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Connecticut. he joins us now. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. the breaking news from cnn tonight, russian spies have increased their efforts to gather intelligence in the u.s. they feel emboldened to do so, we are told, because of the lack of retaliation to the 2016 interference from both the trump and obama administrations. youre on the house intelligence committee. have you seen evidence of this? >> well, very havent seen specific evidence of it but its not at all surprising,...

Hes into his fourth u.s. president. he famously brought his labrador into a meeting with angela merkel knowing she has a phobia about dogs. >> with all the talk about is he going to bring up the election. the president just said that nobody knows for sure who was behind the election hack despite the fact that the intelligence agencies were quite firm in their conclusions. its hard to see how he could bring it up with putin, tell him to cut it out. make sure it never happens again, which we know ...

Change. i think well be resigned thats not going to happen. if someone gets under his skin, hes going to lash out in personal terms and not regret it and like beth said, its a small fraction but with his base, it does not hurt him. as a matter of fact, they believe he is aggrieved and this is the right thing for him to do. >> good to see you, heidi. thank yo s so much. president trump and vladmir putin yet to come face-to-face. the two will have their first meeting next week. is the election h...

They prefer fixing obama care. what should democrats do? >> i think democrats cannot sign onto anything thats going to cut all these people and kill obamacare. senator collins and senator cassidy have a bill that doesnt have all these tax cuts and cuts in it. if you started with something like that instead of this thing you might get some democrats working with them. you cant have a bipartisan bill thats premised on destroying obamacare. thats the choice republicans are going to have to make. th...

Steps were taken by the obama administration in those last few months to try to retaliate or respond the election hack and wha whatever the trump administration has done, nothing has worked. they would steam be unimpeded and the responsess to date have been ineffective and if thats the case, we have to rethink what our cyber strategy is. >> we were just reporting a week or two ago that there was fake news that influenced james comeys decision about the hillary clinton investigation as well. >> a...

Fake news really influencing public policy, world diplomacy and threatening military confrontation, and that is at a level far beyond anything weve been talking about when we talk about fake news here in the united states. but the other point is if this, again, can be traced back to russian government hackers -- and thats a key point -- it is also a vivid illustration that whatever steps were taken by the obama administration in those last few months to try to retaliate or respond to the electio...

Kelly. how do you know russia is behind this? there is no finger print, a 3-year-old could have hacked this and you wouldnt be able to find out. ironically just yesterday, vladimir putin sort of bragged about the fact it might be patriotic russians who are behind this. just not the government. is there some certainty as to who hacks anything? attribution is very, very hard. if you dont have the exact human behind the key board, youre doing a lot of inference and guessing and putting a lot of cir...

Election hack. kislyak was quite upset about it, complained to the state department. then he has the conversation with flynn. and flynn apparently tells him well revisit this, reassures him, and putin the next day decides not to retaliate, which surprised everybody. that was -- thats what ultimately flynns account got him fired. but the critical question we dont know is was he authorized to have that conversation by president trump? did he report to president trump after the fact about that conv...

December 29th with kislyak, which was the day president obama imposed sanctions for the election hack. kislyak was quite upset about it, complained to the state department. then he has the conversation with flynn, and flynn apparently tells him, well revisit this, reassures him, and putin the next day decides not to retaliate, which surprised everybody. that was -- thats what ultimately -- flynns act got him fired. but the critical question, we dont know, is was he authorized to have that conver...

Fact that they prepared a profile on the russian ambassador for flynn, they are unsure as to whether or not mike flynn ever bothered to read it. so, interesting reporting from "the washington post." after "the washington post" posted theirs, the associate press also went live with their scoop tonight on mike flynn. theyre reporting that the obama administration was so concerned about what they could see of these ties between mike flynn and the russian government, that they decided to delay telli...