Were following breaking news tonight. The director of National Intelligence, americas spy chief, has refuted donald trump on a Russian Election hacking. James clapper telling a Senate Hearing that u. S. Intelligence is more certain than ever that Cyber Attacks designed to interfere with the u. S. President ial race were authorized by the highest levels in the russian government. Russia has just responded saying no evidence was presented supporting the allegations. A staterun news agency in moscow calls the hearing, quote, two hours of unsubstantiated statements, calls for aggression towards russia and hyperbole. Also breaking tonight, pointed remarks by the Vice President , joe biden, aimed at donald trump. In an interview with pbs, biden said, and im quoting him now, grow up, donald. Time to be an adult. Youre president. You got to do something. Show us what you have. Close quote. And new tonight, a deposition by trump in one of the legal battles hes fighting with two celebrity chefs. A trump Attorney Says it lasted just over an hour and describes it as fairly straightforward. Were covering that and much more this hour with our goetzes including senator chris coons of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and our correspondents and expert analysts are also standing by. Lets begin with the Senate Hearing on russias cyber meddling with the u. S. Election. Our Senior Reporter is up on capitol hill. President obama was just briefed on this and president elect trump will be briefed tomorrow. Update our viewers on the very latest. Thats right, wolf. Next week the Intelligence Committee will release that report publicly. And they will ascribe one or mohr motivations about why russia in their view was meddling in the United States elections. The nations top intelligence officials have no doubt that russia interfered with the elections. I dont think that weve ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere with our election process than weve seen in this case. Reporter in a nearly threehour Senate Hearing, the Officials Say theyre even more confident in their assessments that russias seniormost officials authorized a cyber attack against the Democratic National committee and Hillary Clintons campaign. An assessment president elect donald trump has repeatedly dismissed. We stand actually more resolutely on the strength of that statement that we made on the 7th of october. Reporter and they made it clear who is to blame. You say you think this was approved at the highest level of government in russia. Generally speaking, is that right . Thats what we said. Okay. Who is the highest level of government . The highest is president putin. Do you think a lot happens in russia big that he doesnt know about . Not very many. No, i dont think so. Certainly none that are politically sensitive in another country. It amounted to a rebuke of trump who has repeatedly slammed the Intelligence Community, praised putin and downplayed russias role in the elections. Who benefits from a president elect trashing the Intelligence Community . Who benefits from that, director clapper, the American People, them losing confidence in the Intelligence Community and the work of the Intelligence Community . I think there is an important distinction here between healthy skepticism, which policymakers to include policymaker number one, should always have for intelligence, but i think theres a difference between skepticism and disparagement. As senator john mccain pushing back on trump for relying on the word of wikileaks leader Julian Assange, who said russia had no role in his groups public release of thousands of internal democratic emails. The name mr. Assange has popped up, and i believe that he is one who is responsible for publishing names of individuals that work for us that put their lives in direct danger, is that correct . Yes, he has. And do you think that theres any credibility we should attach to this individual given his record of not in my view. Not in your view. I second those comments. After the hearing mccain said he hope trump takes away this lesson. I hope he understands the importance of the role of the Intelligence Community and its clear that their conclusions at least so far have been correct. Now, wolf, i also asked mccain whether or not he believed na the hacks actually helped donald trump win the elections and mccain says he has no evidence of that and actually the intelligence officials would not go that far, saying whether or not the hacking was meant to sway the elections for donald trump. Well see next week if they decide to go any further in that assessment. Our senior political reporter manu raju. Trump is changing his tone towards the Intelligence Community following a series of tweets disparaging it. Lets go to jim acosta who is working this part of the story. Hes outside of trump tower in new york city. Trumps positions have put him at odds with so many others in his own party. Thats right, wolf. We should point out donald trump has not sponld eresponded yet tr hearing on intelligence that manu was just talking about. But trump is insisting hes not on the same page as wikileaks leader Julian Assange when it comes to russian hacking. Donald trump is doing some hacking backtracking. One day after the president elect cited Julian Assanges denial that he colluded with russia to interfere in the u. S. Election a tweet retreat. The Dishonest Media likes saying that im in agreement with Julian Assange. Wrong, trump tweeted, i simply state what he states. It is for the people to make up their minds what is the truth. The media likes to make it look like im against intelligence when in fact im a big fan. Thats a departure from the affection trump showed for wikileaks during the campaign when assange was dumping damaging information on Hillary Clinton. This just came out. Wikileaks i love wikileaks. Reporter contrast trump switching on assange with republicans with arizona senator john mccain. This is really a person who has put the lives on americans in danger. He cannot be trusted for anything. Reporter to his old campaign rival ted cruz. I think assange has done enormous damage to our National Security. I would not be praising him under any circumstance. Reporter trump is battling against a growing support of intelligence views that hackers were meddling in the election. Though they support the comments that russia tried to medal in our political system, no two ways about it. First of all, this is what the president elect is upset about. There are attempts on the left to try to delegitimize this election. Thats just bogus. He won fair and square. He won clearly and convincingly. Reporter democrats argue its more about trumps grasp of reality. This is not healthy skepticism as they would like to portray it. This is very unhealthy essentially avoidance of the facts because they dont suit the president elects interests. Reporter trumps critics say he harmed his own credibility this week by claiming he would reveal by now new information about election hacking, then failing to deliver. I also know things that other people dont know. And so they cannot be sure of this situation. What do you know that other people dont know . Youll find out on tuesday or wednesday. Reporter transition officials insist the president elect supports the Intelligence Community and theyre pushing back on reports that trump wants to pare back the office of director of National Intelligence in the new administration. There is no truth to this idea of restructuring the Intelligence Community infrastructure. It is 100 false. Reporter now we did learn that donald trump has tapped newell someone who could go a long way in soothing the tensions between trump and the Intelligence Community. Jim weve also just heard from the Vice President of the United States, joe biden with a new message for the president elect. Listen to this. Grow up, donald. Grow up. Time to be an adult. Youre president. You got to do something. Show us what you have. Youre going to propose the legislation, were going to get to debate it. Let the public decide. Let them vote in congress. Lets see what happens. Its going to be much clearer what hes for and against and what were for and against now that its going to get down to actually discussing in detail these issues that affect peoples lives. Jim, any reaction i was going to say any reaction yet from the trump team to those very sharp words from the Vice President. Grow up, donald. Grow up. Time to be an adult. Youre president. Right, no response yet from trump tower. But you can look at the context of that question. Judy woodruff of pbs was asking the Vice President about these trump tweets. One of those tweets calling new york senator and incoming minority leader in the Senate Chuck Schumer a clown. And that is the response that Vice President biden gave in that interview. Another sharp comment from the Vice President aimed at donald trump. He at one point said the president elects lack of confidence in the cia and the Intelligence Community is, quote, absolutely mindless. So its going to be interesting to find out, wolf, who donald trump responds to first, the senators up on capitol hill who had pretty strong words for him or the Vice President. I think its a pretty safe bet who hell respond to first, wolf. Well be hearing im sure fairly soon one way or another from the president elect of the United States. Jim acosta, thanks very much. Lets get more on all of this. The leading democrat on the Foreign Relations committee senator chris coons of delaware. Thank you for joining us. Nice be with you. People from delaware or called delawareans. Grow up, donald, grow up, time to be an adult. Youre president. I frankly think on this very show i previously said mr. President elect, put the phone down, stop tweeting. I think many of us on both parties are concerned that conducting Foreign Policy by tweet, that conducting Domestic Affairs by throwing insults back and forth, he called senator Chuck Schumer a clown. Thats what prompted this response. He said he was the head clown. The head clown. Well, i frankly, as one of the clowns in the Democratic Caucus according to that tweet didnt think it was very funny. I dont think its constructive to have a president elect who is carrying on this way. I frankly hope that hes going to begin communicating in a slightly more measured and balanced way because weve got Big National Security challenges facing us. In front of the Armed Services committee in a bipartisan way was to get to the bottom of these allegations about russian hacking of our elections. Its a very serious matter. Hes going to be briefed tomorrow by the leaders of the u. S. Intelligence community on this report that was made available to president obama today all classified. It will be made available to him tomorrow. Lets say he emerges from that session and still is raising questions about russias involvement in the Cyber Attacks and the u. S. Election. What do you do about that . Well, i think hes finding that theres strong bipartisan support for us to take Decisive Action against russia. I think senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said today that hes looking forward to throwing not pebbles but stones at russia for having directly attacked our electoral system. Its understandable that hes expressing some skepticism about intelligence that he hasnt seen yet, but once hes been fully briefed, i think it would be hard to believe if he continued to be disparaging of the american Intelligence Community it strikes me as a very unwise move if he continues on this path. He was saying nice things on twitter about Julian Assange, quoting him, if you will, and citing statements that hes made denying that russia provided that information to wikileaks. What was your reaction to that . Its just, sadly, a continuation of a previous theme. He cited Julian Assange and wikileaks regularly in the campaign and said it was a great source of truth and used it to attack his opponent regularly. Now that hes president elect, my hope is that hell take seriously what senator mccain raised in todays hearing which is that Julian Assange is someone who has put american lives at risk, someone who has directly attacked the american Intelligence Community and he shouldnt be casually citing him as someone as a reliable source of information. You regard Julian Assange as an enemy of the United States . Yes. If the u. S. Got its hands on him, what should we do . We shouldnt dismiss or pardon his strong actions against the United States. He sought refuge in a foreign countrys embassy. Its my view that people that disclose National Secrets of the United States ought to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. There are some democrats, a whole bunch of republicans, but even democrats like adam schiff, the ranking democrat on the house Intelligence Committee who believe the Obama Administration has not done enough over the past year or two in responding to these Cyber Attacks by foreign governments, the chinese attack, for example, on the office of Personnel Management back in 2015. And wasnt immediately responding to the russian cyber attack on u. S. Intelligence. Do you criticize the administration for not doing enough . I think this is a challenge both in congress and the administration. Frankly, were stovepiped in how we deep with cyber Party Matters in the senate . What does that mean . We have as many as six different committees of the senate that have some responsibility for cyber matters because cyber issues have come up in a bunch of different areas. Whether its the commerce committee, intelligence, Foreign Relations, we have a lot of different committees. Weve acted as different stove pipes and failed to come up with a common, cohesive national strategy. I do share congressman schiffs concerns that the congress should have responded more abruptly but we have to look at the next election and make sure that weve done what we need to do to secure americas electoral system. It was a month before the election that the director of National Intelligence, the secretary of Homeland Security said russia did it and it was at the highest levels. But it took until a few days ago for the u. S. To take steps at the end of the year and expel 35 Russian Diplomats, close some russian buildings, if you will, here in the United States and impose some new sanctions. Why did it take so long . Im not sure what the deliberations were within the executive branch, within the administration. I think there was concerns about retaliation, and i think there was concerns about taking action before the election that that might be seen as trying to skew the election. But i dont know. I havent been briefed on that in detail. My concern is that we will see more attacks on americas electoral system and we need to take more steps. The responsible steps and very quickly, when a country like russia, lets say, attacks the United States, Cyber Attacks, should the u. S. Retaliate with its own Cyber Attacks . Because the u. S. , as you know, is a lot better at Cyber Attacks than the russians or the chinese or the North Koreans or the iranians. We have a significant arsenal of resources andy do think we need to strike back strongly in ways that are overt and covert expelling a number of Russian Diplomats who we know to be intelligence agents was the overt action. There are other things we should do covertly. Its important that our adversaries know we take notice and fight back when others attack our electoral system. 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Intelligence is more certain than ever that Cyber Attacks against democratic targets were authorized by the highest levels of the russian government, meaning president putin himself. Were back with democratic senator chris cons of delaware. You had a chance to meet with Rex Tillerson who has been n nominated to become the next secretary of state, chairman ceo of exxonmobil who had good relations. Got an award from putin himself. How did your meeting with him go . Did you emerge as someone ready to vote for his confirmation . I emerged as someone who is looking forward to his confirmation hearing. I asked him a series of tough questions, i think the American People deserve to hear his answers. I centrally focused on whether he understands the difference between being the ceo of the Worlds Largest gas company and dealing with putin and being secretary of state and fighting for american values, that means a free press, human rights, democracy. Theres a real tension between those two roles and he argued with me, suggested to me that he had a very good experience in russia, he has a Good Business relationship with putin but that he sees the difference between these two roles and hell be able to stand up to putin and hes going to push back on the annexation of crime qula, on the human rights crimes in aleppo caused by russias intervention in syria. And i was encouraged by many of the things he said but it also raised real tensions about the positions taken by president elect donald trump. I look forward to asking him in a public confirmation hearing to reconcile what i heard from him with what donald trump has said in his campaign and in recent days. Theres an amazing story that just moved on the Washington Posts website, the headline is u. S. Intercepts capture senior russian officials celebrating trump win. Apparently, according to this Washington Post report, in the classified document report presented to the president today which had be presented to the president elect tomorrow, u. S. Intelligence found they had evidence that russian officials were celebrating trumps victory in the aftermath of the election. Russian officials congratulated themselves in the outcome. They have intercepts apparently of this kind of celebration. Ill read a sentence. The ebullient reaction among high ranking russian officials including some that u. S. Officials believe had knowledge of the countrys Cyber Campaign to interfere with the u. S. Election contributed to the u. S. Intelligence communitys assessment that moscows efforts were aimed at least if part h p helping trump win the white house. Were you aware of this . I wasnt aware of that particular intercept but it fits with a troubling pattern of activity that the Intelligence Community relied on to conclude this was intended not just to so concern or a lack of confidence in our election but to actually skew the results. Let me read another line from this Washington Post story. We havent confirmed it b you ill share it with you. Other key pieces of information gathered by u. S. Spy agencies include the identification of actors involved in delivering stolen democratic emails to the wikileaks website and disparities in the level of effort russian intelligence entities devoted to penetrating and exploiting Sensitive Information stored on democratic and Republican Campaign networks. So they say there were actors, people posing as others who delivered this information to wikileaks. Have you heard about that . I cant confirm anything ive heard in a classified setting, but i can say that i have real confidence that once president elect trump is briefed in detail on whats going to be presented to him, that it would be hard for him to reach any other conclusion than that the russians intelligencealy interfered with our election. Thats a direct attack on the United States. Because this is apparently why general clapper and other leaders of the u. S. Intelligence community are so confident that russia did engage in this cyber attack against the Democratic National committee, against the Hillary Clinton campaign, John Podestas Gmail Account and its at the later of this Washington Post of this unprecedented Intelligence Report thats now being circulated in washington on a classified basis presented to the president today, presumably to the president elect tomorrow. After he hears this directly from the Intelligence Community, if in fact they have this kind of evidence, evidence of intercepted conversations, russians celebrating the election of donald trump, evidence of socalled actors presenting the intercepted communications, emails, to wikileaks, i dont know how donald trump is going to react, but your reaction . Well, its been very troubling, wolf, going back months this pattern of behavior by president elect trump celebrating putin, talking about wanting a much closer relationship with russia and many of us, republicans and democrats, have raised real concerns about our lack of understanding of his potential conflicts of interest with russia. We never got to see president elects taxes. We dont know the full reach of his business interests around the world, whether hes got investors in his properties who are russian, whether hes got ties to the russians and in meeting with Rex Tillerson, the ceo of exxonmobil whom president elect trump has chosen to be secretary of state and who has a close relationship with putin, i asked him about his conflicts of interest and his relationships in russia. Ive commended him that hes taken action to sever his ties with exxonmobil and release information. And its my hope that president elect trump will see the importance of doing, to dispel any sort of questions about why russia might have been trying to interfere in our election to favor one candidate over another. If this Washington Post report is accurate and we have not independently confirmed it, but if this report they say its a 50page report presented to the president today, will be presented to trump tomorrow, if the u. S. Did intercept communications of russia celebrating the donald trump win and also intercept communications in which they talked about the Cyber Attacks, that would be pretty convincing evidence presumably to donald trump . That would hopefully be very compelling evidence. And its my expectation that the president elect would put americas interests first and especially after todays hearing in front of the Armed Services committee, the very strong voices hes heard in the house, the senate, republicans and democrats, work with us in a bipartisan way to stand up to putins attack on russia and to take stronger steps to make sure that we defend our country from other future Cyber Attacks. Senator coons, thank you for joining us. Much more on the breaking news. Im phil mickelson, pro golfer. My Psoriatic Arthritis caused joint pain. Just like my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. And i was worried about joint damage. My doctor said joint pain from ra. 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Intercepts caught senior russian officials celebrating Donald Trumps election win. This comes on the same day that top intelligence officials including the director of National Intelligence told congress theyre more certain than ever that russia was behind election Cyber Attacks refuting president elect donald trump who will be briefed on the intelligence tomorrow. Cnns brian todd is joining us now. He has a closer look. The cyber threat posed by russia is significant. What are you learning . It is significant, wolf, and it is ongoing. Tonight were told by u. S. Officials that the russians are being, quote, relentless in their Cyber Attacks. The kremlin a short time ago said no evidence was presented in the senate today that russia hacked the u. S. Election. But americas top spy James Clapper said Vladimir Putin was behind it and tonight we have new details on what putins hackers are up to. Tonight a stark warning from u. S. Intelligence officials. Vladimir putins hackers remain very aggressive and will continue to target america. Theyll probe for intelligence in cyber space to give russias military the advantage. U. S. Officials telling cnn Russian Hackers are working relentlessly around the clock trying to breach americas cyber defenses. Americas top intelligence official asked a dire question in the senate today about putins Cyber Warriors targeting u. S. Allies. These activities are ongoing now in europe as europe prepares for elections. Is that a fair assumption . It is. They would very much like to drive wedges between us and western europe. British officials recently said the kremlins to blame for a series of Cyber Attacks, fake news blasts and other attempts to destabilize the british government. Putins aides dismiss the claim. U. S. Officials tell us putins hackers have been aggressively targeting ukraine including one crippling attack on the civilian power grid there. It interrupted companies for a matter of hours. Reporter putins army of hackers working in teams nicknamed by american investigators cozy bear and fancy bear are considered among the most proficient in the world. The firm crowd strike said theyre the ones who targeted the u. S. Elections and theyre tied to russias military and intelligence services. Theyve emboldened putin. Hes acting like he won the american president ial election. He feels like the most powerful man in the world. Reporter still putin and his inner circle tonight are said to be bracing for americas response issuing new plans to guard against Cyber Attacks. U. S. Officials have told cnn theyre looking at that as a possible option. How could america retaliate . The u. S. Cyber command at ft. Meade has a team looking into what the russians are doing, not to collect sbegs on it, but to disrupt it if the president ever gave the order. Reporter a former top u. S. Official who analyzed russias hacking operations said americas Cyber Warriors could hit back hard. Reveal details of the perpetrators on the other side ranging from their tools and techniques to the computers and the ip addresses that theyre using to their malware signatures even to their physical identities in certain cases. Reporter or he says u. S. Cyber warriors could hack personal information that would embarrass Vladimir Putin and his cronies, but he warns that the russians may then escalate and target american energy, banking and telecommunications networks. Thanks very much, brian todd reporting. Lets dig deeper into all of this. Weve got a panel of our experts. Youre getting new information. What are you learning . One of the things we know that the Intelligence Community has been able to develop in the past few weeks is information identifies the people that would have been able to provide the information from the russians, the Russian Hackers to wikileaks. Thats been the key part of the puzzle that until now we havent really talked a lot about, which is the russians stole this information, how does it get to wleekz which then disseminates it on the internet. Were told that a lot of the work that the Intelligence Community has focused on and the fbi has been on focusing on who it was, who were the gobetweens, who were the intermediaries. Were told that they have been successful in determining who those people are. We expect that donald trump is going to learn a little bit more about this in the report thats going to be presented to him tomorrow. That was part of what the president was briefed on today. Very interesting. Jim, theyre usually called cutouts. Third Party Individuals really working for one country but pretending not to. Thats right. To be clear from the beginning, intelligence agencies never said that the russians handed it directly to Julian Assange and wikileaks. They always said that it followed a pattern that theyd seen before when russia has shared, leaked or stolen documents with other organizations and that includes using intermediaries like this. From the fwining they talked about having that kind of, you know, that kind of middleman in effect with the hackers. Here the issue with this, because this is classified and we know obviously on monday were going to have an unclassified version of the report, its very likely that that information will not be included in the publicly released report and thats where the weakness in all of this is going to be. Because people like donald trump and people who dont want to believe any of this will be able to point to that and say, see, they have not proven the links between russian intelligence and wikileaks. And i think thats where the public weakness in the report is going to be. All of this information, the most Sensitive Information, was presented to the president today and will be presented tomorrow to the president elect of the United States. I understand youve learned they do have a secure room that they created at trump tower to provide this information . There is. Theyve set up a temporary skiff, a secure room where you can get briefings like this, which is protected from electronic surveillance and set up temporary, bulletproof glass so that nobody can take a shot from one of the surrounding buildings, obviously. Trump tower presents some very unique security challenges for the secret service and this is one of the paramount concerns. Youll have one of the four top intelligence officials with the president elect in one room. Thats always a big concern. Yahoo news is joining us there as well. There are some who suggest that all of this discussion, the hearings about russia, Cyber Attacks really emboldened the putin regime over there. What is your ableanalysis . You cant overstate what a coup this is for Vladimir Putin, one that weve been talking about it nonstop for the past few weeks and its blaring their russian news media as well. On the second front, what a gift this is for him to have the president elect of the United States to so publicly challenge the intelligence agencies that are going to be reporting to him. Remember, Vladimir Putin was an intelligence agent himself. He headed up the agency that preceded the kgb. So on two fronts now, this is all wonderful news to Vladimir Putin, obviously, who does want to grow his public image and persona on stage. He was very offended just a few years ago when president obama referred to russia as a regional leader. He wants to be a world leader alongside the u. S. All of this is so explosive right now and in the coming 24, 48 hours were probably going to learn so much more. Yeah, we will. And i think donald trump is going to learn a whole lot more. I think the question that i have is, is it within the realm of possibility that donald trump will come out and say, i was mistaken . And i dont think thats very likely, wolf. I mean, we covered this entire campaign and we did not hear that once from donald trump. And i think what theyre going to have to do is find a way to make it clear that donald trump is the legitimate president of the United States because i think thats of great concern to him, that nobody is trying to delegitimize his election. But also try and find a way to say to him directly, it was their intent to influence this election and put their thumb on the scale for you and to see if theres a way that they can decouple those two things for the president elect so he might find a way to say this is persuasive on that front. To be the person, to be a fly on the wall in that room when that moment comes in the briefing, i mean, thats where i think things go south in that briefing tomorrow. To be clear, we should make the point that donald trump has already seen a fair amount of the intelligence. He has. That led to this assessment about russia. Hes had a number of president ial daily briefings. This is not the first time hes going to see it. The idea that there will be some, you know, massive revelation, i think we should tone that down a little bit. The question is really does donald trump make a decision to accept the Intelligence Community assessment . Its a fact that this will be the first time hell have the four top intelligence officials in the nation telling him to his face. Its no longer coming from a briefer, no longer from the media through leaks, this is coming directly from their mouths. This is an interesting thing. Hold on, one at a time. Go ahead. To go back to what gloria had mentioned in her point, im not sure how convincing it will be if you want to follow up on that Washington Post report that just came out a few moments ago, if in fact they were celebrating in russia, donald trump could very well say, well, they were celebrating because they wanted better relations with the u. S. Exactly. As i want with russia. If you do have confirmation that there were high level officials who acknowledge that they leaked the information, that they were involved in the spying, thats a different story. But just celebrating Donald Trumps win is not necessarily evidence enough i totally agree. Especially given how donald trump is so reluctant to accept the intelligence received so far. I totally agree. You know, donald trump will take a look at the celebration as saying they heard me. Saying that i want to establish a better relationship and i want to cut deals with russia and i want to talk to russia about syria. And i think he will look at that as saying of course they were celebrating, they knew they could potentially deal with me for a safer world and they didnt want to deal with Hillary Clinton. I do think, though, that if i were going into that room with donald trump and i were an intelligence official, i would put on my political hat a little bit. And my political hat would be to say to him, as clapper did today, in the hearing, that it is not our job nor can we say that they had a huge influence on the election. But what we can say is that it was their intent because i think if you separate those issues for the president elect, youll potentially have a lot more impact with him. Are the russians worried about more u. S. Retalretaliatio u. S. Cyber attack of its own . The russians obviously responded that they were above responding to the sanctions that president obama announced last week. Of course, that was followed by that tweet from donald trump saying i always knew Vladimir Putin was a very smart man. So we shall see if in fact donald trump when hes presented with whatever evidence hes presented with tomorrow decides to follow up on sanctions. Its something that Rex Tillerson when he was a ceo was against. So well see what, if anything, will change tomorrow. I will say, though, that if we in fact continue to see this divide between the intelligence agencies and the president elect, the president elect can expect to see a lot more of these leaks that weve seen as the Washington Post has reported in the coming months and weeks and perhaps years. I can only imagine the leaks are going to be fulsome, shall we say, in the coming days. Chuck schumer predicted it. You have lawmakers here with an agenda. Imagine that in washington. And particularly if they hear further doubts expressed from the president elect, then theyre going to have a reason to make their case in public if it didnt work in private. Right. And thats the case. You do have these agencies that will speak to lawmakers on the hill because thats part of their job. They have oversight over these intelligence agencies. So theres not just one avenue for this information to come out. So if the president elect or when the sitting president becomes president doesnt believe them, then it will filter out through members of congress. But very quickly, jim, the whole notion of what happens next right now, what the u. S. Is going to do, what the russians are going to do, this is a very sensitive moment right now because this relationship could explode. No question. And you have listen to the forget the democrats, listen to the republican senators in that hearing today, Lindsey Graham who says he doesnt want to throw a pebble. He wants to throw a rock. We have james langford, another republican on the senate Intelligence Committee, they want harsher sanctions. Theyre not talking about friendlier relationship. They want to actually dial it up. They have a president at least to this point is talking about a friendlier relationship. And Lindsey Graham said, dont throw pebbles, throw rocks. Those are diametrically opposed positions within the party. Wolf, you have a president elect who has already had a relationship that is deteriorating at an amazing pace with his own intelligence agencies. He has Senior Republicans saying that they want to slap sanctions is on russia for a hack that the president elect is not convinced occurred. So even before he puts his hand on that bible on january 20th, he has created problems for himself in washington. And you know what happens in washington. When people are mad at you, they can drop a dime on you particularly when you work for an intelligence agency. I dont have to tell my friend sitting at the table with you, wolf, about that. And they are going to try and make get their points across about the validity of their information. I mean, these are people who risk their lives to get this information. And theyre taking this very seriously. You know, that clapper, general clapper, the director of National Intelligence hey said its okay for someone to have a healthy skepticism but its another thing to get involved in disparagement of the entire u. S. Intelligence community. You know a lot about russia. What is putins endgame here . Well, you know, there is the argument that putin doesnt have much to gain by socalled resetting his relationship with the United States. Remember, hes a master deflector. The fact that hes sort of meddling in countries and democrats around the world to take away from what is going on in his own country, youve got a contracting economy there. You see his popularity begin to rise now that russia has become the subject around the world that people are talking about. So what happens once russia does become aligned or closer with the United States . Its a one commodity economy that depended almost solely on oil and natural gas prices. They have gone up recently, but its not a diversified economy. Their population is shrinking as well. You could make the argument that Vladimir Putin actually is more powerful when he has enemies around the world as opposed to being best friends with the United States. Jim sciutto, the American Public is going to learn a lot more about this with the release of the declassified report presumably on monday. And this is going to continue at least for some time, this whole explosive story. No question. You have that release, youre going to have hearings on the hill including hearings about sanctions. Its going to stay out there for some time. And this is where, in effect, donald trump is alone against the world almost. You can say. At least here in washington. Against his own party, democrats, the intelligence agencies on who is responsible. The big question is does he change tack on this. Very quickly, clapper also disclosed today the russians not only according to clapper, the u. S. Intelligence community, were engaged in Cyber Attacks, also engaged in planting what he called fake news. Tell us about that, presumably i assume in the report that will be released on monday, the declassified report, there will be examples of that. Right, and thats exactly what makes this so different from what the thooez did in 2008 when they also similarly hacked into Political Party accounts, president obama and john mccains campaigns. They did not release the information and this is what clapper was pointing to, that these emails and the information that was stolen, became the source of these fake news stories that were propagated not only by russia today and other websites but thats part of the disinformation campaign. One last thing about the warnings that people are giving to donald trump right now about alienating the intelligence agencies. One of the last pieces of wisdom that president bush gave to president obama before he left office, whatever you do, dont p off the cia. Well see what happens. Dont want them to be reacting, and they can very easily. Everybody stand by. More on the breaking news after this. Go, go [ rock music playing ] have fun with your replaced windows. Run away [ grunts ] leave him leave him [ music continues ] brick and mortar, what . 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Reporter and trumps lawyer is remaining steadfast that the president elect is in the right by not dropping this lawsuit, in fact, releasing a straightforward statement saying that in short the parties entered into a valid and enforceable lease which the tenant clearly breached by walking out and failing to perform its obligations. This lawsuit one of the many legal battles looming 15 days out from inauguration. Reporter theyre the two food stars who dared to take on the dmur president. Chefs jose andres and Jeffrey Zakarian backing out of opening eateries inside the new trump hotel in washington, d. C. We are not supposed to mention him until he doesnt apologize to every latino, to every mexican, to every woman, to every veteran, and to any person that he has insulted. Reporter the spanishborn chef campaigned for Hillary Clinton after he scrapped his flagship restaurant inside the hotel. Today i could be in a certain hotel in washington, d. C. Reporter following suit, food network fixture zakarian. Both pulled the plug after trumps comments about mexicans. Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists. Jeffrey zakarian telling the Village Voice in an article published the day before the election, im going to d. C. To look at two spaces because my buddy donl, he fd up, opened his fing mouth. Trump sued the men for 10 million each, they served up countersuits and the president elect and his legal team are dealing with depositions. In the days leading to inauguration lawyers in both cases saying right now theres no chance of a cement and in the zakarian suit a pretrial conference is set for may 17th, just beyond trumps first 100 days. The hit gants, his opponents in those cases and others will try to use those cases not only to attack on the merits but as a political tool, particularly here, where donald trump has refused to provide his taxes, refused to provide a lot of information the American People are used to having. Reporter ambassador norm izon served as the chief ethics lawyer in the obama white house. He and his counterpart, richard painter from the george w. Bush administration, agreed these lawsuits arent only unprecedented but a dangerous distraction. The president needs to focus on protecting the security of the United States, on reviving our economy, and doing a good job as president. He should not be distracted by litigation. Reporter the commander in chief can be sued for actions predating the presidency as the Supreme Court ruled in the wake of a 1997 civil suit by paula jones against bill clinton for sexual harassment. Among the many other cases trump still cases, a suit from a republican consultant who says trumps tweets calling her a real dummy ruined her reputation. Five protesters allege trumps Security Team roughed them up in 2015 and Melania Trump is suing the daily mail for reporting she was an escort in the 1990s, a claim she denies. As for jose andres, hes taking to twitter, repeatedly imploring trump to drop their suits in favor of philanthropy. Again, mr. President elect of the United States at real donald trump, if you are awake, lets resolve this in a friendly way. We donate money to a charity. Its a great deal. When you start settling cases, you know what happens . Everybody sues you. Reporter and donald trump did set it will Trump University cases, though, where he agreed to shell out, wolf, 25 million. Interesting stuff. Jess kashgs thanks very much. Jessica schneider in new york. Stay with cnn for two important upcoming town halls. Vermont senator, former democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders takes questions from a Live Audience monday with chris cuomo. And House Speaker paul ryan joins jake tapper next thursday for a separate town hall. Erin burnett out front starts right now. Breaking news, president obama speaking out for the first time about the brutal torture video broadcast live on facebook, the beating of a chicago teen now being called a hate crime. Republicans vow to defund planned parenthood. The president of planned parenthood, my exclusive guest tonight out front. And an adviser to donald trump on National Security tonight cutting ties. Its over for the president elect. Why . My guest tonight. Lets go out front
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