To them. So this is a constant effort to fight back those attackers and also find other tools of National Security to hopefully deter this activity which is clearly very damaging. Nbcs chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell has the latest. Good morning, jose. This is believed to be the biggest cyber attack in u. S. History, targeting 4. 2 million current and former employees. It could be more. Who did it . U. S. Officials tell nbc news most likely china. Today the government is scrambling after a massive hack into personal information names, Social Security numbers, birthdays. For millions of current and former government workers. If proved to be from china, the u. S. Would likely retaliate. There are all sorts of ways that we can retaliate. But through diplomatic means and perhaps by giving whoever is behind this if we can determine that for certain a taste of their eenown medicine. The government is telling employees to monitor their Bank Accounts and offering Identity T
She told them palmer did not know the meat contained the tools. Palmers attorney reiterated that and added that his client had no knowledge of the escape passed the polygraph and will be entering a plea of not guilty at his next hearing. He admitted to passing the hamburger meat. He had no knowledge that there were any con tra band other than the meat itself. Hes devastated hes embarrassed, hes sorry for the attention that hes getting right now. Well as the search for the two convicts continues, Officials Say the pair may be armed. Lets go live to owls head new york, and msnbcs adam reese. Adam whats the very latest . Reporter jose good morning. Now we know Joyce Mitchell might not have been the only one helping them escape. 57yearold gene palmer 28year veteran of Clinton Correctional Facility. He worked in the honor block where sweat and matt lived. That was considered a plum job. We just learned moments ago in addition to the other charges which ill mention in a second that he was gi
Craig melvin is just back from the ridealong. You got the firsthand experience riding along with captain ron johnson. What did he have to say . Reporter you know, for folks who may not have been following this thing, captain johnson, of course, over the entire Law Enforcement effort here in ferguson. Hes got command of the nagtionl guard and the other Law Enforcement agencies, as well, that have all december escended ferguson. Its fascinating. Neighborhoods and businesses and the businesses, Business Owners stopped by or the Business Owners where we stopped, the businesses where we stopped by, essentially were all saying the same thing, ronan. They were saying we want you to continue to protect our businesses so we can stay open. We stopped by a Convenience Store that had been broken in not once but twice. Been looted, saw some video of 40 or 50 young people who had gone in, many wearing masks, taken a bunch of stuff. Young ladies, as well. Bags. Owner, tears in the eyes essentially be
But not at this point in time saying what president obama plans to do about it. Joy . Really quickly, is there any reason why the white house is being vague about who this religious minority is . Is there any reason why they are not saying what kind of religious minority . Reporter well, i think before the white house gets ahead of any of this reporting, they always like to know specifically what they are talking about. But, of course, the reports are that this religious minority is referred to and we just had the terminology here which just escaped me. I apologize. The point is, i think the white house doesnt want to get ahead of the reporting before they are absolutely sure what they are talking about. This is, of course, something that we see from the president all the time. He doesnt come out and address the situation until he knows specifically, you know, all of the facts. So i think that is what they are in the process of doing, gathering the facts. President Obama Meeting with h
About justice. With this tragedy comes a great opportunity for reforming that community. But i think thats something that we can do nationwide. This has ingendered a conversation. Its time to take concrete steps. The streets in ferguson were calm last night with only a hand iff ful of arrests. The crowd was smaller tonight. We had to respond to small incidents tonight. No molotov cocktails or shootings. The Police Department has been hit with two more wrongful death lawsuits over moore who was tasered by police in 2011. A Police Officer from nearby st. Ann was suspended indefinitely after pointing an Assault Rifle in a protesters face and shouting threats tuesday night. Another officer stepped in to walk the officer away from the crowd. Msnbc. Com zach roth is live in ferguson and joins me by phone. Zach, lets go back to what happened with that state senator who was attempting to deliver a petition while trying to get Bob Mcculloch and a group of black leaders had a petition that 70,00