steven hall joins us from the cia, former cia officer bob baer and michael durand author of "america's rise to dominance in the middle east." mike, cnn is reporting u.s. intelligence officials identified digit counsel fingerprints pointing to the russian government. yet president-elect trump says the hacking could be somebody else. is it possible trump knows something that the president and the entire intelgence ngrey a members of co who get intelligence briefings don't know? >> i think this is really more a question of domestic politics than any kind of assessment of russia. this claim about russian hack or these allegations about russian hacking are taking place within a very specific context suggesting that somehow the trump election wasn't legitimate. and i think the easiest way for him to just avoid that whole discussion and shove it aside is to say look, we don't know what ppened the oer thing is he doesn't want to be botched in in his