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Again and he cant even begin to do that without appreciating the fact that an adversary tried to interfere with the election process in our country. hes got to acknowledge that. hes got to be straightforward about what happened to this country and then hes got to take action to make sure it doesnt happen again. >> secretary panetta, appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, anderson. up next, more on the busy day in washington. president trumps revelation, if thats the right word for it, ...

President really has any kind of intellectual curiosity about the difficult problems that hes facing in the office of the presidency and the difficult challenges that hes facing across this world. and, you know, it just -- its important for the president to sit down and learn about what exactly happened here and what the russians did to try to interfere with our election process. i think this president somehow thinks that in some ways this is all, you know, collusion by the democrats, collusion ...

In fact, we did not see further tampering of the election process. >> former president obama back in december talking about his warning to president putin for the russian election hack. white house press secretary sean spicer was asked how president trump will handle his expected meeting with putin. that meeting is in a few weeks. >> is it the presidents entire to speak directly to putin if he gets that chance to say that u.s. officials believe that russia poses a risk to the leks and the united...

My conversation with former cia director and white house chief of staff leon panetta covered a lot of ground. namely, what motivates the president to say what he does and why hes so reticent to talk about russia. i asked leon panetta about it. russia did in fact interfere with the election and the best sarah huckabee sanders could do is that agrees with it. is that enough? that theres not a declared statement from the president on this? >> you know, when you have all of our intelligence agencies...

Interfere with the election process in our country. hes got to acknowledge that. hes got to be straightforward about what happened to this country and then hes got to take action to make sure it doesnt happen again. >> secretary panetta, appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, anderson. up next, more on the busy day in washington. president trumps revelation, if thats the right word for it, that he has no recordings of conversations with fired fbi director james comey. plus, the new b...

Discussed here that the russians will be back, and possibly other state actors and possibly other bad cyber actors. >> fair to assume you are concerned, if not worried, about 16 and 18 elections and all others going forward? >> yes. >> that is former homeland security secretary, jeh johnson, testifying earlier this week before the house intelligence committee. and secretary johnson joins us now. secretary, good to see you this morning. >> good morning. the administration source, live and in pers...

The new tactic is simply not to answer at all. it came up in hearings today. so did testimony in the scope of russian hacking. more on that from cnns michelle kosins kosinski. >> reporter: special investigator robert mueller on capitol hill today, meeting with senators on the judiciary committee who are tackling potential obstruction of justice by the president. >> everything is on the table. >> reporter: the intelligence committees today, russian cyber meddling front and center. >> in 2016, the...

Testifying about yesterday, and we succeeded in that. some of that is also because president obama himself confronted president putin directly back in september when we were in asia at the g-20 meeting in china where president obama confront eed president pun and made clear the united states would not abide russias interference with that element of our election process. now, what is under investigation right now -- >> except they did. >> what they did do is hacked into the dnc and selectively re...

The integrity of the election process. >> reporter: in the senate hearing, one member asked if donald trump was unwittingly acting as a russian agent by calling the election rigged. another asked if hillary clinton was by, as he put it, blaming her loss on things like hacking and fake news. >> michelle kosinski joins us now. as you mentioned before, we may finally at last perhaps get more information this week on whether these tapes exist or not. >> reporter: this has been one of the enduring my...

To answer yes, no, and maybe. and then if the russians hacked. the new tactic is simply not to answer at all. it came up in hearings today. so did testimony in the scope of russian hacking. more on that from michelle kaczynski. >> reporter: special investigator robert mueller on capitol hill today, meeting with senators on the judiciary committee who are tackling potential obstruction of justice by the president. >> everything is on the table. >> reporter: the intelligence committees today, russ...