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Attacking our democracy. thats the underlying source for the tension between the cia and donald trump. its his general threat to this country through his policies and through his alignment with vladimir putin. thats the deeper issue here. its not the capability of our intelligence analysts or anything else. thats the deeper issue. donald trump will blame it on the iraq war and a range of other things he can point to but that is the deeper issue. >> indeed. nada and evan, appreciate you being her...

Two top intelligence officials with direct tell nbc news a detailed russian cyber attacks. the staff, the state department, american companies. some successful, others thwarted. the report explains moscows motive, partly to disrupt the democratic process and partly as payback, the intelligence analysts conclude, for the obama administrations questioning of vladimir putins legitimacy as president. its not just last years presidential campaign either. the report backs russian cyber activity back t...

Attack our electric grid. >> the last thing that putin has done is, of course, he says he is going to delay any kind of response regarding obamas sanctions here. other intelligence analysts who say they believe he is trying to pretend he is santa claus here but at the same time he didnt expel those u.s. spies in russia, because it would be a lot of work to expel them. they already know pretty much where they go, what they do, what kind of conversations they have, what they are eating. if you got...

Is going into the administration. shes going to be named as a counselor to donald trump, a counselor to the president. she had talked about not wanting to join this administration simply because of her young family and other things but she will now be a counselor to the president, a sign that she will be one of his top advisers when he takes office 29 days from today. >> jeff, thanks for that bit of breaking news. kellyanne conway is going to join us in about an hour to talk about her new title,...

Seemingly were told that president-elect trump does not take the daily intelligence briefing as you know is a never ending and continuing story. does that bother you at all? >> you know, it really doesnt. hes not president of the united states yet. its only been a little over a month after his election. whats he been focusing on? hes been focusing on putting together his cabinet and the agency and department heads that are going to help him govern this country. thats really what he should be doi...

Reporting intelligence officials ascribing a high-level conditions in their conclusions, which is about as definitive as intelligence analysts get. and yet this morning, the president-elect tweeted "if russia or some other entity was hacking, why did the white house wait so long to act, why did they only complain after hillary lost?" in fact the president-elect is mistaken. the obama administration did act before the election, in fact, on october 7th, the office of the director of national intel...

As recently as last week indicating attempts to get into their private e-mail accounts. officials say that despite russian expectations of better relations with the incoming trump administration, alisyn, they expect the russian hacking activity will continue largely unabated. >> thank you for that reporting. well get into it more as the program progresses. how will president obama fight back? first, lets bring in suzanne malveaux live at the white house. what do you expect, suzan? >> president...

Democrats during the presidential campaign. last night, we reported that two senior u.s. intelligence officials told nbc news russian president vladimir putin was personally involved in what the intelligence community concludes was a covert campaign to influence the u.s. election. according to those officials who could belong to any one of the 17 different u.s. intelligence agencies, we dont know, intelligence community now believes with a, quote, high level of confidence that putin, himself, di...

Look, when the cia briefers come to you, theyre bringing information that is based on signals intelligence. that means intercepted foreign communications, information from human sources, information from a range of other open and covert sources. you simply cannot function as a president without having access to that information. at least not function well. so its highly concerning. it should be highly concerning for all americans that donald trump first and foremost doesnt have interest in that ...

Rubio? >> im going to use my position on the senate select committee on intelligence to get the facts. the reality is, for example, the state department has a very important intelligence unit. i want to make sure, as this debate goes forward, there isnt political pressure put on those intelligence analysts. >> senator ron wyden, great to have you on. i appreciate it. our mike sofs pulse question today about rex tillerson. hes been with exxonmobil for 40 years. he does lack government experienc...