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Community next week in order to be updated on the facts of the situation. top transition adviser kellyanne conway say the sanctions seem largely symbolic and continue to cast doubt on the intelligence. itself. and conway also accusing president obama of playing politics. >> even those who are sympathetic to president obama on most issues are saying that part of the reason he did this today was to "box in" president-elect trump. that would be very unfortunate if that were the motivating -- if politics were the motivating factor. we can't help but think that is often true. >> conway refusing to ...

>> that was coordinated, in your view? >> absolutely coordinated. it goes right into a cyber play book. then santa claus putin comes out and says "we won't do that. in fact we'll welcome children into the kremlin." he's done a couple things which is a good military i would say statesman objective. he is playing toward trump and perhaps you haven't heard this, but mr. trump has a bit of an ego so he's playing to that ego. he's concerned about what might happen in the overt means of cyber warfare, what the u.s. might do for him, so he's backing off to see what occurs, how he can defend against i...

Our jessica schneider is on top of that part of the story this morning. >> donald trump reiterating the skepticism that he has repeatedly discussed about the alleged russian hacks. he did speak outside mar-a-lago saying we should get on with our lives. issued this statement last night, "it is time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. in the interest of our country and its great people, i will meet with leaders of the intelligence community to be updated on the facts of the situation." top transition adviser kellyanne conway saying the sanctions seem largely symbolic and cast...

Narrowed. >> all right matthew chance in moscow, thanks so much. let's go to athena jones with president obama in honolulu. athena, we know the president condemned russia's hacking but what has been the reaction here in the u.s. to his sanctions? >> well, the white house hopes that these sanctions will have some impact. i can tell you the white house is not responding to the non-response from president putin. they're directing us to the state department. the state department official telling cnn "we have seen president putin's remarks, we have nothing further to add." so i don't expect much ne...