Winter storm warning in effect for all of southeastern wisconsin, and thats when we expect the snow to wind down completely. I think the snow comes to an end around 8 00 p. M. This evening. Your forecast today, well look for a High Temperature of 32 degr doris keargs goodwin, kimberly strasse whr welcome to sunday, its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. When the Washington Post story about russian involvement in our election was posted online friday night, it was nothing less than explosive. The cia included the russians further, in september, the white house wanted congressional leaders to sign off on a statement supporting efforts to support the integrity of the election. Two republican lawmakers including Mitch Mcconnell was not persuaded and wouldnt sign on it it. This is not about the results of the election. Its about a government trying to influence our election. Just as the russians had been accused of doing in germany and italy just in the last two weeks. As stunning as the conclusion, equally remarkable was Donald Trumps decision to side with the Foreign Government over our own chief intelligence agency. Donald trump declared war on the Intelligence Community in a statement filled with hyperbole friday night. These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons ago in one of the Biggest Electoral College victories in history. Its time to move on and make America Great again. The New York Times is reporting that intelligence agencies have concluded with high confidence that russian hacked the Republican National committee Computer Systems but chose to leak only Democratic Party documents. And trump has consistently down played intelligence about russian hacking. It could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. Okay . Meanwhile, he has publically flirted with putin numerous times. I was in russia. I was in moscow recently. And i spoke indirectly and directly with president putin who could not have been nicer. I think i would have a Good Relationship with putin. He has been a leader more than inviing russia to conduct espionage against Hillary Clinton. Russia, if you are listening, i hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. Leading Senate Republicans are preparing to launch a probe into russias involvement. If the evidence is what i think it will be, then we will have a bipartisan effort to sanction putin and his inner circle for their interference not only in our election but destabilizing the world. Re president obama is looking into it, too. The president has directed the Intelligence Community to conduct a full review of what happened during the 2016 election. The man who appears to be trumps choice for secretary of state Rex Tillerson has deep ties to putin. In 2013, the kremlin awarded tillerson the order of friendship, one of the highest honors for civilians. Putin, which dates back almost 15 years now, ive known sim since 199, and i have a very close relationship with him. I believe that Vladimir Putin is a thug and a bully and murderer. And i believe that the relationship between mr. Tillerson and Vladimir Putin needs to be examined. The former u. S. Ambassador is mike mcfaul who was banned from russia for what he says areis welcome back to meet the press. Thanks for having me. Tell us a little bit about why everyone is so convied that what happened in the United States fits a pattern of what russia has been doing in other countries. Well, because russia has this capability. And theyre motivated for political purposes to do these kinds of things. That now the Intelligence Community is starting to directly give us news about the way these dots are connected. Remember, you and i have talked about this many times. We knew some things, like we were pretty certain about the dnc hacking by the russians. What we didnt have reported before was evidence that they gave that data to wikileaks. We also didnt have the data that you just described in your intro that they hacked the the republicans. Those are pretty big new facts. And i think they demand real attention in terms of some kind of investigation. In your determination as somebody who obviously with deep knowledge of the russian system, whats putins motivation . What does he get out of Donald Trumps election . You know, i think its two things. One is revenge against secretary clinton. Lets remember that Vladimir Putin thinks that she intervened parliamentary election in december 2011. And has said as much publically. I heard him talk about it privately. Number two, president elect trump supports a lot of Foreign Policy positions that Vladimir Putin supports. You just played several of them in your clips. Right . So its very rational in my view that he would rather see president elect trump be the next president of the United States instead of secretary clinton. Now, i want to add here. Sometimes people jump to the conclusion that this was somehow coordinated with president elect trump. I dont believe that for a minute. But did the russians take some actions to try to help him . I think the evidence is circumstantial enough that we really do need this bipartisan, independent investigation that others are calling for. Set aside the hacking aspect of this. Any concerns you have about an administration, if Rex Tillerson is secretary of state, that ties and closer ties with Vladimir Putins russia . Yes, to be honest, yes. Now, when i was in the government, i supported exxon mobiles work with the Largest Oil Company there. We thought it was in Americas National interest to strengthen economic ties. But then russia intervend in ukraine. They annexed crimea. And in my opinion, thema administration rightly sanctioned russian companies, including the ceo of the oil company, exxon mobiles partner. We cant reverse those sanctions in the name of economic interest unless russia changes its behavior. So i want to learn more. I want to hear the hearings. I want to know what mr. Tillerson thinks about a broad set of issues, not just energy ones but initially this is mike mcfaul, former ambassador to russia under president obama and now from stanford university, thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me. Joining me now is the outgoing chairman of the Republican National committee and the incoming chief of staff for the president elect, donald trump, its Reince Priebus. Welcome back to meet the press. Thank you, chuck. Let me start with apparently a big announcement that may be coming this week, and that has to do with secretary of state and outgoing exxon ceo Rex Tillerson. The early reaction, not very good, mr. Priebus. Alarming and absurd, says the top democrat on Senate Foreign relations. John mccain, a matter of concern to me, referring to mr. Tillersons close relationship with Vladimir Putin. Lindsey graham called the pick unnerving. Is he definitely going to be the pick number one . How do you respond to the criticism . Well, first of all, there is no announcement today on secretary of state. I would assume, until maybe early to mid next week. And the president elect is making a decision. And so he has a lot of great choices. And a lot of accomplished people. He has talked to a variety of folks from as you know Rex Tillerson to mitt romney to Rudy Giuliani to david patraeus, bob corker and many others. You know, this sort of analysis is a little premature. But as to rex one of the most preemmeant Business People in the world. So i think that poking this prematurely is something that just isnt, number one its not helpful, but its also not accurate. I mean, this is a guy who has business relationships in every continent in the entire world. Thats fine. But does that qualify him to be secretary of state . Does that qualify him to be secretary of state . Sure. I think he is qualified to be secretary of state. Absolutely. Just having business deals, that qualifies him . Its not just business deals. An Extensive Knowledge of our relationships across the globe and Extensive Knowledge of International Law and Extensive Knowledge of how deals are put together in places of the world that are very intergovernmental relationships that are very unique to Rex Tillerson. So, yeah, i think he is not just qualified, i thinkpreeminent in world. The United States government lobbied Rex Tillerson not to attend an event in russia earlier this year, sort of a global expo event that Vladimir Putin was hosting. And the United States government wouldnt go. He could. They didnt prevent him from going. But he put exxons interests over and above the United States. Do you understand why that would unnerve some people about the idea of him as americas chief diplomat . Well, it might unnerve people who think the best route for our country to go is to ignore people and to have an enemy list and adhere to that list. I just dont believe and neither does the solving the worlds biggest problems are best done by ignoring people and having crummy relationships across the globe. We just dont believe that talking to people and having relationships is a bad thing. Should we expect that sanctions i would venture to guess that Rex Tillerson doesnt agree with that either. Should we expect regardless of who is secretary of state that one of the first orders lift sanctions against Vladimir Putin. Not at all. I wouldnt go to any conclusion. The only conclusion you should have is that talking to people is something that president elect trump is going to do. It doesnt mean that he is not going to be tough. It doesnt mean that were not going to make sure that the american position is always advocated for. The idea is to put America First, not just in the United States but America First across the globe. But that how dare you cut a deal with the russian government because you need to have you need to go where the oil is at is absurd. Of course, he is going to cut that deal. Thats what Rex Tillerson did. But that doesnt mean that the positions of president elect trump are not going to be extremely tough in putting America First. Let me move to the reports in the Washington Post, New York Times, nbc news confirmed it make an attempt to interfere in the 2016 election to be disruptive but they actually were trying to be disruptive in order to help donald trump. The transition put out a statement that essentially he humiliated the cia in saying that donald trump didnt believe the assessment from the cia because these are the same people that said there were weapons that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass does donald trump have confidence in americas intelligence . Of course he has confidence in americas intelligence. But we dont have confidence in the New York Times releasing a report of unnamed sources of some kind of study that itself and the Washington Post said was inconclusive to claim that because the cia had hacked emails of the dnc and rnc and russia was doing this. The rnc was not hacked. We had the fbi in the rnc. We have been working with the fbi. Hang on. No, the rnc explain why you had the fbi there. The dnc was hacked. We called the fbi and they came in to help us. They came in were doing and went through every single thing that we did. We went through this for a month. We were not hacked. Wait a second. If we were not hacked that is absolutely not true then where does that story lie . Nobody with the let me ask you this. Not a Single Person connected to the rnc was hacked . No republican vendor who had the network wasnt hacked. That doesnt mean Republicans Associated with the rnc werent hacked. Do you rule categorically rule this out . I dont know why you are so hot about this. The fact of the matter its not about me. The rnc was not hacked. Number one, the rnc was not hacked. I dont know of any employee on any of the own gmail accounts that was hacked. Im trying to was not hacked. That was by the way, that was the specific allegation that was made in the actual New York Times article. The article didnt say affiliates. The article didnt say wait a second. The article said the rnc was hacked. Dont be defensive with me that im its not im refuting the specific fact that was made in the firestorm. The specific fact as we have been told by the fbi repeatedly, including two days ago when we checked back with them about this issue, repeated the fact that the rnc was not hacked. You tell me where this story is at. Why would the press run with something that wasnt true . Let me ask you though about the cias assessment. I understand you want a specific denial about the rnc. The cia made this assessment. Donald trump so ignored the assessment. Do you not believe russia was involved . Do you not believe anything that russia was attempting to infiltrate the u. S. Election system in any way, shape or form . Here is what im saying. Number one, you dont have a Single Source ive given you a source specifically, me, who runs the rnc to say that the rnc was not hacked. You tell me who the specific source on the other side of this that says the rnc was hacked. Okay. Rnc. Reince, no, no, no. My question is about whether or not russia tried to infiltrate the our election in some way, shape or form. The hacking of the dnc, the hacking of john podesta. You dont believe you and donald trump do not believe russia was involved in that at all . Thats what your statement said friday night. What im asking you, chuck, is tell me what the specific source that y a New York Times article that claims that through unnapunname sources who they say was inconclusive, what source are you using to be so adamant to get a response from me on something that doesnt have a source to it . Whats your source . What you are saying is, until the cia comes out and produces somebody on the record, you are going to dispute this the entire time . No, im not i dont know whether its true or not. You dont that means you do not believe the assessments of the u. S. Intelligence community. Wait a second. Now you are circuitous here. Im saying im asking you you guys have the sourcing. You are getting briefings on this. You have been briefed. The president elect was briefed on this. Its clear you done believe it. Im asking you why you dont believe it. Number one, i dont have im not in those briefings, first of all. Eventually, i will be. But the second thing im telling you is you have no source, no conclusive source that you are using other than a false article in the New York Times somehow claiming you keep falling to the New York Times. You are ignoring the Washington Post report because you want to deny the rnc aspect. I understand that. Im not. The conclusion had to do the cias assessment do you believe lets clear this up. President elect believe that russia was trying to muddy up and get involved in the election in 2016 . Number one, you dont know it. I dont know it. Theres been no conclusive or specific report to say otherwise. Thats the first thing. The second thing i would tell you is that you dont have any proof that the outcome of the election forget who did the hacking. Do you want to know . Someone did the hacking. Does president elect trump want to know . Does he want to what specific of course we want to know. Theres going to be an investigation. He wants an investigation . I dont know what investigations he wants. We do want to know. What i dont want to do is have a debate with you over an unnamed source that the article said was inconclusive over who haksed and why they hacked. Someone hacked. We dont like that. I dont like it. No one wants it. We want to protect american interests. Its America First. I dont want the dnc hacked. Hacking. Thats my point. You dispute 17 intelligence agencies that have assessed that russia agents were behind this . You dispute this . Chuck, this is insane. In the same article about the 17 agencies, it said it was inconclusive. It was inconclusive about Vladimir Putin, reince. It was not inconclusive that ru theres a difference. I understand why you are trying to parse this. But there is a difference. Do you not believe any of this . I dont know who did the hacking, chuck. The article is based on a lie that the rnc was hacked. So the entire premise of the article is false. The sources are unnamed. The report was inconclusive. I dont want anyone hacked. Okay . The point is though, we need to situation. Then we can make intelligence decisions. You and i can have more intelligent conversation about what to do about it. Reince priebus, we have to leave it there because of time. You bet. Until we meet again. Thanks for coming on. You bet. When we come back, 12 members of congress have seen the full cia assessment. We will hear from the top democrat, one of the 12, adam schiff of california. Before we go to break, we have one final election result from 2016 to louisiana held its Senate Runoff election yesterday to replace david vitor. 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When the white house had intelligence about russia and the election to share with congress, they convened a gong of 12. These are house and senate members. One of those attending the meeting was congressman adam schiff of california. He heard the evidence that russia was trying to tip the scales in Donald Trumps favor. Committee. Welcome to meet the press. Thanks. I know you were listening to my interview with Reince Priebus, the incoming chief of staff. He was denying, was looking for sourced information that would somehow prove this allegation was not ready to accept the conclusions of the intelligence reports that say russia was at least trying to do something with this election. Obviously, the cia went further. What can you share prove something to Reince Priebus to say you are wrong on this . First of all, i thought that interview was breath taking. Theres no doubt that the russians hacked our institutions. You dont have the director of National Intelligence making a Public Statement the way he did in october without there being a broad consensus of all the intelligence agencies. Frankly, i dont know a democrat or republican who has heard the intelligence that would quarrel with those conclusions. Was not china, this wasnt a 400 pound guy in new jersey or anyone else. This was the russians. Second, in terms of what the russians were after, they were after discord and in this they were successful. But it wasnt alone. They had a candidate with proputin, prorussian views who belittled nato, who was willing to potentially remove sanctions on russia and by contrast they candidate very tough on russia and who they blamed as ambassador mcfaul said for the protest, the mass demonstrations against the corruption in the russian elections in 2011. You would have to believe i cant go into the classified information. But you would have to believe that the uniform nature of the hacking and the dumping of information that was damaging to secretary clinton and helpful to donald trump was both the russians didnt know what they were doing to believe that they had no interest in helping one candidate that simply is not credible. I understand that. Let me play devils advocate here. This happened before with intelligence assessments, which is political figures essentially its a form of confirmation bias. They only see the intelligence that supports a point of view they have going into it. Is there any chance here this is confirmation bias on the Intelligence Community in general or on those folks that are interpreting the intelligence . No, i dont think so. I think the circumstantial evidence, which is all i could talk about publically, is so profound that you would really have to believe that to accept Reince Priebuss argument that they arent capable of hacking. The russians have demonstrated they can hack practically any government institution, any private institution. Its not a credible argument. The fact that we have a to disregard the overwhelming evidence on the basis of the russian involvement in the hacking of institutions, tells me this will be a president who will disregard even the best assessments of the Intelligence Community when it doesnt suit his own version of events. That is extraordinarily damaging. I will say one other thing. The reason that this Russian Campaign has so successful is that you have the rare specter president elect willing to give the russians cover. This is effective because the russians can put out on their tv and the sputnik that the president elect of the United States doesnt believe they were involved. That is so extraordinarily beneficial to russian propaganda. It what made this so powerful. And so damaging to us. Let me ask you this. In the Washington Post story, apparently the president wanted information and wanted to have a bipartisan statement about it. Apparently, two republicans and one of them is Mitch Mcconnell, objected to it. What can you say about that allegation in the Washington Post . Well, i can say this. We certainly have had gang of eight and other briefings on this issue. We have had plenty of discussions both before the election and we have had briefings since the election about the russian meddling and there wasnt a bipartisan agreement either before and i think we are seeing some bipartisan interest in investigating thereafter. But i can say this. There was really nothing preventing the administration on its own from being more declaratory in terms of what the intelligence showed. I have an urgent administration to be more forthcoming with the public. I think they should. I think we should work with our european allies to sanction this behavior. You think the decision to not come out as definitively before president obama . I do. I think it was a mistake earlier frankly not to react more forcefully when north korea hacked us. I think those kind of that lack of deterrence invited the russians to meddle and consider they could do this with impunity. I hope we will have a bipartisan joint investigation of the intelligence communities or a Commission Like my colleagues are proposing, this ought to be a nonpartisan issue. This is not about the election. Its about getting good information to the American People about what happened and preventing it and deterring the russians in the future. Adam schiff, i have to leave it there for time. Appreciate you coming on. Coming up, we will have more on this evolving story about russia in the u. S. Election, richl tillerson. Later, someone who made a career of celebrating blue collar workers, mike rowe on why his shows and donald trump have been successful at the same time. 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Not necessarily specifically with hacking the rnc. Theres no evidence of that. But with respect to their involvement, their fingerprint on this election, thats the question. Look, theres two parts to this story. I can see this is why reince is unhappy. The first part was russia and generally creating discord. Everyone can agree that happened. Not everyone is agreeing to that. I understand. But what they are unhappy about and legitimately so is the piece of the story for which there is no evidence this was done to aid donald trump. I spoke to intelligence officials. They got into the dnc site. They took information and obviously distributed it. They got on the rnc system. They werent able the idea this was done to help donald trump, that thats the evidence for this that they didnt put rnc information out, so this is them in favor of trump, thats not the question. The bigger question isnt about whether it impacted the election. Were having a dispute about the fact of russias involvement. Theres a Global Information war going on now. Russia is the principal actor and the most malign actor. We have seen this from the state department for years. Terrorism and infiltration. The soft end is russia today and sputnik. Candidate trump quoted russia todays stories and sputnik stories during the campaign. Part of the idea is to undermine our institutions, undermine democracy, question the election and, in fact, its a victory for russia and putin that here today we are talking about it. Who won . Questioning the election. Thats what they were trying to do. Whats troubling is that to cast aspersions on the cia of office. He is going to have to use the professionals there. Yes, they have made mistakes. They made mistakes but to bring that up right away, you are going to need those professionals. Many of them have died for us. Many of the men and women have done noble things that we may not know about. Of course, they screw up at times. To use this example i dont see theres nothing wrong with them saying they hacked us and yet i won the election. Nobody is saying he wouldnt you have to put thats a broader context. There are people staging recounts. There are people suggesting in the New York Times that maybe he only won this because russia interfered with the election. By the way, what makes more sense . I was struck by representative schiff saying, this just isnt credible. Were saying the russians did this to help elect donald trump, were saying the russians were the only people in the whole world who knew that donald trump was going to win had a possibility of winning this elecon think this. What makes more sense . They did this because they assumed that Hillary Clinton would be the president. This was a way of delegitimizing what they thought would be her presidency. Lets go to Rex Tillerson. It seems an odd time to push this idea. Its very trumpian. Theres something personally about rex that appeals to him. I have talked to people close to it seems a lot for the political system to handle the day after the cia comes out with this assessment, Vladimir Putins buddy. Theres a little indigestion there for the political folks. Can he survive this . I think he can. I think from Donald Trumps perspective, back to your point, he likes this. He likes this pot being stirred the way its being stirred, because he gets to see the meddle of the individuals involved. He gets to measure the sish circumstances. Tillerson is someone he really likes. I dont think this scares him off of tillerson. I think for donald trump, this is an opportunity to double down on that and to double down on the conversation about the russians involvement. But what i would say is Rex Tillerson our diplomacy is not about transactions. Its not about cutting better deals. Our diplomacy is about alliances. We have a candidate who article 5, one for all and all for one. We have a secretary of state in Rex Tillerson who has this personal relationship, which is fine. But if it is just about cutting deals, then thats not what our diplomacy is about. But actually, it is. In a real sense, those relationships are based on transactions. They are but the way the American People see the transactions over the last 15, 20 years has resulted in a lot of bad policy. Over and over ive been state where he is with Foreign Ministers and heads of state. You know what he talks about . Freedom of speech, religion, diversity, tolerance. Those are the issues that we talk about. Its not just about cutting deals. I think whats so important about the secretary of state role is that right now we have got a lot of generals in the administration, which i think is a great thing. They no leadership more than anybody else. We have more respect for the military than anyone else. They will not send people into battle as easily as they need balance. 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He has written a post that has gone viral in which he says its no coincidence that donald trump got elected at the same time that dirty jobs is successful. Welcome to meet the press. Thanks for having me at the grownup table. Its a big day for me. Thanks for not posing. You are in what we want to see you in, no tie. All my suits are rubber. Been about this election in many ways has been about the sort of what feels like the forgotten middle class, blue collar jobs. You wrote, what will that mean you wrote this in your facebook excuse me back in february 15, it seems clear companies are responding to Rising Labor Costs by embracing automation faster than ever. We know what it means. They feel desperate. Yeah. The greatest threat to freedom was total anarchy. The second was total efficiency. Theres a pretty interesting conversation about meaningful work, i think. Honestly, its a bit beyond my pay grade on dirty jobs the big lesson was theres an awful lot of people who are doing really important work who nobody really pays affirmative attention to. That, the conversations that came out of that were really interesting. Now with the benefit of hindsight, somewhat press yent. We were hearing things at the network that were uncannily familiar to the conversations we were hearing around the gop. We didnt have the show on discovery that anybody thought would be a hit. And yet dozens of shows have emanated from that very thing. There are a lot of parallels. When i went to a working class county in michigan, i was talking to a guy that runs a fast growing manufacturing thing. He had this to say to me about the whole exercise of job retraining and what it means for somebody in their 40s. If youve been on this floor doing work and you are 40 years old, you dont want to go do a computer job. You want to make things. Thats part of the problem. You can have thousands of really but the Training Needs to be the vocational. Then there has to be the job openings. We always focus on job retraining. Its always about computers. Its always about its about engineering. Nothing wrong with that. But its almost as if were saying, those other jobs, they are going away. Its okay. Some people want to touch things. People ask me all the time, whats the big takeaway from the show . And there were many. For me, the thing i keep coming back to group, there was a level of Job Satisfaction that was undeniable and surprising. It has to do with the ability to complete a task. People with dirty jobs by and large hate to generalize, they always know how theyre doing every step of the way. We have almost taken that out of work today. Your desk im sure its beautiful, but it probably looks a lot at 5 00 p. M. As it does you touched on this. One of the things that got lost in the campaign is the difference between automation and globalization. Everybody is accusing globalization of the thing that lost our jobs. When i was at time we did a story on a factory in upstate new york. 5,000 people making batteries. Now it had 20 people making even more than it was before. Thats not about people do lose their jobs because of automation, not globalization. Yeah. I wouldnt deny it. I would also say time the thing that gets left out of the conversation is the fact that there are 5. 8 million Jobs Available right now. We have a lot of people out of work and many more out of the work force specifically. 5. 8 million jobs in the skills gap has to tell us something about opportunity. Our enthusiasm for work, our desire to find a job that may not be our Wish Fulfillment but jump into it with both lands and see where it takes us. That these people feel toward their jobs. Job is more than just how you pay your bills and what you are doing for your family and what kid can go to college. Its what you feel when you go to work every day. Somehow i think thats what mr. Trump was able to tell the story to those people saying im going to make America Great again, whether its real or not to bring back some of the manufacturing jobs. He made people feel connected. Thats what a politician does. Emotionally connects with the feelings you are feeling. I think your show shows that. Wonderful life phenomenon where if you look at somebodys job, one of the best ways you can pay an honest attribute is imagine the world they are in without that job. The minute you see he that, the sewage worker, garbage person, all of it gets elevated. But its very much for sale today. Its real. How much of this is our Education System and also our you dont go to Fouryear College that somehow we got rid of vocational training. The smartest people i knew i grew up in a blue collar community. Smartest people, almost all are skilled tradesmen. They knew thats what they wanted to do, were good as as well. You have to be a generalist when you are in that world. The age of the specialist, the generalist gets short farmers need to run drywall and do all of these things. That doesnt take a small brain. 1. 3 trillion in student loans. Were pushing the same path for the most people as though it really is some sort of panacea. The 5. 8 million jobs, 70 dont require the fouryear degree. Somewhere between knowledge and enlightenment, education and basic intelligence, we need a pr campaign for the jobs that actually exist. I want to end on that note. Is, lets celebrate work. Lets celebrate all these jobs, make people feel better about working some of these jobs. Dirty job is a good job. Absolutely. Mike rowe, this was great. Thanks for having me. Hope we can have you back again. I will be back next week. Because if its sunday, its mike rowe. This is a dirty job. Its a different type of dirt. We will be back with end game. We will talk about donald trump has been saying ab even parents need a time out sometimes, especially from communications technology. So why not spend one hour totally unplugged . Read, talk, make art, or whatever. No batteries required. Game. Donald trump has been talking this morning. We have been learning he is still not acknowledging this russian involvement, doesnt believe it. Is there a danger here that they are overdenying . I dont think there is any problem in acknowledging that russia would like to destabilize this country and took actions to do so and to express youre rage about that. Why isnt he doing that . Again, because i think this story as it was prese of whether or not russia was involved, but also the suggestion that somehow that made his election ill legitimate. That is what they are pushing back against. Theres a benefit to them of separating it out. I think they will. I think they will get over this hurdle. They will make their case about as we saw reince do this morning. But i think at the end, they will because the tillerson nomination potentially will force them to. Than anybody, which is to have a president elect go after the cia like this. President s and the cia have had disputes before. It usually doesnt bubble up this public. Nixon had enormous hostility toward the cia. But he knew the cia knew he had been trying to win his election by having a back channel talk with the south vietnamese to stop peace taltalks johnson wan that if do you there deal, will give you a better deal. He never said anything. Obviously, they as i said before, the cia has made mistakes. But they have done extraordinary things. They are professionals. You have to work with them. A lot will be there. What does it do to morale to do this . I hope he pulls back on the cia and mentioning wmb. I think that larger issue we have been nibbling around theres this information threat to the u. S. And a lot of it it . What happened when the berlin wall fell is it was the end of history for us. We retreated. The russians realized, the wall fell without firing a shot. It fell because of the information revolution that the u. S. Pioneered. They started building up. They started building up television stations throughout the periphery. They started all of these places. This is now a threat to us. You dont have to invade a country if you control its information space. Given we have forgotten about the cold war. Thats part of the problem. Not me but others are not john mccain. And not Vladimir Putin. Its important to remember, its a long history. We have an adversary there. This is a direct attempt by what was an adversary, still is, to hack our system. What are you going to do . You have to do something about it. What does the Obama Administration that has been pushing to get into the public about russias involvement, what does it do between now and inauguration of the Incoming Administration . For the Trump Administration once that if obama does something, do they continue that or do they do Something Different . You talked about picking a fight with the cia. Theres a difference between picking the fight with the agency or with the unnamed leadership that is putting out some of this information, which im sure if you are in the trump camp does seem to be highly political to a certain degree. I will leave it there. What a show. What a week. I feel like i say it every week, which im sure we will. The twohour special that i would always love to have, we cant make happen. We will be back next week. Because if its sunday, its brian good morning. This is the todays tmj weather update. Im brian niznansky. Well start you off with snow totals. A fresh blanket of snow, anywhere from 3 to 5 inches much