every president of the united states through decades, not after they become president but after they become nominee, start receiving intelligence briefings, china, iran, in this case, a classic element of those intelligence briefings for the nominees of the republican party would be russian activity. once the president-elect becomes president, he has the authorization to receive daily intelligence briefings from the same people who spoke publicly about russian meddling. i don t know what to say, anderson. it was public and the president had the right to receive anything privately when he became the nominee. shawn, does it take senmake you that the president of the united states, given all the high level concern, one hopes in the white house, but certainly in congress about a future hacking that there would have been a complete review of this by the president. it seems like he s just learning about this from the washington
the president of the united states would not, at this point, you know, be given all the high-level concern, one hopes in the white house, but certainly zonk, of future hacking, that there would be a complete review of this by the president? it seems he s just learning of this by the washington post. absolutely not. phil is absolutely right. the president has every had every opportunity to understand what was going on here. i think what s been more startling than anything, from my inter specti perspective, and i ve talked to my former colleagues in the intelligence community, the president has not demonstrated a level of curiosity about this. as i ve saidsome m ti sommany t president s most important job is making sure he can protect this country, defend this country and he s on top of our national security issues. without looking at what happened with regard to russia s interference, i don t know how he can do that. phil is right, there is no way the president didn t know about
lens of this hacking and did the russians help him? did the russians tip the election? there are a lot of people who don t like trump who are calling him, you know, a russian proxy of some sort or too close to putin or whatever, or putin s choice. it s going to hurt him in anything he does, and even tillerson, if he gets in, the fact that if he s secretary of state and he has financial ties to russian oil, which means putin, the whole administration, this is going to be a cloud over them for a very, very long time. i don t see any way out of it. steve, is it possible that by doubting russia s involved you re encouraging future hacking by raising questions and saying it s a really hard thing to figure out and computers are inherently unsafe? i m not sure that it necessarily discourages future hacking. what has happened is in terms of
the intelligence community, what kind of an impact do you think that has for once he becomes president and his relationships with the intelligence community? well, i think it s debilitating, anderson. anything he does with russia is going to be looked through the lens of this hacking and did the russians help him, did the russians tip the election. i mean, there s a lot of people that don t like trump that are calling him you know, a russian proxy of some sort or too close to putin or whatever or putin s choice. it s going to hurt him in anything he does and even tillerson, if he gets in, the fact if he s secretary of state and he has financial ties to russian oil which means putin, the whole administration, this is going to be a cloud over them for a very, very long time. i don t see any way out of it. steve, does it is it possible that by doubting that russia s involved, you re actually encouraging future hacking by sort of raising questions about him just kind of