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President-elect this week. you heard that there is more confidence, according to the officials there, the dni, clapper and admiral rogers that russia was behind some of the hacking around the u.s. election. and they are going to lay out the specifics there. they will lay out a motivation you heard clapper say. now, what you are not seeing is that specifics laying out at this hearing. i thought it was also interesting the questioning of senator john mccain about julian assange and whether he shou...

They are instruments that you can see, feel, touch, measure, weaponry. weve had demonstration a long time ago of the impact of nuclear weaponry. and that is what creates both the physical substance of deterrents as well as the psychology. and the problem with the cyber domain its not -- it is not -- doesnt have those physical dimensions that you can measure, see, feel and touch as we do with nuclear deterrents. >> bill: two major headlines watching that hearing for the past 55 minutes. cybersecu...

The department of homeland security, u.s. cyber command to assure the department of defense and f.b.i. in its relationship with the private sector. the biggest frustration to me is speed, speed, speed. we have got to get faster and more agile. and so for me at least within my span of control, im constantly asking the team what can we do faster and more agile? how do we organize ourselves. what makes the most sense? we cant be bound by history and tradition here. we have to be willing to look at ...

Committee. i appreciate the offer to be here today. i will turn the microphone over to admiral clapper. before stepping down of eight years of pentagon service in a few weeks, i want to thank >> im sure youll regret not having that opportunity again. >> it will be nice to be skiing a little bit in february, thats for sure. but having said that, since i am just a few weeks from stepping down i do want to thank this committee for its partnership and i want to thank director clapper and admiral rog...

Ready to take the helm january 20th. >> martha: he will meet with those top intelligence officials including john brennan and clapper will be there tomorrow and director comey and trump tower. >> bill: mike huckabee joins us. ill ask the question and get out of the way. whats the effect of hearings like this on the american public do you believe? >> very little because most of the american public they just dont believe the russians impacted the outcome of the election. even if its proven they ha...

Make it more expensive for the normal person who has already been given the shaft by obamacare and washington the problem is theyll put the republican logo on these problems. >> martha: well see how much the clown calling on both sides get anybody anywhere at this point. well see you next time. >> bill: story of the morning, john mccain in the room chair of this committee on senate foreign relations and -- senate armed services committee set to begin now and set to convene a hearing on foreign c...

But -- >> the way i would phrase it is i think clearly an integrated approach is a key component of our ability to move ahead here. i would say in the government, in the private sector, there is no particular one slice where that is not applicable. >> thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. general clapper you responded to the chairman in october you and the director of security concluded that the russian government interfered in the election. that is also today the view for the record ...

Now in europe as europe prepares for elections, is that a fair assumption? >> it is. >> thank you. yesterday the wall street journal indicated that the president-elect is considering changes to the intelligence community. have you at all as the experts in this field been engaged in any of these discussions, deliberations, advice? >> no, we have not. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we heard this morning that the news media was characterizing this as a hearing on russian hacking and actu...

General clapper, i have to mention the name mr. assange has popped up and i believe that he is one who is responsible for publishing names for individuals that work for us that put their lives in direct danger, is that correct? >> yes, he has. >> do you think there is any credibility we should attach to this individual? >> not in my view. >> not in your view. admiral rogers? >> i second those comments. >> thank you. for the record, on october 7th the homeland security and office of director of n...

Politicized. weve had the iraq war, the mistakes there. we had benghazi and suddenly the party that has been attacking our intelligence trying to prevent people actually in the nsa from collecting good intelligence to present themselves as the defenders of the intelligence community is just incredible. >> im glad all this is happening. the idea that especially to hear a democrat like cleare mccaskill praising the c.i.a. this is a new one for the democratic party. the idea that the intelligence c...