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Today for the first time. trumps response to the election hacks, the claims of ties between his inner circle and the kremlin and his general stance towards russia all make up at this point the single most controversial aspect of the president-elects foreign policy. so it was fitting that today while trump was giving his press conference, his nominee for secretary of state, rex tillerson, was testifying in his first confirmation hearing on capitol hill. tillerson has had extensive contact with th...

Donald trump, i consider that an asset, not a liability. >> president-elect donald trump still showing no demonstrable outrage or unease over russias reported attempts to sway the u.s. presidential election through criminal political sabotage which he acknowledged today for the first time. trumps response to the election hacks, the claims of ties between his inner circle and the kremlin and his general stance towards russia all make up at this point the single most controversial aspect of the pr...

Election hacks, and we have one of those senators who attended the meeting with us. senator mike lee, republican from utah. senator, how are you, sir? >> doing great. thank you very much. >> i know you want to violate all of the classified rules that came about and the warnings that came about in there. let me ask it this way. are you convinced that russia played a role in the 2016 election based on what you heard today? >> again, its always a challenge whenever you come out of a classified brie...

Relationship with the president of russia. >> his nomination comes as the president elect repeatedly praised the russian leader. >> wouldnt it be nice if we actually did get along with russia. >> and repeatedly dismissed the u.s. intelligence community assessment that russia hacked the presidential election. >> they cannot be sure of the situation. >> tillerson met with lawmakers on capitol hill last week ahead of what is expected to be a contentious hearing dominated by questions about tillerso...

Not having any information and in the same breath saying we had nothing to do with it and were tired of being accused of that. >> i guarentee the russian authorities would love to hear more about how u.s. intel tracked down these hacks but hopefully that does not happen. incoming white house chief of staff now saying that donald trump does believe russia is behind the election hacks. has he changed his mind? he habit said so. lets discuss with the former cia director. former cia officer and form...

To do with how the intelligence community believes the stolen data got to wikileaks and it is not the only late development. pamela brown is back with more on what shes been learning. the confidential intelligence report. what have we learned? >> that it includes the foifgss of the go between people that the russian government relied on to provide those stolen e-mails to wikileaks. the sources tell us these are third party people known as cutouts of the russian government used essentially to giv...

Government used essentially to give russia plausible deniability in the election hacks. in addition did, weve learned the report includes intercepted communications of russian government officials expressing happiness at trumps win just one factor bolstering this view within the intelligence community that russia was behind the hacks. >> and these intercepted messages we talked about earlier tonight from russia according to u.s. officials, some of them were allegedly congrat latory over trumps w...

High briefing on it, you can decide to make what you want of the quotation marks, the intelligence briefing on so-called russian hacking was delayed until friday, perhaps more time to build a case, very strange. cnn justice correspondent pamela brown has been on the story all night and joins us again. donald trump weighed in on this seemingly skeptical of russian involvement and the intelligence community. >> thats right. its remarkable how this is playing out because for months donald trump has...

Good evening. thanks for joining us. breaking news on president-elect trumps delay in unplugging himself from the family interest. theres new ties to the convicted felon known as joey no socks. a 180 on house gop plans to gut the watchdogs keeping every member of congress, republicans and democrats honest. that and breaking news on russian efforts to med until the election which is where we begin with late word that a new classified report is about to hit and the measures being taken to make sur...

Intelligence agencies that hes been challenging. we expect the top leaders, jim cramer comey, head of the fbi, james clapper head of dni, mike rogers head of nsa just a few of the leaders who will be at this meeting. and for the first time, they will present to donald trump the full picture of why the united states believes russia is to blame for the election hacks. >> well see once again how he emerges from that meeting, what he says, what he tweets. >> there is a lot of hope. hope in the intel...