worked for him. >> but he wasn't done there. with the russian quote patriots, not the russian quote, government, might have hacked the u.s. election, putin giving another denial, referring to u.s. intelligence reports on the hacking. >> i read these reports. there is nothing specific in these reports. just assumptions and conclusions. >> and he denied any discussions about sanctions between his government and incoming trump administration. tonight, analysts say putin is looking for deniability, trying to prevent investigators from tracing any alleged interference in the election directly to him. at the psalm time, thsame time, attention and the u.s. strive in the political system. >> he is a president that wants better relations with russia. he has a scandal that weakened the u.s. president and he has a u.s. president who is busy lecturing his best allies about climate and about nato. so there's lots of things that putin is enjoying about the current crisis. >> vladimir putin came to the