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President-elect this week. you heard that there is more confidence, according to the officials there, the dni, clapper and admiral rogers that russia was behind some of the hacking around the u.s. election. and they are going to lay out the specifics there. they will lay out a motivation you heard clapper say. now, what you are not seeing is that specifics laying out at this hearing. i thought it was also interesting the questioning of senator john mccain about julian assange and whether he should be trusted in any credibility after threatening u.s. servicemen and endangering lives and all of ...

They are instruments that you can see, feel, touch, measure, weaponry. we've had demonstration a long time ago of the impact of nuclear weaponry. and that is what creates both the physical substance of deterrents as well as the psychology. and the problem with the cyber domain it's not -- it is not -- doesn't have those physical dimensions that you can measure, see, feel and touch as we do with nuclear deterrents. >> bill: two major headlines watching that hearing for the past 55 minutes. cybersecurity is a big problem in the united states government is behind. point number two with regard to ...

The department of homeland security, u.s. cyber command to assure the department of defense and f.b.i. in its relationship with the private sector. the biggest frustration to me is speed, speed, speed. we have got to get faster and more agile. and so for me at least within my span of control, i'm constantly asking the team what can we do faster and more agile? how do we organize ourselves. what makes the most sense? we can't be bound by history and tradition here. we have to be willing to look at alternatives. >> thank you. general clapper, one of the aspects of this russian hacking was not ju...

Committee. i appreciate the offer to be here today. i will turn the microphone over to admiral clapper. before stepping down of eight years of pentagon service in a few weeks, i want to thank >> i'm sure you'll regret not having that opportunity again. >> it will be nice to be skiing a little bit in february, that's for sure. but having said that, since i am just a few weeks from stepping down i do want to thank this committee for its partnership and i want to thank director clapper and admiral rogers for the privilege of being able to serve together with them in the leadership of the u.s. int...

Ready to take the helm january 20th. >> martha: he will meet with those top intelligence officials including john brennan and clapper will be there tomorrow and director comey and trump tower. >> bill: mike huckabee joins us. i'll ask the question and get out of the way. what's the effect of hearings like this on the american public do you believe? >> very little because most of the american public they just don't believe the russians impacted the outcome of the election. even if it's proven they hacked into systems and got john podesta's emails there is not a shred of evidence it had any impa...