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Wrapped up and sarah sanders denied the inaction against the attack thats happening right now against the united states. im talking about russian meddling in the nations elections. leader of u.s. cyber command says he has yet to receive an order from the president to disrupt russian hacking operations where they originate. >> you would need basically to be directed by the president or the secretary of defense. >> yes, sir, i mentioned that. >> have you been directed to do so, given the strategic...

Sanctions at the very end of the obama administration during the trump transition. i think that has been established by flynn. what crime is that? its a violation of law. the logan act is on the books. it forbits that kind of collusion very rarely criminally charged. probably wont be charged by mueller. i think what mueller is doing now is saying we saw this secret cooperation between russia and flynn and others in the transition. did it go back further and he is probing things like the new papa...

He engaged in a months long crusade to try to portray the dossier itself as the russia scandal. hes tried to impugn anything that had anything to do with creating that dossier or anybody whose ever cited it or anybody whose ever used it as a basis of investigation. some of the most basic stuff hasnt been be prucha out by any subsequent reporting. there are parts of the dossier that really have been proven out, dossiers russian attack except the dossier was right about it months before. for examp...

Whose ever sited it or anybody whose ever used it as a basis of investigation. make the dossier from the person stuff hasnt been proven. there are parts of the dossier that really have been proven out, dossiers russian attack except the dossier was right about it months before. for example, before there was any public reporting behind russia being the entity and hacking and stealing of documents that describes hacking operations and those thefts. the steel dossier had that before there was any p...

Of national intelligence, general clapper, a couple of weeks ago saying he hasnt seen any evidence to suggest there was collaboration between the trump campaign and russia as far as the hacking operations on the democratic party. have you seen any evidence at all? hard evidence, congressman, and you are a member of the intelligence committee, to make that assertion? >> i have not. which goes more deeply into why im concerned about president trumps acertion. i think its unfortunate. i think it wr...

Barbara, do we know if the documents, first of all are genuine? >> reporter: what u.s. officials are telling cnn is yes, they do believe the documents to a very large extent are authentic. they cant be sure every word, every page that something hasnt been altered inserted or deleted, but they are working on the assumption of their belief that its all very authentic and verified. this investigation will involve the fbi looking into the potential of criminal activity and will involve the cia becau...

Either way it contained these very detailed allegations about a russian government campaign designed to influence our election ordered and directed from the highest levels from putins office and carried out through cyber attacks, through strategic leaks of stolen information, through complex, sophisticated propaganda efforts designed to hurt hillary clintons chances in the election and bolster donald trumps. before that was it was the statement in october when the department of homeland security...

Including hacking operations to steal and publicize information from the democratic party and the clinton campaign in order to hurt them both. before that, in september there was the warning published by the fbi saying that boards of elections in individual u.s. states had been hacked. the ip addresses they named and publicized in conjunction with those attacks were later traced back to a server farm in russia. so all of these reports, right, intelligence reports, news reports, these will all be...

Tied to russias military and intelligence services. theyve emboldened putin. >> hes acting like he won the american presidential election. he feels like the most powerful man in the world. >> reporter: still putin and his inner circle tonight are said to be bracing for americas response issuing new plans to guard against cyber attacks. u.s. officials have told cnn theyre looking at that as a possible option. how could america retaliate? >> the u.s. cyber command at ft. meade has a team looking i...

Welcome back. im frederiricka whitfield. from russias hacking operations to the attack at istanbuls nightclub to north koreas imminent nuclear missile preparations, today is shaping up to be a busy year in foreign policy and sure to impact donald trumps incoming administration. earlier, i spoke with jamie cubcub ruben, on how the president-elect may be tackling these unsettling issues. >> i think the idea of islamic-based terrorism is certainly something that president-elect trump made clear zbo...