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So, were going to have parallel investigations now continuing russian hacking. what influence it had and what was the intention behind it, the extent. and also the fbi now investigating itself on director comeys handling of the investigation of hillary clintons e-mails which, as you know, democrats have said possibly influenced the election as well. let me ask you, do you have confidence in the fbi director? >> well, you know, i had a similar reaction when he basically announced there wasnt anyt...

Has appeared on as a guest and that he is said tahave received a speaking fee from. well before the trump campaign got rolling. this has been identified in the unclassified version of the intelligence agencys report on hacking as a key propaganda channel for the russian government of vladimir putin. its not just cable news channel. this is described by our intelligence agencies as a propaganda outlet. i do think there is a question whether somebody who is going to be a prominent official and adv...

Thats not open democratic process. >> tonight some democrats in congress are fuming after a closed door briefing by the fbi director about the russian hacking. we have breaking news about a heated confrontation between the former dnc chair and fbi director james comey about the hacked e-mails that help lead to her ouster. cnn phil mattingly is digging in on that for us. what are you learning about that c confrontation? >> it was exactly how it was described by a lawmaker in the room. we are just...

I talked to comings when he left that classified brief g briefing, he was extremely disappointed by what he heard. starting to question whether or not jim comey should resign. i reached out to debbie wasserman schultz office about this. they are not going to comment on what happened at a classified briefing but did say according to debbie wasserman schultz jim comey has more questions to answer, jim. >> phil mattingly, thank you very much. a lot of lawmakers have talked about it and now we know ...

What is the reaction over there, bill. >> reporter: i sat down with the chief kremlin spokesman, the man whose words so often echo the words of donald trump when he talks about a witch hunt and fake news. he had very warm words after the news conference by donald trump yesterday. he said he liked the new tone and the new language of the president-elect. he said he liked donald trumps readiness to talk, not confront, his readiness to try to understand whats fake and whats not. what he didnt like ...

House and have a role in this administration. shep? >> john roberts live in new york. julian assange slamming the u.s. intelligence report on hacking. assange called the assessment quite embarrassing. he said it didnt provide any evidence that russia supply wikileaks with hacked e-mails from hillary clintons campaign or the democratic national committee. assange called it a political attack on president-elect trump. in the report, intelligence officials say they have high confidence that putin o...

For the presidency, you have senator graham, senator mccain, who are all on board, hookilook fort outp for the output for the investigation. so i do not understand why we are not seeing more delivered to our senators on a bipartisan approach to deliver the goods on the very hard work theyve done to bring this analysis and to bring this conclusion. >> tom nickles that would seem that if they arent ready to go full public with it it seems that they could do the gang of 12 style briefing where they...

Weigh in on. ? that was tjennifer palmieri talking to rachel maddow, talking about the ten members of the electoral cheollege now askg for a briefing into russias hacking deliberately in favor o briefing before they vote to make donald trump the president of the united states. john podesta said this. it raises very grave issues. the electors have a solemn

Theres no doubt about the hacking. lets establish that. i was hacked into. my campaign in 2008 was hacked into. so theres no doubt about the hacking. but its all part of the larger threat we face from russia, china. its a threat to our national security. >> today senator john mccain was one of the republican senators countering donald trumps refusal to acknowledge russian interference in the presidential election. senator mccain described russia as an adversary waging yet another form of warfare...

Many who opposed the soviet union because of its atheism now view russia as christianitys front line against the new civilizational enemy, islam. joining us, the washington bureau chief for "mother jones." what do you make of that, because vladimir putin has certain problems with islamic terrorism even within his realm, and because hes fighting that he is the friend of others who are fighting that. >> i think its ingenious but way unnecessarily complicated. i think you can explain how most repub...