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He sits ons foreign relations committee, which is going to have to approve rex tillersons nomination for secretary of stat tillerson has been charming, ne well in his rounds im told because but if this issue explodes, its potentially at risk. >> i want to bring in the former supreme allied commander of nato. jack reed is suggesting the russians politically left their fingerprints on this attack. why would they do that? >> what we have here is an enormously important issue. how do we defend ourse...

Were talking about here so its profoundly concerning. >> thank you very much. i want to take you back to the hearing taking place right now on capitol hill. moments ago senator gilibrand from new yor asked a question. >> im going to spend most of my time refcting probably on some of the comments you made. the glass house comment i think is very important. theres been a research by a professor at carnegie mellon thats estimated that the united states has been involved in one way or another in 81 ...

They are looking for opportunities to expand military cooperation, cell equipment, airbases as well as intelligence gathering facilities. so its just another extension of their aggressiveness in pursuing these interests. and with respect to cuba, cubas always had long standing, very capable intelligence capabilities. and i dont see a reduction of that, of those capabilities. >> thank you. >> thank you mr. chair. and thanks to the witnesses for today and for your service. mr. chair, i appreciate ...

Principle that you couldnt untake efforts to influence an american presidential election and have there be no consequence. the item that welliscussnd discuss more when the hearing comeut is different. that was a burglary of a party headquarters that was directed to some degree from the office of the president. but this is very serious. the combined intelligence of this country has concluded that efforts were untaken to influence an election by an adversary, an adversary that the head of the join...

Trump suggesting that hes firing back because he doesnt like all the noise around this but others have said, no, it is the right thing to do and given the severity of the situation, we do need to take a closer look, thing arent under control. >> i agree with the need to reorganize intelligence broadly and ill give you two quick ideas, one of which was mentioned at the hearing today. it is dividing the national security agency, which is an intelligence collection agency, from u.s. cyber command, ...

To everyone, then we can just kiss that off because well lose it and then that will endanger our -- imperil our ability to provide such intelligence in the future. and thats all the dilemma that we have in intelligence. we want to be as forthcoming and transparent as possible, but we feel very, very strongly, as we do in this case, about protecting very fragile and sensitive sources and methods. >> lets again turn to a question of context. what we saw in this country this fall and in going back ...

Sure all the intelligence agenci agencies are communicating. theres been a lot of complaints from both communities that this can be too political but a lot of people say this is necessary to make sure the agencies are talking and have the information. theres been a broader discussion about multiple intelligence agencies. >> damian, thank you so much. great story. i want to take you back to that hearing where independent senator from the state of maine angus king is speaking. >> approvals went to...

Of the senate armed services committee, some of the biggest headlines to come from it so far i want to break down for you. director of national intelligence, james clapper, says he will release a declassified version of his report to the public next week. senator jack reed suggests the russians -- i misspoke earlier, the russians -- i misspoke and said republicans, the russians deliberately left their fingerprint on the hacks so we would know it wasthem. during all of this this morning, we have ...

Actors out there there is a price to pay that it is not in your best interest. >> what 14u that price be? >> a wide range of things. there is no one silver bull. if we are looking for the perfect solution this isnt one. there is going to have to be a variety. there is no one single solution. >> a month ago i chaired a hearing on artificial intelligence and our economys reliance on artificial intelligence, one of the concerns there was on the cyber security side of a hack that would modify the bi...

This hearing and others to follow. i was chairman of the democratic national committee for a couple of years. and we had a file cabinet in the basement that had a plaque over it. it was a file cabinet that was rifled by burglars in an invague of the democratic national committee in 1972. it was a bungled effort to take some files and plant som listening devices. that small event led to one of the most searching and momentous congressional inquiries of this country. it was not partisan. one of th...