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Physical attack, but any time that a country tries to disrupt another country in some way, shape or form, and i can say i think without going overboard here that what you see now in this election process is a small part of whats actually going on out there as far as hacking is concerned and it isnt just the russians and it isnt just in our election process. this, as were sitting here, there have been many, many attacks on the department of defense and all other agencies of the united states gove...

Out around the world and a man who spent much of his time as senator traveling the world with colleagues john mccain and lindsey graham. together the group was known as the three amigos. i began by pressing senator lieberman about president-elects affinity for vladimir putin. where does trump bear responsibility for the flattery, admiration, and almost denial of putins role and russias role of hacking the dnc over the summer? >> yeah, the president is not yet the president. donald trump is not y...

Though the entire american intelligence community agrees that the russians interslevened our election process. we know that theyve been supporting friendly candidates and european politics that theyve been using cyber intrusions in european politics, so its not a surprise that theyre doing this to us. i think the only way, look, donald trump is a strong leader, i hope, he certainly looks like hes going to be a strong leader. the we question is, what is he going to use his strength for? i think h...

Computer is safe anywhere in the world. if somebody wanted something to be kept a secret they should write it on a piece of paper and have it delivered by courier. >> he is planning to keep in place the sanctions against russia? >> his team said the president-elect plans to wait until after getting this highly classified briefing about possible russian involvement in the election process. intel officials are going to meet with mr. trump to explain why it is theyre so certain russia is the culpri...

Being expelled, 12 degrees of sanctioning you imposed, two sites. this a political sponsor diplomatic response? >> the president-elect also said over the holiday weekend, he hopes to develop better relationships with russia and china. >> meanwhile, lawmakers, really reacting to his skepticism about the russian influence or possible influence in the election process. >> right. especially democrats saying they just wish the president-elect would start listening to what intelligence officials say t...

Hacking is a very hard thing to prove. so it could be somebody else. and i also know things that other people dont know. so they cannot be sure of this situation. >> mr. trump isnt just skeptical about russian interference with the election process. he made a point to say he hopes to have a better relationship with russia and china when he takes over. hes not just talking about intel. hes talking about filling out the four remaining cabinet level jobs that are vacant. reuters is reporting that s...

Administration that has different priorities. >> and the mcconnell statement said, this is a good initial step. the indication clearly being that we need to get even tougher on russia. >> but gene robinson, a lot of peach wat people watching this, maybe its not a surprise to a lot of people that donald trump said move on. but the head of state is not concerned in some way that foreign adversary has interfered in our election process, has interfered with democracy in america. how can you move on ...

That apparently was produced for public consumptionyhis did not have an impact on the election, that donald trump was going to win, anyway. if the intelligence, though, thats being presented here nonetheless shows that russia was behind an attempt to do this, that russia was behind hacking these e-mails, putting the information out there, attempting to disrupt the election, are these sanctions appropriate? regardless of whether they affected the outcome of the election. >> well, i think the firs...

President-elect is going to similarly be concerned with making sure that we dont have potential foreign influence in our election process. i dont think any american wants that. and that shouldnt be a source of an argument. >> reporter: while theres little argument on capitol hill about whether or not the russians should face some sort of consequence for interference during the run up to the election, there is however strong disagreement over whether or not this administration should be the one t...

Saying -- that there was a boundary that was crossed when russia began interfering in the election process. before that, it was find out information, maybe use it, maybe theres economics, et cetera. but when you start fooling around with elections, i think thats where the obama administration said this cant go on and then also you have this amazing aspect of it which is the incoming president says that he doesnt accept that that is true. so there may be a message that the obama administration is...