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Fake news really influencing public policy, world diplomacy and threatening military confrontation, and that is at a level far beyond anything we've been talking about when we talk about fake news here in the united states. but the other point is if this, again, can be traced back to russian government hackers -- and that's a key point -- it is also a vivid illustration that whatever steps were taken by the obama administration in those last few months to try to retaliate or respond to the election hack and whatever the trump administration has done -- not much in this area -- nothing has work...

Kelly. how do you know russia is behind this? there is no finger print, a 3-year-old could have hacked this and you wouldn't be able to find out. ironically just yesterday, vladimir putin sort of bragged about the fact it might be patriotic russians who are behind this. just not the government. is there some certainty as to who hacks anything? attribution is very, very hard. if you don't have the exact human behind the key board, you're doing a lot of inference and guessing and putting a lot of circumstantial pieces together to hopefully get a full story. just like normal investigations, a lot...

Election hack. kislyak was quite upset about it, complained to the state department. then he has the conversation with flynn. and flynn apparently tells him we'll revisit this, reassures him, and putin the next day decides not to retaliate, which surprised everybody. that was -- that's what ultimately flynn's account got him fired. but the critical question we don't know is was he authorized to have that conversation by president trump? did he report to president trump after the fact about that conversation. >> yeah -- >> joy -- >> go on, david. >> we've had all this talk about contacts with k...

December 29th with kislyak, which was the day president obama imposed sanctions for the election hack. kislyak was quite upset about it, complained to the state department. then he has the conversation with flynn, and flynn apparently tells him, we'll revisit this, reassures him, and putin the next day decides not to retaliate, which surprised everybody. that was -- that's what ultimately -- flynn's act got him fired. but the critical question, we don't know, is was he authorized to have that conversation by president trump? did he report to president trump after the fact about that conversati...

Fact that they prepared a profile on the russian ambassador for flynn, they are unsure as to whether or not mike flynn ever bothered to read it. so, interesting reporting from "the washington post." after "the washington post" posted theirs, the associate press also went live with their scoop tonight on mike flynn. they're reporting that the obama administration was so concerned about what they could see of these ties between mike flynn and the russian government, that they decided to delay telling the trump transition about the obama administration's plans to levy new sanctions against russia...