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Assessment. but they are less confident on others. to be clear, there is no agreement on russia been the perpetrator of the attacks. >> is it clear whether the hacking activity is continuing? or attempting to continue is this. >> reporter: law enforcement officials telling us at cnn and my colleagues that it is continued. it's continued in fact unabaded since the election targeting u.s. political institutions, political parties. that includes the democrat party. there was apparently an unsuccessful phishing attack to the system. and anderson, you have all of this evidence here. growing confide...

Something even nor aggressive, which would be going after critical infrastructure in russia or showing russia that you can go after critical infrastructure. the problem with that, we know, i've had intelligence officials tell me that there is concern that russia has breached or has access to our critical infrastructure. if you take that step against russia, what does russia do in response? do you get into a vicious cycle? each of these options, in effect, has risks. >> and you have new reporting tonight that the hacking activity by russia is continuing? >> no question. in fact, it's continued ...

And then you have, other more punitive options, one being economic sanctions. that's the tactic that the obama administration clearly likes. they used it against russia for its military action in ukraine. of course, they used it against iran for a number of years. and you could then escalate above that with real retaliatory cyberaction, everything from similar to what russia did, right, exposing embarrassing information, perhaps the finances of vladimir putin or people close to him, or something even nor aggressive, which would be going after critical infrastructure in russia or showing russia...

As recently as last week indicating attempts to get into their private e-mail accounts. officials say that despite russian expectations of better relations with the incoming trump administration, alisyn, they expect the russian hacking activity will continue largely unabated. >> thank you for that reporting. we'll get into it more as the program progresses. how will president obama fight back? first, let's bring in suzanne malveaux live at the white house. what do you expect, suzan? >> president obama is vowing retailiation for the hacking and influencing the u.s. presidential election. now,...

Going to be all of our president, is already throwing under the bus the intelligence community with whom he's going to have to work on life and death matters. wasn't that a troubling thing to do at 9:34 last night -- >> no. michael, the "new york times" in their story said they based their conclusion on the fact the rnc was hacked. if the rnc was not hacked, then that cast doubt on their conclusions. >> all right. so, michael, let's start at the beginning. in terms of whether or not russia was involved in the hacking activity in and around the election in this past cycle, the answer seems to b...