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Changes in order to provide policymakers and our operational commanders, intelligence and cyber capabilities they need to keep us safe. that means understanding our adversaries to the best of our ability and understanding what they mean to do and why. we're watching sophisticated adversaries involved in criminal behavior, terrorism planning, malicious cyber activities and outright cyberattacks. whoo it's a global a problem we've witnessed it here at home. the statement for the provided that we provide jointly covers the threat picture worldwide but i know this hearing today will focus on repor...

They aren't necessarily so good at that. i have no problem with donald trump suggesting that he wants to take a good hard look at how we collect intelligence and how we deploy those resources because they are bureaucracies and they need to be looked at from time to time. i think his nsa director michael flynn who has been in intelligence his entire career has clear ideas how to go about that. >> martha: clearly michael flynn and the head of the cia you would imagine are the top voices he is listening to. >> these are serious men who are interested in intelligence and know how it can be done. i...

Politicized. we've had the iraq war, the mistakes there. we had benghazi and suddenly the party that has been attacking our intelligence trying to prevent people actually in the nsa from collecting good intelligence to present themselves as the defenders of the intelligence community is just incredible. >> i'm glad all this is happening. the idea that especially to hear a democrat like cleare mccaskill praising the c.i.a. this is a new one for the democratic party. the idea that the intelligence community as they keep referring to it is -- there are 17 intelligence agencies. it's a bureaucracy...

Connection and we'll get the report at least the unclassified part of it tomorrow, to make the suggestion that it had an influence on the outcome of the election is another bridge to cross and it gets tossed around a lot. we have to know that if that's a fact before we assume it and talk about it as if it is one. >> but martha, how did it affect the election exactly? no one has suggested that they got in there and altered voting machines. remember that was the early threat. >> martha: by releasing truth. >> they got these emails from john podesta and others, released them through wikileaks and...

Foothold into syria and is now participating with assad in hilling 50 million people. i hope president-elect trump stands up to russia. >> there was legislation that came up on the house today that would have sanctioned russia for the cyber attacks on the u.s. that impacted the u.s. elections. you told me last department you suspected russia was behind the hack. wouldn't have have done something to hold russia accountable? >> yes. going forward we still need to find out, by the way, with every amount of proof we can if they were in fact behind it, who was associated with that. this is a big de...