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Well, if i might to make sure we are not making a mistake senator coops. It is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal Justice Reform that as Attorney General you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. Last let me say in my six years here in addition to not working on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal Justice Reform you have repeatedly voted against congressional attempts to prohibit torture in the military on text or the interrogation context and to defend enhanced interrogation practices. Are you clear now...

Follow-on to the visit to beijing and this is what he said his message was. >> as a general matter we've made clear to china as well as to other countries that any action that targets u.s. government or u.s. companies, american citizens, is of deep concern to us, and we will take appropriate action and response. >> i should note, he didn't say what that response would be. he noted that it is still under investigation so we'll wait and see how the u.s. responds. >> this is always a concern when an american delegation goes to beijing, the hacking question always looms over. i wonder what they're...

Asking the key question, and what concerns people who i have talked to around washington, particularly republicans, is things in terms of what acceptable continue to go down. there's no bottom. >> this is the media, and you guys are ringing your hands over nothing. look at his twitter feed this morning. >> we thought he had been hacked. >> why would you think that? >> because it's so inflammatory. i hear you, maggie, but sometimes, believe it or not we are still shocked. >> i am not saying don't be shocked, but i am saying when there was a hacking question that came up, and there's nothing at ...

Jim sciutto joins us now. the hacking question, is it an open question with the u.s. intelligence community at all? >> in a word, no. it's difficult to imagine a more definitive dismissal of the president's comments today than what we heard from the former director of national intelligence james clapper. the senior most american spy with more than 40 years experience, serving presidents of both parties i might add. he said, one, zero question or doubt within the intelligence community, russia behind the attacks. two, no evidence whatsoever that he has seen, and of course he sees all the intell...

So that is going to certainly ease a lot of tensions among some of the western european allies who are concerned about president trump and what he said during his last foreign trip. remember, john, he went to nato in brussels and did not really offer up a stout defensive article 5 of the nato charter that says an attack on one nato country it's an attack on all. that is certainly going to soothe some of the ruffled feathers from earlier this year when he was on that last foreign trip. the question is whether or not he brings all of this up with vladimir putin. they have less than an hour sched...