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Barbara, do we know if the documents, first of all are genuine? >> reporter: what u.s. officials are telling cnn is yes, they do believe the documents to a very large extent are authentic. they can't be sure every word, every page that something hasn't been altered inserted or deleted, but they are working on the assumption of their belief that it's all very authentic and verified. this investigation will involve the fbi looking into the potential of criminal activity and will involve the cia because it's cia documents. they need to figure out how this happened. who did it, who was behind it. ...

Either way it contained these very detailed allegations about a russian government campaign designed to influence our election ordered and directed from the highest levels from putin's office and carried out through cyber attacks, through strategic leaks of stolen information, through complex, sophisticated propaganda efforts designed to hurt hillary clinton's chances in the election and bolster donald trump's. before that was it was the statement in october when the department of homeland security and director of national intelligence warned ahead of the election there was a concerted russian...

Including hacking operations to steal and publicize information from the democratic party and the clinton campaign in order to hurt them both. before that, in september there was the warning published by the fbi saying that boards of elections in individual u.s. states had been hacked. the ip addresses they named and publicized in conjunction with those attacks were later traced back to a server farm in russia. so all of these reports, right, intelligence reports, news reports, these will all be part of the history of this presidential campaign and presidential election but now in the early da...

Tied to russia's military and intelligence services. they've emboldened putin. >> he's acting like he won the american presidential election. he feels like the most powerful man in the world. >> reporter: still putin and his inner circle tonight are said to be bracing for america's response issuing new plans to guard against cyber attacks. u.s. officials have told cnn they're looking at that as a possible option. how could america retaliate? >> the u.s. cyber command at ft. meade has a team looking into what the russians are doing, not to collect sbegs on it, but to disrupt it if the president...

Welcome back. i'm frederiricka whitfield. from russia's hacking operations to the attack at istanbul's nightclub to north korea's imminent nuclear missile preparations, today is shaping up to be a busy year in foreign policy and sure to impact donald trump's incoming administration. earlier, i spoke with jamie cubcub ruben, on how the president-elect may be tackling these unsettling issues. >> i think the idea of islamic-based terrorism is certainly something that president-elect trump made clear zboing to is going to be his highest priority. fighting the islamic state in iraq and syria and wh...