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Process begins tomorrow. mark, it will be complicated but the republicans basically have the votes assuming there are major bolts. >> they had the votes to get about everybody through. we don't see any specific problems. susan collins, a centrist republican who is going to introduce jeff sessions who is arguably one of the most controversial people that donald trump has put up for his cabinet. in many ways what we'll see over the next couple days and weeks are proxy fights through the cabinet officials through democrats asking them what they think about the trump doctrine and quite frankly wha...

Phil mud, a former cia official. to you first, phil. german authorities now say that the attacker is at large. what are they doing right now to try to find him and also, did they lose a lot of time here that really could have been helpful? >> the time is critical here. this is a nervous part of an investigation because this individual has already gone over the edge. you have to wonder when he's going to crop up like a jack-in-the-box. hijacking other trucks, starting to shoot people. time is of the essence. they're obviously looking for dna and fingerprints in the vehicle, talking to people to...

Vulnerable to any outside influences. and this is -- in this way, the result of openness which came with communication evolution and with the collapse of the soviet and disappearance of iron curtain. >> when we come back, first i will ask steve cone who he manges of all this and i will ask phil mud what washington can do to respond to russian actions. went onto ancestry, soon learned that one of our ancestors was eastern european. this is my ancestor who i didn't know about. (vo) it's the holidays at verizon, and the best deals are on the best network. with no surprise overages, you can use yo...

On a number of other elections. of course the russian campaign that accompanied and followed the russian invasion of cry mee yeah, which, you know, was an enormous operation in which the russians sent out conflicting signals, sent out trolls to give a different picture of what was going on. this is now a consistent pattern. the russians attempt to use information and in particular to use social media to shape the policies of other countries. and the most recent example in the u.s. was also following a pattern they have used before, that is hacking into -- hacking into the politicianpoliticians...

Terrorism analyst paul cruickshank and phil mud. talking about the new figures released from u.s. officials claiming 50,000 isis fighters have now been killed. they say 75% of the isis fighters already have been killed. how accurate duke the numbers are? >> as the rare moment where i feel like laughing in the situation room. we call this a wag in the intelligence business. a wild ass guess. you are running drone operations and killing 20, 30, 40 people at a time. this is a guesstimate. and second, i'm not sure how relevant the number is. if we want to interpret this to believe that we finish t...