the question of intelligence on that issue has somehow damaged our national security because it sent a message to our enemies that somehow they can conduct these kinds of attacks on the united states and not pay a price for it. and that has that has to be very clear that we are not going to tolerate that. john, do you think that we re playing into russia s hand when we see the president-elect and the intel community seemingly at odds over this? yes. yeah. i don t think there s another way to read it. i think that s of course deeply unfortunate. the person who had the best 2016 was vladimir putin and anyone else who was trying to undermine the liberal order around the world. i think that we re seeing not only the division between the president-elect and the intelligence agencies which is not going to heal easily and will have repercussions through the next administration, but is
also the question whaf of what e proper response. to try to start defining what a proper response to a cyber attack is. the damage of this is very, very deep n. part because it s seems that the president-elect is loathe to criticize an effort that may have helped him get in the office. there should be no jump ball when it comes to whether you re taking the advice of our own intelligence services or those of a hostile foreign power. rebecca, you have the last word. i would agree with john that this is really an unprecedented situation we find ourselves in. donald trump, it s his statement yesterday after his intel briefing, appeared to be trying to patch things up with the intel community and of course he chose former senator dan coats of indiana as his dni director of national intelligence. he s sending signals that he does want to strengthen his relationships with the intel
that s after receiving his talk intel briefing with the nation s top intel heads here at trump tower yesterday. after that meeting he did say that it was very constructive, but notably did not include any sort of condemnation of russia and very notably is refusing to acknowledge the findings of the u.s. intelligence community that point blank russia was to blame for the hack and that they did so to influence the u.s. election. what we have seen from trump in the last 24 hours in a series of statements and tweets is really for him to try to cast this as his politics at play pointing a finger at democrats, casting them as sore losers in the election and putting blame on the shoulders of the democratic national committee. here is one tweet that he tweeted out this morning where he says, quote, only reason the hacking of the poorly defended dnc is discussed is that the loss by the dems was so big they
stay with us. we re awaiting that press conference out of ft. lauderdale to get the very latest to on the investigation. we ll want you to weigh in on right after that happens as soon as we get some new information. in other new this is morning, president-elect donald trump is claiming the democratic national committee bears some responsibility for last year s cyber attack. trump tweeting overnight, quote, gross negligence by the democratic national committee allowed hacking to take place. the republican national committee had strong defense. the newly declassified intelligence report found russians hacked both political parties and only released stolen information on the democrats. that s the key reason the u.s. intelligence community foupd that russia s intent was to help trump and to hurt hillary clinton. we have the latest from trump tower in new york. sunlen, i know president-elect has been tweeting again this morning. what are you hearing there? that s right, he has been.