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>> at a minimum, this report shows the man who released the e-mails hacked by the russians met with the man who ran donald trumps campaign and had longstanding ties to russia. at a crucial time, again, before the e-mails came out. thats a minimum. now maybe you want the maximum. well, the maximum legal theory we hear would suggest that the head of trumps campaign could coordinate either the hack itself, or the way it was deployed, with wikileaks, against the domestic political opponent in the un...

That you just referenced. >> it so we knew that there was some kind of communication going on because it would take people in the american political system and in this campaign particularly to say, drop the wikileaks now, get them out there because we can distract the press from the really horrible video of trump admitting to sexual assault. >> it would seem to some that hillary clinton believes that its a given that elements of the donald trump campaign colluded with russians, not just on the h...

Our country in ways that had us hiding under our desks in grade school but with big ticket items, missiles with -- measured in things like throw weights and it was visible, it was muscular. one of the subpoints of your article is how small ticket, how meek this may look to some people but how incredibly effective its been. what kind of war are they waging? >> its an extension of the cold war in terms of tactics and let me just start by saying this and i thought your posing of the questions in th...

All grew up the cold war was about then the soviet union and our country in ways that had us hiding under our desks in grade school but with big ticket items, missiles with -- measured in things like throw weights and it was visible, it was muscular. one of the subpoints of your article is how small ticket, how meek this may look to some people but how incredibly effective its been. what kind of war are they waging? >> its an extension of the cold war in terms of tactics and let me just start by...

About the hack itself, a lot was a repudiation of donald trumps comments about the hacking. >> reporter: they were. at the start of this hearing, john mccain asked the director of national intelligence on his way out, james clapper, whether he puts any credibility in julian assange. julian assange was cited by donald trump yesterday in a tweet casting doubt on the intelligence community assess thamt russia was behind the hacking. mccain asked jim clapper whether he put any credibility on julian ...

Review, and the other one that putin was personally in charge of the election hacking operation. who did donald trump attack? he attacked v ee eed vanit"van, putin. so how we cover themcontext. >> you cant let shiny objects necessarily distract. thank you very much. coming up, well take you live, president-elect donald trump is getting off his plane, you see him there, heading to this big rally wheres being introduced in mobile, alabama. well cover that. also, will russian hacking and the dron...

President-elect trump would be likely to repeal those. i dont think putin is particularly concerned at this time about how president obama plans to respond to this. >> youre absolutely right, clarissa ward, live for us in moscow, thanks so much. lets talk it over with our panel, julia kayyam is with us, also ryan lizza, and caylee mcenerny. there is the attack, the hack itself, and then there is the attack in terms of vladimir putin getting trump to basically say to the entire community and th...

Fbi as well. and maybe not so much on the white house. >> reporter: yeah. you know the fbi has come up again and again also from the administration. from theous, they tried to be extremely careful, from the white house, how theyre wording things. only referring to things that donald trump has said, and kind of letting people read between the lines what theyre implying there, and on the hack itself, you know, they keep emphasizing where the impact clearly was. that it was clearly hitting democrat...

I want to bring in our white house correspondent, michelle kosinski. the white house press secretary said not only was russia responsible for hacking, to impact the election, if you will, but that trump himself encouraged it. update our viewers. >> on the hack itself today we heard the press secretary say that in his view it is obvious that vladimir putin played a role. based on that statement the intelligence community put out in october naming russia, even though they didnt specifically name p...

Items, missiles with -- measured in things like throw weights and it was visible, it was muscular. one of the subpoints of your article is how small ticket, how meek this may look to some people but how incredibly effective its been. what kind of war are they waging? >> its an extension of the cold war in terms of tactics and let me just start by saying this and i thought your posing of the questions in the beginning was a very intelligence and essential thing to do because it slows this down so...