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>> the united states has confirmed what -- that russia was involved with the hacking. that is because cyber attacks leave footprints or fingerprints or something that can be traced back. the idea that we never know who is doing the harm is a really dangerous way to go forward when you think that cyber warfare is going to be a conflict in the future. we have ways of knowing that it was north korea, with sony, ways of knowing its china with some of the cyber attacks theyve done on the private sect...

Knows a lot about hacking, so what does he know that others in washington dont. ?

He knows -- you know, he has his reasons. in a lot of sense the intelligence community has been hollowed out. i think on the russian hacking thing, the intelligence community is 100% right. this is evidence that the fbi has brought forward, so this is going to be a real surface because he is going to have to rely on the intelligence community as one crisis after another. >> its actually not that hard.

The programs namesake is planning a trip to talk about ways to defend it. donald trump still doesnt buy the russians did it. >> i know a lot about hacking, and hacking is a very hard thing to prove, so it could be somebody else. i also know things that other people dont know, and so they cannot be sure of the situation. >> what things do you know that other people dont know? >> youll find out on tuesday or wednesday. >> joining me now to discuss all of this are cnn chief political reporter dana ...

>> bob, then you have congressman adam ship who says trump could be damaging his credibility. heres what he said. >> he needs to stop talking this way. if he is going to have any credibility as president, he needs to stop talking this way. he needs to stop denigrating the intelligence community. he is going to rely on them. >> it is true. he is going to be relying on the intelligence community that he is publicly disagreeing with right now. >> thats a big problem, pamela. he is going to get into...

If trump is setting up a fig leaf scenario where he is not going to directly accuse putin of the hacking, but, rather, give him an opportunity to get some plausible denial so that putin might be able to step forward and say, well, i am going to out of the goodness of my heart work with the americans to make sure that no future hacking incidents eminate from russian territory or use russian code, and if reporters who stick microphones in trumps mouth force him to say stick-like things, then we do...

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