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Specializing in national security law. two excellent experts here. ellen, let me start with the tillerson question. does that get wrapped up in the fight and are these fair questions to ask a potential nominee? >> i certainly think they're fair questions and the degree to which this will figure into the fight is still yet to be done. right now, i think what many in congress and the public want to know is really to what degree russia did interfere in the election, what were their true motives, and what, if anything, really did their influence and interference actually accomplish? >> and marcy, ...

Term of art. it's an opportunity for agencies which may have differing theories of what happened here to submit their footnotes. and you add, the fbi doesn't back the consensus view, at least according to some of these reports. so where does that leave us now several days into this story with the leaks going back and forth? >> well, with i think the important thing is that on friday, before ellen's great scoop, which was really important, president obama had come out and said, we're going to have an assessment of what actually happened, and then in response to that, we have a story where we ge...

Take this oath of office with 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,...

What do your sources tell you goes beyond just the circumstantial evidence for the level of confidence that this was to elect trump? >> right, and we're still trying to report this all out. there have been some reports that, for instance, the russians targeted and actually penetrated the systems of the republican national committee, but did not -- and stole data, but did not leak it. now, however, that is actually not a consensus view. there are others who dispute that. and so, that part is just not clear at all. in fact, there are some in the intelligence community who aren't sure at all. who...

Assessment of the intelligence community that russia's goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help trump get elected. that's the consensus view. okay. so that is the first part of this breaking news tonight from "the washington post." the cia has told u.s. officials and senators secretly that when russia hacked the e-mails of russia's campaign chair and the dnc, when they fed that information to the u.s. public via wikileaks, it wasn't some chaos plan to make americans wonder about the integrity of the election system. they weren't trying to make us feel ughy about voting. the...