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Today for the first time. trump's response to the election hacks, the claims of ties between his inner circle and the kremlin and his general stance towards russia all make up at this point the single most controversial aspect of the president-elect's foreign policy. so it was fitting that today while trump was giving his press conference, his nominee for secretary of state, rex tillerson, was testifying in his first confirmation hearing on capitol hill. tillerson has had extensive contact with the russian government as the ceo of exxonmobil, even winning russia's order of friendship award in ...

Donald trump, i consider that an asset, not a liability. >> president-elect donald trump still showing no demonstrable outrage or unease over russia's reported attempts to sway the u.s. presidential election through criminal political sabotage which he acknowledged today for the first time. trump's response to the election hacks, the claims of ties between his inner circle and the kremlin and his general stance towards russia all make up at this point the single most controversial aspect of the president-elect's foreign policy. so it was fitting that today while trump was giving his press conf...

Election hacks, and we have one of those senators who attended the meeting with us. senator mike lee, republican from utah. senator, how are you, sir? >> doing great. thank you very much. >> i know you want to violate all of the classified rules that came about and the warnings that came about in there. let me ask it this way. are you convinced that russia played a role in the 2016 election based on what you heard today? >> again, it's always a challenge whenever you come out of a classified briefing where you've been told a whole lot of things that are classified, we're not allowed to talk ab...

Relationship with the president of russia. >> his nomination comes as the president elect repeatedly praised the russian leader. >> wouldn't it be nice if we actually did get along with russia. >> and repeatedly dismissed the u.s. intelligence community assessment that russia hacked the presidential election. >> they cannot be sure of the situation. >> tillerson met with lawmakers on capitol hill last week ahead of what is expected to be a contentious hearing dominated by questions about tillerson's views on russia. >> he was able to get things down there. >> congress is now considering new to...

Not having any information and in the same breath saying we had nothing to do with it and we're tired of being accused of that. >> i guarentee the russian authorities would love to hear more about how u.s. intel tracked down these hacks but hopefully that does not happen. incoming white house chief of staff now saying that donald trump does believe russia is behind the election hacks. has he changed his mind? he habit said so. let's discuss with the former cia director. former cia officer and former chief policy director to the house republican conference. presidential or candidate for indepen...