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Controversial exceptions. clarence thomas. but the way that this is being done is really, in many ways, unprecedented. now, the question is going to be, are there eight democrats who are willing to look at this and say, hey, im going to vote to overcome this filibuster that people like jeff merkley have already said is going to be there, so i think were going to get into intense vote counting. i think right now its possible that those eight democrats are there, but the climate is so overheated r...

It begins but is likely to be a brutal battle over his confirmation. shannon bream is that the court to tell us more about judge gorsuch. mike emanuel tells us what he is hearing on capitol hill and the vote counting already started, but we will start at the the white house with john roberts. >> it is one of the most important decisions the president can make, a choice that can last for decades, and it was a choice president trump says he thought long and hard about. >> i took the task of this n...

This information, they do want to tip off the russians or other actors about the next move. julie: how confident is the intelligence community and these findings carolyn? >> the conclusions are at the height confidence level. their high-quality sources that back up this claim but here are the bullet points of those conclusions. one, putins goal eventually came to help donald trump when the white house but at first the kremlins mission was to hurt hillary clinton and undermine her likely presiden...

To tip off the russians or other actors about the next move. julie: how confident is the intelligence community and these findings carolyn? >> the conclusions are at the height confidence level. their high-quality sources that back up this claim but here are the bullet points of those conclusions. one, putins goal eventually came to help donald trump when the white house but at first the kremlins mission was to hurt hillary clinton and undermine her likely presidency. that did not affect vote co...

We havent, you know, some agency, the fbi in particular, cia, have been doing very good work in this space but were still playing catch-up with regards to the aggressiveness of our daily attacks against our infrastructure. reporter: the report says it collected information on republican affiliated documents but did not have a disclosure campaign. they said the if it affected out come that is not their job but they said the attack did not affect vote counting. uma? uma: thank you very much. lets ...

Efforts into the long list of other ways, including russian government agencies, state funded media, and paid social media users. that refers to russian television, and, slammed clinton and wikileaks, and those "trolls." people post nasty rumors and lies. they didnt assess whether it affected the outcome. thats not their i dont know but it did not affect the vote counting. before the briefing, mr. trump told the new york times that the controversy was a political witch-hunt. he acknowledged that...

Not conduct a comparable disclosure campaign intelligence community didnt assess whether the hacking operation affected the elections outcome but hacked did not affect vote counting report details list of ways kremlin tried to influence election outside of hacking, including third party intermediaries paid social media users, some former officers lament the findings are lost moneying political fighting. >> importance of what we have been talking about the subordinates rush ae number two of cyber...

Conduct a comparable disclosure campaign. the intelligence committee didnt assess whether the hacking operation affected the elections outcome, but they do say the hacking did not affect vote counting. the report also details the list of ways the kremlin tried to influence our election outside of hacking including using third party intermediaries and trolls to post ugly lies and rumors on social media. >> this is not a threat or warning issue. this is a policy issue. the white house and those in...

Bureau. hi, caroline. >> reporter: the report says this is part of russias plan to assert its influence on the world stage and that the kremlin will take what its learned in this attack and try again. it concludes that russian president vladimir putinen ordered the attack himself and the goal of it eventually became to help donald trump win the white house. but the report details that at first the kremlins mission was to hurt the u.s. democratic process, to hurt hillary clinton and undermine her...

About how the vote counting went during the election that night in december, 2011. check this out "the quality of the process deteriorated considerably during the count which was characterized by frequent procedural violations and instances of apparent manipulation including several serious indications of ballot box stuffing." this is interesting. in other words theyre saying the count maybe started off okay, the election wasnt very fair, there was stuff going wrong but the count started off oka...