her campaign manager, john podesta and other people in her campaign. and the american public read that information. true information. and it said, we don't like these people. and then voted accordingly. what they want to do instead is conflate our publication of true information with, say, hacking or alleged hacking. from vote counting machines. even obama admitted there has been no hacking from that. for most americans -- -- go spk department of homeland security, in fact, wikileaks was working with the russian government to influence the election. >> sean: is that true in any shape matter or form? >> no. if you read the statements carefully, it doesn't actually say that. they kind of mention one fact here, one fact they there, and nothing else. in the most up-to-date information from the december 29th statement, what is completely absent from all those statements is wikileaks. totally absent. what is going on? i believe two things are going on. number one, they don't have the evidence that wikileaks is involved in that way. why my confident about tha

her campaign manager, john podesta and other people in her campaign. and the american public read that information. true information. and it said, we don't like these people.n and then voted accordingly.li what they want to do instead is conflate our publication of true information with, say, hacking or alleged hacking. from vote counting machines. even obama admitted there has been no hacking from that. for mostd americans -- go speak department of homeland security, in fact, wikileaks was working with the russian government to influence the election. >> sean: is that true in any shape matter or form? >> no. if you read the statements carefully, it doesn't actually say that. they kind of mention one fact here, one fact there, and nothing else. in the most up-to-dateki information from the december 29th statement, what is completely absent from all those statements is wikileaks. totally absent. what is going on? ii believe two things are going on. number one, they don't have the evidence that wikileaks is involved in that way. why my confident about th

trump tweeting, julian assange said a 14-year-old could hack john podesta. trump has repeatedly dismissed claims pointing to the russians for the hack in the release of john podesta e-mails. >> the senate armed services committee looking at foreign cyber threats to the u.s. a review of the meddling into the u.s. election is expected to be released to the public on monday. we are learning about the president-elect's plans to perhaps overall the intelligence system. cnn's sara murray has latest. >> reporter: good morning, john and christine. donald trump going to battle with the u.s. agencies and leaders of his party as he takes to twitter to suggest he doesn't believe u.s. intelligence agencies assessment that russia attempted to meddle in the u.s. election. suggesting he may be more likely to believe julian assange who insists none of the information about hillary clinton's campaign came from the russian government. just because donald trump says he is not inclined to believe in the intelligence agencies doesn't mean all members of his party are following su

julian assange said a is 14-year-old could have hacked john podesta.o the russians did not give him the information. listen to this 2010 sound. >> he will talk about wikileaks. >> that's a disgrace. >> i think he should be like death penalty or something. what a difference six years makes. >> a huge difference. i think we were surprised to find that clip. cnn is awesome at doing that. yesterday, we had a story about other people switching their position on julian assange when it seems to benefit them politically. sarah palin as well. a big donald trump supporter. as we said, quite a bit of push back on this as a whole. this isn't political to the intelligence community. it is what they are saying. even some republican senators are saying. this is a national security issue that should not be handled on twitter and not taken lightly. >> there is a big hearing today on capitol hill. john mccain is holding a hearing on phone someboforeign cyber ha. they have a lot of questions. they do not like the way the transition has handled it. >> very much so. we saw

and was so much more significant than hacking into john podesta's emails. kennedy: you have intent and you have action. russia may have had the intent but wikileaks provided the action. it seems people are abstracting how they feel about russia and wikileaks depending on the outcome of the story which is hypocritical. but great reporting, thanks so as much, molly. coming up, the number of congressional democrats boycotting the congressional nomination. why are liberals so willing to ditch the festivities.

by that time, the russians had been into john podesta's email.harlie: so you say the russians have been into john podesta's emails. why does the president-elect continue to resist? david: that is a fascinating question. i wish i knew the answer. case that allure these leaks came from the russians, no. russians worrying, somebody else could have come in as well. but there is as about a persuasive case as i've seen both on the on the record and off the record evidence that it hack very well-known affiliated with the russian military intelligence agency. it is well known in washington. it is not like these guys just have shown up for the first time. they had been into the state department and the joint chiefs of staff's emails. their techniques and their tools are pretty familiar. could somebody have replicated each one of those techniques and tools? yes, probably. but it would have been a lot of work. charlie: i've been told that the process of attribution has gotten much better. david: it has. it is not perfect. when you think about attributing a

revealed by the wikileaks emails, those of john podesta and the hillary clinton campaign and the misdeeds they revealed. why is that? and why are we suddenly talking about vladimir putin. which you heard today they could not ascribe this operation whatever it was to vladimir putin. you remember he was personally involved in this just a week ago. >> they did tea describe it. rinse to what general clapper said. he said nothing like this happens in russia without you continues approval. and we all know that. vladimir putin is not r frie. i's not a good guy. lou: who acertained that he is -- who asserted that he is? have you ever heard me say he's our friend? not one. but you quickly said why are you defending vladimir putin. you are defending a bureaucracy

did not get this information about the dnc, john podesta's emails, can you tell the american people 1000% do not get it from russia or anybody associated with russia? >> we can say, we have said come up repeatedly, over the last few months, that our source is not the russian government. it is not state parties. >> interesting. >> that interview will air tomorrow at 10:00 on "hannity." you heard it. wikileaks is not behind all of this. some are not buying that. for "philadelphia inquirer" editorial board asked which side is trump on. here now is paul davies, the editor of that paper. thanks a lot for joining us today. you all wrote this pretty florid editorial today, excoriating trump are not taking this seriously. this was an attack on our democracy, on a free and fair election. how do you know exactly that russia was behind this? >> the president obama has announced it, the intelligence

if it did, the accusation is the true statements of hillary clinton and her campaign manager, john podesta and the dnc, debbie wasserman schultz, their true statements is what changed the election. >> assange has been holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london. he is accused of rape and sexual assault in sweden. he claims he's innocent. he says he won't go to sweden out of fear officials will ship him to the united states where he can face further charges for leaking classified documents. let's bring in brad blakeman and michael toddman, aide to chuck schumer. michael, i'm going to start with you. senator schumer is throwing down the gauntlet. bottom line it all for me. >> every day with senator schumer is an interesting day has been my experience. the wikileaks issue -- i'm going to get a lot of flak from my democratic colleagues -- i happen to believe that the underlying documents and information that was shared has not been denied. it's not been said it wasn't true. so if the russians make hillary not campaign in the rust belt? no. did they make anthony wiener do what he did? no. thes

heather: harwood, he later bragged about it in an e-mail to clinton campaign chair john podesta.en is questioning whether mr. trump is fit for presidency. he never feels fear like he does right now. >> is someone competent to do this job, do they have the pure competence to be put in a position of such responsibility. clayton: springsteen is a hillary clinton supporter but now understands how mr. trump got elected. heather: brand new clip, the blame game over mariah's meltdown. clayton: is there proof that there was sabotage? here with the very latest on this controversy. hey, carly. >> a messy start for ms. mariah, her team says she did, in fact, attend rehearsal for new year's eve performance after anonymous resources say she skipped out. it appears to prove the singer's side of the story. >> okay, so the stand-in. [laughter] >> that's right. he said a stand-in out of work, that video taken after a 3:00 p.m. sound check, photos posted by tmz also show carey on stage. the singer complains about audio issue during the sound check and even accused dick clark productions of sabotag

because he was john podesta's former attorney years ago. and some communications came to light where he gave -- one of the e-mails is where he gave podesta a heads-up about a hearing that would involve the clinton emalinvestigation. i don't recall the other communications. but at the time it was under scrutiny and criticized there was any communication between the department of justice and clinton's campaign chairman at a time when the department of justice was investigating her use of a private e-mail server. wolf? >> all right, pamela brown, with the breaking news. gloria borger, dana bash, jim sciutto, our whole team over here. it's sort of a very significant development because you don't know. you open up an inspector general investigation like this, it can go for a week. it can go for a month, a year. you don't know where it ends up. in that last line, the inspector general will consider other issues that may arise during the course of the review. once you open up an investigation like this, it can go anywhere. >> i think this is an age

wikileaks founder julian saying that john podesta. melissa: there could have been -- president obama looks to secure his legacy before leaving office. sounding the alarm, and he'll join us. david: meanwhile president obama and vice president elect pence are on capitol hill both rallying their troops over obamacare. the repeal efforts are underway as warning for chaos for our economy. congressman marsha is going to respond and tell us what's happening behind closed doors. >> we have a great deal of optimism that the good things that have happened in aca are going to stay. and that our republican colleagues don't quite know what to do. caught the can bus. and the urin. tell your doctor about your medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas® for pulmonary hypertension, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess. to avoid long-term injury, get medical help right away for an erection lasting more than four hours. if yo

and when you look at the breadth of it it is not limited to going after the doc and john podesta, thes we have is that they didn't infiltrate the voting process of this, but they did everything short of that. >> -- they're going to look into the e-mail investigation and the d.o. d.o.j. do you agree with that and look how the vaginvestigati was handled. >> yes. >> why do you think that. >> i think steps were taken that were not precedented, did not ever happen before. his statement about the opening of an investigation, the closing of an investigation i don't think was fair, professional or consistent with the policies of the federal bureau of investigation. >> does it threaten his job, sist sir. >> he serves at the power of the president. [ inaudible ] >> i read on the materials and i have access that other members don't and there was more details today. and i came out of this thing, i thought it was terrible and thought it was even worse and if we don't take it seriously, shame on us. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> let's go straight to the hill to manu raju, give us a little bit of

john podesta opened an email. click here for this great offer. it eats into their data. if julian assange and wikileaks is all about transparency, bringing truth to light, then you would have to believe that it didn't come from the russians. my biggest problem was mccain and lindsey graham saying they are going to lead the next congress into more strident and stringent sanctions against the russians. >> dana, there's a investigation underway. it would make sense to be able to get the full amount of information from the variety of agencies before making a factual determination one way or the other. >> i find this thing totally bewildering. i don't understand actually, i have a question. you said that if assange says, because wikileaks is supposed to be about transparency, what assange, we should take as proof. >> if you believe what he is about, exposing truth. correct me if i'm wrong. i haven't seen anything where wikileaks has brought something out that was inaccurate. they are just leaking information. >> how about the guy that the guy is a fugitive from tip to eat ass

assange going on about a 14-year-old being able to hack john podesta is nonsense.tadata. assange going on about a 14-year-old being able to hack john podesta is nonsense. this is a sophisticated code established by the fbi -- >> according to "the new york times" on how this happened there was a lot of missteps along the way by the dnc who got the call from the fbi, weren't sure it was a real fbi agent calling them. seemed like a ludicrous cast of characters at the dnc who had no idea about the impact. >> they had no clue. and the obama administration, putting guilt where they should have doepg something about it early on, we should have seen this report right away. this is an act of war as mccain called us. the russians are after us. nothing do with who was elected president. they are trying to undermine our system and we have to deal with the facts and we're not. inciting julian assange or putin and taking their word is like i said the twilight zone. >> steve, what kind of impact does the this potential restructuring have on the intelligence community? is it a big

are we talking specifically about the hack of the dnc and hack of john podesta's e-mails? >> yes. >> are we talking about anything else? >> at the time that was what we were talking about. >> it says recent disclosure of wikileaks -- dnc leaks were lacked at first in july. is that what the statement is talking about? >> i believe so. >> mr. podesta' were leaked on october 7th. was that referring to that yet or was that not meant to be included? >> i'd have to research the exact chronology of what john podesta's e-mails were compromised, but i think, though, that that bears on my statement that our assessment now is even more resolute than it was with on that statement of the 7th of october. >> admiral rogers, in november you stated this was a conscious effort by a nation state to attempt to achieve a specific effect, end quote. by that did you also refer to the hack of the dnc, the hack of john podesta's e-mail and the leaks of those e-mails? >> yes. >> did you refer to anything else besides those two things? >> to be honest i don't remember the specifics of that one parti

clinton campaign chairman john podesta's e-mails during the past presidential campaign. the director of national intelligence james clapper saying he has no doubt this was orchestrated by russia saying he feels more strongly about this than when they first issued a statement about it during the election campaign back in october. a lot to discuss. a lot of the hearing highlights to play back and discuss this hour. my "inside politics" panel is here with me. let's go first live to cnn's phil mautsi imattingly. evan perez will also join us. phil, let's start with you. this is a hearing call by the republican chairman, john mccain, who clearly, although he was very polite. he did not get into a battle publicly with donald trump. clearly wanted to have the intelligence community come in, make clear once again they believe russia meddled in the presidential election and mccain wants the president-elect, no doubt, to listen to them and to believe them. >> yeah, no question about it, john. if this was a 2 1/2-hour hearing, you can say probably 2 hours and 23 minutes of that were

campaign and discussed the hacking of the dnc and the email of hillary clinton campaign chair john podesta. buzzfeed later published a dossier, prepared by british former intelligence officer christopher steele, outlining unverified allegations of a political and sexual nature. the reports prompted trump to respond on twitter -- "intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to leak into the public. one last shot at me. are we living in nazi germany?" on wednesday, director of national intelligence james clapper said he was dismayed over the leaked dossier and denied that anyone from the u.s. intelligence community was responsible. at wednesday's press conference, trump refused to answer questions from cnn's jim acosta. mr. trump: cohead. >> mr. president like -- mr. trump: not you. not you. your organization is terrible. >> sir? mr. trump: cohead. suzette -- don't be rude. >> can you give us a question? mr. trump: i am not going to give you a question. you are fake news. go ahead. president-elect gave the next question to a reporter with breitbart news, a web site that ch

he did say he believes russia was responsible for the hack, dnc and john podesta, they shouldn't have done it and he's they're not going to do if when he's president. that is a signal to putin and russia there is a new sheriff in town. >> you do not believe there should be a select committee? >> i think the intelligence committee should continue the insight we're doing on this and drill down deeper into that report. >> senator, we have more to discuss, there is more breaking news coming into the situation room as well. we'll take a quick break. much more with senator cotton right after this. ♪ hi, i'm erica, and i take movantik for oic, opioid-induced constipation. i used to run, i loved it but a bad injury led to chronic pain. prescription opioids helped with the pain... but left me constipated. fiber, laxatives, still constipated. finally, i let it out, told my doctor. that was my movantik moment. he said movantik is specifically designed for oic and can help me go more often. don't take movantik if you have a bowel blockage or a history of them. movantik may cause serious side effe

on wednesday, trump said it was probably russia that broke into the dnc's servers and hacked john podesta's emails, but insisted he had no loans and no business dealings with russia. this is nbc reporter hallie jackson questioning trump. >> will you release your tax returns to prove what you're saying a about no deals in r ru? mrmr. t trump: tax returns are r audit. >> every president since the 1970's -- , i'd nevergee heard that. deal and want to care about my thereturns are reporters. i don't think -- i think you care. i think you care. amy: trump told reporters he would not be selling off his company or real estate holdings and would instead place his business assets into a trust controlled by his adult sons, eric trump and donald trump, jr. the head of the office of government ethics, walter shaub, blasted the plan, calling it wholly inadequate to avoid conflicts of interest. we'll have more on trump's conflicts of interest after headlines. trump revealed his plans for to name a aeplacement for antonin scalia, whose supreme court seat republicans have refused to fill since his death nea

something out there convinced john podesta's assistant to give up his email password.side. we got a lot of information we wouldn't have otherwise. i don't think it is a good thing. i don't want my email broken into. that is not the same as hacking the election. nobody got into the voting machines. that is the basis of charges and it is wrong and destablizes the country and undermines people confidence in the elections process. two things are going on. we're under assault from foreign countries including our allies for a long sometime. not just government secrets but our industrial secrets. we've been spied upon since the existence internet. you haven't heard anything from the left or frankly the right until now, this is handy way to explain the unexpected loss in the election. i would love to have a serious conversation about the damage has been done by russia, and china and north korea and iran and a bunch of other countries to our national are interests by their cyber activities. that is not what having. we're having distraction from the real conversation. brian: in

john podesta has a weak security to say the least or no security. i also believe that podesta's emails are not the reason hillary clinton lost the election. i feel this is bewildering. having an argument with the intelligence community in public about what date the intelligence briefing is going to be honest unnecessary. i am looking forward to 60 days from now when the new administration is in place and you have hopefully the cia director confirmed by then. get everybody in there and calm this down. i don't think it's good to have a public dispute between the incoming president and the intelligence community over something like this. i don't think it's necessary. >> eric bolling, what do you say about this? >> strike one using password as your password. strike two, giving it out to a random email request and strike three saying your staff saying don't worry about it. assange points out that even a 14-year-old. >> they told him it was a legitimate email. illegitimate. it's the thing that keeps him up at night. >> i agree with dana. it's not good to b

media collusion at the level we saw, abc, nbc, cbs, all of these people being wined and dined by john podesta harrowwood giving questions to hillary clinton before the meetings. you want to talk about influencing an election -- we're going to ask that question. here's a question. why does america's news media caught red-handed helping one particular candidate, were they trying to influence the election? >> good stuff. vladimir putin just called -- >> by the way, i love you, love your show. this is like the greatest honor. you never invite me on your show. i would love to be on your show more. >> my producer did. good job. by the way, vladimir putin and offered you a one way tick to moscow to interview him. >> too cold. i'll be in siberia tomorrow. >> thank you. nancy pelosi suffered big defections today. four of them. remember tim ryan? why wasn't he one of them? he's next. let's take a look at some numbers: 4 out of 5 people who have a stroke, their first symptom... is a stroke. 80 percent of all strokes and heart disease? preventable. and 149 dollars is all it takes to get screened and help

>> regarding the content on the dnc emails and the contest of john podesta's emails. i remember candid camera. fox the creator said caught in the act of being themselves. putin didn't right those emails. they were call in the act of being themselves. >> sean: it was one of my favorite shows with the honeymooners and all in the family. that's another day. upnext today on hannity: >> the count of mexico will reimburse the united states for the cost of the wall. >> sean: he is lashing out for the media for trying to discourt his plan. bo dietl and geraldo rivera straight ahead. ok, let me explain. this is your tax return. ok. now, there are many right ways to fill out this tax return. and the irs will accept them all. one of them gets you the most money back. isn't that the one you want? that's the one i want. that's the one you want. mmm... you touched all these. don't just get your taxes done, amy. get your taxes won. after becoming one of the largest broadband companies in the country. after expanding our fiber network coast to coast. these are the places we call home

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i believe few americans made their voting decision based upon what clinton campaign manager john podestad in emails. however, to be fair, the hacking situation diverted the press and got a lot a coverage. so, you could say, or the clinton campaign because it cut into the trump bashing by the press, which is almost nonstop. joining us now with his assessment, brit hume is in florida this evening. now, first of all, do you think trump is being too soft on putin? >> yeah, i think he probably is. look vladimir putin is a bad actor. two prior presidents, two of trump's immediate predecessors try to make common cause with him. it didn't work in either case. i think trump will eventually figure this out. but's, so far, i think he nurses this notion that he, by virtue of his personality and his way, will be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with putin and to do business with him. maybe he can. but i doubt it. i think you will figure it out before long. >> bill: all right, so, the intent, we know, is for the united states to have a better relationship with russia. trump is going to try to make t

john podesta was hacked. we're not just talking about campaign e-mails or the democratic committee e-mails. but john podesta's personal g-mail was hacked. so if you or i is sending private messages, we don't want a foreign government hacking our private messages. >> none of us want to see our e-mails like that in such capacities to be discussed like that. katie, what will happen next? what might congress do? we're seeing both sides, lindsey graham for instance, saying i'm not going to -- i don't support this. what is next in congress? >> sure. well, rob allud to this. certainly we may see the discussion o russia in terms of its role and its relationship with the incoming administration, in upcoming confirmation issues that the question of rex tillerson's ties to russia is a sticking point already. and certainly folks like john mccain, lindsey graham raising questions about that. what will be interesting to see is how other republicans react now that the report came out yesterday. there hasn't been a whole lot

and it was john podesta and the campaign of hillary clinton that were wide open.ou, stop covering up for this. >> lou: covering up what? >> nobody is condemning -- >> lou: we are not going to put up with that here, partner. >> yes, you are, you are diverting attention. >> lou: why are you defending a bracket that has been utterly attacking intelligence? i am criticizing. >> you are attacking patriots and defending russia's attempt. >> lou: how dare you hide behind the patriotic nonsense. this is about a nation that is absolutely a subject of a disinformation campaign from the left in this country, the left-wing media in this country. >> you are less more concernedt that than you are but a disinformation campaign from moscow? >> lou: no, no, no, no. >> this is about our country and security, get on board. >> lou: i would like you to do me the slight favor of opening your mind and be patient as i have one more question if you wouldn't mind. >> if you open your mind. >> lou: i assure you it is. why is it there has been no investigation of all that was revealed by the

clearly, was that in addition to the hacking that has been so widely reported -- the hacking of john podestaampaign chairman emails there were other activities. there was the generation of fake news, other disinformation, activity. they have not specified, maybe it will come out next week. yesterday's hearings told us that this was a broader campaign even then we had known from the statements that had been made by the intelligence community. charlie: michael, what do we know from what other intelligence agencies believe, from europe or anywhere else, about what the russians were doing? michael:michael: i don't cover intelligence, david would know the specifics a lot better. i do know there has been a kind of global concern over the past russia hasrs that expressed interest and has shown a willingness to do these kinds of activities, not only in the united states, but in other places as well. in other places where they have interests throughout europe and eastern europe, in which intelligence agencies have meddlinge kind of directly back to russia, and russian government or intelligence sourc

didn't care about all the hacking all the years prior was because these emails of the d&c and john podesta showed racism, sexism, homophobia. anti-semitism. and then we have of course, the media colluding. then the corruption of the clinton's. all the money they made. then they totally rigged the dnc process in favor of hillary over bernie. so that seems to be what has garnered their attention here. >> that's really the point of this, sean. the point is this. that report shows the election was not hacked. no vote was changed. if, in fact, what the russians, if they did it, or whoever did it, if anyone else at had hackd information that was perfectly neutral and did not show some terrible acts, said some terrible things. suggested some terrible actions taken by people, there would be no problem here. it's their actions that caused whatever problem was caused and as far as we can tell, it really didn't have much of an impact on the boat. vote. they got caught saying what they were actually saying. >> sean: there is a high level of confidence in certain an intelligence agencies and only moder

> can you say to the american people unequivocally that you didn't get this information about john podesta's e-mails, can you tell the american people 1000% that you didn't get it from russia or anybody associated with russia? >> we can say and have said repeatedly the last two months that our source is not the russian government and it is not state parties. >> there you have it. assange never directly addressed whether his source was some sort of middleman for the russians, which is exactly what our intelligence officials and the white house have suggested. he also never addressed the fact that two other websites published the material. american intelligence officials say both of those websites are the work of russian agents. team fox coverage with peter doocy and catherine herridge. >> the president will be briefed about the russian hacking issue friday. those issues include john brennan, james clapper and the fbi director, james comey who some democrats blame for interfering in the election process itself by making an announcement of the clinton e-mails days before the election. the presi

a new cold war over john podesta's e-mails. that's why you got the pulitzer prize. good seeing you. >> thank you. >> i throw that out there to make you step back and think. just everyone is telling you one thing. you're not saying russia is a buddy. you are looking at things like timing, you're looking at other issues that are being totally ignored here a little more than 24 hours of the electors deciding who will be the next commander-in-chi commander-in-chief, awkward. we have rand paul coming up. his opposition to ending obama care as we know it. he is for killing this thing. what he's against is the way republicans are going about it. a grand old mess in the grand old party after this. you're here to buy a car. what would help is simply being able to recognize a fair price. truecar has pricing data on every make and model, so all you have to do is search for the car you want, there it is. now you're an expert in less than a minute. this is truecar. >> you know, maybe we got this wrong when we heard about rand paul's opposition to the appeal efforts of the obama

i have to get to the julian assange stuff and john podesta's password. >> we have pinpoint problems witht. we wertold the cost of health care would go down. that we would be able to keep our doctors, that there would be competition and it wouldn't affect the middle class from a tax perspective. all that was untrue. incoming secretary designee price, he is very well-situated to lead that charge and to recommend how we're going to replace these very faulty provisions that have hurt middle class and lower class america, that are looking for health care, and looking for assistance from our government. lori: so, john, okay, trump siding with julian assange over the hacking incident at the dnc and julian assange basically telling sean hannity look, a child could have hacked john podesta's email. his password was password. that is outrageous? were you just stunned by that? does this give trump where he coming more not to stand by u.s. intelligence? >> i believe he will stand b u.s. intelligence. as he is briefed and those times will happen, he will then make decisions. but you know, we do have

assessed that the reason that russia got involved with these hacks related to the election, the dnc, john podesta, et cetera was trying to assist trump and assist the chances of winning. they say they don't know whether it worked. it's not many please vote for hacking election machines but they said that was the purpose pickup on republicans will say of course i trust the intelligence community but i don't trust that. there's this dichotomy. how far does your trust go in their assessment or a lot of them are drawing the line at the point at which this becomes clearly political. the thing that is clearly political the intelligence community is making a political statement but it has political implication when you start saying well maybe they got involved because they're trying to advance trump's chances but that is something a lot of gop members, they just can't sit with. >> host: okay, tranfour, thank you for joining us today. >> guest: thank you. >> if any news results from president-elect trump's briefing with intel officials this morning we will have it for you here on the c-span networks. we

to the american people unequivocally that he did not get this information about the das the, john podesta's e-mails, can you tell the american people an thousand% you did not get it from russia or anybody associated with russia? the mac we have said repeatedly over the last two months but it's not the russian government and its nonstate party. >> julian assange's comments come days after the above administration took a series of steps for interfering in the u.s. presidential electn. donald trump has disputed russia was behind the hacking of democratic e-mails. the interview with julian assange airs tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern time with additional segments airing on hannity throughout this week. don't miss it. congress returns today the top of the congressional republins to do list from repealing obamacare. president upon the fact ahead of the democrats behind closed doors tomorrow morning to come up with a plan to protect his signature health care love. house minority leader nancy pelosi urging people to take a second look at how the law has improved their lives. >> this is not just about

did john podesta click on a fake link? the conclusion, the russians hack is somehow got to julien assange great remember him? ♪ greg: assange kamikaze pro-trump and he is blonde. why isn't he outnumbered? [laughter] assange once hated by the right is now hugged by them. i've got to tell you is confusing to see writing who wanted to see assange hanks wanting to hang with him. the shift from a cold war to a hot romance is so confusing to me it's like coming home and finding out that dad left mom for her brother. but this is what worries me. forget hacking. that's nothing great right now we have no deterrence against those who might want to destroy us. how do we make sure that no one tries to attack our power grid which would shut down all electricity and he could be broke, sick and starving in days. america would turn into lord of the flies or worse, "charlotte's web". a cyber attack is the first effective neutron bomb killing all of us but leaving everything standing. to worry about fishing now about fishing out psych on se

and others, released them through wikileaks and we're supposed to believe that john podesta's emails and emails between them and jennifer threw the election to donald trump? no serious person believes that. i like the idea of opening up the question of russian hacking. cybersecurity, serious problem. a very difficult and complex problem. trying to determine whether that hacking was coming from a basement in moscow or coming from somewhere in romania, ukraine or somewhere else by distant servers by solo players. >> martha: this is not something that has happened once or twice and it will continue to happen and it will happen to republicans and all sides before we're through. >> i was in the bush administration. my personal information was hacked into by the chinese i think director clapper called it espionage. what happened then? what were the consequences? were chinese diplomats thrown out for doing this? since 9/11 the cry has been we failed to connect the dots. everything the democrats have done since then is to prevent us from collecting the dots. so if we want to get into this de

i have every confidence in intelligence, russian hacking at both the dnc as well as john podesta. >>mes clapper is a -- >> do you want to hear the answer? while i can't go into the classified information, i have full confidence that the russians -- whether julianne assange was a willing participant or the russians would describe -- [inaudible] that will hopefully find out. but i don't have any question on the conclusion that intelligence -- >> you have every confidence but no evidence, is that right? >> i can't show the evidence with you. >> that's bogus. that's bogus. spinner would always refer to the intelligence community -- please don't do that. but anyways, what i want to say is that the most effective effective operation on his includes human operations and technical cooperation is. it's very you look at the dnc. it's very important. because the precision by which they targeted debbie wasserman schultz are precisely the date of the opening of the conventi convention, the licks, the tech told you, it's very important you look in the direction. [inaudible] i wish you all the best