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Of the sanctions. as you heard from congressman shift, a lot of people wanted something done, on both sides of the aisle. the box trump put himself in is does he admit there was a cyber attack, when the intelligence is overwhelming, many people feel it is. if he admits it he is admitting he was wrong, he didn't like to do that. >> lynn, quickly on trump versus the intelligence community? >> well, he so far has not shown that he is a user of the intelligence that is available to him. he's going to have a briefing monday, if you give him a benefit of the doubt that he just needs time, a little m...

There is. there is great concern by republicans and democrats about the condition of our cyber security, not just in the government, but among our corporate companies, that exist throughout the country. so oftentimes, they are hacked, and they don't know it until the federal government tells them. so we need to do a lot of work in that regard. so it was very important to do the attribution, identify russia as the hacker. make no mistake they were clearly trying to impact the u.s. democratic process. the election process in this country. and we need to identify them as the perpetrators. we need...

Democratic on the house intelligence committee, criticized obama for his, quote, excess in caution, in dealing with the interference. do you agree with that? >> i think there will be overt and covert action against russia for the steps that they took. i think the president was in a difficult position in that had he taken steps before the election, it would have been seen as trying to sway the election. so having that as a backdrop s was, i think, somewhat problematic for him. i do think, though, we have to be very aggressive at pushing russia back. the 35 people that have been expelled from th...

Terror group releasing another video threatening attacks on new york, nothing new there. security had been increased in new york and other major american cities. adam shift is the ranking democrat of the house intelligence committee. i spoke to him just before the program this evening. congress man shift, this video threat from isis to new york previously obviously made a threat earlier in the week against washington d.c. do you believe there is an imminent threat to the united states? >> i don't think there is an imminent threat like paris. we're a hard target to reach and isis made it clear ...

Particular raid there is the possibility they may have hoped somebody else was there. i have to say it's on the far end of probability that they expected to really capture him alive. this was initially a capture mission, u.s. officials say, because isis leadership they worship death frankly. it's unlikely they'd just surrender and hand themselves over. they now have his wife and laptop but on the balance of it all you're seeing a very high-risk maneuver a rare thing frankly that either signifies a whole new era in u.s. special forces operations against isis leadership like we saw in afghanista...