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Year. and basically whoever it is who hacked them had months and months of access to literally thousands of their e-mails. >> part of the thing that puzzled me about your reporting the news they spent a ton of money reporting a pr firm and kept it secret. was the pr firm hired because they want today be ready to respond if this stuff ended up in the public eye? >> it's a great question. they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a big name pr firm and a big name law firm. and behind the scenes really while the committee was actually short on cash to spend money on races, remember they were...

Was the p.r. firm hired because they want today be ready to respond if this stuff ended up in the public eye? >> it's a great question. they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a big-name p.r. firm and a big-name law firm. and behind the scenes really while the committee was actually short on cash to spend money on races, remember they were trying to save the house this year, they were spending big bucks to help protect themselves on this hacking matter. and it's the best i can understand, they felt they needed to protect themselves should these e-mails be publicly disseminated. they fel...

The question of russian hacking, and on the question of the intelligence community, the answer is, yes, quite clearly. this hearing today is designed, explicitly and openly by senator mccain to give the intelligence agencies a chance to fire back, basically, at donald trump. it's designed for other things, also, and he's trying to get to the bottom of the russian hacking matter. and there are substantiative things being pursued here. but the political purpose, as he said yesterday, essentially, he and lindsey graham saying, they are behind the intelligence agencies. they believe that he hacked...

Transition, not. to trump saying it was going smoothly. >> i just want to thank everybody. >> reporter: now the president-elect and his team characterizing the current white house's showdown with russia as politically motivated. >> even those who are sympathetic to president obama on most issues are saying that part of the reason he did this today was to quote, box in president-elect trump. that would be very unfortunate if that were the, if politics were the motivating factor here. >> reporter: trump's team continuing to dismiss the u.s. intelligence assessment on russian cyber attacks. >> we...

Part of the reason he did this today was to, quote, box in president-elect trump. that would be very unfortunate if that were -- if politics were the motivating factor here. >> reporter: trump's team continuing to dishis the u.s. intelligence assessment on russian cyberattacks. >> we've been talking about this for a while. all we heard through the election was russia, russia, russia. whenever it came to anything donald trump said or did most days p since the election it's this fever pitch of accusations and insinuations. >> reporter: trump says he'll meet with leaders of the intelligence commu...