here, to serve russian interests. >> very interesting. jim sciutto reporting for us. thanks very much. let's get more on this. democratic congressman adam schiff of california is joining us, he is the ranking member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> you bet. >> you agree with the white house press secretary josh earnest that donald trump was obviously aware that russia meddled in the u.s. presidential election in order to benefit his campaign? >> he was certainly aware that they were hacking into the institutions, and i think he was certainly aware of the benefit he was deriving from it. in fact, you'll remember the press conference he did where he said, hey, russians, if you're listening, i hope you can find the -- >> he says he was joking on that. >> well, he says that now. but frankly i don't find that credible. he may say he was joking about urging them but he understood the russians were involved in hacking and that he was benefiting and it's part of the president-elect's persona that you are either with him or against him and the russians were with him and why on earth