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From u.s. persons and institutions including from u.s. political organizations. goes on to say its intended to interfere with the u.s. election process, quote, such activity is not new to moscow. russians have used similar tactics across europe and eurasia. based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts that only russias senior most officials could have authorized these activities, general clapper, those are still operable and correct statements? >> yes, chairman, mccain. they are. as i ind...

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 innovating, to find cyberdefense solutions, build resiliency into our critical infrastructure systems, and strengthen our deterrents. with our internatio...

So on some level, it seems like he would be trying to win donald trump over? >> potentially. we know he met. we know he met with donald trump back in november at the trump tower. we know that the obama administration wanted to dismiss him. its very complicated why they wanted to dismiss him. what weve reported at nbc is that they didnt like his response on isis. there have been security breaches at the nsa. theres an entire other overlaying issue here. >> hans, i need to stop you, because john m...

Benefits from the way donald trump has been treating the intelligence community? this is the response. take a listen. >> tre is an important distinctn here between healthy skepticism, which policy makers, to include possible see maker number one should always have for intelligence. but i think there is a difference between skepticism and disparagement. >> it would certainly sound like he believes that disparagement has been whats happening here as of late. whats your take on the president-elects...

Condemnation. consequences and correction. i believe the most appropriate means to conduct the inquiry is the creation of a select committee in the senate. this issue and the solutions to the problems it exposes spill across the divide of the standing committees on armed services, homeland security and judiciary. failing that, our committee must take on as much of this task as i can and i commend the chairman for his commitment to do so. im pleased and grateful that his efforts will be extended ...

His ear is mike flynn. and mike flynn doesnt necessarily have the same views about those great americans in the intelligence community that you do. hes got some bad blood. >> well, i know he does. theres some background between he and jim clapper and maybe thats part of the problem today. i just dont know. but i hope and believe that the president-elect is going to go out to langly, to go to the various headquarters of these agencies, meet these people, start to listen to them. and build up a le...

Here that is already in unprecedented territory. i know hes maybe met with one or another of the intelligence community, but the fact that hes not had any organized sit-down with the community leaders and hes, what, 12 days away from a -- his swearing in, thats unprecedented. go back and look at when president obama, president bush, president clinton, push 41, they sat down with the intelligence community early, early on in their transition to make sure they realized how dangerous the world is a...

Hacking or if there were other entities that hacked. wolf, building out that full picture, was it russia plus one other bad actor or two others? where were they located? what were the algarhythms. what was the tipping? all of this is information that i, for one, would like to know. >> because -- well, you talk about bad actors in the statement that the director of national intelligence, general clapper, put out together with the secretary of homeland security, they did say the recent disclosures...

Intelligence agencies that hes been challenging. we expect the top leaders, jim cramer comey, head of the fbi, james clapper head of dni, mike rogers head of nsa just a few of the leaders who will be at this meeting. and for the first time, they will present to donald trump the full picture of why the united states believes russia is to blame for the election hacks. >> well see once again how he emerges from that meeting, what he says, what he tweets. >> there is a lot of hope. hope in the intel...

Vote and you want to delay it until they get the kind of in tell briefing there pell is talking about. but general clapper issued a statement on friday that there will be no briefing of congress or the electors until, quote, the review is complete. the one that the president asked for. in the coming weeks. so in erm its of delaying -- in terms of delaying the vote tomorrow, do you give up? >> no i dont give up. but it is last minute right now. i came out with this last week with hope there was t...