going to be all of our president, is already throwing under the bus the intelligence community with whom he s going to have to work on life and death matters. wasn t that a troubling thing to do at 9:34 last night no. michael, the new york times in their story said they based their conclusion on the fact the rnc was hacked. if the rnc was not hacked, then that cast doubt on their conclusions. all right. so, michael, let s start at the beginning. in terms of whether or not russia was involved in the hacking activity in and around the election in this past cycle, the answer seems to be yes by all different aspects of the intel community. it s the motivation that has them still developing their understanding, right? so, it seems that there is uniformity of belief that there was hacking by the russians that impacted the dnc. i mean, debbie wasserman schultz
hacking activity before he leaves office. 17 u.s. intelligence agencies say they have, quote, high confidence he was behind the hacking of john podesta. senators john mccain and lindsey graham have called for investigations. i am joined now bier senator richard blumen that will. good to see you. thanks for your time. i want to ask you first about the continuing resolution vote happening now. clock is ticking. what s the status? we almost certainly will vote before the past.
the machines or suspicious hacking activity in those machine or any kind of evidence of that and there is no evidence of any kind of hacking here. these are numbers are not to get turn around and recount. we would have to flip all three of those states in order to flip the electoral college resul results? yes, i cannot stress this enough, never seen before and suddenly that 22,000 vote gap and lead for donald trump disappears on a recount which again, totally unheard of. she would still lose the election. it will happen again in michigan and again in pennsylvania. steve cornacki. thanks so much, baafter the bre, charlie sykes is joining me with his take. and the president-elect trump s unfounded allegations of millions of people voted
representatives, the embassy in beijing, and government officials reached by e-mail tell cnn they have no comment on the defectors claims. for its part china says ipt opposes any illegal cyber activity on its territory. a hub for north koreans is that questions about what is really happening beneath the surface. the deif he canner we spoke with say the hacking activity really peaked in china between 2005 and 2011. now that north korea is expanding access within its country, they re moving operations back to pyongyang. but he says they have hackers operating all over the world because they can launch attacks that can t be directly traced back to north korea. it was remarkable to walk into a hotel, a restaurant and feel like you re transported back inside north korea. pretty illuminating. thanks very much. doing some great reporting from
they did there, gone in and hacked into people s e-mail, people s telephone lines to find out information about the victims of 9/11, how hot is that? gosh, chris, i mean, that is the, you know, that is the big elephant in the room, but i think it s important to point out that there s no evidence thus far that any of that hacking activity has occurred stateside. why would it not happen over here? it happened in great britain. obviously the folks in washington are going to try to find out, but it s important to point out that we have no evidence that it happened here. it s a relevant question to be asking. the whole question of his empire, i was always fascinated by his speed. this guy s american citizenship. we argue about immigration all the time in this country. i know people have become americans. this guy did it in about 15 minutes. who helped him? how does he get these licenses that you can only get if you re