Intelligence and heads of the cia, fbi and National Security agency will brief the President Elect on alleged russian meddling in the president ial election, certainly he has called repeatedly challenged. He said, well, maybe its not the case, maybe even sided with Julian Assange tweeting even last night questioning the validity of the information hes about to receive. Well, we have it all covered for you from every angle. Kristen welker, what do we expect will go down here . Reporter the backdrop to this briefing is very tense, thats for sure. You have the President Elect just last night again questioning the Intelligence Community. He was infuriated after details leaked out about the report and actually whats in the report and intelligence officials telling us that some of the details in the report include intercepts which prove that top russian officials were celebrating President Elect trumps win. We were also learning theyve identified some of the gobetweens who delivered some
of
out shortly today or in the coming days. i think that skepticism of intelligence reports is okay. publicly? yes. had george w. bush been skeptical of the cia s conclusion, we might never have got i don t know involv gotten involved in that awful embroilio in iraq as we did had he taken a skeptical view. without a doubt that s why someone becomes the president because they are the last word but being a public skeptic, goading, antagonizing, calling it intelligence. who does that help? how does that make america great? the reason he s had to go public is because unfortunately there have been so many leaks out of our intelligence commute is they chose to go public. it would be wonderful for american national security if all of this could have been done behind closed doors. so two wrongs make a right? no, no.