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Happened in departments and agencies that impact real people's lives. brian: "wall street journal" has a story today that you guys are setting up your own russia unit maybe have outside hires so all questions go to that russia unit. much like the unit was put together during the clintons during the whole lewenski mess. abby: is that going to help. >> it will help for people to realize since there is a special counsel now. some questions should be referred to mr. mueller and, of course, other questions should be referred to the outside counsel. i mean, that's the appropriate chain of command he...

Having potentially derogatory information about donald trump and some of his top aides during the campaign. so, did they have damaging information or was this just part of a larger disinformation campaign in 2016? with me now, republican consultant barry bennett, who also worked with the trump campaign, cnn political contributor and former democratic mayor of philadelphia, michael nutter is here, and cnn political commentator and former communications director for senator ted cruz, amanda carpenter. hi, friends! great to see you all. so, barry, on this derogatory information, it could have bee...

Kellyanne conway had to say about it today. >> that cannot be verified. that's a classified briefing. we should all be increasingly confirmed that we have, quote, intelligence officials, divulging information unsourced, unnamed to the rest of us. just to smear the president-elect of the united states we now have intelligence officials divulging information they're sworn not to divulge. we should be very concerned about that. i don't even think this is fake news. i think it's just fake. i would take the news word right out of it. >> reporter: so what we're seeing from donald trump and his advis...

Reacting to the new find frogs top intelligence officials who say russian president vladmir putin himself was behind the hack attack on our presidential election. that report released yesterday also claiming that russia ran interference to help elect donald trump. president-elect responding by twitter following a meeting earlier in the day with those intelligence officials saying, quote, intelligence stated very strongly there was absolutely no evidence that hacking affected the election results. voting machines, not touched. in another tweet he blamed the dnc for allowing the hacking. saying ...

Excuse to behead americans. he said they don't need another excuse. this is, you know, this is what they do. but he believes that torture is the wrong thing and it's ineffective. so what you have here is not only a political argument, brooke, but it's two different world views. is torture effective? or is it ineffective? >> that report says it's not. the cia -- >> says it is. >> did the cia mislead congress as members of the intelligence say because they were not briefed. when you hear from intelligence officials, they say we didn't mislead congress. we were not allowed to tell them about part...