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Mitch mcconnell calling for congressional investigations into allegations that the russian government was behind hacking that the fbi believes was to affect the election. more from pamela brown who joins us now. what are you hearing from u.s. intelligence officials? >> reporter: we've learned, anderson, that intelligence officials within the cia now are growing increasingly confident that russia was actually right to help donald trump win the election by undermining hillary clinton. you know there was that october letter with the several intelligence agencies saying that russia was trying to s...

Growing increasingly confident that russia was actually right to help donald trump win the election by undermining hillary clinton. you know there was that october letter with the several intelligence agencies saying that russia was trying to sew chaos within the election. this is a shift in the assessment. and we've learned from our sources that people within the intelligence community were actually close to assessing that russia was trying to help donald trump. and then new intelligence came to light that has led them now to believe and brief congress that they do belief that russia did try ...

>> is he going to attempt -- what russia's role was? >> he won't interfere with an investigation. he's the president of the united states. the legislature can do what it wants. let's make very clear that the cia in this case put out a press release, there is no report for you and me to read. 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, quot...

The russian hackers, and they're trying to just make that call out to the electors. i don't think it's going to change the outcome, but i do think they're trying to make this pitch and they're basing it off the fact that lawmakers back in september -- they were criticizing the obama administration for not taking action on looking into the russian hacking. >> you had reince priebus, the white house chief of staff incoming, say this when asked about all of this back and forth this weekend. >> the russians didn't tell hillary clinton to ignore wisconsin and michigan, okay? i mean i know this is a...

That's very, very troubling. >> you know, matt, john bolton, rumored to be secretary of state, maybe possibly deputy secretary of state, he says that this russian hack would be a false flag. listen to this. >> we have to know the facts here and it's not at all clear to me, just viewing this from the outside, that this hacking into the dnc and rnc computers was not a false flag. i believe it's been politicized to a degree. >> if that was the case, no evidence leading to that yet, isn't that even more of a case for congress investigating? >> it is. it also is a case against john bolton becoming ...