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Early on. we should have seen this before. right away. they are after us. it had nothing to do with who was elected president. we have to start dealing with the facts. besides julian assange or putin and taking their word is like the twilight zone. >> the potential restructuring, do you think it is a side show and a big deal to what bob was saying with julian assange and the presidency and lack of faith in intelligence community. >> i have to agree completely with bob about julian assange. he is...

You were the chief of staff to then cia director leon panetta. is that a good idea or is this just anger at the cia? >> it may be a good idea and theres been long discussion about taking some of the functions in the office of director of national intelligence and moving it to other agencies, having more of a forward presence. there could be some benefit to this. but i dont think it should be used to change the subject from this national security crisis that i think is real hi brewing here. >> bu...

This political sensitivity, the interference and meddling in the american election, could only have happened with his blessing. in time, three transition sources have confirmed to fox news that the trump team is considering a restructuring of the u.s. intelligence community, a kind of streamlining, in an effort to deal with what is described as the bloat in leadership and a politicization of the intelligence itself, as described to us as something that is very preliminary. though this morning th...

The department of national intelligence, the dni that was supposed to centralize and streamline all of our intelligence agencies after 9/11 may be first on the chopping block it sounds like. >> just initially were getting some feelers from the trump team that that story they believe is overwritten or overblown. there will be some restructuring as there is in pretty much every department when a new administration comes over. it is pretty specific that "wall street journal" peels -- piece what abo...

Putting guilt where they should have doepg something about it early on, we should have seen this report right away. this is an act of war as mccain called us. the russians are after us. nothing do with who was elected president. they are trying to undermine our system and we have to deal with the facts and were not. inciting julian assange or putin and taking their word is like i said the twilight zone. >> steve, what kind of impact does the this potential restructuring have on the intelligence ...

Sense that is lasting? that republicans and donald trump are going to continue to have this fealty or to give russia a huge pass on even spying on american and hacking into american e-mails and give assange a huge pass? is that lasting or temporary because they dont want donald trumps election to seem invalidated? >> i think its temporary because a lot of the members of the house and some in the senate have districts or state bs wher trump is more popular than they are, theyre afraid of their ow...

Agencies all across this administration to be concentrated on ensuring a smooth transition and that includes the intelligence community. >> while they deny any large-scale restructuring, transition officials tell fox news trump is losing to streamline and depoliticize the intelligence community. and trump is clarifying his public posture towards wikileaks founder julian assange. earlier this week, trump tweeted, quote, julian assange said a 14 year old could have hacked podesta. why bywhy was dm...

Change both the director of national intelligence office to essentially cut it and also make changes and restructuring to the cia. cutting back on staffing at the virginia headquarters, moving people into field posts, that kind of thing. that seems alarming and a response, maybe, to what donald trump doesnt believe or believes from the intelligence agency. what do you make of those proposals? >> thats exactly right. if this "wall street journal" report is accurate, under the guise, ironically, o...

Trump are going to continue to have this fealty or to give russia a huge pass on even spying on american and hacking into american e-mails and give assange a huge pass? is that lasting or temporary because they dont want donald trumps election to seem invalidated? >> i think its temporary because a lot of the members of the house and some in the senate have districts or states where trump is more popular than they are, theyre afraid of their own shadow, but you have courageous gop member who are...

Donald trump must know that. he doesnt know how to do that either. hes a ceo who has all these ceos around him, and hes enjoying -- >> those who supported them during the campaign, if you look at the market now, its soaring. were in this pro-donald trump environment. that wasnt the case during the entire campaign. what changed here? >> if this market were down 2,000 points instead of up 2,000 points, there would be a lot of hand wringing. people would be up in arms on wall street. in fairness, s...