theory. and he also tweeted, unless you catch hackers in the act, it is very hard to determine who was doing the hacking. why wasn't this brought up before election? as of course everyone knows, it was brought up before the election, by the director of national intelligence, which issued a statement on october 7th, saying the u.s. intelligence community is confident that the russian government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from u.s. persons and institutions, including from u.s. political organizations. these thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the u.s. election process. in october, mike pence acknowledged that russia was implicated. >> i know you're getting intelligence briefings. do you brief the american intelligence that says russia is behind all of these hacks into