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Podesta. >> we have said repeatedly over the last two months that our source is not the russian government and it is not state party. >> reporter: trump tweeting, julian assange said a, quote, 14-year-old could have hacked podesta. why was dnc so careless? also said russians did not give him the info. on capitol hill today vice president-elect mike pence defended his skepticism. >> the president-elect has american skepticism about intelligence conclusions. >> reporter: u.s. officials tell cnn tr...

We have not seen the full page or the full couple of pages where all of those details are laid out. that may be part of this full assessment thats coming within the next couple of weeks, but surely in the presidents daily brief in the last several weeks there have been these assessments that have that level of nuance in them. >> do you have any reason to believe that the intel agencies would be talking about russia and neglecting the fact that it was also china? >> it would surprise me if the in...

Russia. the expulsion came as a result of claims that russia tried to interfere with the u.s. election. lets bring in p.j. crowley under president obama. the president-elect, as you know, has been very skeptical of the intelligence analysis against the case against russia basically. heres what he said over the weekend. >> hacking is a very hard thing to prove. so it could be somebody else. i also know things that other people dont know. >> reporter: what do you know that other people dont know? ...

That being said that is -- youre talking about a man whos the former kgb officer, who ran human intelligence officers into west germany, vladimir putin, was the director of the fsb, which is the kgb with different letters and he would know how to manipulate or get people to manipulate to one or two degrees of separation anyone to do the kremlins bidding if they were so ideologically inclined. >> so compromising can can take place electronically, take take place conversationally for someone who i...

>> yes, but russia use what is we call hybrid warfare which is every component of military, political, diplomatic and intelligence power is brought to bear on nation state no, sir this case individuals. and i believe certainly in my book i wrote its less of a political non-fiction than it is an intelligence analysis of how the fsb and its intelligence components would have surrounded donald trump through the russian ole garry of which putin requires an fsb or ex-kgb officer. you cannot be rich i...

Donald trump has had to make important decisions in his previous career. he knows the value of information. the other side on the repetition, maybe the briefers havent teed up for him enough the differences between the pieces theyre giving him. if he sees a piece once a week and its on iraq, he may think that its just the same old thing about iraq. they need to highlight whats new and different to show him the value of that information. eventually, perhaps when hes in office, he will come to the...

What the administration had found. >> yeah, its almost disgusting. i mean, this nation was attacked through a cyber warfare operation, ordered by the former director of the fsb/kgb, what used to be the kgb, vladimir putin, and he ordered his intelligence apparatus to go a year in advance and to hack the systems of the dnc and almost every other component of the democratic party and allow them to take whatever information they could find and use it literally as watergate 2.0. they took the inform...

>> when you look at the plan so far thats been discussed by donald trump, and, again, hes been saying, i am not going to reveal any sort of detail. does the michael flynn here nomination give you a sense of what that plan will be going forward to defeat isis? >> well, full disclosure here, donald trump told "time" magazine august 8th the last book he read in the campaign was my book "defeating isis" which is a 544-page deep dive intelligence analysis of isis. so you know, he said at the commande...

New york university law. and director of intelligence analysis for the nypd. thank you for being was. its fascinating. of the three brothers the one erin burnett talked to, he was arrested over the weekend but he was let go. hes not believed to have anything to do with this. his two brothers, one of them died on friday, the other is believed to be the eighth terrorist who got away. does it surprise you the kind of -- that this is kind of an interfamily thing. not only that there are these brothe...

And they choose to do it. >> thats so interesting. because when you look at these things, a lot of times theyre told from afar. but what youre saying, this is an internal thing. these guys have been radicalized enough that they dont immediate that faraway trigger. >> absolutely. that trigger could have come a month ago, it could have come a year ago. they made the decision to give their life for their cause prior to friday. >> how do we fight that? >> well, we need to go back to alex and tom and...