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>> not yet. let me read you part of a letter thats white house has sent to congress on this issue. let me read part of it. it says this assessment is based in part on physiological samples. our standard of evidence must build on these intelligence assessments as we seek to establish credible and corroborated facts. for example, the chain of custody is not clear, so we cannot confirm how the exposure occurred and what conditions. precisely because the president takes the issue so seriously, we have an obligation to fully investigate any and all evidence of chemical weapons used in syria. we're ...

The polls about foreign policy. but several weeks later after this, i think it's very legitimate now that the press is going in and a couple of weeks have passed since the ambassador's death, now, yes. i mean, he's got a responsibility to talk about how badly the white house bungled this. >> i think he does. and indeed, you know, i think right now, the focus is a little misplaced. the notion that -- i think the white house is pretty credible in saying that they're learning more, that their initial instiblgt -- they didn't know the situation was initially, that they've explained it better as th...

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The committee's senior democrat. >> i want to drill down a little further into your comment that the russian activity curtailed after they issued the statement. the dumping of documents didn't end. >> as far as the wikileaks connection, the evidence there is not strong and we don't have good insight into the sequencing of the releases or when the data may have been provided. >> reporter: in letter monday, the republican chairman of the house committee, devin nunes, asked clapper to reconcile by friday media reports of the cia and fbi have developed conflicting intelligence assessments. a forme...

Mistake by president obama? >> i do think it was a mistake. i think it was a mistake earlier not to react more forcefully when north korea hacked us because those kind of lack of deter rans invited the russians to meddle and with impunity. >> today's headlines covering the fallout 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 u. a breach has e emerged between donald trump and the national security establishment with trump mocking american intelligence assessments that russia interfered in ...