hannity's interview with julian assage. he flew monday to tape it and it aired on tuesday and wednesday. >> did russia give you this information or anybody associated with russian? >> our source is not state party. the answer for sbrinteractions

jewel julian assage said a 14-year-old could have hacked podesta.er leading national security voice here in washington, though, thinks the president-elect is making a bad choice here. >> i've had a lot more faith in our intelligence officers and experienced analyst that is we have here in the nation's capital than i do in people like julian assange. can i tell you that much. i don't dispute the intelligence community's assessment from october 7th that russia or your russian associates were behind the attack on the dnc. >> publicly there very conservative military veteran tom cotton, senator from arkansas saying the russians did this and why would you believe julian assage. this is the house speaker, paul ryan, who tries to tempur his criticism of trump and tries to bide his words. this is on the hugh hewitt show. the speaker of the house. asked the same question. >> let me ask you what your opinion is of julian assange. >> i really have none other than i think the guy is a -- for russia. he leaks. he steals data. and compromises national security. >

okay you hear julian assage and you hear what affairs are saying privately. there's a call for more hard evidence. >> last week president obama put out the report and i think a lot of people were hoping there would be more specific spirit turned out to be kind of paltry, vague. didn't provide a lot of detail that skeptics were hoping for. that comes from cyber security experts, people who aren't big fans of donald trump. jeffrey carr said it added nothing to the conversation about the extent of russia's meddling. took a listing that a private company had put out of groups that are thought had ties to russia and grouped that under russian intelligence services without providing corroboration or substantiation. a lot of people are worried that the manner in which this information has been shared makes it seem like it's a domestic political operation than foreign policy -- that russia is a threat. >> they say they are debating what to reveal because of sources and methods. >> they want to show that what they have is real and they've come to this conclusion, it's

hannity's interview with julian assage.flew monday to tape it and it aired on tuesday and wednesday. >> did russia give you this information or anybody associated with russian? >> our source is not state party. the answer for sbrinteractions no. >> did trump now ahead of time that his friend hannity would sit down with him? as fox might say, you decide. later in the week there was a much more clear cut case of trump relying on hannity. he was reading hannity's talking points. here is what hannity said on tv friday night saying the hacking was the democrat's own fault. >> the truth is they can only blame themselves and their gross negligence on cyber security for this election hacking. >> later in the hour, you guessed it, trump tweeted about the dnc's gross negligence. we searched fact base showing that trump never tweeted or spoken the words gross negligence until friday night. glen you've been on fox talking about this. do you factor in that the president-elect may be watching? do you care? >> no, i don't care in the slig

he also appeared to give credence to claims by wiki-leaks founder julian assange. assage denies that russia was the source of hacked emails published by wiki-leaks. we'll dig sbeep deeper into both stories this hour. let's begin with capitol hill. the showdown right now over obama care. president obama and vice president-elect pence. they rallied their troops, and they laid out their battle plans. >> thank you. thank you. look out for the american people. >> sources say the president told democrats not to rescue republicans by approving something worse to replace obama care. a replacement plan he calls trump care. senate minority leader chuck schumer says the republicans would make america sick again. >> they don't know what to do once they repeal. one of my colleagues called it repeal and run, but it's a huge problem as well because now they're responsible for the entire health care system, says and it will be on their backs, and i believe a year from now they will regret that they came out so fast out of the box to repeal. >> vice president-elect mike pence says republi