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Obama administrations response to russian hacking. thats happening now. earlier the senate armed services committee held an open hearing, whe top intelligence officials testified about russia interference in the american election. donald trump has continued to question the findings that russia was behind the hacks, and clair mccaskill asked today james clapper about trumps remarks. >> who actually is the benefactor of someone who is about to become commander in chief trashing the intelligence co...

Community after the criticism of donald trump. >> who is the ben factor of someone who is about to become commands dmer chief trashing the intelligence community? >> i think there is a line between healthy skepticism, which policy makers to include policy maker number one should always have for intelligence, but i think there is a difference between skepticism and disparagement. >> joining me now, msnbc political correspondent casey hunter, and nbc white house correspondent kristen welker. casey...

Attention whatsoever to whatever the obama administration or secretary kerry has to say. substantively, kerry has made what i think is the most important speech of an american policy maker in decades but politically it clearly is now dead in the water. >> so on that note, aaron, why wasnt this speech given sooner? >> ah-ha. and thats a very interesting question. daniel kurtzer knows, together weve probably written a fair number of speeches by secretaries of state over the years and i think the f...

We may not know your history. >> in colorado. as you look back at the 75 years since the attacks on pearl harbor. hiroshima, what are your thoughts. >> as a japanese american and a person whos been through the camp experience and as a policy maker, looking back at these incidents has a much broader perspective for me than most people. i look at this as symbolic to leaders going through the process of reconciliation about the act that occurred at pearl harbor. but its also symbolic that the

Three times a week, and after donald trump explained why he did not receive the briefings on a daily basis saying this. >> i dont have to be told -- im a smart person, and i dont have to be told the same thing and the same words every day for the next eight years. >> david, as somebody who has been given daily briefings, what is your reaction to president-elects at toward toward them? >> theres a misunderstanding about the briefings, and its not to make up for a lack of intelligence in the polic...

That goes by. another commission, another report. we need to understand, not just what happened, but we need to mark for history that this was tainted and that will reinforce the point that donald trump does not have a mandate for radical change in this country. >> powerful words. and thats a story were following. we have an elector on the show later this hour. david priest, final question to you, though. walk us through the mind-set of the cia here. this is an agency that it seems like is getti...

Policy that emerges and if mattis is the pick and he is the front-runner for that and romney at stake and nikki haley as the ambassador to the un, that would defy the predictions we are seeing. the names that were associated for that. a lot of these were trump critics. would that make you less concern and more confident? >> a little bit. these are mainstream republicans. the thing is trump will make his own policy. i think anybody who is hired as a policy maker around him have to have his ear an...

That, but this is a means for us to say, look, we do not want this anymore and we need to sit down in a thoughtful manner and figure out taking freedom of speech into account, how to shorten the length. if this were on the ballot right now as an issue, i guarantee you it would pass. >> thats what i was going to say. everyone listening to you right now, probably 100% saying, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. the question is how do you get from here to there. what are some things you think we could do to s...

Create a process that we can feel proud of. i mean, other countries have much shorter political processes, and with social media and all these formats for news and information dissemination, we have to be ingenious about this. >> so youve got canada, just had its longest election, it was like 11 weeks, right? the british elections are famous, you have a few weeks of campaigning and its over. here we have the first amendment, where youre allowed to say whatever you want. even if you shorten the s...

A much greater sin to flip-flop on whether you think ted cruz is a natural born citizen or not. i think donald trump has seemed to indicate that hell say whatever it takes. i thought hillary clinton was very smart to make this -- to have this line that hes not leadership, hes showmanship, because hes really trying to undermine his sort of authority as a political statesman, policy maker, anything like that, which, you know, two-thirds of the republican party buy, but not all of it. >> well, i lo...