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Election. it seems to be that the russians were doing it alone or -- well, alone. there was no room and no wiggle room here. all russia, all the time. it doesnt appear that anyone else was doing it. that was the consensus view. michael goodwin says be very careful of that sort of consensus. michael, good to have you. what do you make of this? >> theres something fishy about the whole thing. this rush to judgment, this perfect conclusion which just happens to support this excuse that this is why ...

>> ryan, tailing off that john mccain said this morning the president doesnt have an expansive strategy when it comes to handling cyber attacks. how do you foresee donald trump handling that. >> the first step is to recognize an important fact, he may have been the beneficiary of this cyber attack and which explains his reluctance to admit it happened and admit that the intentions of the russians were indeed to help him, which is the consensus view of the intelligence community now. come january...

Candidates who were involved in the race here. im sure what president obama felt is they get to the bottom of this, they bring the information together and a serious information would follow. so i dont know all the moves made by this administration, but i can understand why they didnt want to try to tip the scales on this presidential race. >> do you think the alleged russian interference which is the consensus view that it was russia of the various intelligence agencies, there seems to be prett...

>> well, you have to take care. with the exception of jim comeys statement 11 days before the election, you really tried to take care of the last month of the election not to tip the balance one way or the other. that isnt fair to the candidates who were involved in the race here. im sure what president obama felt is they get to the bottom of this, they bring the information together and a serious information would follow. so i dont know all the moves made by this administration, but i can under...

There are leaks, very unfortunate leaks, what should concern us as americans. leaks there a confidential closed door house intelligence committee meeting where people are leaking, cia is leaking, somebody in the house is leaking and the fbi is coming back and saying theres not a consensus view, its, quote, fuzzy and ambiguous, its not at all clear. yet people are supposed to be led to believe that somehow this caused the election result. we know what caused the election result. we know why she l...

Mitch mcconnell calling for congressional investigations into allegations that the russian government was behind hacking that the fbi believes was to affect the election. more from pamela brown who joins us now. what are you hearing from u.s. intelligence officials? >> reporter: weve learned, anderson, that intelligence officials within the cia now are growing increasingly confident that russia was actually right to help donald trump win the election by undermining hillary clinton. you know ther...

Growing increasingly confident that russia was actually right to help donald trump win the election by undermining hillary clinton. you know there was that october letter with the several intelligence agencies saying that russia was trying to sew chaos within the election. this is a shift in the assessment. and weve learned from our sources that people within the intelligence community were actually close to assessing that russia was trying to help donald trump. and then new intelligence came to...

>> is he going to attempt -- what russias role was? >> he wont interfere with an investigation. hes the president of the united states. the legislature can do what it wants. lets make very clear that the cia in this case put out a press release, there is no report for you and me to read. there are leaks, very unfortunate leaks, what should concern us as americans. leaks there a confidential closed door house intelligence committee meeting where people are leaking, cia is leaking, somebody in the...

The russian hackers, and theyre trying to just make that call out to the electors. i dont think its going to change the outcome, but i do think theyre trying to make this pitch and theyre basing it off the fact that lawmakers back in september -- they were criticizing the obama administration for not taking action on looking into the russian hacking. >> you had reince priebus, the white house chief of staff incoming, say this when asked about all of this back and forth this weekend. >> the russi...

Thats very, very troubling. >> you know, matt, john bolton, rumored to be secretary of state, maybe possibly deputy secretary of state, he says that this russian hack would be a false flag. listen to this. >> we have to know the facts here and its not at all clear to me, just viewing this from the outside, that this hacking into the dnc and rnc computers was not a false flag. i believe its been politicized to a degree. >> if that was the case, no evidence leading to that yet, isnt that even more...