and a lot of focus on mitt romney's willingness to even be a part of this. the president-elect's willingness to even bring mitt romney into the circus, if you will. to bring him into the number of candidates, because of how kind of diametrically opposed to one another they were during the campaign. that is now officially over. that call was made tonight. all signs pointing to rex tillerson, the exxon ceo will be the selection for the president-elect, for that secretary of state position. president-elect stressing that mitt romney's involvement in this entire process was appreciated and he was, in fact, a finalist until the very end, according to sources. >> thanks, phil. now the hacking story. house speaker paul ryan and mitch mcconnell calling for congressional investigations into allegations that the russian government was behind hacking that the fbi believes was to affect the election. more from pamela brown who joins us now. what are you hearing from u.s. intelligence officials? >> reporter: we've learned, anderson, that intelligence officials within the cia now are