that s not the way that peaceful transitions of administrations work in our great democracy. conway also dismissed the impact of the sanctions, suggesting members of the russian military intelligence service do not operate within the u.s. i ve been reading all the news reports about these retaliations, these sanctions put forward by president obama and that administration. some of them seem largely symbolic. the gru doesn t really travel here, doesn t keep its assets here. that comment drew that response from president obama s former ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul. quote, this is crazy. can someone organize a deep dive presidential daily brief for the president-elect and his senior advisers on russian intelligence operations asap? it s really, i think strike ing and it became pretty clear that donald trump and republicans in congress have a divide on this very question. intelligence assessments.
there are seven or eight months and no one told the president of the united states they had evidence that the dnc was being broken into. it was interesting what he said about president obama said about this idea if he came out too strongly, he may under cut confidence. he was still there. we do have a public that lacks confidence and they don t believe half of the country perhaps and even the incoming president does not believe these intelligence assessments. it happened anyway. just to agree with david, i was talking to people in realtime at the white house. i still have friends there at least for a few more weeks and there was no question he reported exactly their anxieties in realtime. what is mysterious to me, what
i want to drill down a little further into your comment that the russian activity curtailed after they issued the statement. the dumping of documents didn t end. as far as the wikileaks connection, the evidence there is not strong and we don t have good insight into the sequencing of the releases or when the data may have been provided. reporter: in letter monday, the republican chairman of the house committee, devin nunes, asked clapper to reconcile by friday media reports of the cia and fbi have developed conflicting intelligence assessments. a former intelligence officer said discerning russia s motivation would be challenging. for e-mail traffic and signals intelligence, you see patterns. what you need to define and find out intent is someone on the inside. late today the house minority leader nancy pelosi called for the creation of an independent
the committee s senior democrat. i want to drill down a little further into your comment that the russian activity curtailed after they issued the statement. the dumping of documents didn t end. as far as the wikileaks connection, the evidence there is not strong and we don t have good insight into the sequencing of the releases or when the data may have been provided. reporter: in letter monday, the republican chairman of the house committee, devin nunes, asked clapper to reconcile by friday media reports of the cia and fbi have developed conflicting intelligence assessments. a former intelligence officer said discerning russia s motivation would be challenging. for e-mail traffic and signals intelligence, you see patterns. what you need to define and find out intent is someone on the inside. late today the house minority leader nancy pelosi called for the creation of an independent
of the country. we ll tell you if the worst of it is over. we begin with politics and new fallout over reports on the cia s conclusion that russia intervened in our elections to favor donald trump. today s headlines suggest a rift between the president-elect and the cia after his transition team dismissed the reports. the new york times is summarizing it this way, an extraordinary breach has emerged between president-elect donald trump and the national security establishment with mr. trump mocking american intelligence assessments that russia interfered in the election on his behalf, and top republicans vowing investigations into kremlin activities. and then here is what senator john mccain told my colleague casey hunt about congress plans to further investigate. i have not had a classified briefing, but no doubt in my mind that the russians were involved. every expert that i know and respect like the head of the cia