced they suffered their biggest breach ever, where hackers accessed the data of tens of millions of facebook users. eu regulators, regulators in down lin and ireland have dublin and ireland have begun an official inquiry into the company to try to get to the bottom of is are they protecting their user s information. i understand amid all of this scrutiny with the security, they held a event giving out security advice as well as hot chocolate. thursday in new york city, they set up a pop-up star at a store in bryant park in manhattan and were trying to tell people how to make their facebook accounts more private as well as you mentioned handing out hot chocolate. that was less than 24 hours before they announced, on friday, another breach.
always a personal decision. the times reports what we have seen that he has official iphones that have been secured but he has a personal one that s not secure because it s where his contacts are and he continues to use that against the security advice. is it your view that the president s personal choice is endangering national security secrets? yeah. i ve been someone who said it could be that the greatest national security threat we face is this president, is an insider threat because of his lack of understanding of procedure. you take your personal phone, refuse to give it up. you allow an adversary to get the signature baseline and pick up your signal. know it as a signature and track it around the world so they ve got you. what are they doing with that? according to this report, they are listening not only to his substantive conversation but to who he speaks to who can influence him. then they are approaching those around him that he talks to and listens to and trying to
when he became president and on the way to becoming president, he would have become the highest target in the russian inventory other than barack obama. barack obama talked about this openly during the transition period, because he apparently was following the security advice. take a look. as of this moment i still have your blackberry. this is a concern of secret service, but also lawyers. you know, this town is full of lawyers, i don t know if you ve noticed. yeah. is there something about donald trump s general lack of respect for the rules and it is advice that plays into what seems to be that hurts him will have. no? he s quite a ludite. i don t think he cares. i don t think he listen toss his briefings. and based on, you know, some of
that hope hicks received from hugs government addresses in the weeks after mr. trump s election. after trump took office senior fbi counterintelligence agents met with hope hicks in the white house situation room at least twice. they gave her the names of the russians who had contacted her and said that they were not who they claimed to be. the fbi was concerned that the e-mails to hope hicks may have been part of a russian intelligence operation. the meetings with hicks, what the fbi calls a defensive briefing, went beyond the standard security advice that senior white house officials routinely receive upon taking office. defensive briefings are intended to warn government officials about specific concerns or risks. so after hope hicks had her two big days of interviews, testimony with the mueller investigators thursday and friday, that was the reporting from the new york times that followed. now, today nbc news has this scoop. special counsel robert mueller is trying to piece tog
met with hope hicks in the situation room at least twice and gave her the names of the russians that contacted her and said that they were not who they claimed to be. the fbi was concerned the e-mails may have been part of a russian intelligence operation. the meetings with hicks what the fbi calls a defensive briefing went beyond the standard security advice they receive upon taking office. defensive briefings are intended to warning government officials about specific concerns or risks. so after hope hicks had her two big days of interviews, testimony with the muller investigators thursday and friday, that was the reporting from the new york times that followed. now today, nbc news has this scoop. quote, special counsel robert mueller is trying to piece together what happened in the white house over an 18-day period when senior officials were told michael flynn was susceptible to blackmail by russia.