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Political reasons? i think as you all know, there's intense bad blood between the hillary clinton loyalists and the barack obama loyalists as to whether or not the administration acted decisively or not. >> malcolm, what's your reading of that point at this stage? >> well, i think that it's pretty clear to me what the obama administration was doing. they were treating the office of the presidency with respect and dignity, and they did not want to appear political at all. they were not going to intervene in this election because that's the lincolnesque thing to do. even though john brenner, dir...

Russia hinting that he wants to work out a deal with russia. russia is hurting badly because of sanctions. i think something can happen that a lot of people will benefit. and trump sounds like he is not sold on the nato alliance. >> i said a long time ago that nato had problems. number one it was obsolete. number two the countries weren't paying what they're supposed to pay. >> reporter: the president-elect fuming over the disclosure that u.s. intelligence officials briefed him on unsubstantiated information that they had information on him. slapping back at cia director john brenner. trump tw...

Multiple u.s. officials with direct knowledge of these briefings tell cnn that classified documents on russian interference in the 2016 election, presented to president obama and president-elect trump included allegations that russian on tperatives claim to e compromising information about mr. trump, based on memos by a former british intelligence operative, whose past work u.s. intelligence agencies consider to be credible. the fbi is now investigating the credibility and accuracy of these allegations which are based primarily on information from russian sources, but the fbi has not confirmed...

0 morning, said, we're going to draft these points. they drafted those points, and those points were delivered virtually unchanged with the exception of the one change i mentioned, to member office congress and the administration for use. >> acknowledge your initial -- was a mischaracterization that the white house was involved -- >> i think it's important to examine the information again that we provided congress months ago which they have chosen for political reasons to leak today, which is their prerogative, i suppose, but the fact is, the white house's involvement to the talking opinions g...

They use language that is very ill defined and open to broad interpretation. and i think that's why you're seeing so much attention to this issue. >> but it's still a question, katty, as to whether lawmakers want to change the policy. is the debate we're hearing with john brenner and everybody else, are you getting access to the documents? how much oversight is there? and before you respond, let me play john brennan who tried to clear the air about the difficult process. >> i think there's a misimpression on the part of the american people who believe that we take strikes to punish terrorists ...