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Weve seen in this case. >> general clapper. well take you there live if we get some pictures from that where, plus, the lesson every new president learns. some campaign promises are hard to keep. the path to obama care repeal is hardly a clear one. mr. trumps pledge to make mexico pay for a new border wall now in serious doubt. >> mr. trump has always been very clear nothing has changed. he is building the wall. mexico will pay for it. he ran on that. you can take that promise. he will keep that...

He won. he is the 45th president of the united states, and he should use today as an opportunity i think to move on, and also, to praise intelligence professionals who he is going to need and rely on as his own troops to defend the country. >> and they are his information base. i mean he can argue with them and thats in fact a healthy thing, thats what former. s have done, but he needs to meet with them and engage and take their information and he was referring back to the wmd mistakes made 13 y...

>> thats a real risk, and thats what was voiced yesterday in that senate hearing that if approximate it may dispairage the intelligence community, how is that going to make the intelligence community look in terms of its credibility, the eyes of the public, and some of the senator from missouri, the democrat, but also that james clappers voice as well. theres a difference between healthy skepticism and disparaging the community, and it doesnt seem like donald trump is really changing his tune. i...

Going to get the huge backlash because this was a central campaign promise. >> a key point because i just -- i made light of it there. we have to have thick skins in our business, and committee cant feel too important. he is going to call us dishonest every day even when we tell you the absolute truth. you can maybe the call yourself. you have access to the internet and all that stuff. to your key point, the trump transition team asked them, according to house republicans on capitol hill. heres ...

Dont to. everybody is hacking into everybody. we should protect ourselves. understand how people get information, how they steal it, get into our e-mails and we must protect ourselves. we can beat a dead horse and try to blame -- had has to do with different policy incht. >> the horse aint dead yet because donald trump wont agree that the russians have helped. >> under oath lied to us. do i have skepticism toward people like julian assange, sure. i take it all with a grain of salt. james clapper...

Devastated by this war. >> to be continued. i know were out of time. is there more public service in your future? >> its in my blood. its in my blood. i dont intend to pull back. im going to do a lot of different things which im sort of thinking about still, but i look forward to continuing very much, im committed to these issues. im going to continue to speak out on them. >> thank you for your service. >> thank you so much. >> the secretary of state has public service in his blood since he was ...

The threat that it poses to the united states of america. now hopefully in todays meeting, that will be made crystal clear to the president-elect. >> we know its going to be made crystal clear. james clapper made it very, very clear that he is going to make it clear, but -- >> as long as the president-elect is accepting of the information that is being made available to him. >> what if he doesnt? >> let answer not get into -- >> how damaging already is it? clapper said healthy skepticism about t...

The future to go down this path because their activities are being uncovered. >> but will a trump administration, will president trump take that advice and finally accept what is called overwhelming evidence of russia hacking and other meddling, or will the new president stick with this? >> i know a lot about hacking, and hacking is a very hard thing to prove, so it could be somebody else, and i also know things that other people dont know, and so they cannot be sure of this situation. >> fascin...

That the russian involved was there and come prehennive social media, fake news media, a host of things. this is something that should be no longer debated. how do we respond and do it effectively. >> he intends to trump spokesperson denies that. spokesperson telling nbc there something behind the move. fired outgoing director james clapper. we saw testifying. you think trump has it in for clapper. >> general clapper is retiring within days. this is about the institutional

Though he hasnt been sworn in yet and wont be sworn in for two more weeks but this is sort of the first national security situation, maybe even kripsis where his intelligence leadership the nonpartisan intelligence professionals are coming to him and saying mr. president, we have a situation not only of something that happened by russia but as james clapper said yesterday is ongoing. it continues. its something that will be a feature of russian efforts to undermine united states political system...