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Jim sciutto sat down with former top intelligence officials who watched the election tampering unfold. jim sciutto joins us now. so, jim, keeping them honest. 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...

Because she was asking tough questions he didn't want to answer. remember, this forum is his show. it's his celebration, his celebration, the russian davos in his hometown of st. petersburg. he likes a nice, relaxed atmosphere where he can show off his country and russian businesses. he wasn't allowed to have that happen and that's a good thing in my opinion. >> i want to take a listen to some of putin's responses. this one to the hacking question. here it is. >> translator: hackers can be anywhere. they can be in russia, in asia, even in america, latin america. they can even be hackers, by th...

Questions about remarks to colleagues that his colleagues said were racist. so that's been their kind of whole way of looking at this. what franken did was try to poke holes in that, asked sessions did you prosecute 20 or 30 cases about desegregation or was it really just a few? that was the one moment when we saw sessions struggle a little bit to answer questions. you heard senator ted cruz just before we started talking here focusing a little bit on that trying to give sessions some points of defense of course if you will, trying to say that yes he did work on those issues. but other than th...

Happen again. we'll continue to get tough questions by this if congressional increase does go under way. kristen welker, thank you very much. i am joined now by sean spicer. it is nice to see you. >> good to see you, kate. lets start with this issue over the weekend of donald trump hacking question. senator mcconnell says he agrees with graham and mccain that there should be an investigation of this idea that russia interfered of this election. >> somehow republicans and senators are reluctant to review this topic or ignore them. i have a highest confidence in our intelligence community and ag...

About this either. and even in that community, people are not sure what to make of it. this is a difficult story for the nra to explain to its base, especially the libertarian base, that is afraid of any list of any kind. they're afraid of big brother, but the nra is playing a big brother role by collecting this data. one thing that is, if it exists in any form, the nra could hack into it. it could be obtained by people outside of their organization. so this is really a very dangerous story for the gun lobby and one that they wish to go away. and steve, you've done a great job. >> and steve, e...