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Feinstein points out. the intelligence community made the assessment for at least six months before october 7th. it was certainly six months prior to that. we know that the g 20 president obama went up to putin personally and talked to him about it. and yet the american public was unaware of the full scope of this. a paper statement by intelligence officials is not the same thing as the president. the president didn't go to congress and say this is serious business. let's consider sanctions. so i think there's some questions that need to be answered. >> and eric you had the story. on my show w...

Endorsing this conclusion. but it sort of didn't break through. it wasn't treated with the significance that maybe it's being treated now. toda you had the white house saying we basically said it was putin, we said the highest levels of the russian government. >> cynthia, i remember vividly when president obama came out and accused them of a sony hack. he actually took a story from the sidelines and he said, no. we need to zero in and put the full camera on this story. he didn't do that. >> what you say, chuck, is so telling. the intelligence community viewed this as rather dramatic. it was a ...

Electoral system. the president-elect sent out a few tweets this morning having really nothing to do with these reports, nor have we heard from him directly about this through a paper statement or yesterday's rallies. so how should we be reading into his reaction as well as his team's? >> i think that one will be looking to see if he tries to tweet on more subjects again. the accusation from critics has always been he uses twitter sometimes to distract from stories that aren't favorable to him. you mentioned his "apprentice" tweets early on. i'm not sure if those are part of the strategy or ge...

Deal for cuba and with cuba benefits only the castro regime. >> joining us live now from palm beach, cnn national correspondent ryan nobles. how are things there this morning in the aftermath of this news? >> things here in palm beach are very quiet. as you mentioned just that one line from donald trump in a tweet. a much different from the reaction we're seeing from other world leaders who have given statements that are a few paragraphs long, explaining how they feel about the death of fidel castro. donald trump just saying fidel castro is dead with an exclamation point. we're told by transit...

Of the castro regime, not talking about the future that the united states hopes to have with the cuban people. remember, president obama's policy shift was a really stark change in course. he says, basically, his belief is that the years, the decades of the embargo and isolation of cuba have not worked to change that society and sha government, so his approach was to engage the people. still mixed results as to whether that has been successful or not. but the president saying this is a time to engage the cuban people. he went so far as to offer his codo lens to the family of fidel castro, whic...