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Of the country. we'll tell you if the worst of it is over. we begin with politics and new fallout over reports on the cia's conclusion that russia intervened in our elections to favor donald trump. today's headlines suggest a rift between the president-elect and the cia after his transition team dismissed the reports. the new york times is summarizing it this way, an extraordinary breach has emerged between president-elect donald trump and the national security establishment with mr. trump mocking american intelligence assessments that russia interfered in the election on his behalf, and top...

You uniquely qualified to answer this question. did they sugarcoat intelligence assessments? >> well, i really don't know whether they did that or not since i was not in my former position to really be able to determine whether that had happened. but, i think it's a very serious matter when intelligence, you know, is altered in any way. we need good intelligence. policymakers, war fighters need to have good intelligence, needs to be accurate intelligence, if it's being shaped one way or another to satisfy what they think somebody wants to hear, that, in my book, is probably the most serious ma...

Take a picture, send it in and it will get looked at. there's a new way in this fight against terrorism. >> technology and a gut check right there. kristen, thanks so much. reporting in new york's times square. french jets are striking isis targets again in iraq. it's the first time since the recently repositioned charles degaulle aircraft carrier moved into place. this is according to the defense ministry here. officials say they destroyed two targets. meanwhile, the "new york times" is reporting that an investigation is under way due to claims of officials revising intelligence assessments...

Has a cyber army. we thought 1,500 or so but it is 6,000 or so. is that consistent with what the u.s. government believes? >> without getting into specific numbers, he with don't talk about the intelligence assessments. clearly they have a very significant cyber kale capability. we've seen that over the last weeks and months. we know they have a very aggressive capability and it has the ability to be very disruptive as we saw with sony. >> the administration still believes the fbi, the state department the department of defense, north korea was in fact responsible for the cyber attack on sony ...

In earlier situations under the slogan "trust but verify." we should be prepared to take what iran says, that it will not build nuclear weapons, and that accords with current intelligence assessments that they have not taken a decision to weaponize their nuclear program, and american government spokesmen say that regularly. but we should seek to limit some of their activities and to have a much more intrusive inspection regime. now -- >> sir dalton, may i ask you, sir, do you trust what is being said -- >> -- about iranian program and that is much to be desired. >> sir, do you trust the irania...