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Itself? >> well, he did talk to them at the g-20. i was in their meeting. then they had some time alone together and president obama made very clear that we were going to do what was necessary to protect our election process. i think the way these things go, you have to gather the intelligence, assign responsibility for the hacking, and then you want to be very careful in considering what are the responses. is it a cyber response, defensive or offensive? are there sanctions involved? theres a ti...

A no-fly zone along the southern border of turkey and a no-fly zone in the triangle of aleppo. it really doesnt do any good. its a shame. >> thats why i keep asking, what would you do now? russia is in there. russia is not going away. how do we move russia to bring down assad? >> youre not gonna. youre not gonna. its not gonna happen. the thing that can happen is we can hope that we can bring the arabs to the table. theyre concerned about iranian influence, and we can hope to negotiate over time...

Morning on the role one of donald trumps sons has played in that very selection process. lets go to sunlen serfaty live in washington watching all of this. what are we hearing about this interior selection? not really the person, but the person who did the interviews? >> reporter: thats right. it seems that donald trumps son, don jr., was heavily involved in kind of getting donald trump to make this decision when hes considering potential cabinet secretaries. most notably for interior secretary....

That they based their conclusion on the fact that the rnc was hacked, okay? if the rnc was not hacked, then that casts doubt on their conclusions. >> michael smerconish joins us tonight along with cnns senior political analyst, david gergen. michael, the fact that donald trump is pushing back so hard on this hacking story, how surprising do you think that is? one might say, what president-elect wouldnt want to look into a foreign state, like russia, if they were trying to influence our election ...

Interference in the election at that press conference. you have new information about the extent of russian hacking. what are you hearing from your sources? >> thats right. the new information is this, that is that russian hackers, in addition to hacking into the democratic party e-mails, they also hacked into republican party e-mails, members of congress from the gop, republican affiliated nonprofits as well as thought leaders among the republican party, and why is this important? because while...

Person. because theyre not going to hold your secrets. meghan: doing it in writing. melissa: that is crazy. "the new york times" has become a bastion of catering to intellectual elitism, liberal progressive thinking. maybe they should own that. that is their sweet spot. that is who their target audience is? meghan: i think they do. >> whether they want to or not. male they will that is their readership. >> two ladies on the end who covered business for so long, lets do with the business of newsp...

The extent of russian hacking. what are you hearing from your sources? >> russian hackers, in addition to hacking into the democratic party e-mails, they also hacked into republican party e-mails, members of congress from the gop, republican affiliated nonprofits as well as thought leaders among the republican party, and why is this important? because while those hackers then exposed the information from the hacks of the democratic party, they did not then expose the hacks of the information fro...

One might say, what president-elect wouldnt want to look into a foreign state, like russia, if they were trying to influence our election process. the flip side of that, you can understand why they might be believing politics is behind some of this. >> well, it frustrates me, because i would think in a circumstance like this, patriotism would trump partisanship and polarization, and yet its not pip paid attention to your interview earlier tonight with kellyanne conway and it reminded me of what ...

Interestingly somebody who comes from texas, which is a big oil-producing state and individual who believes in forms of renewable energy including wind. jenna: representative in the cabinet. obviously president-elect trump elected by the american people but we have something call the electoral college which im sure our viewers are totally exhausted about hearing about at this point in the year and in this point in the process, but theres something percolating and we covered the story about russi...

Came forward and said there is no doubt to the fact that russia is getting involved in hacking. they released information that was detrimental to the dnc, it wasnt good for one side of the ticket much more than it wasnt good for the other side of the ticket. >> well, of course. i mean theres hacking going on all of the time. they would have had to interfere with the election process itself. thats the accusation thats being made here and thats what the us what came out and said that did not happe...