with intelligence officials to get a briefing, potentially presented with the evidence that they have, that they have reached this conclusion with confident that russia is behind these hacks. fred? sunlen serfaty, thank you so much. let s dig deeper now. i have cnn political commentator david swertleg from the washington post. david, you first, is this ax boxing in donald trump or is it more about president obama getting things done in his last few days in office? probably a little bit of both but for the kellyanne conway spin of obama doing this to box in president-elect trump you have to accept the idea which i don t, that president obama had never taken aggressive action toward russia previously. president obama rallied our western allies in 2014 to impose very tight economic sanctions on russia which has hurt their