senator thune, thanks for coming in. >> nice to be with you. >> do you accept the assessment of the intelligence community that it was russia and the highest levels of the russian government, putin, who were directly responsible? >> i think what they said today, that's what they believe. they'll file an official public report on monday. there are a couple of other hearings today on capitol hill in the foreign relations committee, where i think we'll get a better and better understanding of all of this. but i think there's no question that russia was involved. >> so you -- but you accept that? because the president-elect, at least so far, he's going to be briefed tomorrow on this new report in new york by clapper and the other leaders of the intelligence community. so far, he hasn't accepted it. he said it could be china, some guy on his bed? >> i think he'll get the briefing tomorrow from the intelligence community. i hope after he has that, you know, he'll be able to articulate probably in a more clear way his view about what actually happened and what the underlying motivations were,