[Lemon:] Breaking News Tonight, in a report released today, the U.S. Intelligence Community concludes Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign aimed at hurting Hillary Clinton and helping Donald Trump. Let's discuss now with CNN Chief National Security Correspondent, Jim Sciutto; CNN Senior Political Analyst, David Gergen; Bob Cusack, Editor-in-Chief of The Hill; and CNN Political Analyst, Josh Rogin. Good to have all of you. On Mr. Sciutto, let's break this down the declassified version. This is the classified one. The classified version of the intelligence report on Russian hacking has been released and among the conclusion is this, it says, we assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. Presidential election. Russia's goals were to undermine public fate in the U.S. Democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Donald Trump. It's pretty clear there. It's unequivocal that Russia did it and they did it in part to help Donald Trump. What kind of evidence did they have?
[Jim Sciutto, Cnn Chief National Security Correspondent:] Well, I think this report it laid out the assessments, the conclusions. Frankly, it didn't lay out a lot of the evidence the explanation it gives which is expected. It gets to sources and methods. It gets to some of the most sensitive intelligence gathered by U.S. Intelligence Agencies. There's only so much they can show to the public. The headlines though and imagine yourself in the room there Don between Donald Trump and the four most Senior U.S. Intelligence Officials in the country including the Director Of National Intelligence, James clapper having to deliver that line that you just read there that the Russians interfered in this election with the intention of helping you win the election, a difficult message to deliver. The other headline I would get from this report is the agencies concluding that the Russians didn't just hack the Democrats, they hacked the Republicans as well. You've heard from Donald Trump and other of his supporters that the only reason this information came out about the Democrats is that the Russians only hacked the Democrats. In fact the U.S. Intelligence Committee says Community rather says that they hacked both parties and yet they only released material targeting one party and that is one of the main reasons that they assess that the intention here was to help one party that is the Republicans, that is Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.
[Lemon:] And I'll put it mildly. That's just one of the shall we say misstatements coming from...
[Sciutto:] Yes.
[Lemon:] ...the incoming administration because Bob Baer, the Intel Chief said high confidence that Russia interfere with the election. But here is this is the official statement in part from the Trump campaign or the Trump Administration. While Russia, China, other countries outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations including the Democratic National Committee, there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines. That's not exactly true because if you read the report and I've read it, page six says specifically we did not make an assessment of the impact that Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election. The U.S. Intelligence Community is charged with monitoring and assessing the intentions, capabilities and actions of foreign actors. It does not analyze U.S. Political Processes or U.S. Public Opinion, so what's the truth here, David?
[David Gergen, Cnn Senior Political Analyst:] Listen, I don't think we I think we do know that the basic truth here is that this report has taken us further than anything we've seen so far. It pins responsibility directly and personally on Vladimir Putin for ordering a massive interference in American election trying to denigrate Hillary Clinton and at the end trying to help elect Donald Trump president. And we've had various reports about the celebrations on Moscow's part since the results came in. It's totally understandable that Donald Trump would be very angry at all of this because it does it does undermine the legitimacy of his election and I think he appropriately said it didn't change the outcome but even so the way this is unfolded, it has been very painful to watch. We just never had a president-elect have so little confidence in massive intelligence operation. We pay billions of dollars for and he basically is saying, you know, OK, I respect what you say but I really don't believe in it. And by the way, I told the "New York Times" just before you released it this is a political witch hunt.
[Lemon:] Yes. But again for me, I mean Josh for me for what it says there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines and then the report says itself that it did not make that assessment.
[Josh Rogin, Cnn Political Analyst:] Right. So, Donald Trump has now gotten all of the information that the U.S. Government has and decided that he still doesn't believe it and he's putting out information about that meeting that is incorrect and has nothing to do with...
[Lemon:] That is a lie. I mean we've been nice here that it's in fact a lie because that's not what the report said.
[Rogin:] It's just unprovable that there's no evidence of it, right. Yes, you can call it a lie. You can call it a mistake. It's spin, whatever it is, it's not part of what he heard in that briefing and he said he said to AP afterwards, I learned a lot and they did too, OK. So, he still thinks that it's his job to tell the intelligence community what they're supposed to be telling him and I mean let's take a step back here. Now, we're he's going to be president. He's going to have the power to tell that Intelligence Community to do whatever he wants, right. And what does he tweeted today that he's going to the first thing he wants them to do is to do a leak investigation but who leaked the details of this report, right.
[Lemon:] Who leaked the details to another news organization...
[Rogin:] To another news organization...
[Lemon:] ...which is a declassified report which is meant for public consumption.
[Rogin:] So, his priorities are totally out-of-whack here and he's working on, you know, an agenda that has nothing to do with what's good for our national security, what do we do to make sure this never happens again and what do we about the fact that the Russians according to this report are doing this all over the world?
[Lemon:] Bob, you know, Donald Trump has been questioning the Intelligence for months and hours before he was briefed. He told the "New York Times" his rivals are behind the whole investigation. He's concluded they've got beaten very badly in the election. I won more counties in the election than Ronald Reagan. They are very embarrassed about it. To some extent, it's a witch hunt. They just focused on this, is he still questioning the Intelligence Community's motives here?
[Bob Cusack, Editor-in-chief Of The Hill:] Well, yes I think so. I mean I do think that maybe he changes his tune when he gets his guys in there. Mike Pompoe has picked for the CIA as his confirmation hearing next week, that's going to be a fascinating hearing because he's going to be overseeing officials who help put this report together. So, it is really unusual and I do think that maybe after Trump is inaugurated the talk of well, they're trying to take away my victory will go away. But at the same time, you know, Don these investigations are they're ongoing. I mean The House and the Senate are doing investigations. We're going to see a lot of data and get information leaked or not over the next six-nine months to year.
[Lemon:] OK, I want to get back to Jim Sciutto because Jim this report pointed a finger straight at Vladimir Putin that says Moscow will apply lessons learned from its Putin ordered campaign aimed at the U.S. Presidential election to further influence efforts worldwide including against U.S. Allies and their election processes. So, Trump has said, you know, very flattering things about Vladimir Putin wants to reset the relationship, does the report undercut that now?
[Sciutto:] Well, it's up to him frankly. I mean from his own party, we know that there's enormous trepidation about the idea of becoming friendlier with Vladimir Putin. Russia, you have many Republican Senators pushing not just for sanctions but for tougher sanctions even than President Obama ordered. So, you're going to have a clash within his own party if he holds to this line. Couple other takeaways, one you reference there Don, I mean the intelligence community said Russia learned from this. In fact that they can have an effect on an election and the U.S. Intelligence Community expects them to do it again. In Europe, you've got big elections coming up in Germany but also here in the U.S. because in effect it worked. And this is a point...
[Lemon:] Yes.
[Sciutto:] ...that Senators Graham and McCain have made. Listen, you know, it was the Democrats this time. It could very well be the Republicans next time and that's the attitude they have. To this point, that's not that's not a step the president has taken to say this is attack an attack on the country. We have to come together and defend against future attacks. He's taking it as a personal attack against him it seems and therefore it seems very reluctant to accept those conclusions.
[Lemon:] It says a lot about the person, the current president, President Barack Obama saying, "Vladimir Putin is not on our team". Thank you. I appreciate it gentlemen. Recon my back, much more on our two Breaking News stories tonight, Donald Trump's reaction to today's report on Russians election meddling and the latest on the investigation to the deadly rampage shooting at Fort Lauderdale Airport.