democratic targets and the transmission of that stolen material to wikileaks. that's what we know so far. u.s. intelligence officials now believe with a high level of confidence that putin became personally involved in the campaign to interfere with our presidential election. two senior officials telling nbc news that new intelligence shows mr. putin personally directed how that hacked material from democrats was leaked. and sources believe it all started as a vendetta against clinton, tracing back to comments the former secretary of state made about russian elections five years ago. president-elect trump already on the record calling the cia assessment of russian hacking ridiculous and he cast more doubt this morning in a tweet saying, if russia or some other entity was hacking, why did the white house wait so long to act? why do they only complain after hillary lost? joining me now is nbc news national correspondent peter alexander, "new york times" political reporter, and ken