new york times reporting that director james comey telling lawmakers at the hearing that russian hackers had penetrated the republican national committee's computer record, but called it a limited penetration of old rnc computer systems that were no longer in use. take a look at some of the back-and-forth between the chair of the intelligence committee and the ranking democrat on the committee. we start with respect to the findings, we first address russia's goals and intentions. we have high confidence that president putin ordered and influence campaign in 2016 came at the presidential election. the goal of this campaign was to undermine public faith in the u.s. democratic process, denigrate secretary clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for donald trump. russia conspired to help his chances by discrediting secretary clinton and quickly contrasting her unfavorably to him. moscow's approach evolved over the course of the campaign based on russia's understanding of the electoral prospects of each

reduction act, also known as the non-lugar act. beginning a formal process between the russians and the united states of cooperative storage, dismantling and destruction of soviet nuclear and chemical weapons. next, in commemoration of the act's 25th anniversary, a panel of government officials and policymakers discuss their role in implementing the legislation. this 80 minute program was cohosted by the national security archive. the carnegie corporation, the carnegie endowment and the nuclear threat initiative. >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for your attention. we have some real heroes of the implementation of non-lugar. i turn this panel over to david hoffman to moderate the biographies of these extraordinary individuals. they are in your program. i will not spend our time going over those, but i want to turn it to david hoffman for his penetrating questions and authoritarian moderation. [laughter] david: thank you all again for joining us for the second panel. you heard in the first panel some discussion about the hopes and also some of the disappointments, but where t

get briefings on russian interference in our political affairs and it is our form -- from intention to investigate using the report that is been made public last week as a good jumping off point. we believe this ought to be conducted in a nonpartisan way. we also think that not unlike the circumstances after 9/11, this ought to be performed by a inquiryuse and senate and an independent commission. the seriousness of the allegations warrant the most thorough and nonpartisan of investigations. we will continue to push for that. in the interim, there will be investigations by the house and senate intelligence committees and we are doing everything we can to make those as thorough as possible. i want to invite my colleagues to add, if there's anything they would like to say. any questions? >> [indiscernible] chiff: weative ship: continue to get briefings from the intelligence communities and it is our belief that that classified report will be made available to all members of the house, and obviously they will be under the same agreement to not disclose the contents of the report that w

russian athlete who exposed the state—sponsored doping scandal, in life on the run. yulia stepanova, russian champion, world—class athlete turned whistle—blower. her contribution to sport and the fight against doping is beyond comparison. nobody has done more for the anti—doping movement. branded a traitor in her motherland. she and her husband exposed cheating in russia on a colossal scale. now they live in secret, fearing for their lives. unlikely to ever return home. yulia stepanova. .. the young family seem completely at home in this average american town. nobody gives them a second glance. this is yulia stepanova and vitaly stepanov, an elite athlete and an anti—doping officer. their shocking revelations exposed the dirty secrets of russian athletics. three damning reports commissioned by the world anti—doping agency. much of them based on the testimony of this couple. it found that many athletes have taken illegal drugs between 2011 and 2015. for years sports competitions have been hijacked by the russians. coaches and athletes have been playing on an uneven field. s

. >> narrator: tonight, the inside story of the russian president's rise to power. >> he has got so many guilty secrets, so much money's been stolen, but he doesn't really trust anyone to keep him safe if he steps down from power. >> narrator: correspondent gillian findlay investigates the allegations that have haunted putin. >> there have been a number of credible investigations. >> all this propagandistic quasi-investigation. >> don't become victim of propaganda. if you put these people in the united states and check what they've done, they're criminals. >> narrator: tonight on frontline... >> instead of seeing russia as a democracy in the process of failing, we need to see it as an authoritarian system in the process of succeeding. >> narrator: "putin's way." >> frontlinis made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support for frontliis provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available

issues and has been outspoken and thoughtful on the issue of russian interference in the recent u.s. presidential election. after the congressman gives remarks, he has agreed and other participants on the panel include rand beers who has a distinguished career of public service including as acting secretary of the department of homeland and at the white house working with people like dick clark. he started serving the country as a united states marine in vietnam. jeremy bass will be on the panel as well. jeremy is managing director of beacon global strategies and an excellent chief of staff and one of the best people i have worked with at the cia and dod. julie smith is also on the panel. she was a colleague working at the pentagon and for vice president biden. she works with jeremy at the center for new american security. she is also one of the smartest people in town on europe and russia. when i started studying the soviet union we went to peering into the putin's eyes and who knows what phrase we will use to come up with a putin change. representative schiff, maybe you can help u

painting which is literally a black square on a white background by the russian -- a russian after of van guard painter and as a figure was important to me in thinking about the book. he doesn't touch directly the book deals with con tremendous pearl harbor ukraine but he is someone else who is a child of polish parents, born in kiev and what is now ukraine but then part of the russian empire and someone who is identified as a russian artist, sometimes a soviet artist. he is an embodiment of the sort of multilingual, multi culture, multinational and sort of multiempire nature of what has happened on ukraine territory as well as the soviet union and the russian empire, and that mixture of cultures is something i was thinking about constantly as i wrote the book. this sort of collusion and influences, tension between multiple influences, and then also efforts by modern ukraine, modern russia, modern poland to claim certain figures from the past, including -- who has been claim by all those people and yet in fact his work demonstrates influences from all three areas. he can't be boiled down

impactful work i have done at the united nations has come in the times when my russian counterpart and i have been able to cooperate. back in 2013, together, we negotiated a resolution to get the most dangerous chemical weapons out of syria. all recall, was a key pillar in imposing stations on iran for its illicit nuclear programs, sanctions essential to bringing iran to the table so we could forge an agreement that cut off iran's pathways to a nuclear bomb. and russia worked really conservatively with the rest of the security council to select the best candidate for a new u.n. secretary, a leader with tremendous vision. while people tend to look to the cold war as a paradigm for understanding u.s.-russia relations, the reality is for pivotal part of our shared history, u.s. and russian interests have frequently aligned. we fought together in both of the 20th century world wars. had it not been for the colossal sacrifices made by the soviet union in world war ii, in which they lost many times more people than any other nation, friend or foe, the war would have jogged on much longer. mill

president-elect donald trump and president barack obama last week about claims of russian efforts to compromise president-elect trump. the information was provided as part of last week's classified intelligence briefings regarding russian efforts to undermine the 2016 u.s. elections. i've been working on this story with my colleagues jim sciutto, evan perez and carl bernstein. they all join me now. jim, let's walk through the basics here of what we know. >> we will. to be clear, this has been an enormous teamest by my colleagues here and others at cnn. multiple u.s. officials tell cnn classified documents on russian interference in the 2016 u.s. election presented last week to president obama and to president-elect trump included allegations that russian operatives claimed to have compromising personal and financial information about mr. trump. the allegations were part of a two-page synopsis based on memos compiled by a former british intelligence operative whose past work, u.s. intelligence officials, consider credible. the fbi is now investigating the credibility and accuracy of t

u.s. type -- u.s. intelligence agencies testified on the russian election. focusing onnd rally voting rights, criminal justice health care, and economic justice. the director of national intelligence and the heads of the fbi, cia, and national security agency testified for the senate intelligence community on their investigation findings on russian influence in the 20 16 presidential election. this is almost two hours. i would like to welcome our witnesses. director of the central ofelligence agency, director the federal bureau of investigation and mike rogers, director of the national security agency. directors clapper and brendan, while i have said this to you before in closed session, this is likely your last appearance before the committee at least in your current roles and i want to thank each of you before you get out of here for your many years of dedicated service both in uniform and out of uniform, jim. john, in many different capacities you have served your country in an unbelievable way, both of you. and i want you to know how grateful we are to you and how grateful

coming against it including russian president vladimir putin, said that russia stands with turkey in combating terrorism. >> john huddy live thanks very much for more on this turn to wisconsin congressman sean duffy member of the house financial services committee congressman thanks for being with us as you know turkey pattern with u.s. against isis what is your reaction to this massacre that murdered 39 people? >> first you up gregg happy new year, you look at turkey start off with another what appears to be terrorist attack in -- becoming far too familiar in america around the world, you our hearts go out to turkish people victims of attack and families, gregg as we look at 2017, i think it is so important that we take relook ways what is happening with global radical islamic terrorists mission to use lone wovls toooo wolves to dille kill innocents we need a breatheer look what kind of human intelligence are we getting on the ground broadcast center has at an a position where we are going to kill with drones -- target george bush was capturing, guantanamo bay information to better

there is just an investigation of the russian disru disruption of the election and his campaign. all we want is the truth for the american people. i frankly feel very sad about the president making this claim. i felt sorry for him. i even prayed for him. but then i prayed for the united states of america. >> next, house intelligence committee ranking member adam schiff. he spoke about russian cyber hacking. his remarks were followed by a panel with former national security officials. it is an hour and 15 minutes. >> i want to thank all of you for coming today including our panelists and representative schiff and his staff. i will be brief since i don't have a lot of time and we have a lot to talk about. it is my honor to introduce representative adam schiff who represents california's 28th congressional district in los angeles county. representative schiff is the ranking democrat on the house permanent select committee on intelligence. he is a leader on all intelligence issues and has been outspoken and thoughtful on the issue of russian interference in the recent u.s. president

outspoken and thoughtful on the issue of russian interference in the recent u.s. presidential election. after the congressmen gives some opening remarks, he has agreed to participate in a panel -- he has led by agreed to participate in a panel. i also want to add that -- serving his country in the amount. jeremy bash, another old friend and colleague from the cia and the pentagon will be on the panel. jeremy is managing of global -- beacon global strategies and was in excellent shape as that -- julie smith will also participate in the panel. she worked at the pentagon for vice president biden. she now works with jeremy at the center for new american security. if she is also one of the smartest people in town on europe and russia. finally, when i started studying detente wasnion, top focus. we then went to peering into putin's eyes, to reset to today. who knows what phrase we will come up with to describe the put.in-trump relationship. a line from an old "buffalo makes it clearg" -- sums it up for the moment for me. "there's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear." rep

. i'm playing in a big tournament. i met him in bedminster in newjersey. no russian spies here. i have been asking as many provocative questions as possible. i know. i have seen him. he is very provocative. do you want to take me for a spin on the golf buggy. experience the wall of trump charm. i'm glad you came out. i appreciate you taking the time. i'm just worried about the driver! bedminster projects the image of donald trump that millions have bought into — the millionaire with the midas touch. they are gold. they're gold plated. 24 carat gold. bbc health and safety will be watching. since then, my golfing partner has gone up in the world. and found a new buddie. if he says great things about me i will say great things about him. vladimir putin said donald trump is a genius. why does trump seem to admire putin so much? under his watch countries have been invaded, a passengerjet shot out of the sky and too many of his critics have ended up dead. but for donald trump, he is full of compliments. translation: trump is very bright and talented. how can we not welcome that. micha

russian activities and intentions in recent u.s. elections. while russia and the soviet union can use at measures that tools of statecraft and the 1920s, recent actions by the russian government represent as he reported a notion -- notable escalation. the public disclosure surprise many in the notion that another state will attempt to interfere in our elections is quite troubling. however, active measures as a general topic is not new to the members of this committee. we felt more than 10 hearings and briefings over the last two years that a focus in whole or in part to better understand the scale and scope of the suffered in the intentions behind them. each of our witnesses has appeared before us in a closed session to discuss this topic and in response of the bipartisan and bicameral basis, this committee and sister committee and the body have put forward unclassified and classified proposals to address these activities. some work has been done, but to effectively address this challenge to the integrity of our system of government will require a whole of government approach. i l

report on election hacking directly pointing the finger of blame at the russian president vladimir putin. it says the kremlin was aim to go hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump take the white house. more on that in a moment. but first, we turn to ft. lauderdale in florida. the airport there should fully reopen in around an hour's time. a gunman shot and killed five people in the baggage claim area on friday afternoon. he wounded another eight people. the fbi has a suspect in custody, but they don't have a motive yet. they say esteban santiago flew to florida from alaska on friday. he's a former national guards man and he was in the army reserves. he was not crucially on any government watch lists, but santiago did voluntarily visit fbi offices in alaska just a few months ago. he said at the time that he was hearing voices and some of them wanted him to join isis. >> with these types of incidents as horrific as they are, we are looking at all avenues. we have now ruled out terrorism and we will be pursuing every angle to try to determine the motive behind this attack and any a

influence into europe. in october, a new russian orthodox cathedral, only steps from the eiffel tower, opened in paris. but it was to the dismay of many members of france's large, western-orienated russian orthodox community, like daniel struve. his family fled to paris from lenin's soviet union because there was no place for the church in his classless society. but daniel wonders if there is any place for the type of church that seems to mix a political agenda with religious practice. >> paris's new russian orthodox holy trinity cathedral stands tall, on the banks of the seine, close to the eiffel tower. after nine years of diplomatic haggling, it was consecrated with much pomp and circumstance by patriarch kirill of moscow, with french representatives in attendance. daniel struve's grandparents fled to paris because of their faith. his grandfather had run afoul of vladimir lenin's bolsheviks and had to leave the soviet union. struve senses no affinity with the russian state orthodox church. he feels more at home in this western-oriented orthodox congregation in a paris courtyard. da

, after his conversation, the russians didn't escalate further in the sense that they didn't make use of their efforts to hack into state voter registration systems to monkey around on election date. i don't think it necessarily means that they've stopped their cyber operations or that they're somehow deterred, and i think the president was right to take steps within the last couple of weeks to bring about sanctions and to expel diplomats. but, again, i think we need to do much more. >> rose: we continue with the ongoing story of russian hacking and american political elections with michael sheer of the "new york times" and david ignatius of "the washington post." >> the arguments that james clapper of national intelligence and others are making is the russians conducted political covert action intended to intervene in and destabilize american politics in this presidential election. whether they succeeded in that or not, i think to most observers and analysts, secondary to the fact that they tried to do it and the danger that poses, that doesn't really seem to connect with trump,

russian cyber activity to give the president and more importantly for this one, the president-elect some deeper context within which the attack on the dnc took place. >> do you say more importantly because of the president-elect's stated skepticism about the intelligence community and their product thus far? >> no, absolutely. frankly, i've been stunned by the degree to which mr. trump has been willing to push back on what the intelligence community believes to be a high confidence judgment, and nicole, he doesn't seem to be pushing back because he's got different data or new data, he seems to be pushing back because it contradicts what he would like the narrative to be. and that's a very unusual place for american intelligence to be with its first client. >> let me push you on that a little bit. are you certain there's no stream of information going to president-elect trump from say russian intelligence sources? >> well, that's a remarkable proposal that they would then have more confidence in the intelligence services of another nation than of our own. look, i have no way of knowi

russian cyber hacking in the u.s. elections. guantanamo bay, intelligence sharing and russian aggression. >> all right. ready to go? i want to thank all of you for coming today, including our panelists. and of course representative shift and his staff for all their help, including my friend tim who works for the congressman on the intel committee. now, i'll be brief, since we don't have a lot of time and we have a lot to talk about. it's my honor to introduce representative adam shift. representative shift among other things is the ranking democrat on the house permanent select committee on intelligence. he's a leader on all intelligence issues and has been particularly outspoken and thoughtful on the issue of russian interference in the recent u.s. presidential election. after the congressman gives some opening remarks, he has agreed to participate in a panel discussion led by vice president. now other participants in the panel include rand beers who had a distinguished career of public service. and at the white house. and i also want to add united states marine in vietnam. j

hardtalk from moscow, i'm stephen sackur. for 17 years, one man has dominated the politics of the russian capital, vladimir putin. externally, he's projected russian power from ukraine to syria and internally, opposition has been repressed, intimidated and silenced. but not altogether. my guest today is the most prominent leader of russia's anti—putin opposition, alexey navalny. now he has committed to fighting putin in the 2018 presidential election but will his defiance cost him dear? alexey navalny, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for having me here. you have been involved in opposition politics of one form or another for almost ten years, maybe more, and itjust seems to me that right now your position is perhaps more dispiriting, more depressing than it's ever been before. would you agree? absolutely not. actually, ironically, i can call vladimir putin as my godfather in politics. because when he came to power and the way he talks and what he's saying, what he's doing, the laws he's passing, tells me that russia is done with a democracy and i should do something. i should j

directives to a painting which is a black square and a white background by the russian oven guard painter. and he was working in the early years of the soviet union and before the revolution. so first of all as a figure he was important in thinking about the book. he doesn't touch directly on the events i described in the book which is the contemporary ukraine. but he is himself as somebody who is a child a polish parents, someone who was born in kiev and was now ukraine but what was part of the russian empire and someone who is identified as a russian or soviet artists. he's an embodiment of the multilingual, multicultural, multinational and multi- empire nature of a lot of what is happened on ukrainian territory in the soviet union and the russian empire. in that mixture of culture is something that i was thinking about constantly as i read the book. this collision of influences and then also efforts by modern ukraine and modern russia and poland to claim in the past which has been claim. in fact his work demonstrate influences from all three areas. it cannot be boiled down to j

and washington. russian president vladimir putin wanted to block hillary clinton. that's the blunt assessment of u.s. intelligence it agencies on their effort to influence the 2016 election in donald trump's favor. an unclassified report now released, carlos, president obama and president-elect to trump. in a moment we will get the trump team reaction from incoming white house chief of staff reince priebus. but first, let's bring in chief of staff intelligence with the latest. >> the reported strong language, the tone is authoritative. the essential finding is that russian president vladimir putin authorized a campaign to undermine the influence the u.s. democratic process. with the goal of damaging clinton and her chances of winning. the russians favor a donald trump victory. they are very confident that putin wanted to help mr. trump. this agency analyzes intelligence, and they are only moderately competent. they are linking them to julianna sean's and his web site wikileaks. julian assigns has consistently denied the connection. he said there is no evidence that the hacking elec

declassified report concluded russian president vladimir putin ordered a so-called influence campaign aide the mesh and get the u.s. election. a half just over two and hours. before we begin, i want to welcome all of our members back to the committee and extend a special welcome to the new members joining us. .n the republican side on the democratic side we're , joining by senator warren and peters. it's a special privilege to serve on this committee. most of all because it affords spend soportunity to much time in the company of heroes the men and women who , serve and sacrifice on our behalf every day. i hope you will come to cherish your service on this committee as much as i have over the years and i look forward to working with each of you. the committee meets this morning for the first in a series of hearings on cyber security to receive the testimony on foreign cyberthreats to the united states. i'd like to welcome our witnesses this morning, james clapper, director of national intelligence, marcel la trey under secretary of defense for , intelligence and admiral mike , rodgers commande

director of national intelligence, america's spy chief, has refuted donald trump on a russian election hacking. james clapper telling a senate hearing that u.s. intelligence is more certain than ever that cyber attacks designed to interfere with the u.s. presidential race were authorized by the highest levels in the russian government. russia has just responded saying no evidence was presented supporting the allegations. a state-run news agency in moscow calls the hearing, quote, two hours of unsubstantiated statements, calls for aggression towards russia and hyperbole. >>> also breaking tonight, pointed remarks by the vice president, joe biden, aimed at donald trump. in an interview with pbs, biden said, and i'm quoting him now, grow up, donald. time to be an adult. you're president. you got to do something. show us what you have. close quote. and new tonight, a deposition by trump in one of the legal battles he's fighting with two celebrity chefs. a trump attorney says it lasted just over an hour and describes it as fairly straightforward. we're covering that and much more this hour

allegations that russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about mr. trump. the allegations were part of a two-page synopsis based on memos sfieled by a former operative whose past work consider credible. the fbi is investigating the credibility of the allegations based primarily on allegations from russian sources. but the fbi has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about mr. trump. the classified briefings last week were presented by four of the most senior intelligence chiefs, james clapper. the fbi director james comey. cia director john brennan and michael rodgers. the two-page synopsis included allegations that will was a continued explaining of information during the complain between trump surrogates and intermediatiers for the russian government. this according to two officials. cnn has confirmed that the synopsis was included in the documents presented to mr. trump but it cannot confirm if discussed in those meetings with the intelligence chiefs. now, the transition team has declined to comment formally to cnn as did th

. president-elect trump has voiced skepticism on the russian hacking. back in the capital, a joint session to count votes and that gets underway at one pm eastern. you can see it live on our companion networks he's been. just before that at 1245 eastern, the u.s. senate will be in session for senators to gather and walkover as a group into the house chamber for that joint session. when the senate needs at 12:45 you will be able to watch it right here on c-span2. >> joining us now is william pomerantz. he is the director of the institute at the woodrow wilson center.and also james lewis, the senior senior vice president and director of strategic technologies at the center fores strategic and international studies. they are here to talk about thek latest in the cyber attack by russia and efforts to influenceu the u.s. election as well as u.s. russia elections under a trump administration. gentlemen, thank you you for joining us this morning. >> my pleasure. >> let's start with you will, what did you think was the highlight of yesterday's hearing and what did we learn about russia's m

doubt russian cyber attacks tried to influence last year's race for the white house. russia denies ordering the hacking of democratic party emails and the production of fake news. donald trump, who's been unconvinced so far, will be given a briefing on friday. two people have been killed and least five wounded by a car bomb in the turkish resort of izmir, outside the city's courthouse. two attackers were shot dead by police and a third is said to be on the run. police suspect a bigger attack was planned. prosecutors in the us city of chicago have charged four people with hate crimes over a video live—streamed on facebook, in which a bound and gagged man was tortured. police believe the victim, who's described as mentally disabled, may have been kidnapped for up to 48 hours before the attack. let's have a quick look at some of the front pages of the morning's papers. the ft says top spies in the us are on a collision course with president—elect donald trump, two weeks before his inauguration. it's after they rejected his dismissal of their findings, that russia interfered in the

would happen to you if you, say, had been disappeared into a russian prison. there are also multiple sources reporting that this former high-ranking fsb officer has not just been arrested, he has been charged with treason. article 275 of the russian criminal code, you can be charged with treason if you've provided financial, technical or advisory or other assistance to a foreign state or intelligence organization considered hostile to the russian government. they're charging him with treason. the "new york times" says this is the highest profile for treason within the fsb since the breakup of the soviet union in 1991. and so we are piecing this together from russian news sources, from the corroborating information that we can get from what is starting to be some western reporting on this arrest. but this is a dramatic thing, right? i mean, imagine i the head of a cyber unit in the cia or the fbi sitting there in a meeting at the cia or fbi and officers come in, throw a bag over his head, drag him away and nobody hears about it for more than a month or sees him since. but this dramati

big treat today. ambassador samantha Ãshe will talk to us about russian policy. you will have her bias. i will not read it. let's say she had a distinguished career as a journalist and author. even more distinguished career in the government. a voice of conscious as well as sound diplomacy. and with that i will turn the platform over to her. before however, i met say if you want to follow the conversation, it is at # russia factor.[applause] >> thank you so much. thank you. i have had the privilege of serving in the obama administration for eight years. first, in the white house and for the last three and half years as a us ambassador to the united nations. i've never had a more meaningful job and now i have just three days left. this is my last major speech is a member of this administration. and much as i would have liked to use it to urge young people to go into public service, or to make the pragmatic case for strengthening the united nations comes i feel that the circumstances require me to focus on a much more immediate subject. a major threat facing our great nation, russia

russians are guilty. case closed. >> russia has clearly assumed an even more aggressive side or posture by abusing cyber espionage operations. >> president-elect trump got an intel briefing on friday, but says hs still not sure. >> my sitdown with two republican senators, lindsay graham of south carolina. >> after the briefing he's still not sure that would shake me to my core about his judgment. >> and john mccain of arizona. >> if we were able to succeed doing that then you destroy democracies. >> the secretary of defense ash carter live this morning on what options the u.s. really has to counter russia. >> and obamacare, the republican party is increasingly divided over how fast to repeal it. >> health care will be better and less expensive when obamacare is completely repealed. >>> if there's nothing to replace it with. >> i think it would not be the right path for us to repeal obamacare without laying out a path forward. >> joining me this morning for insight and analysis are david brooks, columnist for the new york times. andrea mitchell of nbc. cnbc's rick santelli and fo

, new details about the top donald trump adviser and a russian official, a phone call on the same day the u.s. punished russia for cyberattacks. was it coincidence? >>> a fight breaks out between democrats and the fbi director. the congressman inside that room my guest tonight. >>> and the spy who wrote the report about russian claims of having compromising information on trump. who is chris steele? let's go "out front." good evening. i'm erin burnett. the senate intelligence committee announcing an investigation into possible contacts between donald trump's campaign and russia. the committee will issue subpoenas if necessary to force members of trump's team to testify. at the same time, new information tonight on a phone call between donald trump's national security advisor and a top russian official. we have learned that michael flynn spoke with russia's ambassador to the united states on the exact same day that president obama was announcing new sanctions in retaliation for russian hacking. flynn's close ties to russia have been controversial from the moment trump brought him o

but he himself is a child of polish parents but was then part of the russian empire and someone that is identified as a russian artist is the embodiment of the multi link will multi-cultural multi a.m. of the territory with that mixture the coalition and also efforts of modern russia to claim certain figures of the past and in fact, in demonstrates influences remote three areas. and going back to the painting with the radical series of the revolution with that term deficit is from of very different time of history that the revolution was complete the filled once those goals were reached. so for me although it was very different to famously coined the term but the idea once you achieve your political goals i thought was relevant for what was happening with the fall of the soviet union. so now the cold war is over that means all the countries in the world this sunday and the case at all. then now we see forms of government we never expected. and then to describe of painting explains what happens in the white emptiness of the of liberated nothing. in this not necessarily that hard

, donald trump national security advisor was in contact with the russians at the very same time the obama administration was preparing to retal i didn't tell for russian cyber attacks. still on the attack, trump unleashes a barrage of tweets. sleez bag russia has compromising information on him. and trump calls hillary clinton quote, guilty as hell. she should not have been allowed to run for president. not legitimate, he conspired to get trump elect the. he says trump is not a legitimate president-elect. and closing in, in its closing days, the obama administration says the hunt for isis leader is intensifying and his days are numbered. are u.s. forces closing in? wolf blitzer is off today. i'm jim sciutto and you're in the situation room. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news tonight, the house of representatives takes the first step towards dismantling obamacare. a mostly party line vote follows a similar move in the senate, allowing republicans to use the budget process to roll back major parts of the health care law. also breaking, congressman john lewis says he

to you for your service. we convene today to discuss the russian activities into intentions in recent elections. while russia and the soviet union have used espionage as tools of statecraft, recent actions represent as you notable escalation and out of public disclosure of surprised manys and the nation that another state would at attempt to interfere in our elections is quite troubling. that is not new to members of this committee. we have held more than 10 committees and briefings focused in whole or part to better understand the scale and scope thehese efforts and intentions behind them. each of the witnesses before us have appeared in closed sessions bipartisanthis on a races. this committee, the sister khamenei, and the other body have put forward class by the end i'm classified documents to activities.e some work have been done but to effectively address this challenge to the integrity of our system of government will require the whole of government approach. i look forward to hearing from the witnesses on the details of the intelligence community assessment. intelligent reporti

consistent with the methods and motivations of russian directed efforts and that these thefts and disclosures were intended to interfere with the u.s. election process. since then our intelligence community has released additional information concerning these russian activities, including a joint analysis report that provided technical details regarding the tools and infrastructure used by the russian civilian and military intelligence services to attack the united states. every american should be alarmed by russia's attacks on our nation. there is no national security interest more vital to the united states of america than the ability to hold free and fair elections without foreign interference. that's why congress must set par zanship aside. as we do, we must recognize that the recent russian attacks are one part of a much bigger cyber problem. russian cyber attacks have targeted the white house, the joint staff, the state department, our critical infrastructure, chinese cyber attacks have recordedly target nsa, the department of state and commerce, congressional offices, milit

included this line, putin and the russian government appeared to help president-elect trump's election chances when possible by discrediting secretary clinton and contrasting her unfavorably to him. it did not include the sources and methods of how the intel agencies came to these conclusions. that portion is classified but that was part of mr. trump's briefing on friday. the president-elect reacted by neither accepting nor rejecting the finding. there was absolutely no evidence that the hacking affected the election results voting machines want touched. the president-elect tweeted. no one is suggesting that voting machines were impacted and the president-elect still appears to be largely on his own, at least within his party, on this dispute. >> reporter: donald trump is calling the controversy over russian interference during the presidential election a political witch hunt, putting himself at odds with the intelligence community. >> i think there is a difference between skepticism and disparagement. >> reporter: he's at odds with members of his own party. >> every american should be

committee decided to investigate russian meddling in the election, that includes any possible contacts between the russians trying to meddle and the trump campaign, what is your thoughts on that? >> i think the president and i both welcome the congress doing its oversight work in this and any other area. we look forward to the results of their inquiry, but make no mistake about it, i think they will find what the publicly released intelligence report showed before is there is no evidence of any impact on voting machines, donald trump won this election fair and square, 30 out of 50 states more counties than any republican candidate since ronald reagan, so while we certainly respect the right of the congress to provide oversight, make inquiries where they deem them appropriate, this, the american people spoke in this elect and the peaceful transition of power that will take place this coming friday on a platform where our president-elect will take the oath overs surrounded by four of the five living presidents is a testament to our democracy and i am incredibly humbled to be a part of it

concluded that it was probably the case that the assassination of that russian dissident in the uk was directly ordered by vladimir putin. it's a big enough deal when your political opponents regularly turn up in jail or dead in your home country, when it comes to russian dissidents, though, when it comes to people who the russian intelligence services want did, russia has not been bound by its own national boundaries. in at least two high-profile i stances in britain, russian intelligence is believed to have killed dissidents on british soil. yesterday we learned an ex-british spy, a russian-speaking former mi 6 agent who created that unverified dossier of supposed russian dirt on donald trump, yesterday we learned that ex-british spy has disappeared. we showed a little of this type last night, his business partner giving a very short very terse frankly scared-looking interview in which he said he would not comment on the whereabouts of his business partner, he would not comment on whether he or his business partner or their company had anything do with that dossier. he would not comm

. paul saunders, he is the executive and he is running the russian program and senior advisor at the state department during the george w. bush administration. paul has expertise in u.s. russia relations. at that time, i have to say if there was american democracy promotion in russia, not russian interference in the united states but it provides you with a certain perspective. george beebe is truly one of the most insightful and serious american experts of russia. george was a foreign service officer, stationed in moscow, became a member, i think it is called senior intelligence service; right? was also director of russian analysis of the cia and before that was special advisor to vice president cheney who has many of you know was not suspected of particular ways as par as russia was concerned. and george published a very powerful piece several weeks ago where he was raising some questions about how reliable was our involvement in russian interference and not so much if the russian interference existed and what level it was trying to accomplish. most of our speakers will speak for te