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Of other people. it could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. >> should this put to rest any question that it was the russians and they did try to mess with us? >> of course. most of those comments by donald trump were in reference to the hacking part. i'm not sure donald trump understands this social media manipulation that has more impact and more sophisticated. the consequence of trump failing to come to the idea this was russia is the u.s. government has not come up with a response to this. there's calls of regulation of social pamedia companies. the social media compa...

Researching this starting in 2014. we were mostly looking at the syria groups. we can see them meddling with you kravenlt there is two big failures to this, one we didn't understand the hacking was powering the influence, what you saw there in this article. >> how do we not know that? aren't we the most technolodge equal? we have silicon valley. why don't we know this? >> it is humerus. we did not think the russians were doing it in the united states, they were dock nit eastern university. we didn't think they would do it here in america. i think the other part is we we were looking at cyber s...

>> joining me now is steven cohen, a professor of russian studies and politics at new york university and princeton university. i appreciate you with me on this new year's day. we heard from donald trump. is it fair to say that you agree with him on that? >> on the hacking part? >> on the hacking part. and russia. >> it's hard for anybody to have an educated view, but we desperately need it, because we don't have any facts. the reason i say we desperately need it is we're in the worst and most dangerous relationship we have been in with russia at least since the cuban missile crisis in 1962. t...

Like breitbart news might have been part of that second prong. but those reports are as yet unconfirmed. the third prong of this three-prong russian attack on our country last year was straight up hacking. the russians hacked into american political organizations. notably including the democratic national committee and the hillary clinton campaign. they stole data from those sources and then they strategically fed that information back into the united states to try to inflict maximum political damage on hillary clinton and not incidentally to help donald trump win the presidency. so we know ab...

Strategically fed that information back into the united states to try to inflict maximum political damage on hillary clinton and not incidentally to help donald trump win the presidency. so we know about that three-pronged russian attack. and that reporting from "the wall street journal" a week and a half ago was a really significant advance to understanding what happened. because for the first time in that "wall street journal" report, we had news that american citizens tried to participate in one prong of that russian attack. american citizens tried to participate in the third prong. the hac...