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And officials have said the hacks fits Russia's M.O. but there are still no smoking gun directly tying the Russian government to the set of e-mails from the DNC and Clinton campaign manager, john Podesta that were released through WikiLeaks.
Vladimir Putin has repeatedly denied Russia's involvement even in Russia did try to help Donald Trump it's unknown how that might have impacted the outcome of the election. A point made in a fiery exchange by Trump transition spokesman Sean Spicer and CNN's Michael Smerconish.
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SEAN SPICER, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: Show me what facts have actually shown that anything undermines that election. Donald Trump win 306 electoral votes, 2300 counties, 62 million Americans voted for him, so what proof do you have or does anyone have that any of this affected the outcome of this election?
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BROWN: Official say adding to the CIA's assessment about Russia's motive is evident showing individuals connected to the Russian government bank rolling operations have spread fake news about Hillary Clinton during the election. The FBI has a more conservative view of Russia's motive and has not come as far as the CIA believing that tried to help Donald Trump.
We should note no final conclusions have been made by any U.S. agency.
Pamela Brown, CNN, Washington.
FOSTER: Now at some attributes as China remembers the Nanjing massacre. Many served in the ring pay their respects and marked December 13, 1937, the day Japanese troops invaded the city of Nanjing. After the troops entered the city an estimated 300,000 people were killed during the six weeks rampage of rape and murder.
Japanese conservative insists the mass rapes and murders did not happen.
Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka is coming under new scrutiny for some of her business practices in China.
CNN's senior investigative correspondent Drew Griffin reports.
DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: It turns out during that entire campaign when Donald Trump was criticizing.
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TRUMP: China is taking our jobs, our money. China which has been ripping us off.
And we have a trade deficit with China $500 billion a year.
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GRIFFIN: Daughter Ivanka Trump was busy doing business with yes, China. She sells shoes and handbags made in China. And even in the last three months the final leg in the campaign, the Ivanka Trump brand was receiving shipment after shipment of merchandise more than 60 in all according to records analyzed by CNN.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TRUMP: We owe them they took everything, $1.4 trillion. How do you do that, that's like a magic act.
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GRIFFIN: Trade doc on the campaign trail intrigued Robert Lawrence, a professor in international trade and investment in Harvard. His interest peak when early on Donald Trump found out Nabisco was moving its Oreo cookie bakery to Mexico.
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[03:34:59] TRUMP: They're leaving Chicago, which means I'm never going to eat another Oreo again. Nobody is -- I'm serious. Never!
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GRIFFIN: Professor Lawrence task one of his assistant to find out where the Trump family makes fames. And it settled on Ivanka Trump's extensive line of handbags, shoes, clothing and accessories. Hundreds of products made in China and many other nations.
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ROBERT LAWRENCE, PROFESSOR, HARVARD UNIVERSITY: I think we found something on the order of 6 or 700 products, and about half of those were made in China and the rest were imported.
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GRIFFIN: Shipments as recently as November have been arriving from China. And in a CNN report earlier this year we tracked Donald Trump's now apparently debunked clothing line. Manufacturers in China, Indonesia and Bangladesh.
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LAWRENCE: It is certainly at odds with what he claimed was immoral behavior on the part of companies and other companies like Nabisco.
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GRIFFIN: Which raises a possible conflict within the Trump family. Will Ivanka's products face an increase tariffs if the soon-to-be president enacts pay soon to be launched trade war? Will Ivanka continue to make her shoes overseas while her dad tries to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
CNN ask those questions to Ivanka Trump, this was the response from her brand's spokesperson. "We have consistently expressed that we share industry leaders interest in bringing more manufacturing opportunities to the U.S. and are looking forward to being a part of the conversation."
Scott Nova who studies the industry for the Worker Right Consortium says he doubts any garment jobs will ever come back to the U.S. no matter who is president. As he told us earlier this year discussing Donald Trump's clothing line the industry survive on cheap labor when in terms of paying workers it is a worldwide race to the bottom.
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SCOTT NOVA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WORKER RIGHTS CONSORTIUM: There is worldwide search for the countries with the lowest wages and the least regulation. And unaware of any way in which the Trump brand has taken a different approach than the one that is unfortunately standard in the industry.
Business as usual, as we are aware. Find the cheapest labor for the clothes you're making to business so you can make the biggest profit. And this is the nature of the global garment industry.
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GRIFFIN: Drew Griffin, CNN, Atlanta.
FOSTER: Now U.K. SEC sector is adjusting to the reality of Brexit. Just ahead, how one company is finding a recipe for success and a lot of food could become a lot more expensive if nt scarce if we lose more bees. When they started a search for one very special bee could solve the mystery behind their shrinking numbers. Do stay with us.
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FOSTER: Franklin's Bumble Bee it may sound like some sort of scientific metaphor but it is quite literally a species of bee that hasn't been seen in 10 years.
John Sutter caught up with one man who refuse to stop searching for Franklin's Bumble Bee and discovered why his quest could provide answers to what's killing the bees we need to pollinate crops.
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ROBBIN THORP, ENTOMOLOGIST: Just hang on big bee. Now there she is, just another one in common bumble bees.
JOHN SUTTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The vacuum in one hand and net in the other, Robbin Thorp is on a quest.
THORP: So we are coming into the area where we last saw Franklin.
SUTTER: He is searching the mountains of Oregon for Franklin's Bumble Bee. Its species he's believed to be the last person on earth to have seen alive. And he's got sample of the bee in the back of his truck, it's from the 1950's.
THORP: And this is Franklin's and you can see she has a black face, a little touch of quite as hair as pretty settled.
SUTTER: And this is a bee that it could be extinct in the wild.
THORP: It could be. I'm not willing to give up on it, but I'm hoping it's still out there under the radar.
SUTTER: The last time he saw it was 2006, exactly 10 years before he invited me to join him. Thorp is 83 now, a retired professor from UC Davis and mostly he works alone day after day, year after year. It's like something out of Hemmingway, the old man and the bee.
THORP: Now at times it's a, it's kind of a lonely task but I already get wrapped on that. I've got the Bumble Bees for a company vis-a-vis, and I enjoyed that.
SUTTER: And bees are already are showing signs of rapid decline. Scientists say that pesticides farms, climate change and disease all are to blame.
SARINA JEPSEN, ENTOMOLOGIST: Franklin is a bee that particularly dramatic example than a quarter of our Bumble Bee species in North America face extinction risk. I think it's an alarming number if this happens. And many of our Bumble Bee species do go extinct; we might start to see a lot since the ecosystem function that Bumble Bees provide.
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SUTTER: You also should note that these pollinate 35 percent of the world's crops. That's a service that's worth billions of dollars per year.
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RON MOES, SENIOR GROWER, WINDSET FARMS: So basically when we get the bees it comes in a box like this.
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SUTTER: As wild bees disappear commercial bumble bees are becoming popular in green houses like this one in British Colombia. The bees are raise in a factory some 2,000 miles away and then they're flown in by plane. Think of them almost like cows in the farm, they are domesticate insects.
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MOES: They are great workers and they put in a lot of time, they basically go from sun up to sunset and they work seven days a week, so they do great job for us.
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SUTTER: The bees buzz eats flower shaking up pollen and helping it reproduce. Without them tomato growers would have to pollinate their crops by hand. But here's the irony, the commercial bee industry may be contributing to the decline of wild bees.
The research isn't conclusive but Robbin Thorp and others believed that greenhouse bees are carrying diseases into wild bee populations and that that may have killed Franklin's Bumble Bee. Moes has told me that his Greenhouse takes some precautions to prevent that. Queen bees are trapped in their boxes so they don't create new colonies and the bees incinerated after eight weeks in the greenhouse.
No one knows for certain what cause Franklin's Bumble Bee to disappear from California and Oregon, but it's clear we're doing something to cause this one's common species to vanish.
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SUTTER: Is your gut that Franklin's Bumble Bee is still out here somewhere?
THORP: I'm hoping so and that's the best that I can say obviously since it hasn't been seen in 10 years, every year that goes by it makes the chance of finding more and more doubtful because they have to reproduce every year.
SUTTER: That's why you keep searching.
THORP: Yes, right. You smell that the basis for the quest.
SUTTER: I spent two days looking for Franklin's Bumble Bee with Thorp, I found the work absolutely maddening.
THORP: The ones that you hear fly by your ear, I'm always say, well, that must have been a Franklin's.
[03:44:59] I don't think you can put an economic value on the species. They're all priceless really but Franklin's is one that I've had lot of personal investment and yes, I feel an attachment in terms of doing it.
SUTTER: I'm not sure whether he'll find it, but maybe that's beside the point. The truth is that for anyone to know a species like Franklin's Bumble Bee had vanished, someone like Thorp has to be looking.
FOSTER: Well, the biologists say that the planet is on the verge of a sick era of extinction. That means three quarters of all species could disappear at the next couple of centuries if we don't make drastic action right now.
Elephant, amphibians, coral reefs, bees, birds, we explore five stories of endangered species in our special program, Vanishing, the sixth mass extinction. It airs just a few hours from now, 5.30 p.m. in London, 12.30 p.m. in New York.
Down the Brexit has already being good and bad, but one entrepreneurial U.K. food business elite. After the break, the strategy that hook me up to hold on to a seat dinner table.
Plus, a pastor in the U.S. state of Texas is stamping a one-way ticket to the naughty list. How he went after Santa Claus, just ahead.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) JAVAHERI: Weather watch time. Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri right now watching what's happening around North America.
Big time changes in the forecast. There is a Santa Claus open of this factory there, and you begin to ice rains some serious Arctic air over the next couple of days, initially across the Midwestern United States, then eventually you get this out towards the north eastern United States where high temperatures will fail to even get anywhere close to zero for the afternoon hours there across in New York City and certainly in Boston, as well.
Some snow showers expected around in Cleveland, Pittsburg towards the latter portion of the week. And you work your way back out towards areas of the western U.S. the winter weather alert certainly in place as we get another band of wet weather coming in that translates to high elevations across the Siskiyou Mountain range above central Oregon.
You notice the conditions in Vancouver, British Colombia, about 2 degrees there, sunny skies in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Some afternoon sunshine expected to the forecast across that region. Chihuahua looking at sunny skies, a beautiful late autumn day there are 23. Mexico City no complaints at 24 degrees with sunny skies.
And you work your way farther on the tropics, you expect to see some thunderstorms certainly what you will see around Pararam coming in at 29 degrees. Rio makes it up to around 32 degrees with some thunderstorms in the forecast. And you notice the warming trend beginning to be felt around Santiago. Of course, the warm season upon us and you look at this places Asuncion around 34, mostly sunny skies.
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FOSTER: Now, U.K. is thriving tax seem lobbied hard for the remain votes. The British startups rely heavy -- heavily on the visa-free movement of workers but now the E.U. referendum is showing some pretty unexpected results.
And Samuel Burke has more on that.
SAMUEL BURKE, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Oh, yes, the sweet aroma of food tech. Startups like Chef Xchange here in London connecting users to an online market place of chefs will come right to your kitchen ingredients in hand. They're used to following instructions closely, Brexit however, does comes with a recipe.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're doing chicken which comes from France, speaking of Brexit.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, the price have been gone up on that chicken...
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not yet. Not yet. (END VIDEO CLIP)
BURKE: The weak pound has increase prices on many imports into the U.K. but not tonight's order ingredients and the chef totaling a $120.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In December I'm working in Miami, New York, and Switzerland. I'm earning euros and dollars and it's really renowned.
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BURKE: Converting those currencies to pound a win for the chef.
We have a surprise that the chef doesn't know about. The CEO of Chef Xchange is going to join us. Hi, there.
KARL NAIM, CO-FOUNDER & CEO, CHEF XCHANGE: Welcome.
BURKE: Come on.
Even though the pound has plummeted since the referendum Brexit isn't all bad for the startup because they receive their investment in dollars.
NAIM: So, for us, an employee, for example, that could cost us whatever amount in pounds we actually transfer dollars and convert them into pounds, so British in pound and dollars is much higher.
BURKE: So, all your employee just got 20 percent cheaper.
NAIM: They did on the negative side is our revenues generated of the U.K. which is much bigger compared to our cost translate it into dollar which our management is in dollar it means that our revenues coming from the U.K. is not lower. We need to actually generate more revenues, 20 percent more revenue to get to where we used to be.
BURKE: So, the weak pound means better purchasing power for Chef Xchange but bad for their revenue. Both CEO and chef are adjusting. So far though, the ups and downs of Brexit still have them more or less where they were before the vote. At Chef Xchange it doesn't see itself brexiting any time soon.
NAIM: We will still keep our presence in the U.K.
BURKE: No matter what.
NAIM: No matter what. To service the market we have community managers in that city we're in, and these community managers are the ones that handled the relationships between the chefs handled the bookings.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Grilled pineapple with lots fo chocolates
BURKE: Brexit hasn't been this sweet as this dessert but hasn't left these startups as empty as our plates. Samuel Burke, CNN, London.
FOSTER: Big debate next year here in the U.K.
Meanwhile, a pastor in Texas is steering up some whole travel attacking the big man himself, Santa Claus, he believe that.
And our Jeanne Moss reports that he is now on Santa's naughty list.
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So, imagine you're standing in line with your kid to see Santa Claus when this happens.
DAVID GRISHAM, PASTOR: Hey, kids, I wanted to tell you today that there is no such thing as Santa Claus. The man you're going to see today is just a man in a suit. Santa Claus does not exist.
MOOS: Check out those dirty looks.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is no Christmas spirit anymore.
MOOS: It's the spirit of Jesus.
GRISHAM: Hi, it's Pastor Dave Grisham here.
MOOS: That moved the pastor of last frontier Evangelism to rail against Santa.
GRISHAM: And parents, you only stop lying to your children and telling them that Santa Claus is real.
MOOS: Look at those faces. I bet Santa felt like giving the pastor the boot. Pastor Grisham shot this video himself at West State Mall in Amarillo, Texas. Because are we doing the same thing at other malls after shoppers suggested Grisham should be banned from West Gate. The mall manager told CNN absolutely we would tell him to leave if he did this thing again.
Grisham isn't just a Santa denier.
GRISHAM: There are no flying reindeer.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Rudolph with your nose so bright.
MOOS: Noses were out of joy among parents standing in line.
GRISHAM: Sir, don't put your hands on me.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But go on. Quit talking with the mass, do you understand me?
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GRISHAM: But keep your hands to yourself.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And stop. MOS: Pastor Grisham is perhaps best known for the time he tried to burn the Koran. And talk about naughty, six years ago, the same guy didn't just bad bad mouth Santa, he executed it.
Now parents say what he's saying is his mouth.
[03:55:03] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I got my kids are over there, you don't need to come over and blah whatever the hell you're blabbing.
GRISHAM: I'm telling the truth.
MOOS: Jeanne Moss, CNN.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You don't have a nice name.
MOOS: New York.
FOSTER: And if it's not worth enough in St. Louis Missouri, police have arrested the so-called granny who stole Christmas. The 65-year- old woman was caught on surveillance video taking packages from someone's front porch. Authorities believe she could be behind three other recent incidents. And officials are warning that this isn't uncommon so get there boxes inside. Ward off the grinches, you're being warned.
And thanks for joining us. I'm Max Foster. I'll be back with another edition of CNN Newsroom after this short break. Do stay with us.
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(Byline: Max Foster, Sunlen Serfaty, Elise Labott, Matt RIvers, Jomana Karadsheh, Pedram Javaheri, Melissa Bell, Pamela Brown, John Sutter, Drew Griffin, Samuel Burke, Jeanne Moos)
(High: Donald Trump will announce Rex Tillerson as his pick for secretary of state; a pastor tell kids at a shopping mall that Santa Claus isn't real; China's newspaper talks about Trump's inexperience to foreign policy and diplomatic relationship; An activist in Aleppo say Syrian forces are executing civilians with ties to rebel groups; Cyclone brought some deaths in Chennai; Franklin's Bumble Bee population are declining at an alarming rate; Ivanka is coming under new scrutiny for some of her business practices in China)
(Spec: Government; Donald Trump; Disasters; Population; Aviation; Business; Bombings; Profiles; Rape; Agriculture; Animals; Children)