podesta emails that came out and all the discussion generated about that, and perhaps that had negative impact on the clinton campaign. to say somehow that the russians were engineering the outcome or that they want the donald trump to win, do you see any evidence of that at all in this story? i do not. and that is the reason why we need a full investigation but, i have seen no evidence of that but we should be deeply concerned about their ability to get into almost any place they want to go. if they do that with political campaigns, can t they do it in every other aspect of america, especially our military capabilities? martha: absolutely. i think the hacking issue in and of itself is something that we need to feel that we are much stronger and more capable in. in terms of the political ramifications of this story in the new york times over the weekend, is there anything that indicate, or do you agree in any sense with what donald trump said, that perhaps there is a
definitively that russia was involved and they were trying to tip the scales? i don t think. this is what you re seeing with donald trump trying to debunk this hacking issue in general, because he wants to say, i won the presidency, it s time to move forward. i don t think you re even hearing some of the democrats. they re very few and far between that are saying, let s do this, because then we re going to overturn the election. what you are going to see, and what some of the senators on the republican side have said, we want to do this, because next time russia could go afters u.s. it s not just going to be democrats. that s what the overall mission of this. and why would donald trump not admit that there needs to be a congressional inquiry, that there needs to be a presidential inquiry. do everything he can to show the american public that he is trying to make sure that he knows what happened during the election, definitively, and will stop it in the future. i agree with that.
who was doing the hacking. why was it not brought up before the election? can you imagine if the election results were the opposite. we tried to play the russian card? it would be a conspiracy theory. mike emmanuel has more. reporter: jon, good afternoon, it sounds like president-elect trump believes democrats are rushing the hacking issue because they don t think hillary clinton could lose the election. once they hack. they have no idea if it is russia or china or somebody sitting on a bench someplace. reporter: yet there is a push on capitol hill all issuing a statement saying democrat and republicans must work together and across the
good question? note the first person to come into this job and want a reset with russia. you know that george w. bush famously said he looked into vladimir putin s eyes and he trusted him. and it happened the same reset failed under the obama administration with president obama and hillary clinton as secretary of state. people try this because it would be help follow work with russians, and we do. but in the basically since the annexation of crimea and the ukraine and the bold moves vladimir putin has been making, people have been put on the spot here, especially the republican party, around trump to explain why he ever, ever criticizes russian president putin, whether it s syria, while he is working with the assad regime to attack his own people, that when it comes to this hacking issue, he says, it s ridiculous and
hacking. i talked to lindsey graham he and john mccain, also a republican are working into investigations into russia and said he wants personal sanctions on vladimir putin and his personal circle if the evidence stacks up against him. i don t want to speculate but you ve been covering this campaign and a while. there are critic who say there is a timing and strategy rele e releasing this pick here. in the midst of all this news with the russian hacking, do you think there s anything to that speculation he s trying to change the topic of conversation although interesting enough we are still talking about the ties to russia with his picks. reporter: donald trump has shown himself at being very adept at turning the conversation where he wants and issues he wants to be focused on. we have not seen trump himself so far today focused on this hacking issue. his tweets have been focused on