that has been helping in an attack on the cia. president donald trump, who was elected in november, buzz helped by wikileaks, and declined the opportunity to criticize them, even as they released more documents stolen from the cia. that material, which was acquired in a major security breach, threatens to reveal the cia's digital hacking operation around the world, which could compromise the cia's ability to get information. but when asked to comment today, president trump smiled and said nothing. >> okay, thank you very much. >> document dump from wick kkil, any comment? >> whatever that means, wikileaks says the information was gotten from a former contractor. the kremlin's principle international prop began that outlet rt has actively glob rated with wikileaks. could it be their are again at work to destabilize our government? could it be that with this, his failure to criticize what's been happening, president trump has taken the side of a foreign organization, hostile to the united states, that instead of protecting american institutions, he's now siding with those out to unde

glenn greenwald whether we should be worried by the cia's ability to hack, or by its inability to keep its own secrets. and, they're at it again. defeat for the prime minister in the lords. they want parliament to vote on the final brexit deal. does that make sense, or screw up the negotiation? gina miller and theresa villiers will tell us. the day before the budget, we're inside cumbria county council to see how austerity is playing out. are theyjust about managing? we can't go on like this. i don't think we can — we can continue like this, as councils, up and down the country. and viewsnight looks on the bright side of life. now, imagine we were to treat people the way most of us really are. pretty nice. creative. and more than willing to contribute to the common good. hello. we've had the chelsea manning leaks, then came edward snowdon, and today another huge wikileaks data dump — they're calling it vault 7, and they say it's from a division at the heart of the cia. thousands of documents, millions of lines of code — and, if it is all genuine, it shows the extraordinary array

starting next month. devastating cia breach. it could be one of the biggest ever. sources tell nbc news, russia is a possible suspect. tonight, concerns over privacy. if the cia can do it, could cyber criminals, by spying on you through your smartphone and tv? how to protect yourself. >>> critical condition, facing a growing inteal revolt over the gop's obamacare replacement plan, president trump makes a hard sell. >>> hospital attack horror. isis suicide bombers disguised as doctors and military commandos make a daring invasion. >>> massive fire emergency, tonight rapidly exploding out of control. >>> hidden costs. patients hit with major fees that insurance won't cover because of two words buried in the fine print. >>> and inspiring america, an ex-nfl pro changing lives. "nightly news" begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening to our viewers in the west. the cia is urgently assessing the impact of what may be one of the most damaging exposures of vital secrets the agency has ever experienced. purpo

intelligence committee chair peter hoekstra joins us this morning to discuss the release of cias hacking documents. thank you for being with us. guest: good to be with you. host: they released what it says is roughly 8000 webpages and other documents revealing the cia's hacking methods. how damaging is this breach? guest: i think it's very damaging. this is a situation where we now have an intelligence community that really is in crisis. obviously it has its own internal problems where you see this kind of massive release or massive breach of its systems. the other thing you have is an intelligence community now that has a crisis of confidence from the american people. the american people are wondering how does this happen? this is the third time we've had a breach from bradley manning, the breach from edward snowden, and now we have this breach of the cia. you have an intelligence community that is kind of in freefall with the american people wondering what is going on? how come our spies can't keep secrets? we have a spy community they cannot keep secrets. that is not good. hos

hello and welcome to 100 days. russian links, wireta ps. now leaks from the cia. us intelligence is firmly under the spotlight. today wikileaks publishes thousands of unverified documents that apparently expose how the cia hacks smart phones and televisions. on this data breach and the president's claim that his phones were tapped, we'll speak to the former head of the cia, michael hayden. republicans reveal their plan for american health care, but conservative critics just say it's "obamacare—lite. " the accidental face of protest against president trump. we speak to the woman behind the icon. the expression itself of the photo you can see it right there. you're not going to move me from here. i'm not going to move me from here. i'm not going to be moved. in the uk, the government suffers another defeat on the brexit legislation. the lords want parliament to be given a bigger say on any final deal with europe. in france, while fillon flounders, marine is on the march. can the front national achieve the unthinkable and take the elysee palace? i am katty kay in washington. christia

julian assange accuses the cia of incompetence saying it lost control of its cyber weapons arsenal. this the hunt is on for the cia mole that hands that information over to wikileaks showing how they can turn tvs, cell phones and even cars into spying device. liz: coming up, we are going to take a look at how many media outlets reported on that. jewel yawp. aassange says what it disclosed is a fraction of wait has, less than 1%. this as the f.b.i. has launched an investigation into the source of the leak. and a congressional probe into a wikileaks expose' showing how the cia can hack into phones, computers and interactive cars. reporter: the f.b.i. is deploying a specialized team to identify ways insiders can steal government secrets. the cia created 30 types of malware and he says sloppy security expose the files. >> the cia was careless to produce this material and lose control of it at least once, then it has spread. reporter: assange implied cia cyber tools may in the hands of hostile intelligence agencies. >> encryption running on a telegram or signal, you can by pass the encr

wikileaks describe cia programs to hack into both apple and android cellphones, smart tv's, and even cars and . we'll speak with cindy cohen, executive director of the electronic frontier foundation. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. south korea's constitutional court removed president park goon0hye from office friday over charges of graft and corruption. he clears the way for her to face criminal charges. park's shower have been reduced -- power had been reduced. outside the courthouse in the capital seoul, thousands of park's supporters tried to break through police barricades. at least two people were killed in the violence. south korea's prime minister and acting president, hwang kyo-ahn, appealed for calm. >> in order to stop internal conflicts from intensifying, we should manage the social order and keep a stable government so that national anxiety in the international society's concerns could be settled. amy: a new election will be held in 60 days. park's conservative party appears headed to de

the broader, world. we will talk differently here. attemptsook at the cia on castro's life. the number 638 is according to castro's retired chief of counter intelligence. in interview he said, we have counted 638 different attempts by the sea at a -- cia on castro's life. we will systematically go through each -- i am just getting. on hereed this quote that was great. this is from castro. assassination attempts were an olympic event, i would win a gold medal. 600 39 is a charm. this is a spy museum exclusive. you are all hearing this first before anybody else. the name ofcquired the top-secret operation that finally, finally got fidel castro. [laughter] the name is a little on the nose, they are not as creative as they used to be. this is not in operation overlord kind of thing. we finally paid off. mission accomplished. [laughter] mr. houghton: we finally got fidel. this is a really funny story for me, and my mom will never let me live this down. my fascination with fidel castro started early. i grew up in miami. hair,ot cuban, the blonde green eyes, transparent skin did not gi

the cia attempts on fidel castro's life. according to castro's retired they of intelligence said counted 638 attempts by the cia on his life. next 14 hours and 638 slides we will systematically go through -- i'm kidding. i included this quote. it is from castro. attempts assassination -- if it were an olympic event i would win the gold medal. 639 is a charm. this is a spy museum exclusive. you will hear this first before anyone. i have now acquired the name of a top-secret operation that finally, finally got fidel castro -- [laughter] vince: the name is a little on the nose. we finally paid off. mission accomplished. we finally got fidel. it is a funny story, for me. my mother will that -- never let me live it down. my fascination started early. fascination is the right word. i grew up in miami. i am not cuban. the blonde hair, green eyes, transparent skin not give that away. everyone i knew were. many of their fathers, mothers, grand parents were refugees from cuba. one of my best friends grandfather was a kernel in the army. these are people that came over because they had to.

the iran hostage crisis and the cia search for psychedelic mushrooms. it is called "phenomena," the secret history of the u.s. government's investigations into extra sensory perception and psycho kin easis. annie, good to have you back on this program. >> thank you. >> can you see this, jonathan? this is like, you write these texts that are like -- they're so dense. >> it is a big story. >> it is a big story, but that's a lot of research though. you just keep going at it. >> that's the joy of it. i mean i interviewed a lot of scientists. all of the original cia scientists and the dod scientists and a lot of the psychics themselves. >> yeah. >> so you just write in it when you're doing that. >> and you heard what? >> i mean this is a quest story. this is really about man's quest for knowledge, like what are we capable of. and it is also a story of science versus the supernatural, and that makes a lot of people really uncomfortable. >> you believe? >> gertrude smidler was the harvard psychologist, experimental psychologist that created these two terms to answer that question. >> the s

cia of devastating incompetence, saying the agency lost control of its cyberweapons. it would be, if true, a devastating blow to the cia. >> the cia developed a giant arsenal, what appears to be the largest arsenal of trojans and viruses in the world, didn't secure it, lost control of it, and then appears to have covered up that fact. >> the cia telling nbc news today, julian assange is not exactly a bastian of truth and integrity. despite the efforts of assange, the cia continues to aggressively collect foreign intelligence overseas to protect america. dianne feinstein was a long-time member of the intelligence committee, now the top democrat on the judiciary committee and joins me now. thank you very much for being with us. first of all, your response to julian assange and the claims he made about this alleged loss to the cia. >> well, mr. assange is one of my most unfavorite people in the world. i believe he's done great discredit to this nation and committed acts which are -- which are quite das dardly. if this is true, this is a major release, it is a substantiative release, and

new york. kennedy: details of cia spying techniques on the internet for the world to see. but is the wikileaks release good tore liberty or cripple our national security. paul ryan trying to sell his plan to reef place obamacare. bret baier has the inside scoop. and a supreme court justice has come out against civil asset forfeiture. is the issue finally heading to the nation's top court? never one to waste a crisis, wikileaks is pouncing on the presidential wiretapping flack by releasing 7,000 pages of secret cia documents which includes and an intelligence destruction manual that would make you spy in way that thanked would make your gynecologist blush. >> you can go in any government office. we all have our little camera things that sit on top of the screen. it closes down on them. you do that so people who don't have authority don't look at you. >> people who don't have authority, meaning the cia. maybe in his intraagency rift he knew of the cia had ways to breach. but they were turning your samsung tv into an evils dropper. recording everything you whisper even when the soun

. host: peter hoekstra joins us morning to discuss the wikileaks release of cia hacking documents. guest: good to be with you. host: wikileaks released what it says are roughly a thousand webpages and other documents revealing the cia's hacking methods. how damaging is this breach? guest: i think it is very damaging. we now have an intelligence community that is in crisis. it has its own internal problems where you see this kind of massive release or breach of its systems. you have an intelligence community that has a crisis of confidence with the american people. the american people are wondering, how does this happen? this is the third time. we had the breach from chelsea manning and now the breach of the cia. you have an intelligence community that is in freefall with the american people wondering, what is going on? keepome our spies can't secrets? we have a spy community that cannot keep secrets. host: what should be done to safeguard the secrets of the cia? guest: there are a couple of things that need to happen. there is a question as to why the cia even had this type of cyber capa

microsoft still waiting for wikileaks to deliver the cia hacking tools. it has been a few weeks -- a few days since julian assange promised to hand over hacker tools to tech giants. that pledge alleged leak of thousands of documents. while it's altruistic -- while its altruistic move should protect from cyber attacks, neither company has received those tools. more details available online at forbes.com. this past week, the fbi director traveled to the boston opposite he talked about the threat we are facing. we will get that. country, all of us have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our homes, in our cars, in our devices. it is a vital part of being an american. the government cannot invade our privacy without good reason, reviewable in court. that is the heart of america. but it also means that with good reason revealed in court, the government through law enforcement can invade our private spaces. orderedthe bargain of liberty. the most common example is that law enforcement has probable cause to believe that there is evidence of a crime in some you control whether that is you

he addressed the controversy surrounding wikileaks and the cia and the president's efforts to sell the health plan to conservatives. we've got john roberts quickly addressing the camera in the briefing room, where you had the opportunity to ask a couple questions there. how do you think things went today? >> reporter: well, i think sean spicer is getting used to this. taking questions for pretty much an hour. it was an hour and 15 pheupb its yesterday. i think his back and forth has become much better than it was in the early days. to the substance of what he was talking about. clearly the white house has a problem on its hands trying to sell the american health care act to members of the president's own party. he will be talking with members of the freedom caucus tuesday. it will be a lot about the budget but also about the new health care act when he has them over for a bowling and pizza party at the white house. he has a big problem in the senate, that has just started to loom its head above the water line. that is coming from tom cotton the arkansas senator who tweeted out this

warrants of an electoral blood bath if republicans fail. >>> plus, cia secrets leaked, how america's spies can turn our gadgets against us. now that the secret is out, though, how much is u.s. national security at risk? >>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we're going to begin with the politics lead. welcome to obama tapped my phone island. population, president trump. the white house saying the president has no regrets about his fact-free claim that then president obama tapped his phone last year. even though just about everyone else in this city in the know or with the power to investigate the claim says it's not true, or that they've seen nothing that can support the accusation. that includes republican leaders on the hill. that includes officials at the white house. and it also includes fbi director comey who in his first appearance since president trump's tweets over the weekend did not address the claim at all. even the president's own press secretary when pressed said that the matter is above his pay grade. today we learned that president obama

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the top democrat on the intelligence senate committee who just came back from the cia. >> reporter: that's right, going through reams of intelligence and this on going investigation of russia and hacking, tom warn said he has as a lot of questions because he saw data that he suggests aimed at helping one candidate and hurting another candidate. >> just came back from the cia, there were four senators we got a chance to look at some of the raw intel product and in many ways we have got even more questions now. we've got more information we've got to get access to. i know as the committee gets into the next stage of listing who we want to have conversations with, but the main thing is that we're all committed democrats and republicans to keeping this by parson, a lot of what we saw was evidence how russia manipulated the news, hacked into the dnc and john podesta and leaked out in favor of one candidate against the other candidate but these efforts of whether there were contacts between the campaign and the russians but this underlying assault on our democracy i think americans need

the cia. the founder says there's more bombshells to come. he is suggesting the cia is playing catch up and is offering a broad hint as to who may have stolen the data and what we learned may be one of most damaging intelligence briefings in modern history. we get new details tonight on the story from our chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. >> reporter: tonight julian assange claiming the cyber breach is far more devastating than the agency knows or acknowledges. >> the central intelligence agency lost control of its entire cyber weapons arsenal. this is a historic act of devastating incompetence. >> reporter: warning he has a lot more to release, saying he got the stolen documents from a former government contractor working for the cia. >> the material has been spread around contractors and former american computer hackers for hire. >> reporter: tonight the fbi and cia working on an urgent mission. a former cia director says tracing a digital trail to track down the culprit. >> there are tools so we can be able to pinpoint who might have been responsible. if i was

reported from protests. >>> right now the fbi and cia are urgently trying to track down whoever leaked vital u.s. intelligence as the wiki leaks founder accuses the cia of devastating incompetence. >> the cia intelligence lost control all of of its e >> now finding out who did it. >>> the house speaker rolls unfortunaup his sleeves to sell a plan. >>> wind rocks one girl off her feet. >>> blown in by fierce deadly winds from the midwest. winter weather advisory has already been declared for the region which could be slammed up to 6 inches of snow. nbc meteorologist bill karins is tracking the storm for us. bill, where is this storm right now? >> pennsylvania has taken the brunt of it and the timing for the morning commute over the top of the busy corridor from philadelphia to new york and portions of new england. not talking about a blockbuster historic storm but the timing is just bad. here is the track of the storm. as afternoon cape cod gets hit. the other story behind it is more significant how cold it's going to be. saturday morning windchill roanoke 15 and d.c. 10 and chicago 10

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americans wait for a clear answer. >>> also breaking, the stunning reveal. is this a major cia security breach? wikileaks and thousands of documents. do they reveal how the cia can break into smartphones, computers and even tvs? >>> the deadly train collision, slamming into a bus. several dead tonight. multiple injuries. >>> the tornado outbreak. at least 30 reported already. winds up to 150 miles per hour, and the fires tonight in several states turning deadly. our team on the scene. >>> and the day care worker who appears to push a 4-year-old. authorities say she then realizes the camera is rolling. what now? >>> good evening, and we have major developments on several fronts tonight. first, the showdown already under way at this hour. the plan to replace obamacare is now revealed. president trump firmly standing behind it. but tonight, some high profile republicans are rejecting it, saying it doesn't go far enough, arguing much of it still looks like obamacare. on the other side tonight, democrats furious, too. there have been the town halls. americans concerned. will they lose their

that. i hope the cia is picking up material so that when -- from the russians from malware from private sector so when they use it, whoever picks it up, iranians, russians or chinese or otherwise say we're pretty sure this is the agency but we don't know because they disguised it through a false flag operation. they used somebody else's stuff. >> what would worry you the most if you saw this document vault 7 from wikileaks, if you still worked for the cia and you were looking at it from inside the agency in >> two things we're not talking about. the first is people are talking about accessibility to what the cia does and whether it violates american civil liberties.

. >> the cia developed a giant arsenal of what appears to be the largest arsenal of trojans and viruses in the world. it attacks most of the systems that journalists and people in government, politicians, ceos and average people use. didn't secure it, lost control of it, and then appears to have covered up that fact. caroline: he is also offering help to the tech companies reportedly vulnerable to the cia tools. more on that with a roundtable of experts later this hour. coming up next, we dive into the infrastructure in this. why some are saying it's a sector ripe for disruption. all episodes of bloomberg technology or now live streaming on twitter. this is bloomberg. caroline: president trump has called on congress to find a trillion dollars in private funds for certain projects. with that in mind, we've been drilling into infrastructure all week. the infrastructure industry is one that's prime for -- disruption. our guest jerry chen invests in this space. this efficiency are true disruption we are about to see? >> i think it is both. if you look at construction labor over the past 10 or

heading out to cia headquarters at langley to view very sensitive intelligence information that they didn't even feel comfortable allowing to be transported up here to capitol hill where they do have secure rooms where it could be viewed. but that is, of course, the sensitivity of it that they don't want it -- they don't want to transport it. that's where senators are in this investigation. of course, jim comey is really at the center of so many of these questions because it's his organization, the fbi, that reportedly is investigating contacts between the trump campaign and russians inhe course of the election. and it's not clear even that comey has told senators that that investigation is going on. it has been nbc news has reported it, "the new york times" has reported a slightly different version than what nbc has reported. they have said they're investigating trump campaign contacts with russian officials, potentially intelligence agents. it's an important distinction. again, it's not at this point what nbc news has reported is happening. of course, over the weekend, this to

from langley here in the washington dc area. it is done from a different cia station. where are the stations generally? are they in idaho? they are overseas, in moscow, havana, beijing, except for the cia station in miami, florida. known as jmwave or jm space wave. we will talk about it as a miami station. this was a cia station in a the mystic city, miami, florida. it is not supposed to be that way. during the majority of the 1960's, the largest cia station in the world, other than the one right here at headquarters was in miami. not moscow, beijing, berlin, in miami florida. it existed under the cover name of zenith technical enterprises incorporated. does anybody know miami well? so now i can make stuff up. it was over by what is currently the miami zoo. it used to be an air station in world war ii. it is in the middle of nowhere. no one would ever drive by there. when it popped up, knowing give -- no one gave it a second thought. it used to be called several different things. these are some of the cover names. vanguard services corporation. as benign and boring names as you can

>>> tonight, cia shockwaves as wikileaks julian assange says the loss of spy secrets are more devastating than we know. have we lost control of our weapons arsenal. >>> millions of wireless callers unable to get through including a mom trying to get help for her kids. >>> ax attack. four at a train station in germany. is it terrorism? >>> oxycontin lawsuit. a small american city caught in an epidemic accusing a drug eye of turning a blind eye. >>> meals on wheels. robots delivering dinner to your door. "nightly news" begins >>> the man who spilled the goods online about some of america's most sensitive cyber spy tools is taunting the cia. the founder says there's more bombshells to come. he is suggesting the cia is playing catch up and is offering a broad hint as to who may have stolen the data and what we learned may be one of most damaging intelligence breaches in modern history. we get details from andrea mitchell. >> reporter: tonight julian assange claiming it's more devastating than they acknowledge. >> the central intelligence agency lost control of its entire cyber wea

greater autonomy to the cia a pentagon to conduct counterterrorism operations. joining me is greg jaffe from "the washington post." gordon, let me start with you. what is new about this and why is the white house doing this? visited the cia the first day after being inaugurated and got briefed. hen soon thereabouts provided informal authority to -- toa to return to these continue to conduct joint strikes, which they had heretofore not been doing under the obama administration, at least in his later years. what the authority was was to give the cia permission to conduct strikes in particular in syria. we have some evidence to suggest they have also done one in pakistan as well. then we saw in syria about four or 5, 3 weeks ago they targeted an al qaeda leader in northern syria. that was the first known example of the cia's taking this authority since they got it from mr. trump. there has long been this turf war between the cia and pentagon over drone strikes. >> right. there's always been this bureaucratic squabbling over this issue. under pressure from human rights groups and others, ob

he is not aware of any investigation going on. he also declined to deny that the cia lost a cache of cyber weapons, but he did criticize the cia's technology calling it outdated. and on general mike flynn, the former national security adviser, who has now registered officially as a foreign agent for his lobbying before the campaign in turkey, sean spicer was asked whether donald trump would have appointed him to that position of nsa if he did know that? and sean spicer said, i do not know. we have a team of analysts and reporters here to break down what happened in that press briefing. joining me here on set, david, alease, joel benenson, and in the briefing room itself we have hallie jackson at the pentagon. we have hans nichols. hallie, i would -- i think your ear piece doesn't quite work yet. can you hear me? >> reporter: yes. >> wonderful. give me the major headlines from that briefing. >> reporter: sure, katy, as i juggle notes and notebooks. a couple headlines on the topics making news. number one, health care. the secretary reaffirms the white house commitment to making sure t

the islamic state lroup reportedly fled mosu weeks ago. the cia hits back at the document dump from wikileaks, saying it's putting americans in danger. the website revealed spy hacking techniques on smartphones and tvs. is it the end of the ecb's spending spree? europe's central bank has some difficult decisions to make. more on that in our business update. the man who has been dubbed france's elvis presley is being treated for cancer. more on that from 73-year-old johnny halliday later. first our top story live from paris. ♪ genie: we will start in brussels, where the eu summit is getting underway. former prime minister sk is facing tough opposition from his own government. in more now let's bring meabh mcmahon. is the polish government still holding up the process? >> absolutely. just scanning through the polish press this morning, the prime minister has been speaking to them saying he will do to -- the votean taking place on the president of the european council president today. he will go as far as blocking .he official conclusions they do not favor the reelection of donald tu

embley. our top stories: some of the cia's most sensitive hacking secrets are exposed on the internet. the agency's former boss tells us it's very damaging. it has made my country and my country's friends less safe. in the row over the killing of kim jong—nam, malaysia and north korea ban each other‘s citizens from leaving the country and the un appeals for calm. saved from slavery — and worse. we meet some of the young yazidis who escaped from the extremist group, the so—called islamic state, to find refuge in germany. and in the first known attack of its kind in europe, poachers kill a rhino for its horn at a safari park near paris. hello. wikileaks has published thousands more files which it says detail a wide range of hacking tools used by the cia. the documents, which we're not able to verify, appear to show how cyber—weapons have been developed and used to break into computers, mobile phones — cell phones, even smart tvs, to gather intelligence. the cia hasn't commented on the credibility of the leaked material but some specialists are saying, at this point,

the cia surveillance targets everyday gadgets ranging from smartphones to smart tv to your computer. >> if this leak is real, what is a reason to believe it not, but if it's real, they need to control their own senses because if that information is difficult for the manufacturers to deal with this. the cia knew these vulnerabilities existed apparently. nicole: from our cover report from benjamin hall from london in a few minutes. nicole: rush a key issue is key issue as president trumpets that the number two job at the justice department. we get the latest from our own peter burns. reporter: a senate committee grilling of ron rosenstein to be deputy attorney general given that jeff sessionsas reced himself from overseeing any potential investigation into the trunk and being in russia's alleged attempts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, rosenstein retake the lead on any government investigation into the matter including whether to appoint an independent special counsel to address it. rosenstein promised senators to replace terry. >> if confirmed, i would familiarize y

documents allegedly linked to the cia. he say the agency is spying on people via their computers, smart phones and even tvs. and on this international women's day, we will be talking more with annette young, host of the france 24 women's program. coming up for you in business we will be looking ahead to the uk's budget as the government tries to calm fears about the economy before it starts brexit talk. more on that on the way but first our top story live from paris. >> there has been another massive dump of documents from wikileaks. this time targeting the cia. the website has published thousands of documents allegedly linked to the u.s. spy program. genie: they seem to show the government is actively hacking computers, smart phones and even tvs. a smart tv turned into a listening device. a hacked car. a baby monitor that is being watched. apps that are not really secure. that is what is emerging from a thousand webpages and over 900 attachments that wikileaks has published. if the leak is authentic it means that the federal intelligence agency can tap into any everyday product

scrambling to hunt down whoever leaked the cia top secret that wikileaks warns this is the beginning. the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: the fbi launching an investigation, the catastrophic cia leak. the roble question hundreds or thousands of intelligence to employees and contractors. the american public is deeply troubled by any wikileaks disclosures to damage the intelligence community ability to protect america against terrorist and other adversaries. and appearing to be from inside the cia, and even cars with the attention of signs. intelligence officials have not about the regions late last year, defending the intelligence community. >> the general principle is one we always expected in this country. there is no such thing as absolute privacy in america. there is no place in america outside of judicial reach. that is the bargain. >> the white house is more people should be upset about the damage this could due to the country. the change ongoing disclosures of national security, everybody. depending on a leak and another on the outrage. >> wikileaks tweeting wikileaks

in cia history. hear what they say about the agents' top secrets and our own privacy in our own homes. >>> developing right now, deadly wildfires raging in four states across the middle of the country. thousands are out of their homes hoping they're left with something to go back to. >>> new details in the crash between a train and bus. hear accounts from survivors. the wreck. >> hang on tight. the man brought to safety thanks to a police helicopter and his own upper body strength. what led up to this rescue. >>> a good wednesd m we begin with that extraordinary breach at the cia. wikileaks has released thousands of documents allegedly exposing the spy agency's secret hacking tools. >> it may be the biggest leak of cia documents ever. a trove of information detailing how agents can break into anything from cell phones to smart tvs. abc's lana zak has been following the developments from washington. >> reporter: officials say the 8700 documents posted on wikileaks appear to be authentic, an extraordinary compromise of u.s. intelligence. >> it's without question that it hurts. >>

, a very big one time matt, to the u.s. intel leaks as the cia cyber arsenal is exposed. karl rove is here on that. and by summer -- white some are questioning wikileaks suspicious timing and some big-time intelligence officials are said to be called out publicly. more on that next. >> because of the seriousness of the accusations involved on all sides of this issue, i want to make sure we hold as many of make sure we hold as many of these hearings out in♪ mapping the oceans. where we explore. protecting biodiversity. everywhere we work. defeating malaria. improving energy efficiency. developing more clean burning natural gas. my job? my job at exxonmobil? turning algae into biofuels. reducing energy poverty in the developing world. making cars go further with less. fueling the global economy. and you thought we just made the gas. ♪ energy lives here. >> shannon: breaking tonight, two big stories rocking the u.s. intel community, just days after president trump accused president obama of spying on him, the powerful house intelligence committee announcing plans to probe those claim

says contain details of cia hacking techniques. the replacement for obamacare plan has been unveiled. we'll be live in washington. iraqi forces strike another blow against the islamic state group in mosul. iraq's prime minister has been there. translation: they will either surrender and have a fair trial, their second choice is they will be killed. here in the uk, the government has suffered its second defeat in a week in the upper house of parliament over brexit. the lords want a bigger say for parliament on any final deal. and we'll bring you a bbc investigation into facebook that finds it failed to remove inappropriate and sexualised images of children. this is a tweet from wikileaks. it told us that it was releasing false southern part one inside the cia's global hacking force and it was claiming the thousands of documents it has put online have shown us how the cia conducts hacking. —— vault seven. shown us how the cia conducts hacking. -- vault seven. the bbc contacted the cia and it said we do not comment on purported intelligence documents. let me show you what gordon cor

consideration of wikileaks's release of thousands of cia documents and files. we talk to greg miller of the "washington post". >> it looks like the cia's sort of cyber weapons arsenal as to, has to a large extent been laid bare. we haven't seen wikileaks posting actual code that somebody could sort of aim and shoot to carry out an actual hack. >> cohen: we continue with a look at civic education with judge robert katzmann of the second circumstance and kathleen hall jamieson of the university of pennsylvania. >> when i was growing up in new york, public schools of new york, civic education was so important. our teachers understood that our democracy is fragile and that to have an understanding of that democracy, we needed to know about government. it is the old line from john dewey that for every generation democracy must be born anew with education as its midwife. >> i think that is what has happened overtime is that education, civic education has had less priority across the country than it should. >> cohen: and a look at the new hbo documentary, "cries from syria", with director evgeny a