to overturn the results of the election to weaken you in office. if you look at the story and you look at what they said, there s great confusion. nobody really knows. hacking is very interesting. once they hack if you don t catch them in the act you re not gonna catch them. they don t know if it s russia or china or somebody sitting in a bed someplace. they have no idea. kristen who does mr. trump think was behind the hacking? reporter: mr. trump says that he doesn t know and neither does the intelligence community. you read the stories, the various stories, they re disputing and certain groups don t necessarily agree. personally it could be russia. i don t really think it is, but who knows? i don t know either. they don t know and i don t know. reporter: adding to the confusion is the washington post report that says the cia and fbi
do you think the cia is trying to overturn the results of the election to weaken you in office. if you look at the story and you look at what they said, there s great confusion. nobody really knows. hacking is very interesting. once they hack if you don t catch them in the act you re not gonna catch them. they don t know if it s russia or china or somebody sitting in a bed someplace. they have no idea. kristen who does mr. trump think was behind the hacking? reporter: mr. trump says that he doesn t know and neither does the intelligence community. you read the stories, the various stories, they re disputing and certain groups don t necessarily agree. personally it could be russia. i don t really think it is, but who knows? i don t know either. they don t know and i don t know. reporter: adding to the confusion is the washington post report that says the cia and fbi
russia or china or somebody. it could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. always such a visual. all right, that obviously prompted a string of angry tweets from former illinois congressman, republican joe walsh, who said, quote, i m an american. some foreign government has been messing with our elections. that is b.s. that can t stand. i m an american. this morning, trump tweeted, can you imagine if the election results were the opposite and we tried to play the russian/cia card. it would be called a conspiracy theory. congressman walsh joins me now. congressman, good morning. you have supported donald trump in the past. and u.s. intelligence has for two months said that russia was deliberately trying to interfere with our election, and donald trump has never embraced those findings. so what now? why this weekend were you set off into a twitter rage? i went after this during the campaign, stephanie, but i mean, think about it. you re right.
i don t believe it. well, if you look at story and take a look what they said, there s great confusion. nobody really knows. an hacking is very interesting. once they hack, if you don t catch them in the act you re not going to catch them. they have no idea if it is russia or china or somebody. it could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. they have no idea. harris: but a bipartisan group of senators is calling for an investigation saying this should not be either about either party and that when it comes to cybersecurity, the stakes are too high. that group includes senator john mccain. the question is, of course, what was the intention. that s why we need an investigation. more importantly than that we need to finally seriously address this issue of cyber and potential damage it could do to our national security. harris: a couple of things. 17 u.s. intelligence agencies came to the same conclusion. that is a fact to put out there.
. that will do it for this hour. thank you very much for joining me today. back here with you tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. right now andrea mitchell reports. trump battling the cia. the president-elect rejecting the theory that russian hacking tried to interfere with the u.s. election. they have no idea if it s russia, china, or somebody. could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. personally it could be russia. i don t really think it is. but who knows. i don t know either. they don t know. i don t know. trump dismissing the presidential crown jewels of the