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Himself and mr. obama, because he was actually inviting people in and not doing a tit for tat. and third, he was sewing more distrust and driving a bigger wedge between mr. trump and the intelligence community, and his fellow republicans. this is right in line with what mr. trump wants to do, and hes playing -- im sorry, mr. putin wants to do and hes playing trump like a fiddle. >> peter, enormous political theater here. >> yeah. and well see how it all plays out. donald trump has a dilemma i th...

It goes beyond the dnc. if you read the report yesterday from the administration, theyre saying the russians have been doing this for ten years or so and it goes beyond the dnc. it goes to critical infrastructure. the united states nuclear power plants. so a lot of people are looking at this data, trying to now find the -- >> vulnerabilities in their system. the past two presidents, republican and democrat, bush and obama, entered office of better relations with russia. obama had the reset, ends...

Handing hillary a post convention lead. for president obama 2016 was personal. >> donald is not really a plans guy. hes not really a facts guy either. >> reporter: obama e vised trump on the campaign trail and trump hit bac >> president barack obama was born in the united states, period. >> then there were the debates. the candidates performances in three face-to-face fights for must see tv for voters. clinton used the match-ups to lure trump off message. >> he called this woman miss piggy, then...

Russia and more broadly his foreign policy. are there outcomes that are good for americans or bad for americans? obviously donald trump is betting that strengthening relations with russia and to use his terms, negotiating a deal with them, will have good consequences for america. many americans and republicans and democrats alike are warning that thats not so simple. >> jackie, if you look at obamas actions in recent days, you can understand the republican argument that they say obama is trying ...

Obama administration for what they see as politics as play. >> weve been talking about this for a while. i think that all we heard all through the election was "russia, russia, russia," when it came to anything donald trump said or did most days. now since the election, its this fever pitch of accusations and insinuations. >> reporter: trump transition officials are speculating that the administration sanctions against russia are a distraction to undermine his wins and tie his hands on russia be...

We have excellent intelligence on russia. its different than many other countries. also in the case of this country its different. >> theyre not doing a lot of guessing when it comes to this. >> right, so i feel very confident having been in there and also this unanimous statement. but back to your question, i think its going to start very warm, because donald trump has made it very clear its going to start very warm, so has putin. but i dont think its going to end very warm unless donald trump ...

That have been taking place. by the way -- >> let me ask you on that, because the obama administration has been accused of boxing trump in. and to be fair, it was october 7 that the intelligence community identified russia as being behind this hacking, a full month before the election. the obama administration had enormous opportunity to take action like this weeks, even months ago. why just now? >> it probably took some time to figure out exactly what would be the best way. also note there were...

Gorbachev, john f. kennedy, who had the showdown with russia, but also was trying to do the famous nuclear test ban treaty with the soviet union in the early 60s and wanted to go to the moon with russia at one point. but hes somebody looking out of the box for a big breakthrough in the international arena, to change what in donald trumps mind is the gridlock. so i think he can go in any direction. nuclear arms increase or reductions in the coming years. >> doug, trump is coming into office as on...

Road would be extraordinarily dangerous. and we know for a fact that putin wants to destabilize the european union and certainly nato. this has been a long-term goal of putin. why would he want to do that? so they can play whatever game they want in eastern europe, to once again dominate eastern europe as they did during the soviet period. this is a very serious situation, which i believe the next president is naive, and oh, my, were going to go do an intelligence briefing now, next week? hes be...

>> so what is -- what is vladamir putins next move? is he waiting to read donald trumps actual actions once he takes office? >> what he ought to be reading now is that a man one week threatening a nuclear arms race and the next week giving putin a big, wet kiss. whats going on here? what is the position of this new president? and what is he trying to achieve? does he really want to do away with nato? does he really want japan and others to have nuclear weapons? you cant be on multiple sides of i...