Wall, paul. And the threats. Hes been terrific. Now if he ever goes against me, i wont say that, okay . When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. In 37 days donald trump will become president of these United States. We have breaking news tonight. Two Senior Intelligence officials tell nbc news that russian president Vladimir Putin was involved in efforts to disrupt the u. S. President ial election. That conclusion is based on intelligence from diplomatic sources and others including spies working for americas allies. That comes on top of growing consensus in the Intelligence Community in the u. S. That russia was behind multiple large scale attacks on Democratic Institutions and operatives producing fodder for countless embarrassing and politically damaging stories at the height of the president ial election. The in the just had amazing reporting on the alleged scope of the russia Cyber Attacks which targeted the Democratic National Committee Chairman po
Destruction. This is threatening a feud between the top agencies and the President Elect white house. Were getting phew reaction from moscow. Well get to that in a moment. Lets bring in eugene scott and tom lobianco. Good morning. The strategy behind this statement. Just three sentences. Unsigned. What what is the the calculation here from the trump folks . Its a continuation of Donald Trumps message during the campaign that he believes he knows more than the Intelligence Community. Thats a hard sell to make at this point, given that we know he only is getting about once a week president Daily Briefs Gnat would give him more information about National Security globally. That statement is inaccurate. These are not the same people that were heading the departments when the Bush Administration was in place. This is new information and new revelations about what is happening abroad. Tom, i talk t about the
possibility that this would cause a feud between the Intelligence Community and the
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succeeded in influencing the outcome of the u.s. election. president obama has ordered a fuel review of the role in the election. there s now bipartisan support in the senate for some type of investigation. joining me national security reporter ken delany. and i guess my first response to this story was how could they possibly know this? so it seems, you know, explosive to say that putin was personally supervising this, but this is two intelligence officials off the record. there s some sort of grain of salt i always attach t anything, you know, anonymous from the intelligence community. how could they possibly know this? that s certainly a fair question, chris. thanks for having me, by the way. the short answer is we don t exactly know. but we know or were told that they are reviewing this information with high confidence. and we re told it s coming from
fuel review of russia s involvement or interference in the election. even if something is found, that may be where it ends. thank you both. thank you. we re getting reaction from the kremlin this morning. jill doherty. former cnn moscow bureau chief joining us live. jill, always good to see you. i understand you received a text there the kremlin spokesman dmitri pet kof. what did he say? what the russians have beeen saying all along, essentially. prove it. he says they re not new conclusions. seems like naked blaming. no evidence to be based on. he says it looks to be an attempt to influence the president-elect with a certain negative image of our country. the foreign minister said the same thing. we the russians have asked for