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What you are hearing from the trump transition team and the senior transition official is that yes, they do acknowledge that russia is one of the actors involved in cyber hacking on the united states on the american political system. they're not going as far as to accept, you know, hook, line and sinker everything that the intelligence community is saying about vladimir putin being behind this hacking attempt to throw the election to donald trump. what i did hear from a senior transition official is that they do believe based on the presentation they heard earlier today that this hacking was a...

How do you respond to a sieker attack. the problem has been, whether the pentagon or anyone else looking at cyber warfare, the problem is you have to get attribution, figure out the point of origin. then you have to figure out what is an appropriate response. and the concern is that you know, responding in cyberspace could escalate very quickly. now, i agree with tom, i think the interesting -- there are so many layers here -- it's interesting that the signature or the fingerprints left supposedly by the russians in this hacking attempt were relatively in the scheme of thing in forensics easy ...

Willing to come and hit us right in the face, and we know exactly who it is, and they know exactly who it is, and they've found it to be a very effective part of their strategy. ultimately, i think their goal, i don't know whether it was to swing the election one way or the other, but the goal was to increase the level of infighting and divisiveness in our country, and the more they can force us to fight internally, the less effective we will be against them. so i think we need to think about what we can do using cyber operations and that we set standards of behavior and implement them. and i ...

Implement them. and i think talking to president putin in september after the attack was a little too late. >> the hacking attempt has been made public in the united states. so if we had some kind of cyber attack against russia that was successful, would they make public what they did? >> it depends on what they did. in my estimation, no, we would not make it public, and it would be to our advantage to leave it somewhat ambiguous, if we did elect to do something and found it to be effective, we'd probably let the russians make the statement in a similar way that we have, but we would find acti...