Kellyanne conway had to say about it today. That cannot be verified. Thats a classified briefing. We should all be increasingly confirmed that we have, quote, Intelligence Officials, divulging information unsourced, unnamed to the rest of us. Just to smear the President Elect of the United States we now have Intelligence Officials divulging information theyre sworn not to divulge. We should be very concerned about that. I dont even think this is fake news. I think its just fake. I would take the news word right out of it. Reporter so what were seeing from donald trump and his advisers is pushback against the Intelligence Community but taking issue with the underlying allegations that cnn has not cooperated and have not been reporting. And reince priebus, trumps chief of staff, said he asked donald trump directly about some of these underlying allegations. Donald trump apparently told him they were complete garbage but
in more colorful language. You can bet this will come up at the Pres
have compmad on trump, it s complete fiction. with regards to whether they have it on hillary clinton, he said something very similar. we have no compromat on clinton. the kremlin and the russian president tried to rebuild relationships and the russian people and for the world in the interest of stability and security, all of this, chris, very similar language to what we have been hearing over and over again from the kremlin since the allegations have hacking emerged months and months ago. as far as the kremlin is concerned, there s more than enough plausible deniability. this is their story and they re sticking to it. evan, now that we know from your reporting and carl s, among other colleagues, that this information was included in the briefing from the intelligence community to donald trump and to president obama, now what? now where does the investigation
it. reporter: it s pretty extraordinary, chris. what we re seeing is president-elect donald trump directly quoting the kremlin spokesperson, dimitri peskov, who told reporters that this entire report is a witch hunt. he described it, quote, as a clear attempt to harm our bilateral relationship. the fabrication of such lies in terms of the previous open part of the report and this one which is a comparable lie, it s called pulp fiction in english. peskov also went on to address the allegations that russia had been collecting compromad, an age-old or decades-old technique that the russian kgb and fsb has used which is essentially collecting compromising information on potentially powerful people that could be used ostensibly for blackmail purposes. he said no, the kremlin does not
confirmation hearing. this is one of the more consequential appointments in american history right now. reporter: fellow senator cory booker will testify against sessio sessions. on tz multiple protests broke out against the alabama senator over old allegations of racism which sessions addressed head on and strongly denied. as a southerner who actually saw discrimination and have now doubt it existed in a systematic and powerful and negative way, i know that was wrong. i know we need to do better. reporter: sessions breaking away from some of the president-elect s controversial statements, including trump s campaign call for a ban on all muslims entering the u.s. i have no belief and do not support the idea that muslims as a religious group should be denied admission to the united states. reporter: trump s vow to
it was russia. the president-elect strongly disagrees with that, has done so consistent consistently. raising questions on why he would be so intent on sheltering russia from responsibility that seems to be known as a consensus among the intelligence communities. how do you explain that? i think since the time of his briefing recently, he s acknowledged it, in fact, happened. i think what he said is it didn t have any influence. he has never said the intel community is right, i was wrong, russia is responsible for this. he said russia, china, south korea, they all are trying to hack us. it s an issue. people in his transition team say the same thing. they won t say in a simple statement, yep, intel community is right, russia did it. how do you explain that? well, my understanding, chris, and perhaps i m wrong, is he has accepted the findings that the russians attempted to