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And the russians. and weve done that in the past. so just to foot-stomp admiral rogers point. but i think there is a threshold of behavior thats just unacceptable. and somehow that has to be conveyed. >> i am out of time. on behalf of all the american people, we want to thank you. you have dedicated your lives to keeping us safe. and were incredibly grateful for it. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you for you and the ranking member for holding this hearing. i also ...

Intelligence, james clapper, trump tweeting "the intelligence briefing on russian hacking was delayed until friday. perhaps more time needed to build a case. very strange clm. u.s. officials dispute trumps claim that there was any delay. the president-elect continuing his tweet storm. julian assange said, "a 14-year-old could have hacked podesta. why was dnc so careless? also said russians did not give him the info. very different from trumps 2010 stance on wikileaks after after publishing thous...

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Donald trump and the u.s. intelligence community. cnn sara murry is outside trump tower in new york city for us. sara, trump himself clearly is escalatesing the battle. >> reporter: well, thats right, wolf. its not just a rift between donald trump and the u.s. intelligence community. it is a rift now between donald trump and prominent leaders of the republican party as the president-elect appears more likely at this point to align himself with wikileaks founder julian assange who insifrts he did...

Ourselves of what the intelligence was showing before the administration was willing to do so, and we did our best to keep the administrations feet to the fire. at the same time, what really made this effective was not the administration not saying enough but the fact that one of the candidates, donald trump, effectively gave the russians cover by denying that they were involved. you can imagine if that had been mitt romney or had been john mccain and they were the beneficiary of russian meddlin...

Replace it with to get the relief to the american family as quickly as possible. >> donald trump has spent ours pouri poring over cabinet picks. >> sara murray, thank you so much. this morning the director of national intelligence. retired general james clapper, submitted his letter of resignation effective january 20th, 2017, to president obama. general clapper oversees all the intelligence agencies, the ones doing indispensable work in trying to snuff out potential terrorist plots. it was ex...

Employee core, you have the u.s. military, there are people who certainly can take over. there will be flawless continuity of government, clearly, but the new president is going to want to get his own people in there and thats what this resignation really signals, the change is coming. carol? >> barbara starr live from the pentagon, thanks so much. lets bring in cnns military analyst, retired lieutenant general mark hertling. good morning. >> how you doing today, carol? >> im fine. im just tryin...

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