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Politicized. so in this case, kate, where the president has a vested interest in basically not establishing a tie between russia and the hacking you know wi, i think th in this case, pompeo should have respectfully said, you know, i need to consult with my own agency and make that decision of whether to look into this further, independently of this request. >> and that does not seem to be what happened, at least this time. great to see you, asha, thank you so much. coming up for us, the republican tax bill. where do things stand? well, one place is not sitting well with some republicans. why...

Involvement, both during the campaign -- >> i don't think anybody knows it was russia that broke into the dnc. she's saying russia, russia, russia. >> reporter: and since his election, as well. >> if you don't catch a hacker, okay, in the act, it's very hard to say who did the hacking. with that being said, i'll go along with russia. could have been china. could have been a lot of different groups. >> reporter: in october, director pompeo prompted a clarification from the cia when he said in a speech that the u.s. intelligence community determined that russian meddling in the 2016 election did...

Analyst, asha ringhappena, a former fbi special agent. asha, great to see you. what do uh you make of this? >> well, with i think we need to go back to the intelligence assessment in january and understand the significance of that. that report, which concluded that russian meddling and hacking happened was issued by three agencies, the fbi, the cia, and the nsa. these agencies do different things. nsa does signals intelligence, cia does human intelligence, the fbi does counterintelligence within the united states and the idea here is the promote some friendly competition among these agencies b...