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View of what they might be doing to try to undermine his coming presidency. there's a lot going on in that transition period from election day to inauguration day. he probably did interpret this as one more indication that fbi and this individual appointed by barack obama is trying to hurt me. that was not the case. jim clapper and myself want to say we want to make sure the president-elect had much insight as possible into what the russians did to interfere in our election, who's responsible for it and jim comey wanted to make sure the president-elect was aware of this information in the doss...

So joining us instead, former director of national intelligence james clapper as well as fareed zakaria, host of "gps" here on cnn. director clapper, the president saying that nobody has been tougher on russia. as director of national intelligence in the previous administration and a career national security official, having been part of the military and the intelligence community since the height of the cold war, is he right? >> no, he's not. and by the way, put me in the stupid camp. >> okay. >> i'll give him the benefit of the doubt here when he said that, you know, nobody has been tougher ...

His tweets and these sort of meaningless statements keep coming out, that more and more people in this country and certainly in the rest of the world are just going to kind of ignore what he says. and that in itself is, as i say, a terrible commentary. >> general clapper, fareed zakaria, appreciate it. coming up next, our political panel weighs in on the news today on whether it's a sign some are saying of a president no longer restrained, you might say, by advisers and feeling more like himself. later, the president's attacks on amazon. the connection to his feud with "the washington post...

I think that in itself is a sad commentary where what the president says is not taken very seriously. and i think as more time goes on and more and more of, you know, his tweets and these sort of meaningless statements keep coming out, that more and more people in this country and certainly in the rest of the world are just going to kind of ignore what he says. and that in itself is, as i say, a terrible commentary. >> general clapper, fareed zakaria, appreciate it. coming up next, our political panel weighs in on the news today on whether it's a sign some are saying of a president no longer...

In 2016, engaged in what it describes as a hybrid war against western democracies, interfering in election campaigns, interfering in ref ren da, and most partly interfering in the 2016 election and apparently continuing unabated in 2018. this, you know, is cyber war. you can call it what you will. it's special ops. the president has never really publicly denounced russia. as far as we know, he has never brought it up with putin. i'd be delighted if he were to meet putin to talk to him about this issue, to explain to vladimir putin that he cannot interfere with western democracy. he cannot inte...