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And we have yet to get any response from the russians, from russian president vladimir putin about how russia will respond in turn. now, of course, we've seen putin public. he appeared on state television on thursday, laying a wreath at a memorial to the victims of the siege of leningrad, during the second world war on thursday. on friday, he chaired a meeting of his social security council. but the kremlin gave us a brief readout. and putin's foreign minister sergey lavrov has come out in public and said a few responses basically, giving a rather negative initial assessment of the u.s. and na...

He tweeted are we talking about the same cyberattack where it was revealed the head of the dnc illegally gave hillary the questions to the debate. this is of course donald trump's attempt to change the subject away from russia's role in the election and turn the glare on the media instead. in fact, we have moved past the democratic primary and even past the general election and now the question is, what's donald trump going to do when he's governing in the white house and is he going to take these cyberattacking attempts from russia seriously. >> sara murray, thank you so much. so what exactly...

Why didn't he stop it? why don't we have the ability to protect our electoral process? he's making these charges. actually he's pointing to his own administration's failings to be able to stop in this case they say it's the russians or whoever it is, why can't we stop them? why can't we have the firewalls? if this is so serious, why didn't they do anything to protect us? >> well, the president said that he was in a dilemma, right, because there were allegations from donald trump himself saying that the election was rigged at the time that the u.s. government was finding out what russia was doi...

Elections that we need to take action and we will. at a time and place of our own choosing. some of it may be explicit and publicized. some of it may not be. but putin is aware of this because i spoke to him directly. >> russia's message to the white house, prove it. a presidential spokesman says the united states should either stop talking or produce some proof. all of this playing out as president obama gears up for one of his final news conferences and as president-elect trump continues to brush off the intelligence community. we are covering the story from all angles. let's begin with cnn ...

President vladimir putin ordered the disinformation operation that targeted mostly the democratic party groups and hillary clinton's presidential campaign. julian assange who heads wikileaks which published some of these e-mails told sean hannity the intelligence assessment is all wrong. take a listen. >> our source is not the russian government. >> in other words, let me be clear, russia did not give you the podesta documents or anything from the dnc? >> that's correct. >> we are told that the investigators haven't found any evidence directly linking these hacks and disinformation to putin bu...