not conduct a comparable disclosure campaign intelligence community didn t assess whether the hacking operation affected the elections outcome but hacked did not affect vote counting report details list of ways kremlin tried to influence election outside of hacking, including third party intermediaries paid social media users, some former officers lament the findings are lost moneying political fighting. importance of what we have been talking about the subordinates rush ae number two of cyberattacks around the world economic espionage shenanigans trying to be number one in this space, the importance and threat to u.s. national security, interests economic interests all sort of lost in the wash over you know sort of the storm over the tweets, the idea there was battle with u.s. intel communities. kelly: julie: report concludes
conduct a comparable disclosure campaign. the intelligence committee didn t assess whether the hacking operation affected the election s outcome, but they do say the hacking did not affect vote counting. the report also details the list of ways the kremlin tried to influence our election outside of hacking including using third party intermediaries and trolls to post ugly lies and rumors on social media. this is not a threat or warning issue. this is a policy issue. the white house and those in charge have ignored this. let s remember that jim clapper knew all this information before january. they just didn t act on it. this russian threat has been going on for decades, we just didn t act on it. reporter: bigger picture, the report also concludes this is part of russia s plan to assert its influence on the u.s. stage and hamstring u.s. efforts to do the same. arthel: thanks, caroline. eric? v trump is responding to that intelligence report that pins the blame directly for that
focused on this. joini joining me now, nice to see bo both of you. we have been on the story all afternoon. with ke start when wa we learned on that report. we learned what the intelligence community was willing to say publicly in one sense they saw a dispute. there s been an argument about what the motive of the hacking operation was. they said it was ordered by vladimir putin and it was to discredit hillary clinton in the end to benefit donald trump. and they talked about a broader propaganda campaign but the use of russian what was unfortunate and disappointing was there was no evidence. they did not explain how they
irresponsible. reporter: cnn has learned the intelligence community traced the hack back to specific keyboards with a cyrillic text, an alphabet used by russians, adding to confidence russia carried out the attack. last week, the fbi and dhs put out this report naming the hacking operation and calling out two russian intelligence groups for yoet the intrusion into a u.s. plit dal party. john mccain traveling in the baltic region where countries are most worried about russia s aggression says there s no doubt it was russia. all of our intelligence agencies will affirm that that be the case. we will work in the congress to have stronger sanctions in order to prevent further attacks on the united states of america. reporter: as we await the
personally to the f president-elect donald trump, could come on friday when trump meets with the director of national intelligence, james clapper and cia director john brennan along with top security officials. the intelligence community is completing a report? the next couple days on cyber intrusions on the u.s. elections going all the way back to 2008. we expect the public version of the report will include newly declassified information on the evidence that supports the intelligence community s assessment that russia was, indeed, behind the hack of the democratic party organizations. u.s. officials tell cnn that companies across the country have detected i.p. addresses and malware that could be connected to the russian hackers, though it s unclear if they penetrated the networks. now, the discovery comes after the fbi and dhs put out this report last week naming the russian hacking operation, grizzly steppe, warning companies on what to in on the lookout far. the russian government