This country would put Julian Assange on a pedestal. We will ask about some conservatives embracing assange. Its a Fox News Sunday exclusive. Plus, we will ask our sunday panel about the horrific attack everyone is talking about. Four blacks torturing a mentally disabled white man on facebook. All right now on Fox News Sunday. Hello again from fox news in washington. Russian president Vladimir Putin wanted to block Hillary Clinton, thats the blunt assessment of u. S. Intelligence agencies on the kremlin effort to influence the 2016 election on Donald Trumps favor. Unclassified report now released after the nations spy chief brief, congress, president obama and president elect trump, in a moment, we will get the trump teams reaction from Incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, but first, lets bring in chief intelligence correspondent with the latest on what was found, katherine. Most of the conclusions are at the high confidence level. The central finding is that russian president Vladimir Putin authorized campaign to undermine and influence the u. S. Democratic process with the goal of damaging Hillary Clinton and the chances of him winning. Over russians came to favor donald trump victory. The fbi director james comey and brennon are confident putin we wanted to help mr. Trump while the nsa mike rogers whose agency analyzes intelligence, interceptive phone calls was moderately confident. Russian intelligence provided the stolen emails to Julian Assange and his website wikileaks because of selfproclaimed reputation for authenticity. Writing in a tweet after classified briefing, the president elect said there was absolutely no evidence that hacking affected the election results. Mentioning russia the Vice President president elect said the briefing was useful. It was a constructive and respectful dialogue and president elect made it very clear that we are going to take aggressive action in the early days of our new administration to combat cyberattacks and protect the security of the American People. Senior congressional leadership known as the gang of eight was briefed but they did not see the underlying raw data, chris. Katherine, i want to ask you the latest on the massacre friday at ft. Lauderdale, Esteban Santiago opened fire after retrieving a gun in chegbag, any evidence that this was terror related . Investigators have not ruled out terrorism. The fbis main field office in alaska investigated santiago in november after he told agents the u. S. Intelligence had infiltrated his mind and forced him to watch isis propaganda videos. No tied to terrorism was found. Santiagos mental state did not meet the Legal Standard for authorities to take his gun and erratic behavior was not enough for the nofly list. He now faces three federal charges. They each carry the possibility of death, chris. Katherine, thank you. One of the people when president obama was briefed is Reince Priebus, the Incoming White House chief of staff and reince, welcome to Fox News Sunday. Good morning, chris. The nations intel chiefs laid out the classified report to others in his Team Including you that russian president putin ordered a cyberattack to interfere with the election and eventually came to try to help donald trump. Simple question, does the president elect accept the findings and the evidence of the Intelligence Community . Well, i think he accepts the findings, chris, but here is the thing that, i think, Everyone Needs to understand, when this whole thing started, it started from the russians 50 years ago. In other words, this is something thats been going on in our elections for many, many years, both the russians, chinese, iranians, it happened every election period. Now, in this particular case, it started way back in 2015 before either nominee of either party was chosen and it started, and this is declassified as a spearfishing expedition over mr. Different many different institutions, it just so happened that the dnc had nearly no defenses on their system and when they were warned multiple time by the fbi, they didnt respond. So suddenly, you have a Major Political party, one of the biggest Political Parties in the world that by their own omission, lacked defenses, lacked training and allowed a Foreign Government into their entire email system without responding to the fbi. So, yes, we have bad actors around the world. We have had bad actors including the russians. But we also have a problem when we have a Major Political institution that allows Foreign Governments into thinker their system with any defense or training. And thats the big story and thats not what people are talking about as well. Theres no evidence that the russians in any way were able to get into the like electoral system and tamper with the vote count. On friday, hours before he had the briefing, donald trump said that this was, quoting a political witch hunt. I just want to be very clear on two specific points, does he now accept, because you say, well, this has been gone for years, never to this extent, you can argue as to whether they were in some way were complicit in their because of their weaknesses that weve never had this kind of dissemination before. Does he accept that the russians were behind this hacking campaign, yes or no . Well, sure. Hes not denying that that entities in russia were behind this particular hacking campaign, but let me let me just respond to your point, though, you say never have we had such a massive yeah, but here is what we have, we had the dnc as a sitting duck. Wait a second, chris, because it matters to your point. It matters because if the dnc allowed any foreign entity into their system and says, here is 50,000 emails, you can have them. Vuala, now you have the biggest dissemination of emails that weve ever seen in the history of who do you blame for this . Who do you blame more for this, reince, putin and the kremlin or do you blame the dnc, who is the primary actor here . The primary actor is the foreign entity thats perpetrating the crime to begin. Which was . Which was . Im not denying it. Russia. What im telling you is that we have a situation where you have people at the dnc let me ask you this, anyone listening out there. If you had multiple calls from the fbi, by the way, chris, this is the fbi, someone is in your system and stealing all of your emails and you ignore multiple, multiple calls, they attempted to attack the rnc in the same way. They didnt get into our system, because number one, we had our head straight and we had defenses at the rnc and number two, when the fbi called the rnc said we have a hacking situation here, we brought them in immediately. And so granted, we have bad actors around the world and cyberattacks have been happening for years but we also have an entity thats allowed through a wide open door a Foreign Government into their system. I get that. One other question, does president elect trump accept the evidence that he heard, does he find it persuasive that putins interest towards the end of the campaign was to help trump by des crediting clinton . I havent asked him about that, chris, he accepts the fact that russia and other entities engage in cyberattacks in the United States all day long. He accepts the fact that this particular case was entities in russia, so thats not the issue. If you look at his statement after he commends the Intelligence Community in the very first paragraph, he talks about the particular hack, he talks about the fact that the dnc was a sitting duck while the rnc had its act together, he then says in the first 90 days of his administration, hes going to order a full report as to what we can do to be better. But one of the things we can do to be better is when the fbi calls you and says you have a problem, you return the phone call. I want to ask you about that, he had a tweet yesterday in which he said, we want to have better relations with russia. I mean, if he accepts the fact that that unprecedented way tried to interfere with our election, does that mean hes not going to respond, hes not going to take action against russia . He very well may take hes going to order the Intelligence Community to make recommendations and whatever those recommendations are will be discussed and actions may be taken, but i dont think theres anything wrong with trying to have a Good Relationship with russia and other countries around the world and thats what the president is saying that hes going to try to have Good Relationships around the world which will put america first, bring jobs back and make us safer across the globe. Thats what he wants to do and i think thats what he will do. I want to pursue the question of the president elects relations not with russia but with the Intelligence Community because here was a tweet that he put out on tuesday, the, quote, intelligence briefing on socalled, quote, russian hacking was delayed until friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case, very strange. This was the reaction from the director of national intelligence. I think theres a difference between skepticism and disparagement. Isnt that disparaging when the president elect in the United States puts the word intelligence in quotes . And mr. Clapper also stated that theres no evidence in the report that any of this changed the outcome of the election, but to your question, here is what happened. The president of the United States a week earlier or a few days earlier took on enormous and unprecedented sanctions against russia, we then went into full gear to get an intelligence briefing on what the president knew that created that strong reaction or what the briefing was that created the sudden strong reaction and we were attempting to have that fullblown meeting on tuesday. Im not asking about schedule wait a minute. Im asking why did he put the word intelligence in quotes. Because im getting to the point. The reason he put it in quotes is that the intelligence briefing in quote that is we were attempting to have was going to have was on tuesday, turns out that the report apparently was supposed to be done that created the obama reaction wasnt going to be done until wednesday and therefore the intelligence briefing in quotes that we were supposed to have on tuesday was then, we were informed, was going to be done on friday. Here we are having to react to the russian sanction stories with the media and all of you folks, and youre a good one, chris, we were supposed to be reacting to someone that we had no ability to get a briefing on because the actual report wasnt done until wednesday. Its a frustrating situation and thats what the president elect yeah, but the question is the way the relationship that he has with the Intelligence Community and what even the i want to ask you about Something Else because the president elect seemed to put more credibility to believe the founder of wikileaks over the Intelligence Community and i want to put up another tweet that the president elect sent on wednesday, Julian Assange said a 14yearold could have hacked podesta, why was dnc so careless and also said russians did not give him the info. Reince, several years back, i dont have to tell you, Julian Assange published, disclosed hundreds of thousands of classified cables and other emails and documents that very much compromised the u. S. Military in iraq and that endangered the lives of hundreds of afghan informants helping the u. S. Military. Why would the president elect give any credibility to Julian Assange . Well, first of all, to your other point, he has tremendous respect for the people in the Intelligence Community and his statement on friday is the very first thing that he said and he we wanted to make it very clear to everyone working hard in the interest of foreign intelligence that he appreciates them very much as to assange, he doesnt think this guy is a good guy, he put in quotes things that he had said. He didnt say i support this guy. Why even quote him. Why give him any credibility . I think his point was well, wait a second. I think his point is that the dnc was so lacking in any of their defenses by their own admission weve got that. A 14yearold could have gotten into dnc. When you have staffers opening up emails, im stranded in mali and i need 20,000, click on this link and the dnc is clicking on the links, i have to tell you something, nobody thinks that assange is a great guy, i can assure you that. I think the issue here is, yes, bad foreign actors but its also the dnc that has allowed itself to be hacked by anyone in the world and that is one of the reasons why this was such a big deal. And i dont think anyone is talking about it. I want to get to one last area with you and we are running out of time. Has president elect trump given up on trying to work with democrats . Absolutely not. Absolutely not. In fact, can i explain to you why im asking the question . Sure. Because im curious as to why he sent out two tweets this week, one referring to schumer clowns and another to head clown Chuck Schumer. This is what Vice President biden said this week. Grow up, donald. Grow up. Time to be an adult. Youre president. You have to do something. Show us what you have. How do you respond to the Vice President and b on either call Chuck Schumer a clown . How is that going to help you . First of all, Chuck Schumer and president elect trump have a long, long relationship together. Donald trump has helped Chuck Schumer in his runs for senate. Donald trump has had massive fundraisers for Chuck Schumer at maralago many times before. They have a personal relationship and i have to tell you, when senator schumer says that hes going to allow the vacancy in the Supreme Court to take place as long as he wants an hes going to hold up cabinet secretaries and hes targeting eight of them when only just a few years ago it was the democrats that were saying we needed to move swiftly to approve these cabinet secretaries, eight cabinet secretaries were approved for president obama on day one. Now to turn around and say they are going to drag their feet, look, its a frustrating situation. I just want to pick up on that and i think youre seeing frustration, thats all. Less than a minute left because the office of government ethics announced this week that it has been unable to complete background ethics checks on a number of trumps nominees and said its a great concern that the confirmation hearings are going to go forward before those background checks are complete, senator schumer says youre trying to jam them through. Given the statement by the office of government ethics, any thought of delaying the confirmation hearings for any of these nominees until the background checks are complete . No, i mean, they have to get moving. They have to move fast e and they have all the information. These are people that have been highly successful in their lives, they need to move quicker and the fact is theres no reason. Its the first week of january, they have all the details that they need, all the information that they need. Its no different from any other new administration coming in and the American People demand it. Change was voted for and change we will get. Reince, thank you, thanks for your time today. You bet. Just 12 days till the inauguration, look forward talking to you then. You bet, thank you. Up next david nunez blaming Vladimir Putin for ordering a Cyber Campaign to influence our president ial election with the xfinity tv app, anything with a screen is a tv. Stream 130 live channels. Plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. You can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Download the xfinity tv app today. Beltway at the frozen tundra of lambo field in wisconsin where the packers host the new york giants coin kid coincidently. Congressman, welcome back to Fox News Sunday. Gate to be here in person. Chris list lets talk about the terrible attack in ft. Lauderdale, any evidence this is terror related . The investigation is ongoing. Clearly this person walk intoed the fbi and said that he was watching isis videos. Sometimes its going to be hard in the situations to know where someone who has Mental Illness and also is an isis follower and where that sometimes they can be intertwined and i think we have to let the fbi go through this and see if theres any actual data or evidence to show that this was an isis follower. Chris the big question is how did this happen, walk into the fbi office, should he have been in the nofly list, should he have been allow today carry a gun, check it in his baggage and take it on the flight with him . Right, this is the big challenge that the fbi faces with