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Kind of a little paralyzed by concerns that no matter what he did, it would make matters worse. if he did something too soon, then it would feed into the narrative that trump -- that then candidate trump was basically saying, that this election was fixed against him. so if he did anything, no matter what it was, he was concerns. it would potentially be used by trump to say that this election was somehow illegitimate and designed, those actions by obama, would be designed to help hillary clinton win the election. so that was one of the concerns. >> adam, i know that you're being very circumspec...

we appreciate it. >> thank you. joining us now, we want to get to the counselor to president trump, kellyanne conway. good morning, kellyanne. >> good morning, alisyn. >> thanks for being with us. this is a busy day. >> my pleasure. >> as it always is. lots of breaking news. i want to ask you about adam's reporting just shared from "the washington post," this goes the furthest we've seen to connecting president putin of russia to actually giving the directive to interfere in the u.s. election, and to try to hurt hillary clinton. what's the white house's response to this? >> well, the presid...

Intelligence reporters like myself and those at cnn are always trying to find out what is going on on the covert side of the ledger. when it came to discussing the nature of this thing, that the cia had with regard to putin's instruction, that is very sensitive and potentially, you know, could affect the ability of the u.s. government to continue to get that information. and we discussed with intelligence officials just, not disclosing certain pieces of information about that intelligence in order to protect those sources and methods. when it comes toed finding, the covert finding that was sig...

Trump win. >> the "post" writes about how to punish the kremlin and what impact his potential involvement would have on the outcome of the race. joining us now one of the journalists that broke the story, "washington post" reporter adam intest. adam, welcome back. let's drill down on one of the really important aspects of this piece. definitive prove according to your reporting that russian president putin wanted to influence the election, and help trump and hurt hillary clinton. tell us more about how you know it. >> yes. so the cia obtained from what it considers to be one of the most reliab...