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The current white house press secretary, josh earnest wrote today, quote, russias cyber activities were intended to influence the election. erode f erode faith in the democratic institutions. one of the items is influence the election. is is the white house official position that the russians were trying to help donald trump and defeat hillary clinton? >> the position has been laid out quite clearly by the statement of the dni and the secretary of homeland security issued back in october, which ...

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 to mete out justice. >> the b...

>> what youve seen today in the announcements weve made and the set of steps that we are disclosing today is a determination to make clear that there will be consequences for aggressive activities from the russian government against our personnel, and in efforts to interfere with our election process. >> nbcs hans nichols is at the pentagon and joins us now live from ere. hans, lets talk a little bit about theignificance of these sanctions. walk us through them aittle bit. >> well, there are rea...

In response to and in order to impose consequences for the russian governments increasing harassment and aggression toward our personnel in moscow and, of course, their malicious cyber activities, interfering and an effort to interfere in our election process, we are imposing consequences. we are expelling the 35 intelligence officers and their families from this country. theyve got 72 hours to leave the country. were also closing those compounds and not allowing access anymore to those compound...

Is there any evidence that youre presenting, is there any statement youre making to that effect here? >> im not going to get ahead of what the intelligence community produces. what youre seeing today is a set of actions that are put forward to respond to the aggressive activity of the russian government against our personnel and in their efforts through cyber means to interfere in our election process. these are a set of actions to impose costs and to make very clear not only to the russian gove...

Help the president make very, very tough decisions. we live in a world that is getting very complex. if a president thinks he can make decision without any information, he is going to find out pretty soon that that -- >> very quickly, is there a way for the agency to release the material it has without compromising its methods? it certain dhi that in iraq in 2003. at least the administration did it on behalf of them. can you envision a way going forward where the outgoing administration or the i...

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 ...

Approach to war compared with his predecessor. instead of fighting terrorism with large armies, he would rely more than ever on a new technology. it would change the very nature of war. the armed drone. >> never before in american history has an american president had the technology and the legal authority to hunt down any person anywhere on the face of the earth and kill them. >> there was a surreal selection process that became known as the kill list. >> they would have bios and pictures of th...

Instead of fighting terrorism with large armies, he would rely on a different technology. it would change the very nature of war. the armed drone. >> never before in american history has an american president had the technology and the legal authority to hunt down any person anywhere on the face of the earth and kill them. >> there was a surreal selection process that became known as the kill list. >> they would have bios and pictures of these people. some came to be called sort of baseball card...

His predecessor. instead of fighting terrorism with large armies, he would rely more than ever on a new technology. it would change the very nature of war -- the armed drone. >> never before in american history has an american president had the technology and the legal authority to hunt down any person anywhere on the face of the earth and kill it. >> there was a surreal selection process that became known as "the kill list." >> they would have bios and pictures of these people, some came to be ...