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Election. it seems to be that the russians were doing it alone or -- well, alone. there was no room and no wiggle room here. all russia, all the time. it doesn't appear that anyone else was doing it. that was the consensus view. michael goodwin says be very careful of that sort of consensus. michael, good to have you. what do you make of this? >> there's something fishy about the whole thing. this rush to judgment, this perfect conclusion which just happens to support this excuse that this is why hillary clinton lost the election and donald trump won. yes, tomorrow the congress will have to ce...

>> ryan, tailing off that john mccain said this morning the president doesn't have an expansive strategy when it comes to handling cyber attacks. how do you foresee donald trump handling that. >> the first step is to recognize an important fact, he may have been the beneficiary of this cyber attack and which explains his reluctance to admit it happened and admit that the intentions of the russians were indeed to help him, which is the consensus view of the intelligence community now. come january 20th, he's going to switch from being the beneficiary to the target, right? it's going to be his r...

Candidates who were involved in the race here. i'm sure what president obama felt is they get to the bottom of this, they bring the information together and a serious information would follow. so i don't know all the moves made by this administration, but i can understand why they didn't want to try to tip the scales on this presidential race. >> do you think the alleged russian interference which is the consensus view that it was russia of the various intelligence agencies, there seems to be pretty good evidence of that, do you think that tips the scales, that would be decisive in the outcome...

>> well, you have to take care. with the exception of jim comey's statement 11 days before the election, you really tried to take care of the last month of the election not to tip the balance one way or the other. that isn't fair to the candidates who were involved in the race here. i'm sure what president obama felt is they get to the bottom of this, they bring the information together and a serious information would follow. so i don't know all the moves made by this administration, but i can understand why they didn't want to try to tip the scales on this presidential race. >> do you think t...

There are leaks, very unfortunate leaks, what should concern us as americans. leaks there a confidential closed door house intelligence committee meeting where people are leaking, cia is leaking, somebody in the house is leaking and the fbi is coming back and saying there's not a consensus view, it's, quote, fuzzy and ambiguous, it's not at all clear. yet people are supposed to be led to believe that somehow this caused the election result. we know what caused the election result. we know why she lost. >> the president-elect tweeted this morning, said "unless you catch hackers in the act, it's...