intelligence community. this was his tweet just a little while ago tonight. you can see the scare quotes there. the intelligence briefing on so called russian hacking was delayed until friday. perhaps more time needed to build a case. very strange. we re told intelligence sources tell nbc news that since this tweet has been posted this intelligence briefing for the president-elect was always planned for friday, it hasn t been delayed. but he s taking these shots, this antagonism, he s taunting the intelligence community. you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from sunday at getting back at you so even for a practical supposedly hard-nosed businessman he s being dumb to do this. what do you think the intelligence community would do? i don t know. but from what i am told they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them. we need the intelligence community. look at the russian hacking. without the intelligence community we wouldn t have
we aren t ready for it. we don t have adequate defenses, we don t have adequate offenses at the moment. to speak of the north koreans have been under sanctions for 0 years. there are one of the poorest countries for 50 years. what is so interesting, any kind of sanctions, they have no concept of anyone but china, yet, they hacked, they flooded the world with methamphetamine, it cost a lot of mischief, even though they are a pariah. why would it work with russia? because the theory is that they need to understand that we are simply not going to sit back and allow this to happen. unfortunately, they are experienced their experience over the past years is that will happen. we don t see either evidence or commentary from the administration on what they have done and response, not only to earlier examples of russian hacking, but china stacking tens of millions of personal records from the u.s. government. indeed, what was leaked out of
that is trouble for us. we aren t ready for it. we don t have adequate defenses, we don t have adequate offenses at the moment. to speak of the north koreans have been under sanctions for 0 years. there are one of the poorest countries for 50 years. what is so interesting, any kind of sanctions, they have no concept of anyone but china, yet, they hacked, they flooded the world with methamphetamine, it cost a lot of mischief, even though they are a pariah. why would it work with russia? because the theory is that they need to understand that we are simply not going to sit back and allow this to happen. unfortunately, they are experienced their experience over the past years is that will happen. we don t see either evidence or commentary from the administration on what they have done and response, not only to earlier examples of russian hacking, but china stacking tens of millions of personal records from the u.s. government.
i think the big question that many have is will the president-elect go into this meeting with an open mind? as we said before, he seems skeptical of their assessment up to this point. even if the intelligence officials come to him and lay out the evidence that they ve gathered over the path couple months, will he even believe them? then will he share this information he claims to have with them, as well? there s certainly someone or a group of people he appears to trust when it comes to this particular issue, poppy. at this point, we don t know who that is. ryan nobles reporting live in washington. thank you. happy new year to you. we appreciate it. happy new year, poppy. a lot ahead this hour. live in the cnn newsroom. insider intel. less than a month of slamming the community on their information on russian hacking, president-elect donald trump says he has new information that only he has. will that indicate that his relationship with the intel community has changed? we ll ta
making an economic announcement with claims of jobs being saved by two companies. i was just called by the head people at sprint, and they re going to be bringing 5,000 jobs back to the united states, and also one web, a new company, is hiring 3,000 people. so that s very exciting. reporter: and moments ago, the white house reacted to the phone call between president obama and president-elect donald trump today. a white house spokesman calling it positive, saying that the phone call focused on continuing a smooth and effective transition. jim? sunlen, thank you very much. now let s talk about president-elect trump and this breaking news on russian hacking, with the former chairman of the house intelligence committee, pete hoekstra. thank you very much for joining us tonight. great to be with you. thank you. you re a former chairman of the house intelligence committee. i m just curious, does it trouble you that donald trump