out right now? is it a white house staffer that s leaking it? it seems very odd to us that someone inside the cia, which is the most prominent secret intelligence agency in the united states would have somebody in there leaking it. so, we just need to understand where it s the cia is on the record saying they actually didn t want to sway the presidential race the way they felt james comcomy did and that s why they announced it it afterwards. i understand, but until this stuff is fully validated and substantiated i think it s inappropriate for us to comment on it and start superspeculating. the president-elect won that election fair and square. it was an elect college landslide and that s how you win the presidency. and, so, we ll wait until we get all the information and then we ll comment on it very fairly and succinctly. but if it turns out that, yes, you can confirm from these
involvement over three election cycles. president obama has ordered an investigation going back to 2008, which was his first election. russia has also, everybody thinks, intervened in elections in other places. ukraine and places in europe, germany. germany is about to have another election. critical election. if this has been going on for a while and i think we understand attribution and attribution of who did this and i think we have some more recent cooperation of the arubuattribution and i thin president-elect trump wants a different relationship with russia and i applaud him for wanting that. i think talking to president putin is the right thing to do. it s got to be on real terms. we have to know what putin s been up to in order for him to respect us and in order for us to move forward. on an international agreement on cybernorms. that would be a very important
sources can t speak on the record. especially if you re in the cia or close to the cia you simply cannot speak on the record. but we ve got to explain that to people more clearly. think about the consequences of speaking on the record. one of the fears of this administration, as a prior administration, further leak investigations. further prosecutions of whistle-blowers. as the new york times said over the weekend the flip side is maybe more sources are going to be motivated to speak out. if they feel their conclusions are not being taken seriously by the president of the united states they need to be more motivated to use the press to communicate. unfortunately there could be a tipping point. he s attacked the press so much there could be a tipping point. his people are going to be formed. but at some point if you go all the way overboard you start to lose it and it could go the other way. you have a no brainer for the intel community i m not saying why russia did this. that s g
do we need to take? that we ve got the election i say we, the media as a whole give people the wrong impression about the election before election. right so that does what does that mean? are we credible? do we have to fix things? how do we prove to people that we are trying to get the facts and get it right? i think there s within some self-inflicted wounds and there continue to be. trust is not you either have trust or not have trust. it is accumulated over years and it is eroded over years. so we need to gradually continue to gain trust back. but you can t be afraid. you can t back off. say well i m nervous now and i m going to be seen as partisan. you should be partisan about is the best interests of the united states going to call it out. you still have to call it out when you see hypocrisy or the facts not adding up, you have to. that s our job. we end with truth but truth is so confusing. we ve got these alternate realities. all morning trying to re-establi
unique position of being the only power base not controlled by the republicans. and they have to they were always adversarial with the president. they are in a particularly difficult position now. they have to challenge this president and he s going to push back on every front. he s going to say they re not credible. he s going to challenge everything they report and there s a flood of fake news out there they have to kind of wade their way through. so it s an incredible challenge. i think the hostility is different from previous. because it s adversarial, yes, but this is real hostility. honest to god hostility. the effect of his message is to delegitimize journalism among a sizable portion of the american public. he and others like him skronch the ground, scorch the earth where quality journalism can grow and thrive. that s why so many journalists are on guard. at a conference over the weekend there was deep-seeded concerns. about this philosophical issue of deepening the credibi