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And motives to undertake such an action and need to take this deadly seriously and get to the bottom. >> one of the things that strikes me, people are viewing this in the prism of rear view, what happened in the election, how determinative it was of the outcome and what will happen now. the scope that could be done again and again and again if this sort of penetration becomes routine is staggering to consider. i mean, theres 535 members of congress, many of whom use private e-mails, who knows wh...

Every "i" dotted, every "t" crossed. hes the person that could do that. >> he could do it tomorrow. im glad as a country we have -- we treat intelligence reports or anonymous ones with skepticism. ken is a great reporter. i believe what hes reporting out here, theres only certain countries with the caability and motives to undertake such an action and need to take this deadly seriously and get to the bottom. >> one of the things that strikes me, people are viewing this in the prism of rear view,...

What the question is. the cia says the russians hacked. you need to stop right there. that is the fundamental proposition. one that donald trump rejects because of this second condition thats put on it, which is the motive. and theres certainly no consensus there yet. the fbi on one side and the cia on the others. >> i dont know that that person would have changed their feeling. they think it has been politicized. >> no one is trying to change the mind of donald trump supporters here because the...

Youve got to look at. the first thing is terror. we are dealing in a new era where we need their help and they should help us because they cant sit there and lecture americans from their glass prism in palo alto. they should do -- google should imagine being in iraq or being some syria or being in egypt. what kind of target would they be? but theyre in palo alto so that doesnt happen. the other thing in terms of our technology, we know you cant stop progress and progress means two things, driver...

Now, we say were fighting isis in syria. last time i checked, isis just took over another city, palmyra, and the russians and the syrian government is bombing its own people in aleppo. it is a mess. >> great point. megan, donald trump already this morning tweeting, the thing i like best about rex tillerson is he has vast experience at dealing successfully with all types of foreign governments. heres thing, money and power are two different things. these are business relationships. in business, y...

Intervention side, donald trump has talked about how -- he talks in almost a neoisolationist way on occasions. i cant explain whats going on. its not as if there is a governing -- how i do put this, theres not a governing intelligence over this process right now that says we want people in these lanes for these reasons. its just happenstance. >> rex tillerson as possible secretary of state. >> hes president of his own country, called exxon. a big country. >> the biggest energy -- publicly owned ...

Position of -- to have the foresight of information at his fingertips and go through the possible consequences of what appear to be potentially very big shifts in u.s. foreign policy. we going to move from a situation where america is trying to manage chinas rise to a more confrontational policy as gordon was saying. that needs to be something thats discussed through a wider prism of foreign policy thought than just a conversation with a president elect on the telephone. >> gordon, a lot of thes...

So i think it is a good thing but i dont think it will change anything. within the prism that were looking at, if it went the other way, would everyone have the same response? >> i think the weertd part about this is that she is quickly winning the popular vote and he is president because he won the electoral college votes. so it makes this election a little bit trickier because of that. >> what about this battle between west wing and the left wing in terms of the future of the party? >> what do...

Government as well. but the prism through which we have to judge these appointments is we have to remember what donald trump ran as. he ran as an outsider who had no experience in any of this but the one thing he was going to do was being b a good manager who picks someone who has experience. if you look at flynn the up with thing that distinguishes him from everyone else is he was loyal. he was the one national security guy of his pedigree who was loyal to donald trump the whole time. he has co...

Trumps inner circumstancing of staying pro-russian statements at least and acting in a way that is much more sympathetic to the russian government, to vladimir putin than the current administrations foreign policy. this is a country that the west has sanctions on because putin took territory in ukraine. >> took crimea. >> and crimea but occupies territories in ukraine so people want to know why this matters. if trump softens on russia -- >> flynn supports softening those sanctions. >> if you sta...