us in my business, several hundred of us, go to the aspen security forum in aspen, colorado. the director of national intelligence spoke about this. that is a public forum that includes journalists. as we just discussed, october 7th, intelligence officials discussed this publicly. every president of the united states through decades, not after they become president, but after they become the nominee of the party, start receiving intelligence briefings on major issues. china, iran. in this case, a classic intelligence classic element of those intelligence briefings for the nominee of the republican party would be russian activity. once the president-elect becomes president, he has the authorization to receive daily intelligence briefings from the same people who spoke publicly about russian meddling. i don t know what to say, anderson. it was both public, and the president had the right to receive anything he wanted privately, starting when he became the republican nominee. i don t ge
administration should have done more. yet, there is no indication, as you went through in the last hour, and as many people have reported on, that this administration has moved to do anything to address the underlying concerns. put aside for a minute the question of collusion and obstruction of justice and all of those kind of ancillary investigations. right. the question of what is this administration doing to directly address the russian activities and to prevent them in the future seems to be nothing at this point. right. every intelligence head said, look, it is going to happen again. we re already seeing that in europe and elsewhere. thanks to everybody. ahead, we ll hear from a republican on the house intelligence committee and get his take on the russian hack and the ongoing russian threat. does he see any action by the president? now that the president said he didn t tape conversations with james comey, we ll talk about fallout with our legal and political panel next.