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The election. they are very embarrassed about it. its true that theres no evidence of issues with voting machines, but the declassified intelligence report on russia concludes with high confidence that rush president vladimir putin ordered the efforts to influence the u.s. election and it finds that those efforts were in part designed to benefit trump. the report states we also assess putin and the russian government aspired to help president-elect trumps election chances when possible by discre...

Recent report but of course also in those senate armed services committee hearings by people like john mccain and others there on that panel, the russians continuing their line that they had absolutely nothing to do with it. its interesting because you always here these nuances in the russian language or in their statements where they say they dont deny that perhaps russians were involved in some of this, but they say it wasnt official russia, of course, meaning any sort of russian government ag...

Parliament. and that was very embarrassing to vladimir putin because that election was supposed to be the runup to him running for president again. that election should have been a moment of triumph for him. that election was just a few months before he was going to take this historic step of regaining the presidency. it was embarrassing to him that his party lost all those seats. his party got rejected. the number of seats they held in parliament dropped by dozens because of this election resul...

The question posed to him let him off the hook but it seems clear there was a cutout and it was interesting to hear that from this report to want. >> nada, having been in the position with dealing with an administration that was putting pressure on analysts to come to a politically desirous conclusion, something they wanted, in your case during the runup to the iraq war, give us a preview of how difficult it could be for analysts if theyre already hearing that the incoming administration wants t...

The question in a particular way. he denied receiving the information from the russian government but did not say he didnt receive it from a third party who could have been working for the russian government. if you go back and watch that interview, hes very careful in how he talks. the question posed to him let him off the hook but it seems clear there was a cutout and it was interesting to hear that from this report to want. >> nada, having been in the position with dealing with an administrat...

Runup to the osama bin laden raid, and i saw what dedication the intelligence agencies and all the different agencies that were brought to bear for that action gave for ten years, looking for osama bin laden. and the sort of dedication. when you question that, and you question their motives and you question their competence, and youre going to be president of the united states and lead these men and women who are out there risking their lives every day for our security, its just a dangerous thin...

Could be behind this. is there any doubt? >> there is no doubt. i dont understand why there are continued statements by the president-elect and others saying nobody knows. the 16 intelligence agencies plus the d.n.i. which oversees all of them unanimously said the russians tampered with our elections. >> with confidence. >> with confidence. thats another thing. its unusual nowadays especially after the much mentioned by president-elect trump failure to get the intelligence right in the runup to ...

Meaningful when marshalling political pressure. >> so how do you make sense of the timing here? theres a lot of head scratching about the timing. theres head scratching on the timing of both of these things that have happened in quick succession that the critics of the obama administration say youre a coward, that you made sure to sign the aid deal in the runup to the election because you knew that would be popular then in the lame duck session you allow this to come forward to the security coun...

Process. and were going to look at the same mess in the next four, eight, 40, or 80 years. >> when president-elect trump comes in, he certainly has a big mess to clean up, thats for sure. leslie marshall, thank you so much, alex conant, thank you for coming in as well. russia is vowing retaliation against the united states if the white house carries out a threat to punish russia for interfering with the u.s. presidential election. our white house correspondent kevin cork is live in hawaii with...

Will in fact punish the russians for alleged activity and cyber hacking in the runup to the 2016 election. again, a lot of people are wondering, what does this mean moving forward? well, president obama has placed the blame squarely on russian president vladimir putin. in fact in his words, he warned him to cut it out. but where do we go from here? here is what president obama himself said about the issue at his year-end press conference. >> that should be a bipartisan issue. that shouldnt be a ...