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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 terms 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 tim...

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...

Tillerson, hes a very prominent fellow. ive been told by people im close to that i really respect that he would be a good secretary of state. heres what hes got to do to convince me. i want him to be briefed by the fbi and the cia about what the russians did in our election and what theyre doing all over the world, particularly helping assad, and i want to hear from him if he believes the russians tried to interfere with our election and trying to destabilize democracies. if he doesnt believe th...

Finger at president-elect trump and what he knew about russias intentions. listen to this. >> theres ample evidence that was known long before the election, and in most cases, long before october, about the trump campaign and russia. everything from -- the -- republican nominee himself calling on russia to hack his opponent. it might be an indication that he was aware and concluded -- based on whatever facts or sources he was -- he had available to him, that russia was involved. >> let use discu...

President-elect trump would join us in this effort. after all, he swears, just like we do, to uphold the constitution and protect us from enemies, domestic and abroad. so this is a part of our duty. this is not doing the american people a favor. this is our job. >> so what should the u.s. do, if the u.s. intelligence community has concluded, and they did conclude what? on october 7, 2016, as you point out, in a statement that clapper, general clapper, head of the, the director of national intell...

In this presidential election? >> well, i dont know, you know, for sure that they did. i mean were hearing that they did. and im a little bit suspicious when i hear statements like, all 17 agencies of the intelligence community. well all 17 dont conduct investigations, particularly cyber investigations. so you have five or six that may have a consensus that probably russia meddled, and it looks like they did. but, you still dont have agreement on what was the motive, why would they do it. you kn...

You heard donald trump said he doesnt buy it necessary hi. you heard intelligence experts, including general clapper, the director of national intelligence saying at the highest levels of the russian government they were hacking into democratic national committee computers and other democratic party institutions, if you will. >> yeah, wolf. i cant understand it. in the intel community, there are hundreds of analysts who have made their career over decades looking at the russians, monitoring and ...

Russians have paid. that has to change. it may have been to benefit of donald trump during the campaign. the moment he crosses putin as inevitably he had have to because putin is not our friend. he may be the subject of damaging dumping of documents and he may find he has a different view of it when he is on the receiving end of the punishment. >> general clapper and jeh johnson wrote a letter, a public statement in early october saying this went to the high egest levels of the russian governmen...

States. whenever theres a void, mother nature hates a void. that void will be filled up and youre seeing russia and china do it, and iran do that. that comes from a lack of leadership. thats why you see america so excited about putting these people in place of leadership. thats why mr. trump is where hes at. he ran a heck of a campaign and just unboundless energy. >> general clapper says theres no doubt the u.s. intelligence community is confident the russian government directed the recent compr...

So thats one of the big questions there. judgment and experience. i think for a military officers who come into the role of national security adviser, we had a number over the years, some very successful military officers, brent scowcroft. general colon powell. the role of the national secured adviser is to integrate military intelligence but diplomacy. in fact, a lot of what donald trump will have to do as president is to succeed as a diplomat around the world. can general flynn make that leap ...