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Not make any statement that i saw saying, and this led to the election of donald trump or this led to the defeat of hillary clinton. i didn't see any judgment along those lines being made here by the intelligence community, at least officially. i have seen a few leaks, i've seen unnamed quotes and newspapers saying that. maybe there are people concluding that behind the scenes but this terms of what has been released publicly, i have not seen that conclusion. >> let me just say my opinion and i have seen and believe that in the readings that i've read, public readings of the 17 intelligence ag...

Consequences and talking about something serious, hacking, but is this really on the level of 9/11 and pearl harbor? >> well, first of all, happy new year to you and to all of your viewers. steve, i think what we have to understand is the potential power of cyber warfare or cyber attacks, so election today but the electric grid tomorrow or some aspect of national security phenomenon may be impacted tomorrow or theext day. so my tught is or my call was that this needs to be a thorough widespread investigation by the committees of jurisdiction in the united states congress and i applaud senator ...

On, what was released yesterday detailed hacking, detailed hacking that took place. that may have had, you can draw your own judgment, that was my interpretation. did the hacking, did what resulted from the hacking have a material impact on the election or not? that's a question of people's judgment. what came out yesterday did not make a conclusion. there was no public conclusion about saying this was designed to help or hurt a candidate or actually did help or hurt a candidate. i want to be clear on that distinction because i know a lot of information is flowing out there. >> let me conclude...

Mentioned the whole predicate set of events that the hacking, the expulsions and so forth. said it's time to move on. >> yeah. rick, i'm curious within the republican party, what the reaction is to that. donald trump said this twice now. we should get on with our lives he said in a statement. he said he will meet with intelligence officials to talk about what they're finding here. but he said it's time that we get on to other things. try to square with that if you could, you have john mccain and lindsey graham who do not have the let's move on attitude when it comes to russia and you have mitc...

Cybercircumstanccybe cyber circumstances we look at, we should take serious. we have an election, even though i don't believe it is a partisan question now, we need to look at of this nation, cerinly the ty fbi has now finally acknowledged while they were spending a lot of time dealing with the server of hillary clinton, they acknowledged the hacking did steer the election towards one particular candidate. so that is something. >> who is acknowledging? nothing i read yesterday said that this points to the election being swung to donald trump, being swung against hillary clinton. what's the sou...