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Power to affect our democracy and our sovereignty. thats the most important thing. this is enormous and the fact that people arent screaming about this, you know, with, you know, our elected. i had a conversation with some very high up people in -- in the republican party and they said if donald trump had won an electi election, a popular vote by almost 3 million votes and there was an a russian intrusion into the election process they would have elected officials blanketing the airwaves and hav...

And, in fact, we did not see further tampering of the election process. >> but russia has a message back for the u.s. -- it says prove it or shut up. want to talk with this with clarissa ward who is live in moscow. clarissa, are you hearing anything about whether russia may retaliate when it comes to these and what they will do and how far they will go? >> at this stage, we havent heard much of a reaction to president obamas press conference yesterday in which he all but specifically named presi...

Ensure that that didnt happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out and there were going to be some serious consequences if he didnt. and in fact, we did not see further tampering of the election process. >> but russia has a message back to the u.s. they say, prove it. >> cnns brian todd has details for us. >> reporter: cnns intelligence sources say vladimir putin was aware his cyber warriors were hacking into the democratic party during the election cycle. one u.s. official say...

Check out this headline, fbi in agreement with cia that russia aimed to help trump win white house. thats the headline "the washington post," yet donald trump continues to say he doesnt believe it and that its just partisan sour grapes. and in his final press conference of 2016, president obama blamed vladimir putin and said that he told him to knock it off. >> in early september when i saw president putin in china i felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didnt happen was to talk t...

President-elect is going to similarly be concerned with making sure that we dont have potential foreign influence in our election process. >> the president let it downplaying a rift ueugene, but using the word hope, hoping they will be on the same page as donald trump takes over, takes the oath of office. >> reporter: theres some concern that they will not be. we saw earlier white house press secretary josh earnest suggest that donald trump is more aware of russian involvement into hacking than ...

For them for behavior like this in the future but does not create problems for us is something that is worth taking the time think through and figure out. >> announcer: and he rebuked some republicans who were supportive of putin. >> over a third of republican voters approve of vladimir putin, the former head of the kgb. >> reporter: we should point out those numbers come from a economist that doesnt meet cnns polling standards. regarding the president said hes urged his successor to work in a n...

Bloodshed. if you support the losing side and keep supporting it and it keeps losing, its just more death and destruction so, you know, its a terrible question to ask but then if you are not going to really decisively be able to help the syrian moderates maybe the best thing would have been to get out and let order establish itself one way or the other. certainly you would have had fewer dead syrians probably. >> fareed, thank you so much for coming in, i look forward to your program this weeken...

Chair of the house intel committee said we have not received any information from the intelligence community agencies indicating they have assessments on this issue, and i am alarmed new information is leaked to the media but has not been given to congress, so you have had a briefing from the cia and fbi on this matter? >> i have to be careful, and what we are seeing from the various public reports is all the intelligence agencies have confirmed that russia and vladimir putin himself was behind ...

Insure that that didnt happen was to talk to him directly. and tell him to cut it out and there were going to be serious consequences if he didnt. in fact, we did not see further tampering of the election process. >> and russia has a message in return to the u.s. they say prove it. >> lets bring in elizabeth wahl. hello to you. >> good morning. >> i want to start with what we heard from some members of congress talking about what should be the response to russia to vladmir putin. we have a tweet...

>> while trump says thank you, president obama is giving a warning and nearly naming russian president vladimir putin as the man behind the russian hacking and interference in the election. >> in early september when i saw president putin in china, i felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didnt happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out and there were going to be some serious consequences if he didnt. and in fact, we did not see further tampering of the election ...