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Interest of the democrats. >> you made a lot of headlines this year when you predicted donald trump would win this election. a recent headline in the washington post called you an internet sensation. thats what they call you, sir. tell us a little bit of how you predicted the win. >> i predicted the win by ignoring the pundits and the pollsters and ignoring the day-to-day events of the campaign. i kept my eye on the big picture as gauged by the keys to the white house, my historically based pred...

Electronically. that created new vulnerabilities that have to be responded to. interesting to see how he proceeds as president. presidents are generally somewhat leery of e-mail and electronic communication and all the security issues that go with that. but like he kind of went, as you know, more broadly and said this is the model for society. thats not the answer. the answer is that we have serious vulnerabilities whether its north korea hacking sony and whether it was the breaches at yahoo! an...

Huge venue, multiple entry points and multiple, it points as well. security at that night club has certainly been beefed up over the years but because of recent, you know, instability in turkey, recent trierrorist attacks, the fact that is gunman is able to enter a venue like this going to raise a lot of questions among law enforcement officials. given the fact that it is such a popular night club and because of its size, it may have had some vulnerabilities. but you were asking about istanbul i...

The iranians the same way, very sophisticated. they could hit us when they want. they choose not to. our defenses are bad. weak. our software, our hardware, the rest of it, we havent put a lot of money into it. yes, they can definitely hit us and this is the whole problem with russia that if russia gets away with this during our elections or in our power grids, who is next? and thats why the senate and the house and the president has got to face this and come up with a strategy to counter, retal...

>> ambassador, a couple questions following up on that. how close did they get to disrupting the electric grid. i know it was not actually connected to the electric grid. you say, this is very dangerous. do you see the potential for them actually disrupting the electricity, the power system in our country, first of all, that russia could do that. secondly, do you think in light of that that donald trump will take this more seriously than he has the hacking of the election. >> im not going to spe...

There is. there is great concern by republicans and democrats about the condition of our cyber security, not just in the government, but among our corporate companies, that exist throughout the country. so oftentimes, they are hacked, and they dont know it until the federal government tells them. so we need to do a lot of work in that regard. so it was very important to do the attribution, identify russia as the hacker. make no mistake they were clearly trying to impact the u.s. democratic proce...

This is a continued threat that we face. duping do you think hes prepared to fight that? >> i do. i think hes putting people in his cabinet and on his national security team that will be focused on it. will he personally go in and create a fire wall? no. i doubt hes that tech savvy. but hes putting people in place that recognize the importance of it. one of the things i would love to see the government do, instead of putting smart young kids in prison and ruining their lives, tap into what they ...

This is a continued threat that we face. duping do you think hes prepared to fight that? >> i do. i think hes putting people in his cabinet and on his national security team that will be focused on it. will he personally go in and create a fire wall? no. i doubt hes that tech savvy. but hes putting people in place that recognize the importance of it. one of the things i would love to see the government do, instead of putting smart young kids in prison and ruining their lives, tap into what they ...

Weapons of mass destruction, but for vulnerabilities to his security and to his regime, and he was not wrong about that. >> now, we have a president-elect here in the u.s. who is, in effect, taking on the u.s. intelligence community, particularly the cia, on the issue of russia hacking the u.s. election and really dismissing their judgment and donald trump in his tweets has called out the cia for getting it wrong on wmd in iraq. from your perspective, 13 years in the agency, how dangerous is tha...

It goes beyond the dnc. if you read the report yesterday from the administration, theyre saying the russians have been doing this for ten years or so and it goes beyond the dnc. it goes to critical infrastructure. the united states nuclear power plants. so a lot of people are looking at this data, trying to now find the -- >> vulnerabilities in their system. the past two presidents, republican and democrat, bush and obama, entered office of better relations with russia. obama had the reset, ends...