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damaging to hillary clinton and the democrats. the synopsis was not important about the hacks, but showed that it intended to hurt clinton's candidacy and help trumps. the official added i think the concern has to be sure that whatever information was out there is put into the system so it is evaluated, as it should be and acted upon as necessary." >> topic of the russian hacking investigation came up on capitol hill. at a senate intelligence here the fbi director james comey was asked whether the bureau was looking into links between the trump campaign and russia. comey refused to say, leading to this explaining with independent senator angus king. >> mr. comey, did you answer senator wyden's question that there is an investigation underway as to connections
from the pentagon. thank you. also this morning, russia echoing president-elect trump's comment that the hacking investigation is a witch hunt. this as we're learning the meeting between trump and putin is a go. according to the kremlin it's being planned, quote, very carefully. former cnn moscow bureau chief jill dougherty is following this this morning. hi, jill. >> reporter: hey, carol. they're not giving details of when it might happen. but they are saying they've learned from the past. in fact, the spokesperson for president putin, dimitri pes kof on a phone call to to day said if contacts are planned, they will be planned very carefully. we're talking about contacts in the very tense days in the evolution of our relations, in the degradation, he added, of our relations, that's why any contacts on the highest level will be very carefully arranged. that degradation they would say
people in this country feel more affinity with a leader who is an adversary and use the united states and our way of life as a threat to him, then we are going to have bigger problems than just cyber hacking. >> harris: the kremlin is now weighing in on the reports. echoing mr. trump's assertion that the hacking investigation is a witch hunt. okay, so i seem to remember a current president obama whispering in a russians air, wait until after the election of things being a little bit more admit a bowl. am i misremembering? >> andrew: know, if you are, we all are. we have seen the tape of that. i don't know what is in barack obama's mind at the moment except that the pain and anguish of a failed a legacy, he is about to experience. but let me put it in a word for donald terms attitude.
that and how it connected to the hacking investigation and he has to be getting and who is he going to look at after this is all over and held out into media circles. i don't think that sean hannity would have interviewed julian assange when he was talking about the iraq war. >> it's upside down. you're right. panel stick around. we have more upside down world to talk about. president obama and vice president elect mike pence heading to capitol hill today as both sides prepare for a major fight on the future of obamacare. this as house republicans reverse course on gutting the congressional office we talked about yesterday. he is live with more on what happened phil. >> a rather inauspicious start.
i mean, who legitimately believes that anything having to do with the hacking investigation that could take months or years would stop the electoral process that's going on in capitols right this hour? who believes that? ebony: well, from podesta and things like this that are saying -- harris: that's fantasy. ebony: of course it is. i'm saying that's very problematic. it shouldn't be, charles, that's kind of my point. meghan: you can believe russia committed espionage on this country and believe hillary clinton was a horrible, flawed candidate -- [inaudible conversations] they're not mutually exclusive. and john podesta's trying to do it -- ebony: as long as those are attached to one another, you're going to have people not paying attention to really important things. harris: while some hillary clinton insiders have blamed russianers -- russian hackers for the loss, but is the goal to
district are still going to choose the scandal in a special election. they picked a democrat -- they picked a republican over the democrat. that was the congressman who was found purchasing cocaine. >> one of the frustrations in all of this though it's not just, you know the big stuff, like, the federal investigation and tact fraud and allx fraud and all of that. it's also the little stuff like small states in virginia. corruption charges for accepted more than $165,000 in gifts alone while in office including one very photogenic rolex watch. a jury found them guilty of taking those bribes in exchange for political favors. again, it goes to what i was saying it's not just about what we see happening at the federal level. this was a problem that we dealt with at the state level with our state official. what's going on in our politics when our political leadership feel they can do these things
welcome back to hard"hardball"." the sony hacking scandal takes a new twist. a cyber intelligence company conducting their own investigation shared an alternate theory with the fbi. their data shows -- or rather says that some combination of a disgruntled employee and hackers for privacy groups is at fault. the fbi stands by its original assessment that north korea is responsible for the sony breach. and that there is no credible information to indicate that the other individual is responsible for the cyber incident. while the sony hacking investigation continues, one thing is clear. this security breach has shown a bright light on the vulnerabilities we all face with regard to our online data. andrew boreen, a cyber security expert, former associate deputy general counsel at the
aviation to have this happen. but the fact is we're going to fairly rapidly find the black boxes, the key elements of the missing piece of this. we know weather was a huge factor. we know the pilot's action may have exacerbated. weather alone never brings a plane down. we think it stalled, because it stalled, it came down intact. the debris field seems to back that up. so we're going to get to the bottom of this and solve this one, but i think we have other issues we need to talk about flying in that very, very busy congested airspace. >> i want to get to that because i think that's a very important aspect of this investigation that's going to reveal a lot about air safety in that region and the like. but seth how long do you think this is going to play itself out? i mean what is the timeline typically once you've located the plane, to begin the process of recovering not just the bodies, but the key instruments that are going to help us solve
the interview but it will not be in theaters and now sony stands to lose $74 million, what they spent to produce and -- secretary of state john kerry has asked his chinese counter part for cooperation in the sony hacking investigation. no one is officially connecting the chinese p with the attack, the national security correspondent jennifer griffin tells us there are other things to worry about coming out of chandler. >> the north koreans acted -- even though most cyber experts believe many north korean hackers are based in china. >> we have got no indication that north korea was acting in conjunction with another country. >> experts -- could lead to miscalculation. >> my biggest concern is that the distance between china and
>> reporter: steve, good morning. the white house is effectively don't want to get ahead of the f.b.i. leading this hacking investigation. reports indicate conclusive evidence of north korea's involvement, but one source could rule out a wider conspiracy, possibly involving russia, iran, maybe china. it's now the center of a major national security dilemma for the white house. we're learning at the behest of sony, american officials watched the end of the movie that included the successful assassination of kim jong-un and approved it. a major point of discussion at the white house briefing. >> before we start to publicly speculate about a response, it's appropriate that we allow the investigation to move forward. sophisticated actors, when they carry out actions like this, are oftentimes, but not always,