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Sources briefed on the matter. that's what they tell cnn during that pull-aside, comey briefed the president-elect on that two-page synopsis of russian claims, unsubstantiated against donald trump. i want to bring in our experts and analysts. evan perez, i want to start with you right now. this is a significant development that the fbi director personally took donald trump aside and said, you know what, here's a two-page summary. here's information that's very damaging to you. we haven't confirmed any of it. it's unsubstantiated. he wanted to point it out to him. >> right. it really fits into ...

>> she got straight a's all through -- >> i mean -- >> she got a b- in line. this is an incredible victory for putin. the whole point was to create a rift and to subvert the trust in our intel because by having the president elect marginalize your spy services, it is like your rival team is benching your smartest team or your qb. that is what is happening. putin didn't have to do that much. >> he was like the king of the kgb. >> never forget. >> there is that school of thought that says the intel community has been politicized. you look at the two examples, mentioned dni clapper. >> also the i...

International politics and he didn't understand the bigger picture. and that's where he made some of his greatest mistakes. >> let's speak about one of those and that being weapons of mass destruction, right? this idea that -- the reason that the u.s. brought about the invasion, and as it turns out, he didn't have weapons of mass destruction, but he, you know, was keeping that myth alive to some degree, which helped bring on the invasion. why? what was his thinking? >> well, i think that he never -- saddam was one of the most secretive men i've ever met in my life. even in prison, he would alw...

They view as very important parts of our security apparatus, of their security cordon to protect themselves from nato. they believe the u.s. has been asked this game for a long time. so they were simply responding. that's the view of the russian government if you look at the documents the obama administration has put out today they're saying the russians went too far. it's gone beyond the regular spying, it's the dissemination of that information that went extraordinarily too far from what we normally see from spy services. >> evan perez, thanks so much. this just in, this crossing our cnn int...

The hackers that work for these organizations. so i.t. professionals can know what to look for if they see activity with these hacking groups. the problem with this is that you publish this information, declassify this, it becomes publicly known and those spy services can simply change their operations. they'll change their tactics so we expect that's what's going to happen in the next few days. >> and one has to wonder if you're going that now and this has been common knowledge in the intelligence community then why not have done that before? don't you open yourself up to that criticism when ...