kellyanne conway had to say about it today. >> that cannot be verified. that's a classified briefing. we should all be increasingly confirmed that we have, quote, intelligence officials, divulging information unsourced, unnamed to the rest of us. just to smear the president-elect of the united states we now have intelligence officials divulging information they're sworn not to divulge. we should be very concerned about that. i don't even think this is fake news. i think it's just fake. i would take the news word right out of it. >> reporter: so what we're seeing from donald trump and his advisers is pushback against the intelligence community but taking issue with the underlying allegations that cnn has not cooperated and have not been reporting. and reince priebus, trump's chief of staff, said he asked donald trump directly about some of these underlying allegations. donald trump apparently told him they were complete garbage but