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Another kremlin adviser say, maybe we helped a bit with wikileaks. the u.s. intelligence committee pointed its finger at russia for those hacked e-mails. >> its interesting. since the republican convention, trump has been receiving occasional briefings from the u.s. intelligence committee, not of the highest classified level. but now that hes president elect, over this period between now and january 20th when hes sworn in as the next president of the united states, hes going to get daily nationa...

But they do still have a great deal of capability. surveillance from the air, drones, satellites, intercepted communications, we saw both of them in action here. the latest in a series of successful strikes against high value targets, youve seen that in syria and places like yemen. again, another hard target. of course, question is what effect does this have on the operational capability of a group like isis. >> fascinating. jim sciutto, thank so much. joining me to discuss this all is democrati...

. >> they believe they got him with a drone strike. isis capital, its self-declared clal, but they are not 100% sure. they are looking for confirmation. they will have to look at social immediate i cant have postings, intercepted communications, any indicators out there in the public arena, any announcement that he may have died. they still believe, however, that there is a very good chance that they got him. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >> lets talk more about this targeted air strike now....

Thats spies in the field. you disseminate it. you send it to places like the department of state, the pentagon, the white house. and then people like me take this stuff out there, intercepted communications, information from spies and put it together into a narrative, into a story. take a hard left in 2002 when we captured our first detainee. thats abu zubaydah. now in addition to those responsibilities, you create secret prisons overseas and you start interrogating people. it was an area that w...

Leaving at the end of the year, but nonetheless, hes active duty now. thats quite remarkable. the interesting element is not just that its his opinion but he cites evidence from intercepted communications where they tell each other they have to wait it out. he doesnt cite contrary communication where a guy says wow, i watch the secretary of defense on abc news. he walked it back. that level of analysis doesnt exist in afghanistan. what is happening is the presidents statement is truly making it ...

Leaving at the end of the year, but nonetheless, hes active duty now. thats quite remarkable. the interesting element is not just that its his opinion but he cites evidence from intercepted communications where they tell each other they have to wait it out. he doesnt cite contrary communication where a guy says wow, i watch the secretary of defense on abc news. he walked it back. that level of analysis doesnt exist in afghanistan. what is happening is the presidents statement is truly making it ...

Anything nefarious was going on. theres also this element of fake news, and thats something that had certainly caught the eye of folks on the hill, and theyre looking to see if there was any coordination between the russians intelligence people and some of the russians operatives putting out this fake news. >> we hear about those russian bots pumping occupy fake news stories on social media. this is part of one of the investigations in the senate, as they were doing their first hearing, right? >...

Intercepted calls, intercepted communications, and recorded the nsa captured calls and then asked the fbi to collect as much information as possible. my time is up, so i will save this for this round. i thought it was against the law to disseminate classified informati information. is it? >> oh, yes, sure. its a serious crime. im not going to comment on those particular articles because i dont want to in any circumstance compound a criminal act by confirming that it was classified information. b...