If not by phone, you can weigh in via social media. Again this was an interview with npr airing this morning and was posted last night at their website. Here is the headline us that theminds u. S. Intelligence officials concluded that hackers working for russia packed into the dean sees Computer Network the d cs Computer Network. With the question of russias ultimate motivation for the hack becoming increasingly divisive, the president was careful not to endorse the cia assessment reported by npr and other outlets that assessed russias goal was to electronic. To elect trump. Well get to it in a couple of minutes. We will move on and talk about some of the other reporting. Here is the New York Times headline. So, with all of that, we will hear from the president now. I think there is no doubt that when any Foreign Government tries to impact the integrity of our elections, that we need to take action and we will at a time and place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publicized. Ome of it may not be mr. Putin is well aware of my feelings about this, because i spoke to him directly about it. Among the big powers, there has been a traditional understanding that everybodys trying to gather intelligence on everybody else. It is no secret that russian Intelligence Officers or chinese or israeli or british, their job is to get insight into the workings of other countries, that they are not reading in the newspapers every day. There is a difference between that and the kind of malicious Cyber Attacks that steel steal in trade secrets or espionage, something we have seen the chinese do. There is a difference between that and activating intelligence anyway that is designed to affect elections. Host here is a tweet from donald trump yesterday. The New York Times these talks a little more about donald trump. Our first call is from scott in kansas. You there . Caller yes. Host what do you make of this whole story . Caller well, i think these people have no idea what is going on, and russia is the convenient target. We have got people running around saying, this was done, but we need to know exactly what happened. I dont think anybody knows. Why couldnt it have been the israelis from what president obama did two years ago in their election . Why couldnt be the election the germans . Youve got too many people running around talking instead of looking. As far as the press, we all know where they stand. Thisy should we even give any credence . Who are you going to believe . I dont know who to believe anymore. Administration has flubbed up everything they ever touched. Host scott, thank you for calling. We have kathy from here in washington, dc. What do you make of all of this . Really what i think is important is the American People try to Pay Attention to what seems to be happening, how obama keeps trying to downplay this. We have a man in office now who hisrefused to give up business ties. Where the man in office now who is neofascist. I think we should wake up. That is my only comment. Host we have don calling in from kentucky. Caller it is good to be on this morning. I think the situation with the russian hacking is an excuse. They have had all kinds of excuses out there for the reasons that hillary lost. It has been a horrible eight years of barack obama. The country is fed up with the direction it has been going to get is fed up with the situation of this resident and his performance in office. They did not want eight more years of trying to continue his programs. People are looking to turn america around. All of this Political Correctness that is run wild under obama. People are going out to loot, burn, riot and all of the things he has done to israel. People is fed up with it. I dont think the russians are involved in this. This is just a bunch of sore losers trying to come up with of with an excuse. Host we will look to get more of your calls in the coming minutes. This is at the hill. Com. Obama, we need to take action in response to the russian hacking. Thatpoint out back to the New York Times piece. We go to stand stan from verona, new york. Caller there is one thing that matters. Maybe something secondary that should be looked at. First of all, the information , was thehacked information actually true . Because that is what the American People cast their votes on. What i have seen and heard, it looks like it was. The second thing here is i keep hearing people talking about the cia and this being a deal to steal the election. If theres anybody who could pick something to do Something Like that, the cia would be the best choice. Ask the people down in south america. This whole thing stinks to high heaven. I dont trust any of them, including trump. Look at Hillary Clinton and what she has gotten away with so far. Host james and the freeze, virginia. James in james in dumfries. Caller let me thank cspan. The comment i have is simple. The bottom line is this, if the Electoral College makes the decision not to go with trump, what does that mean . In our history i dont think it ever happened. As far as to legitimize in as far as ill legitimize in the presidency for trump. He really wasnt qualified to be the president of the United States, however, neither here nor there. When it comes to the hacking, i truly believe, yes, russia did have some input. However, you have got to look back to what donald trump has said throughout his presidency. Russia, go ahead and hack us. Make sure you get all the hillary as far as hillary, i dont think too much of her either. Both of them are a conspiracy theory. What do we do now . Concerned, gift donald trump a chance, because now that he sees what it is going to take, maybe if we keep him and hold him to all of the things he said that he would do for america, and not against america, meaning deporting immigrants, builder walled. We need security. We the taxpayers are going to pay for the wall he builds. Wewe expect tamir expect to hear more of this later from the president. This News Conference is at 2 15 p. M. Eastern time. We will take more of your calls after that News Conference. If you miss it today, you can watch it at cspan. Org, or during the 8 00 hour this evening on cspan. Bit of a war of words over all of this yesterday. Here is josh earnest, the White House Press secretary followed by donald trump. It is just a fact, you all have it on tape that the republican nominee for president to packuraging russia his opponent, because he believed that would help his campaign. I am not trying to be argumentative, but i am trying to acknowledge a basic fact. All of you saw it. This is not in dispute. That the recognize chum campaign the Trump Campaign is that he was joking. An adversary of the United States engaged in malicious, cyber activity to destabilize our democracy. Foolish guy, josh earnest, i dont know if he is talking to president obama. Having the right press secretary is so important, because he is so bad the way he delivers a message. He can deliver a positive message and it sounds bad. He could say, ladies and gentlemen, today we have totally defeated isis, and it would not sound good. Ok . I have a feeling they will not be saying it but we will be saying it. [cheering] cooks the president is very positive. Maybe he is getting his orders from somebody else. Could that be possible . Trump will beld out again today. We look forward to hearing from him in orlando, florida, victory rally. He will be there with mike pence. Watch that at 7 00 eastern here on this network. James have been hanging on from them freeze, virginia. Caller good morning. Ok, listen. A couple of comments. Me tod ask that you allow finish my thoughts here. , i feels donald trump for america now, america now. If you go back and it is all recorded like the press secretary said it is all on tape. How can you set up there and allowing an adversary to hack us . Talk about the press secretary and lie about everything he says. Because if you look at what he says about obamacare, he is allowingt back saying children to stay on your insurance until youre 26, and those with preexisting health issues. If you keep those two, that is obamacare. The thing about it is this, he lies to the whole United States and i give him credit, he was able to live to make that life seen much the truth. This people were hating on our democracy and congress and washington so bad that they said, look, anything is better than what is going on right now. We are going to find out that is not true. Morning itter this ken, you are on the line. Caller good friday to you. I have been in Law Enforcement for years. Each time you have a suspect, you dont have complete information up until that point but you do have a lead. Again his comments were very foreignout wanting a agency to investigate or to hack into emails. That is very misleading and that is propaganda. There is a fine line between propaganda and public relations. Politicians are notorious for it. , in and a lot of members vote with my cut with my conscience. Congress all these members that refused to do their jobs should be replaced and Something Else should be brought in. If there is russian involvement, it seems like it is encouraged. Host moving on to jesse in baltimore. Go ahead. Caller host jesse, are you there . Caller hello. Buys, left or right. That is nothing new. Thinkal thing is, i dont hillary lost anything. I think she dodged a bullet yet to come. Thats all i had to say. Host lisa from toledo, ohio. What do you think the u. S. Response should be . Caller first of all, good morning. I think they should sanction russian russia. Let them know we are not going to stand for them to meddle in our elections. One more quick comment. I am a republican but i get tired of all of this back and forth. They are sent there to do a job and to compromise and do the will of the people. I think we have gotten to the point where we need we have term limits on president s and governors. I think they need to start we need to put term limits in and they are not doing what they are sent there to do, get them out. Host thoughts of lisa there. Carroll writes on twitter. Back to a couple of other front pages. The New York Times has a piece on hacking itself. There is one paragraph for the bottom of the front page. There is also the wall street today. s front page we go to buffalo, new york. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for having me. Host thank you for calling. What are your thoughts . Think first, i president elect trump refused to acknowledge this because he idolized putin so much. I also feel he will use the office for his personal monetary gain. The same way putin does his. Comment. Quick our i. T. Team should get on their job and protect our service our servers. I dont understand how they got in any way. That should be number one priority. Host thank you for calling. Bob is on the line from florida. Caller how are you doing today . Host doing fine. Caller i was wondering, they get all of this information about the russian hackers, yet there is been no real proof. Just like can you believe this . Can you believe the story about the weapons of mass destruction . It all oils down to the same thing. Clinton was not doing all of this dirty stuff, there would not be all of this dirty laundry coming out about it. 10 is calling from washington, dc. Believemy thought is i that our intelligence community, they need to disable russias ability to attack us. Host how should they do it . Caller give them a virus. Send them a virus that they cant disable. I just cant believe we are not smart enough to do Something Like that. On top and lastly, i dont believe the people that are supporting donald trump are as stupid as they appear. I think they are at these rallies and they are getting all pumped up and they are clapping along. They are having a good time. They are not that dumb. At the end of the day, lets say the water gets poisoned in flint or West Virginia or oil gets dumped on the ground in alabama or georgia, you know what they are going to do . They are going to call fema or the federal government to come help them. They are not that dumb. That is all i have. Host thanks for calling. Westchester, pa. Caller good morning sir. Host what are your thoughts on this whole story of the russian hacking . What should the u. S. Response be . Caller my thought is if you look at how it is going around the world, for the past two been we americans have destabilizing russia. In terms of their economy, we have been hammering them with sanctions. To me, the russians are just retaliating. It is a titfortat kind of deal. We try to drive their economy to the ground. They try to find a way to affect our own democracy. They are getting back at us what we did to them. [indiscernible] i hear people say we should retaliate. We retaliate now and then they will tallied again. This is not going to stop. Host thank you for calling. Back to calls. Janet from kansas. Thank you for waiting. Caller thanks for taking my call. There has been no love lost between obama and clinton. And putin. This is another one of obamas and hillarys smokescreens. Youve got to blame something on his failed presidency. He has been the worst president that we have had in my 63 years that i can remember. He has been a race bader and everything that he can to divide this country. Until his last day in office. T is time for him to be gone he is trying to get us in war with russia. We dont want to go there. Who is to say that china is not behind this . There is no substantial proof to any of this. This is all just some more rhetoric coming out of the president s mouth and Hillary Clinton. It is time for it to stop. Let trump become the president of the United States with the backing of the people who voted for him. It is what it is and they are going to have to get over it. Host thanks for calling. Still it asked this desk stella asked this stella asks this. John podesta who served as chair of Hillary Clintons presidency opedgn has written an from the washington post. The headline says that is john podesta. Washington post. Com is the place to read that you jennifer is calling from colorado. Good morning. Caller please bear with me. When the election was going on, we kept hearing all the stuff and a lot of it was nonsense. If we can just get through this, there will be an end to it. What happened happened. It was all about blaming hillary. Then, when this all comes out about mr. Trump come everybody looked the other way. To me, it looks shady. I try to read people. I do advertising. It is shady and embarrassing. I watched him speak tonight and he says the same thing over and over again. He hid his tax information. I believe that barack obama is the best resident we ever had. Im 67 years old. I have seen a few things happen. I watched what he did and respected. He did not have to demand. People give it to him. A good spokesperson for the United States. Ofbody can see what kind fuhrer trump brought with them. [indiscernible] now that it has happened in their us much turmoil, trump comes up with things like, he believes in torture. He believes women should be punished for having abortions. All of these maniacal things that i cant imagine. I try not to listen but you cant help yourself. I enjoy government and politics. When you see this type of thing happen, it is an example for our children and the rest of the world. That is pretty bad. It is very sad because we were great until of this election is over. I feel like we have something to make up. Host jenniffer, thank you for calling. We want to get some other voices in including virginia techs and on twitter. Twitter. Ia texan on david is online from georgia. Host caller thank you for cspan. Host what do you think of this suspicion of russia . Caller i think the only person a suspicion ofis russia is comey. There is no credible evidence. That is why the fbi wont get on board. He has been run through the wreck. I feel sorry for the guy. He is subject to the clinton machine. He has felt the pressure. Proof that provable russia has done this. Comey sees that. As far as i can see, you are not naming anybody. The only person that can be politicizinge is this thing like the like eric holder politicized the justice department. Host we will do this for about 10 more minutes and look at some other news. Some more news about donald trump. Washington times. They write that a handful of liberals and Senate Democrats said they will introduce a bill early next month when congress convenes just ahead of the inauguration. The other thing today in the meantime the sites to put this on its front page up at the top. Freddy has been hanging on from los angeles. Early morning there. Caller thank you for having cspan. My comment basically is, the first time in a story like this originated my lifetime was the pentagon papers. They came out [indiscernible] ryone says in the media they said the same thing with the Nuclear Power plant. Great breaking news stories. When stories and start going against liberal democrats, is a problem. I dont necessarily agree thats true. It happened with monica lewinsky, the leak there. The whistleblowers that brought that to light. Make up your mind, liberals. You believe in security leaks or you dont. You cant have it both ways. No matter who did it and the main story here that everyone likes to ignore his the unethical behavior of the dnc. That is the story. Not the hacks. Host lets move on to louise in chicago. What do you have to say . Caller first i would like to say, people should call it stop this complaining and come up with that ideas. We have too many problems. Security of the United States against hacking with russia or whomever is that we need to get rid of these floppy disks in washington and all of this old stuff that we are trying to work with in a modern world. We need to set up some new systems for