e-accounts. i obviously have not read any classified report concerning it because it s not within my official responsibility as u.s. attorney for maryland, and i don t believe i ve read the unclassified report. i believe i ve read summaries in the media. well, i m going to ask that you do that before your nomination comes up, if it does on the floor, if you will. will you read those reports? i think, senator, if i were to become deputy, it would be essential for me to read those reports. probably the classified as well if there is such a report. i don t think i m authorized to do that. well, why doesn t we fi doe find out. you re number two now or will be number two. the media reports i think have created some confusion about that. i am the district attorney for maryland. i have no role in managing the department. i understand that. it s my fault. i misspoke. so thank you. let me go on to the question of
much. let s get more on all of this. democratic senator jack reid of rhode island is joining us. he s a member of the armed services committee. in fact, he s the top democrat on the armed services committee. also a member of the intelligence committee. senator, thank you very much for joining us. thanks, wolf. so the full senate, as you know, all 100 members, they ve been briefed behind closed doors about russia, what its role was in hacking computers, interfering in the u.s. presidential election. is there any shadow of a doubt in your mind that vladimir putin himself was behind the hacking? no, not at all. in fact, the unclassified report which is public now, it concludes that clearly. what is not publicly released is some of the evidence. and that s to protect sources. the conclusion shared by all of our intelligence agencies, our community, was that putin was directly involved and authorized at some point this operation.
behaves in its own interest like any country does, that the president-elect then commander in chief won t believe his intelligence community when they lay it out for him. consider what he saw behind closed doors. we re all looking at the unclassified report. included transcripts of phone calls, e-mails of russian officials show in the intelligence community s belief they wanted to throw this election and it didn t seem to phase him. and according to this declassified report, russia not only hacked the democratic national committee but republican affiliated groups but only released info on democrats, not the republican side, so could this mean that russia could have leverage they re saving this perhaps? that has been muttered darkly
the united states. that is, those numbers are so overwhelm and unless you re willing to bring down the system which we don t want to do because we re a vibrant country, we are going to have a level of vulnerability. and like you say, it s not a one size fits all solution here. julian and tom fuentes, thank you for coming on and sharing your perspective. we do appreciate it. thank you. ahead this hour, election influence, our other top story. releasing classified information about how russia s president, putin, influenced the election to hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump and what s in the report, what the president-elect is saying about it. plus, the anti-inauguration. that s what cnn political commentator charles blow is preparing for. how trump supporters are reacting to his so-called tips for inauguration day. and a monster storm. 50 million people along the east coast under a winter weather
aspects of the report that specifically reveal that this alleged russian hack had no impact on the outcome of the election and never gained access to voting machines themselves. but the president-elect s statements, pam, stand in direct contrast to some of his most prominent republican friends including house speaker paul ryan who believes that the house and the senate need to take a closer look at this russian involvement and push back that the russians did, in fact, attempt to get involved in this united states election. when you look at the report, ryan, it makes clear that the russians were successful in hacking into some entity systems but didn t disclose the information but it was non-successful against the rnc, apparently. how is the clinton camp responding to all of this? not a surprise at all, pam, they are criticizing the president-elect in the way he s handling this situation. robby mook tweeting this not too