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Buzzfeed made the controversial move last night of publishing a da who claims to be a member of british intelligence. inside the claims are is the russian government is cultivating and supporting and shifting the president-elect for five years, even gaining compromising information about him in an effort to blackmail him. in publishing the documents, buzzfeed acknowledged the claims are unverified and contain obvious errors. >> lets stop right there and we will get donald trumps reaction first. ...

Of the united states himself. now mr. obama doesnt know what the information is. >> but the press report was about them going to the president. >> and it says they never briefed him on it. they appended two pages to the bottom of the intelligence briefing. >> i believe it says they did not brief them on it. >> he said hes not aware of that. >> okay. that concerns me. >> for their part, reuters quotes the kremlin saying they have no compromising information on trump or clinton and says it is tota...

And woke up this morning with the news media dominated by this potentially explosive story that broke last night. it was about donald trump being the target of compromising information that the soviets had on him personally and financially, and more than that, that there was some indication of continued contact between team trump and the russians. this was apparently a kind of addendum that was added to a briefing given concurrently but separately to both president obama and donald trump. our se...

From the partisan context. i would argue for a commission like on 9/11. to the russians, look, they will push right up to the point that you make it painful for them to do so. of course, we have tools at our disposal, and of course, they should be made to feel some pain. >> what does that mean, because vladimir putin cackles at commissions. when you say retaliate and we have the tools, what does a retaliation against vladimir putin look like? >> you could imagine a lot of different things. if th...

Disturbing. i strongly condemn any such efforts. i agree with senator schumer, chairman mccain, burr and others. this cannot be a partisan issue. >> peter, what do you make of mitch mcconnell coming out and really putting some distance between him and the president-elect. >> the director of intelligence said they believe the russians were involved in compromising information, basically accessing illegally the e-mails, hacking them. so we know thats the basis. the question now really and mitch mc...

He has the keys to the kingdom there, he has some leverage. no doubt about it. >> isnt it understandable that this administration or any government official would have a hard time trusting the word of edward snowden, whether he still has compromising information or not? >> i think the important thing is that any discussion between edward snowden and the united states not rely on trust on either side. i think both have reason not to trust the other, but be built upon verifiable agreements that do...

Entertain the idea or have discussions about granting clemency, whats at the stake for the u.s. if they were to seriously entertain that, this administration were to seriously entertain that, extend that kind of reprieve? >> what the government has to decide is whether its worth it to get this stuff back. ben says its not in the hands of the former kgb, successors of the kgb or the chinese officials. where are all the things that snowden took with him illegally? i dont know the answer to that. i...

Wolfe received anonymous e-mails from someone claiming to be in nude -- in possession of nude photos. the beauty queen talked about how the hacker broke into her bedroom web cam and offered advice to teens. chang your passwords paunch be caution on the internet. >> you have to be so care what you do online but a you never know what people can we doing to you online. social media is a huge thing now days so its very important to -- >> wolfe says the suspect tried to extort her to ensure the photo...

Place. they double the size of the u.s. economy over the next 20-years. they are set to expire at the end of this year. it would be a short term one they say short term pain is necessary for the long-term gain. >> definitely a concern there. google is going to be warning customers about possible attacks from outside countries. >> literally if you are a google user you will see on your computer a banner that says warning we believe there is an attack on your system. you should protect yourself no...

Position that the justice department misled the courts. in fact, the surveillance application says, and this is a quote, the fbi believes that page has been collaborating and conspiring with the russian government. so page was on one of the sunday shows today and he was asked point blank if any russian official ever talked with him during the 2016 election about lifting sanctions on russia or whether the russians had compromising information on hillary clinton. well, page said no one ever approa...