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Assessment. but they are less confident on others. to be clear, there is no agreement on russia been the perpetrator of the attacks. >> is it clear whether the hacking activity is continuing? or attempting to continue is this. >> reporter: law enforcement officials telling us at cnn and my colleagues that it is continued. its continued in fact unabaded since the election targeting u.s. political institutions, political parties. that includes the democrat party. there was apparently an unsuccessf...

Something even nor aggressive, which would be going after critical infrastructure in russia or showing russia that you can go after critical infrastructure. the problem with that, we know, ive had intelligence officials tell me that there is concern that russia has breached or has access to our critical infrastructure. if you take that step against russia, what does russia do in response? do you get into a vicious cycle? each of these options, in effect, has risks. >> and you have new reporting ...

And then you have, other more punitive options, one being economic sanctions. thats the tactic that the obama administration clearly likes. they used it against russia for its military action in ukraine. of course, they used it against iran for a number of years. and you could then escalate above that with real retaliatory cyberaction, everything from similar to what russia did, right, exposing embarrassing information, perhaps the finances of vladimir putin or people close to him, or something ...

As recently as last week indicating attempts to get into their private e-mail accounts. officials say that despite russian expectations of better relations with the incoming trump administration, alisyn, they expect the russian hacking activity will continue largely unabated. >> thank you for that reporting. well get into it more as the program progresses. how will president obama fight back? first, lets bring in suzanne malveaux live at the white house. what do you expect, suzan? >> president...

Going to be all of our president, is already throwing under the bus the intelligence community with whom hes going to have to work on life and death matters. wasnt that a troubling thing to do at 9:34 last night -- >> no. michael, the "new york times" in their story said they based their conclusion on the fact the rnc was hacked. if the rnc was not hacked, then that cast doubt on their conclusions. >> all right. so, michael, lets start at the beginning. in terms of whether or not russia was invo...

Hacking activity before he leaves office. 17 u.s. intelligence agencies say they have, quote, high confidence he was behind the hacking of john podesta. senators john mccain and lindsey graham have called for investigations. i am joined now bier senator richard blumen that will. good to see you. thanks for your time. i want to ask you first about the continuing resolution vote happening now. clock is ticking. whats the status? >> we almost certainly will vote before the past.

The machines or suspicious hacking activity in those machine or any kind of evidence of that and there is no evidence of any kind of hacking here. these are numbers are not to get turn around and recount. >> we would have to flip all three of those states in order to flip the electoral college resul results? >> yes, i cannot stress this enough, never seen before and suddenly that 22,000 vote gap and lead for donald trump disappears on a recount which again, totally unheard of. she would still ...

Sure is that of the son of gadhafi who was killed. he saw several bodies in a morgue. libyan tv broadcast pictures of those bodies. you can see those pictures there. the bodies are totally covered. again, we have no other confirmation on those bodies. the libyan rebels have come up with the statement saying that they are very skeptical of this claim. they think that gadhafi might be in their words lying, trying to garner sympathy, trying to draw attention away from what his forces, his loyalists...

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