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New questions about a personal beef for some of the incoming team's attacks against the spy masters. >> do you think some of this is personal between mike flynn and clapper who fired him. >> i have no idea. i don't mind reforming the cia. i don't want to duck the cia. as to the intelligence briefing this coming friday. keep an open mind. ask hard questions. you can be skeptical. i'm 1,000% convinced. i never met anybody who doubted russia did this. >> good day i'm andrea mitchell on capitol hill where the senate arm services committee are talking about russian cyber hacking and hacking possibl...

That. they are saying it was done with a simple phishing hack that you or i could have done. it's not that clear and director of national intelligence. clapper has not weighed in definitively on this either way. it's not a settled question in the way you are presenting it is. >> no. actually dni clapper has said the hacks that did occur against the dnc, the dccc, the podesta emails came from the russian government. i have seen, also, in my oversight role as the cia senior democrat this evidence. it's overwhelming and donald trump should first start taking his intelligence briefings. taken fewe...

The russians were behind it that. they are saying it was done with a simple phishing hack that you or i could have done. it's not that clear and director of national intelligence. clapper has not weighed in definitively on this either way. it's not a settled question in the way you are presenting it is. >> no. actually dni clapper has said the hacks that did occur against the dnc, the dccc, the podesta emails came from the russian government. i have seen, also, in my oversight role as the cia senior democrat this evidence. it's overwhelming and donald trump should first start taking his intell...

He said i don't believe it. i don't believe they interfered. he's refusing to acknowledge something that dni clapper said was the conclusion. what do you think? >> i have to be careful how i say this. as far as the director of national intelligence and comments made about the democratic national committee the evidence is strong that the russns are involved there. as far as the other e-mails, for instance, john podesta, it's not as clear, not as certain. some of the trademarks may have been there. i don't think the intelligence community is as certain of that as they are on the democratic natio...

Foreign affairs columnist for "the washington post," david ignatius. david, it was an extraordinary debate on these subjects alone and i wanted to add to the conversation what the head of national intelligence, the dni clapper said today about the role of russia and the hacking. he made it as clear as can be. when hillary clinton said 17 intelligence agencies had confirmed that russia is behind this at the highest levels, in fact, this is what clapper had to say today. >> if you read the statement which we issued, which is -- i think you would agree it's pretty unusual, we wouldn't have made i...