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Can do stuff to you. now hes urging president-elect trump to accept intelligence reports on that countrys involvement. mr. obama recalled a meeting with vladimir putin at the g-20 summit in the fall and said he washed him there would be serious consequences if russia didnt cut it out. for the first time yesterday, president obama said he didnt retaliate before the election because he was afraid it would incite further hacking. the president said the russian hacks were specifically designed in pa...

The election process. joining me now is nbcs intelligence and national securitys correspondent ken dilanian. thank you for being here again. donald trump consistently questioned reports the russians are behind the hacks. how does intelligence prove it was, in fact, russia? >> we dont completely know the answer to that, melissa. its probably a good thing we dont, because it involves sensitive sources and methods, but it was interesting to hear president obama say yesterday he expects the american...

Is the next president of the united states." >> drum honald trump had more t about election night than he did about the most important story of the day, the russian attack on our election process that was designed to throw the election to donald trump according to sources. in fact, donald trump had absolutely nothing to say about any of that tonight. he did not say one word tonight about what president obama said today. not one word. joining us now, a fellow with the foreign policy initiative an...

Obamas are spending the holidays in hawaii, and trump will be continuing to fill out his administration as we just saw with the news that he is choosing the congressman from south carolina to lead the office of management and budget. >> its official today. thank you. now to new information on how russias interference in the u.s. election unfolded and president obama explained his approach in a news conference yesterday. >> in this hyperpartisan atmosphere, in a time when my primary concern was...

Potential foreign influence in our election process. i dont think any american wants that. and that shouldnt be a source of an argument. i think that part of the challenge is that it gets caught up in the carryover from election season, and i think it is very important for us to distinguish between the politics of the election and the need for us, as a country, both from a national security perspective but also in terms of the integrity of our election system and our democracy to make sure that ...

Interpretations of why they had done so. we didnt discuss what the effects of it might be. we simply let people know, the public know, just as we had let members of congress know that this had happened. as a consequence, all of you wrote a lot of stories about both what had happened and then you interpret ed why that might have happened and what effect it would have on the election outcomes. we did not and the reason we did not was because in this hyperpartisan atmosphere, at a time when my prim...

Americans and future president-elect and everyone supporting him would want more information about this. this is not about trump or the election. this is about russia violating the trust of the american people and getting involved in our election process. that should be a bipartisan issue if i ever heard of one. this is not about trump at this point. >> many republicans are coming out and saying donald trump, you have to acknowledge this happened. >> the fbi should investigate the role. there ar...

Today reject the notion theres been any squabbling become the new yorking and outgoing administrations bus thats not the way it sounded over the last couple of days. after a tense 48 hours of attacks and count ear tacks, president obama tried to turn down the temperature, urging donald trump to get on board with the probe into russias hacking into the american political system. >> that should be a bipartisan issue, shouldnt be a partisan issue and my hope is that the president-elect is going to ...

We have new energy coming in to the white house overshadowed by the russian story and blaming of another country in a interferrance of the election process. >> there is a bigger story, which is what the russians did in america is part of an overall strategy to destabilize the united states, western europe. and ukraine and the baltic state and we have seen tragically through syria and consist of assads forces of aleppo. bottom line we are in a war with the russian and potentially the chinese, too...

Similarly be concerned with making sure that we dont have potential foreign influence in our election process. dont think any american wants that. and that shouldnt be a source of argument. i think that part of the challenge is it gets caught up in the carryover from election season, and i think it is very important for us to distinguish between the politics of the election and the need for us as a country, both from a national security perspective but also in terms of the integrity of our elect...