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Success in interfering in the 2016 election. you served in government. you dealt with national security threats for some time. if the president of the united states will not acknowledge the perpetrator and the seriousness of this, what is your confidence that this administration is going to fight this increased russian espionage? >> little confidence at all. clearly they are turning their back on this. the russians have always had an espionage effort here. that is not new. they feel emboldened by their success. some of this is retaliation. they are still angry that we kicked out diplomats and ...

A couple months ago saying he believed u.s./russian relations were at an all-time low. you have seen so much change since you heard donald trump on the campaign trail talking about vladamir putin. what should be the basis of that conversation? >> i think it is important. you always want to have outreach to adversaryial states. you also need to take a strong stand on the issues that are important to u.s. and national security. united states interests. i think it will be interesting to see, president trump before he was president was fairly apologetic toward a lot of russian behavior. we've seen...

Last night, he questioned their intelligence, and their findings. he will be joined by some of his top advisers, including vice president-elect mike pence and his national security adviser michael flynn, who is of course a very controversial figure. he was actually occupanusted fr position atop an intelligence agency by james clapper. just imagine the tensions in that room heading into this briefing. we are told based on our conversations with sources that, look, these intelligence officials are used to briefing presidents. they're not going in to have some type of adversaryial interaction wit...

Both sides. he's testing the immediamedia. they're suggesting they're going to shatter some of the tradition the white house press corps. enjoyed. and the media is, as you see in coverage, getting more aggressive and directly calling him out and pointing out inaccuracies and headlines making clear the things he's saying are not true. and feels like a testing period where everyone is taking the other person's measure. >> yeah. for a lot of people it might be a good thing. there's the attitude toward the presidency among a lot of americans in the press corps. in the minds of lot of americans hav...

Continue, obviously, under this administration. the question about coziness is a difficult one to answer because, of course, you don't want to be cozy with the people you cover. of course you don't want to be biassed toward the people you cover because you're cozy. a good part of journalism does actually depend on access. and if one side of the equation, in this case, the trump administration completely cuts off access and pick one part of the previous interview. but he suggested possibly they would maybe even end or cut down on the amount of daily press briefings. if you cut down on access, t...