together, and we are going to form a defense. and i have to say this also. the democratic national committee was totally open to be hacked. they did a very poor job. they could have had hacking defense, which we had, and i will give reince priebus credit, because when he saw what was happening in the world and with this country, he went out and went to various firms and ordered a very, very strong hacking defense, and they tried hack the republican national committee, and they were unable to break through. we have to do that for our country. it's very important. >> your attempts to build a better relationship with president putin? >> president-elect trump: well, you know president putin and russia put out a statement today that this fake news was indeed fake news. they said it totally never happened. now some but he would say, oh, of course he's going to say that.