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Well, if i might to make sure we are not making a mistake senator coops. It is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal Justice Reform that as Attorney General you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. Last let me say in my six years here in addition to not working on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal Justice Reform you have repeatedly voted against congressional attempts to prohibit torture in the military on...

Follow-on to the visit to beijing and this is what he said his message was. >> as a general matter weve made clear to china as well as to other countries that any action that targets u.s. government or u.s. companies, american citizens, is of deep concern to us, and we will take appropriate action and response. >> i should note, he didnt say what that response would be. he noted that it is still under investigation so well wait and see how the u.s. responds. >> this is always a concern when an a...

Asking the key question, and what concerns people who i have talked to around washington, particularly republicans, is things in terms of what acceptable continue to go down. theres no bottom. >> this is the media, and you guys are ringing your hands over nothing. look at his twitter feed this morning. >> we thought he had been hacked. >> why would you think that? >> because its so inflammatory. i hear you, maggie, but sometimes, believe it or not we are still shocked. >> i am not saying dont be...

Jim sciutto joins us now. the hacking question, is it an open question with the u.s. intelligence community at all? >> in a word, no. its difficult to imagine a more definitive dismissal of the presidents comments today than what we heard from the former director of national intelligence james clapper. the senior most american spy with more than 40 years experience, serving presidents of both parties i might add. he said, one, zero question or doubt within the intelligence community, russia behi...

So that is going to certainly ease a lot of tensions among some of the western european allies who are concerned about president trump and what he said during his last foreign trip. remember, john, he went to nato in brussels and did not really offer up a stout defensive article 5 of the nato charter that says an attack on one nato country its an attack on all. that is certainly going to soothe some of the ruffled feathers from earlier this year when he was on that last foreign trip. the questio...

Jim sciutto sat down with former top intelligence officials who watched the election tampering unfold. jim sciutto joins us now. so, jim, keeping them honest. the hacking question, is it an open question with the u.s. intelligence community at all? >> in a word, no. its difficult to imagine a more definitive dismissal of the presidents comments today than what we heard from the former director of national intelligence james clapper. the senior-most american spy with more than 40 years experience...

Because she was asking tough questions he didnt want to answer. remember, this forum is his show. its his celebration, his celebration, the russian davos in his hometown of st. petersburg. he likes a nice, relaxed atmosphere where he can show off his country and russian businesses. he wasnt allowed to have that happen and thats a good thing in my opinion. >> i want to take a listen to some of putins responses. this one to the hacking question. here it is. >> translator: hackers can be anywhere. ...

Questions about remarks to colleagues that his colleagues said were racist. so thats been their kind of whole way of looking at this. what franken did was try to poke holes in that, asked sessions did you prosecute 20 or 30 cases about desegregation or was it really just a few? that was the one moment when we saw sessions struggle a little bit to answer questions. you heard senator ted cruz just before we started talking here focusing a little bit on that trying to give sessions some points of d...

Happen again. well continue to get tough questions by this if congressional increase does go under way. kristen welker, thank you very much. i am joined now by sean spicer. it is nice to see you. >> good to see you, kate. lets start with this issue over the weekend of donald trump hacking question. senator mcconnell says he agrees with graham and mccain that there should be an investigation of this idea that russia interfered of this election. >> somehow republicans and senators are reluctant to...

About this either. and even in that community, people are not sure what to make of it. this is a difficult story for the nra to explain to its base, especially the libertarian base, that is afraid of any list of any kind. theyre afraid of big brother, but the nra is playing a big brother role by collecting this data. one thing that is, if it exists in any form, the nra could hack into it. it could be obtained by people outside of their organization. so this is really a very dangerous story for t...