A Huge question!  What exactly is the relationship between Trump and Putin?  Is Trump putting Russia's interests ahead of our own as payback for Russia's  help  on the election or something else?   
Realize that without this information from our intelligence agencies we wouldn't have a clue as to the danger of this threat.      Consequently  Trump has pulled in a  colleague Stephen Feinberg to put a muzzle on these intelligence experts.  And natural this is, for that's just what his friend  Vlad  Putin, former KGB agent, and current despot of Russia would  do.
Having served in the USASA (now folded in to the NSA) monitoring Soviet military activity during the Cold War I take this seriously, especially as I later traveled to the USSR in 1968 and found tremendous  warmth and friendliness towards America among the people, which was born out with the liberal changes when Gorbachev came to power and ended Communist authoritarianism. Finally  "Mir i druzhba."
But now Putin.