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The president-elect has been in touch with a russian official. back with me now, pick up our conversation. andre, were learning that trumps national security adviser michael flynn was in contact with russias ambassador the exact same day the obama administration was announcing retaliation for russias hacking. is that of concern? >> no, all along president-elect trump has said he wanted to reach out to world leaders all around. hes extending the olive branch and giving opportunity to work togethe...

And intelligence agencies, hes been criticizing. all of these leaders will be in that briefing friday and this is going to be a deep dive on the russia hack, the first briefing where you really get the full picture so theres anticipation among intelligence officials and hope that perhaps things will improve after this briefing on friday. well have to wait and see, brooke. >> that briefing was planned the friday before president obama will be briefed. more on this in a moment. but the senates top...

Were not sure where this came from and the world has changed, brooke. if you look ten years ago most intention came from human intelligence, we or from signals that the nsa does, but theres an explosion of open intelligence, on social media, out on the internet everywhere, its a trove of information where you can also drive your conclusions from. clearly trump is moving in that direction, but this is a power struggle. very difficult for the intelligence community. i have a lot of sympathy for th...

Aguilar, and ike, who both attended that meeting. they were in that room in june 2016. and he described that news, again, a cnn story of the just revealed news that russia had hacked the dnc. he described that news to those russians as quote, eerie weird, given what was discussed at trump tower five days earlier. now, we reached out, one of the sources familiar with the content of the e-mail down played that interaction saying that news of the dnc hack was surprising because in the run-up to the...