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Members of the intelligence community said the russians were certainly tempting to skew the election. when you have all that together, you cant simply say, yeah, were probably good here. youve got to go a little further and do some sort of independent investigation as to what was happening. if its one thing the russian intelligence services were really good at, its clandestinity. you have to look hard at it. there is a counterintelligence issue. >> mike, one of the reasons it may need to be inde...

Reaction. >> when we think about where we were back at that time and ramping up to the conventions, donald trump at the end of july puts that public call out to russia to find hillary clinton east missing e-mails, saying hack into -- you know, find them, use whatever measures you need necessary, because of world we were living in then with wikileaks and the information that was coming out based on the dnc or john podesta, he made reference that the press would reward them. for doing such. the ba...

Dont know for sure the leaks are coming from the intelligence organizations. thats a trump construct. thats what his claim is. >> fair point. >> thats why his lies are so dangerous. they seep into what we accept as truth without there being validation of them and i think thats an example of that. but i will say when you have a president who pits his own senior staff against others in his senior staff, when you have a president that has a destructive vision for leadership in the country, as does ...

Be. thats the reality. what i find interesting about this is that donald trump refuses, really, to deny in a full-throated way and repeatedly that his campaign had contact with russian officials, possibly as we have read in the "new york times" russian intelligence officers. thats what he should be talking about. thats what he should be refuting if its not true. but instead, he goes after the leaks over and over again and i think thats -- its very telling that thats where he focusing. >> what ab...

All the picks i think that has really rattled the intelligence community. >> lindsay, what do you think the president needs to do to improve the relationship? so much damage has been done at this point. >> you are right. so much damage has been done. there have been a number of missteps right from the get-go. even to the point of ignoring intelligence briefs, you know, for a long time trump wasnt even interested in hearing the presidential daily brief. and that is something you know aed lo of pe...

Thats another reason that he wont answer questions. >> shepard: they really want to know, was there a quid pro quo with the russians. did they release information from the dnc to hurt hillary clinton. in return, did donald trump is a i -- say, we will release the sanctions. >> could this be the tip of an iceberg of other relationships that might corrupt the government, but those who are looking at this have a right to know, which would be the press, the eyes and ears of all of us as well as thos...

Out of mosul because the guys they were fighting, they are talking to each other. in order to defeat a network, you have to be a network. so, guys, gals, lets get our shit together and open up the lines of communication, especially when it came to intelligence. >> the single most important thing we could do is collaborate. we got the capabilities that we didnt have, and additional capacity that we could never produce inside my small force, and we leveraged that with conventional forces with inte...

Atia at yahoo news. >> this isnt about the democratic party. this isnt exclusively just about this election. this is about something far bigger. this is something that goes back for multiple election cycles. in the end, the russians dont like or hate any of them. this is about the russians for the russians. we have 17 independent intelligence organizations in the united states, have all come together at the same time and said, look, this is what the russians did, this is how they did it, and to ...

It is for intelligence gathering purposes and, but i want to reiterate, there is no truth to this idea of restructuring the intelligence community infrastructure. it is 100% false. >> bret: mollie? >> it seems the trump administration wanted to walk back that were hearing that they might revamp these agencies. that is disappointing because i think we do need to revamp, we do have a problem with a highly political intelligence mechanism in our government, and it needs major reform. this is a prob...

We have 17 independent intelligence organizations in the united states, have all come together at the same time and said, look, this is what the russians did, this is how they did it, and to some degree, this is why they did it. to simply sit back and say i like the results, so its cool, its okay, its not. we dont even know the extent of it to simply sit back and say, well, you know what, its good enough, i guess, because its not. i think we have to stand up and realize this is not about party. ...