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The senator, bob corkell, says classified hearing will be in the matter. >> the hacking piece, i don't think we'll have a hair fire about that. i am sorry, that's what people do. at the end of the day, trying to understand what russia is doing and not only here in the united states but in elections around the world. it is an important thing for us to know, right? >> joining me now, maryland senator, ben cardin, one of the nine senators calling for that investigation. you just heard your colleague there saying we should have our hair on fire. do you think that a congressional investigation is e...

The chairman promises to look into it. >> the hacking piece is -- i don't think we ought to have our hair on fire about that. but at the end of the day, trying to understand what russia is doing not only here in the united states and p but elections around the world is an important thing for us to know, right? >> with me, senator patrick leahy, democrat of vermont, senator leahy, are you satisfied with that response, are you satisfied that the senate foreign relations committee says it's going to in fact look into it? >> i'm glad the senate foreign relations committee is looking into it. but w...

And secondly to potentially take some type of retaliatory action to say to russia this is unacceptable for you to try to intervene in a presidential election. there was great debate internally, privately, within the administration. it went on for weeks and several months. it was not until just a month before the election they finally formally attributed this to the russian government and there still to this date has been no public retaliation. which would come in the form of, you know, sanctions on specific individuals who were believed to be involved in this. at least it's a public statement ...