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Nations security which must be met with bipartisan and universal condemnation, consequences and correction. i believe the most appropriate means to conduct the inquiry is the creation of a special select committee in the senate. this issue and the solutions of the problems exposed spill across the jurisdictional divides of the standing committees on armed services, intelligence, foreign relations, homeland security and judiciary. failing that, our committee must take on as much of this task as w...

Hearings like this, and the public discussion of this issue, is so important. because we are not going to be able to prevent this altogether, but we need to have our people understand when they are being manipulated. would you agree with that conclusion? >> absolutely, that is why i felt so strongly about the statement in october. >> thank you. >> just to follow-up, general clapper, during the cold war, we had a strategy and we had radio free europe and we had the voice of america. senator graha...

>> the chinese? >> in cyber hacking -- >> the chinese or the russians? >> the russians. >> yeah. >> the russians. i just dont accept that it had any impact whatsoever on this election, and thats what i am absolutely in agreement with president-elect trump that this is the attempt of the democrats and certainly barack obama to de-legitimatize his election and thats whats coloring this entire discussion today. >> because general clapper would not say if, in fact, its not the responsibility of the ...

Cyber command, and doing so through a deliberate conditions-based approach while continuing to leverage the shared capabilities and synergies. finally, we must redouble our efforts to deepen partnerships between government and the private sector and between the u.s. government and our allies. we must continue to seek help from american industry, the source of much of the worlds greatest technology talent in innovation to find cyber defense solutions, build resiliency into our critical infrastruc...

Witnesses start filing in and take their seats. nbcs hans nichols is outside of the hearing now. hans, what should we expect in the next couple of minutes? >> theres an important dynamic to watch here. that is at the witness table. at the center, you see james clapper, the head of the dni. to his left is an admiral, admiral michael rogers. clapper wanted to fire rogers about a month and a half ago. at the same time, michael rogers has met with donald trump, potentially to be the head of the dni,...

The other thing thats bothering me about this discussion is, quote, the politicization of intelligence. the director of the cia is a career cia official. the director of national intelligence, james clapper, who were going to hear from in a few minutes is a 50-year veteran, non-partisan, worked for democratic and republican administrations. to charge james clapper with being political doesnt pass the straight face test and im tired of hearing that. >> senator king, its jonathan capehart here. fo...

Influenced the election or had managed or had succeeded. they just said there was this attempt. >> reporter: right, this attempt. and we have learned they are going to include a motivation in their new report set to come out -- or be made public next week. i do think that this is really the sticking point that you point to. and even the republicans who have been very hawkish on russia, they are not calling into question the outcome of the election in any way. thats not what senators mccain and g...

A continuing discussion as there should be about whether we are appropriately staffing and organizing the office of national intelligence. thats one thing. but if you are going to make rash cuts without analysis, if you are going to propose restructuring the cia before you even know how its operating, that strikes me as something thats being done in response to the fact in a the intelligence community is sticking to their guns about the russian hacking. and if thats where they are coming from, i...

With bipartisan and universal condemnation, consequences, and correction. i believe the most appropriate means is the creation of a special select committee in the senate, since this shall and the solutions to the problems it has exposed spill across the jurisdictional divides of the standing committees on armed services, intelligence, foreign relations, homeland security, and judiciary. failing that, our committee must take on as much of this task as we can. and i again commend the chairman for...

Security adviser, michael flynn, was ousted by james clapper. so there are some tensions there. donald trump, though, clearly, starting to realize hes got a pr problem in this regard, tweeting just moments ago, steph, let me read you part of his tweet. he says, the media lies to make it look like i am against intelligence, when in fact, i am a big fan. theres no doubt hes going to be monitoring those hearings on capitol hill very closely, and it anticipated were going to get a lot more tweets as...