even people who weren t supporting hillary clinton, would understandably be concerned about any foreign entity hacking into anybody s e-mails here, whether it was the sony hacks, which were believed to have been done by north korea, it s not necessarily all political. what you just described we share your view. in other words, of course, we are concerned about a foreign government hacking into our information. you and i are agreeing on a principle but not an actual set of facts. i would tell you, another set of facts that we all know that didn t seem to get much more than a shrug and a slap on the wrist from president obama at the time, and that was the 2015 hack of one million former and current government employees at the office of personnel management. we know that information was hacked. there was no public punishment. of the magnitude that we experienced as a nation last week with these russian operatives and people are left
won t help we north carolina. nice. trump has a strange view of the world where he wants to be very confrontational with china and very accommodating to russia. and i at least think in some ways this gets it backwards because china at the end of the day is trying to be part of this global order. i mean certainly it s done well economically but whether you look at peacekeeping, whether you look at the u.n. and a whole variety of things, global warming, they have been getting more and more responsible over time. russia, on the other hand, has been less and less responsible and more of a spoiler. in a sense, it s explained the last 25 years. for the chinese for the last 25 years have grown in wealth and power and status in this western international order. they want to be more important within it, but they don t want to wreck it. for russia as putin has often said, it has been a disaster. he described the collapse of the soviet union as the greatest
to specific keyboards with cyrillic text with the russian alphabet and able to do this by looking at the metadata and certain documents. they believe these keyboards made up the malware code used in the russian hacks. one official said this is just one piece of evidence in the overall puz. there are many factors at play leading the u.s. intelligence community to point the finger at russia. the president-elect has a different view whether or not the russians were involved, right? reporter: that s right. he continues to cast doubt on russia s involvement as recently as this is past weekend. he says part of the reason why he is steppical is because of the failed intelligence leading up to the iraq war. he says he knows what others don t know because he receives classified intelligence briefings periodically. it s unclear though exactly why he continues to be skeptical. he said he would come out with more information. his spokesperson sean spicer sort of walked that back and
geopolitical ca tas fro fee. many russians believe the west has taken advantage of russia and placed it in a subordinate position. they see the last 25 years as being all about loss and they re trying to wreck the system in some way. i get why russians might see the world that way. why an american president would endorse that view is the puzzle. fareed, thanks. pleasure. just ahead, the huge opportunity president trump will have to reshape the supreme court and federal courts across the country. it s your last chance to save during the final days of the ford year end event. hurry in for the best deals of the season on ford, america s most awarded brand. with the most 5-star ratings. and the highest owner loyalty. giving drivers what matters most. that s how you become america s best-selling brand. just announced, get $1500 total cash on select models,
something like this where an outgoing administration has identified serious national security problems with a country. these have now gone on for two administrations. and the incoming administration is signaling something quite different. what s even more unusual about it is it is really just the president because jim mattis, incoming secretary of defense seems to have a different view and tough view on russia. rex tillerson we don t know. as the head of exxon, did he deals with russia. we don t know what his personal views are as secretary of state of the united states. the national security advisor has generally been a hawk though has some pro-russia leanings and the entire bureaucracy of the state department, the defense department has been wary of russia partly again because they ve been burned trying to trust russia. trump tweeted china has been taking out massive amounts of money and wealth in the u.s. in totally one-sided trade but