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Connecticut. he joins us now. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. the breaking news from cnn tonight, russian spies have increased their efforts to gather intelligence in the u.s. they feel emboldened to do so, we are told, because of the lack of retaliation to the 2016 interference from both the trump and obama administrations. you're on the house intelligence committee. have you seen evidence of this? >> well, very haven't seen specific evidence of it but it's not at all surprising, right? if you're a russian intelligence boss, you're saying, look at the election hack caused no...

He's into his fourth u.s. president. he famously brought his labrador into a meeting with angela merkel knowing she has a phobia about dogs. >> with all the talk about is he going to bring up the election. the president just said that nobody knows for sure who was behind the election hack despite the fact that the intelligence agencies were quite firm in their conclusions. it's hard to see how he could bring it up with putin, tell him to cut it out. make sure it never happens again, which we know what putin's position given the president said nobody knows for sure. he's taken away the option o...

Change. i think we'll be resigned that's not going to happen. if someone gets under his skin, he's going to lash out in personal terms and not regret it and like beth said, it's a small fraction but with his base, it does not hurt him. as a matter of fact, they believe he is aggrieved and this is the right thing for him to do. >> good to see you, heidi. thank yo s so much. president trump and vladmir putin yet to come face-to-face. the two will have their first meeting next week. is the election hack going to come up in that meeting? can mitch mcconnell jam together a new health care deal ...

They prefer fixing obama care. what should democrats do? >> i think democrats cannot sign onto anything that's going to cut all these people and kill obamacare. senator collins and senator cassidy have a bill that doesn't have all these tax cuts and cuts in it. if you started with something like that instead of this thing you might get some democrats working with them. you can't have a bipartisan bill that's premised on destroying obamacare. that's the choice republicans are going to have to make. they can do, i think michael described well what the republicans are going to try to do. i can't ...

Steps were taken by the obama administration in those last few months to try to retaliate or respond the election hack and wha whatever the trump administration has done, nothing has worked. they would steam be unimpeded and the responsess to date have been ineffective and if that's the case, we have to rethink what our cyber strategy is. >> we were just reporting a week or two ago that there was fake news that influenced james comey's decision about the hillary clinton investigation as well. >> and this is the issue. fake news has been used to influence our president as well as politico has r...