accept it. but they believe, and they have said this in a consensus finding in early january in unclassified statements and they have said it now publicly that they believe that russia interfered. they favored trump, they trind to undermine trump s opponent and that this operation continues. and this is a really important point, nicole, that i think is lost on everyone. it s not that the russians engaged in an operation that ended on election day when trump won. this operation by the russians to favor trump torque bolster him and to undermine any opposition, including opposition criticism from democrats, from the news media, this operation is underway at this hour. it continues. this is view of the intelligence community and this is not something that this white house is willing to accept. eli, do you think there is any capacity on donald trump s part to hold these two thoughts in his head, that yes what jeremy barb just said is true, that russia interfered in our elections and he wo
sold on the findings despite receiving the full briefing. with me author of defeating isis: who they are, how they fight, and what they believe, malcolm nantz. great to have you here this morning. good to meet you. great to be here. is this what trump said after the briefing quote that russia, china, and other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses, and organization essentially there was no change in his stance before the briefing so why is he so reluctant to believe this? we re not quite sure at all why donald trump is acting so reluctantly to accept and embrace the fact that the u.s. intelligence community has come to a consensus finding that russian intelligence did attack the united states with a cyber warfare operation. at this point it s becoming
that the house committee essentially blew up is and the senate committee seems to be doing nothing. jeremy, take me through the conversations taking place between intel committee, which has certainly suffered its schaeffer indigiies between the swearing of in a president who was skeptical of their findings and the continued skepticism of some of the community s observations or as john calls them, circumstantial pieces of evidence that they have shared with this committee so far. what s the conversation, or what are those talks sounding like between the intel community and people on the committee who are trying to seek the truth john talks about? folks inside the intelligence community are very concerned because they fundamentally believe that the white house is in denial, that the president is in denial about the fact that russia meddled in the election. it s not a finding that he even accepts. and we understand why he doesn t accept it. but they believe, and they have said this in