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The cleveland clinic has been very involved, and were going to straighten out the va for our vetera veterans. ive been promising that for a long time, something i feel very, very strongly. youll get the information on david, and i think youll be very impressed with the job he does. we looked long and hard, we interviewed at least a hundred people, some good, some not so good. but weve got a lot of talent. we think this selection will be something that will, with time, with time, straighten it ou...

Heres what trump said. >> it is all fake new and phony stuff and didnt happen and it was gotten by opponents of ours, as you know as you report ared and so did many other people. a grouch opponents that got together. sick people and put that crap together. >> reporter: the reason why it got new legs, when donald trump got the intelligence briefing, he was handed a two page summary of what the doszier looked like. he acknowledged to yes, that vladimar putin did order the hack of the dnc service a...

Involved. one of the great men of business. and were going to straighten out the va for our veterans. ive been promising that for a long time. and something i feel very, very strongly. so youll get the information on david and i think youll be very impressed with the job he does. we looked long and hard. we interviewed at least 100 people. some good, some not so good. but we had a lot of talent. we think this selection will be something that will, with time, with time, straighten it out and stra...

>> which trump has called intelligence briefing, and then we have two people speaking on behalf of the trump administration saying i cant talk about something thats been made public. so, i thought the press conference was fairly defensive, somewhat obnoxious. so here we are. its going to be a long four years. >> but in many ways, it was very trump. >> it was very trump. and, you know, i thought he was going to come out and he did have a contentious moment where he tried to belittle cnn and jim a...

Of the united states himself. now mr. obama doesnt know what the information is. >> but the press report was about them going to the president. >> and it says they never briefed him on it. they appended two pages to the bottom of the intelligence briefing. >> i believe it says they did not brief them on it. >> he said hes not aware of that. >> okay. that concerns me. >> for their part, reuters quotes the kremlin saying they have no compromising information on trump or clinton and says it is tota...

Out there. >> isnt it reasonable to assume though if youre donald trump and they bring this piece of information that theyre not just doing it because they think you should know sir, maybe theres an implied threat behind it. which it seems to me how he is taking this. >> yeah. listen, and im not sure it could cause a kerfuffle prior to being released. it appeared there were no documents that changed hands of the intelligence briefing. one of the questions is, this was an oral briefing led by the...

Upset that were salassous in nature. the new york times said he was briefed on efforts by the russians. and he was informed of potential or alleged efforts by russians. it is interesting. and buzz feed said this is a good excuse to publish for the world to see unsubstanteated allegations which is a wild and editor of the website wrote the anguished note, oh, my gosh, we struggled with this and in the end. >> it is not journalism not to vet something and then put it out there is not journalism. a...

Operatives during the campaign, but reince priebus stopped short of saying what action would actually be taken. trump received an intelligence briefing on friday. >> he accepts the fact that russia and other entities engage in cyberattacks in the united states, all day long. he accepts the fact that this particular case was entities in. >> reporter: ye in russia. hes going to order the intelligence community to take actions, but i dont think theres anything wrong with trying to have a good relat...

Not going to respond, hes not going to take action against russia? >> he very well may take -- hes going to order the intelligence community to make recommendations and whatever those recommendations are will be discussed and actions may be taken, but i dont think theres anything wrong with trying to have a good relationship with russia and other countries around the world and thats what the president is saying that hes going to try to have good relationships around the world which will put amer...