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Press conference of the year, a lot of attention was paid to the hacking issue and russia, but he really laid out what happened in syria and said effectively we tried our best, but russia and iran wanted it more than we did and we didn't therefore engage any more deeply. i think that's sort of what happened. he was into it and wanted to effect a change, but didn't have the same vested interest that you can include. turkey or russia or iran or backed away. that's why we areeeing this reproachment between turkey and russia. >> in is dan bull for us, thank you, sir. >> nicholas returns is ambassa...

Dealings or international dealings as a representative of the united states? do you recognize that? if we get into bed with these people, we're getting into bed with bashar al-assad. >> i want to acknowledge that the democrats are using the hacking issue to basically destroy donald trump's presidency before he's ever inaugurated, and the fact that the president is coming out and being so tough and vocal in an interview is appalling. >> they had a problem with everything, his call to taiwan, everything he does, they're going to have a problem with. >> where would they have learned that from? fr...

Podesta emails that came out and all the discussion generated about that, and perhaps that had negative impact on the clinton campaign. to say somehow that the russians were engineering the outcome or that they want the donald trump to win, do you see any evidence of that at all in this story? >> i do not. and that is the reason why we need a full investigation but, i have seen no evidence of that but we should be deeply concerned about their ability to get into almost any place they want to go. if they do that with political campaigns, can't they do it in every other aspect of america, especi...

Definitively that russia was involved and they were trying to tip the scales? >> i don't think. this is what you're seeing with donald trump trying to debunk this hacking issue in general, because he wants to say, i won the presidency, it's time to move forward. i don't think you're even hearing some of the democrats. they're very few and far between that are saying, let's do this, because then we're going to overturn the election. what you are going to see, and what some of the senators on the republican side have said, we want to do this, because next time russia could go afters u.s. it's no...

Who was doing the hacking. why was it not brought up before the election? can you imagine if the election results were the opposite. we tried to play the russian card? it would be a conspiracy theory. mike emmanuel has more. >> reporter: jon, good afternoon, it sounds like president-elect trump believes democrats are rushing the hacking issue because they don't think hillary clinton could lose the election. >> once they hack. they have no idea if it is russia or china or somebody sitting on a bench someplace. >> reporter: yet there is a push on capitol hill all issuing a statement saying democ...