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The intelligence -- wasnt on his radar, intelligence radar, that isis was on the rise. and so heres the president throwing the intel community under the bus, and in that situation, you had general michael flynn testify before the senate armed services committee in 2014, february 2014, that isis was on the rise. you had leaders of kurdistan telling state department isis is on the rise. so you had a sitting president really not believe or not act on intelligence that he was receiving that did affe...

Deal, land, whatever -- the one you just said about the philippines is a perfect example. and it would make all the difference in the world if the president-elect himself had a somewhat different affect and attitude about this. his attitude in the interview with you is very defiant. he invoked some vague doctrine that says the law says i can do -- >> in fairness, the conflict of interest laws, correct me if im wrong, do not apply to president and vice president. >> thats true, but he could say, ...

State sponsor of terrorism on the state department list. what will change? how can president affect, can he, iranian behavior? >> well, for one thing he can be very clear he is not going to tolerate the continued military buildup of hamas and hezbollah. hezbollah directly north of israel able to fire missiles and hit israel within minutes. there is no margin of error for the israelis. this is what people dont understand. hamas to the south and syria to the northeast, theyre surrounded by mortal ...

Started with exxon, whole career at exxon, you know, profoundly immense businessman -- >> sure. >> to run your state department, isnt that a win for an administration? >> ill agree with you. the ability to broker a good deal is critically important. but getting back to the notion of he knows the players, right, that sounds very good and with knowing them means you have preexisting relationships with the players and so my concern which i think would be alleviated at the senate confirmation proces...

Will be fly speck for what you just said about the philippines is a perfect example. it would make all the difference in the world if the president-elect himself had a somewhat different affect and attitude about this. his attitude in the interview with you was very defiant. he invoked some vague doctrine that -- >> no, in fairness, the conflict of interest laws, correct me if im wrong, do not apply to the president and vice president. >> thats true. but he could say, and he didnt, doesnt matter...

Thats whats happening with these stories of unsourced, unnamed folks, people are pushing back and saying hold on. you cant -- read the "newsweek" article, "newsweek," no friend of president-elect trumps. you cant get to the logical conclusion that the affect of what russia did or didnt do impaci impacted these election results. thats what many people are saying and they want reared red viewers to conclude to. when the president-elect said those who want to diminish his astonishing, historic vict...

Russian actors or a teenager in their basement in philadelphia, lets get it. do you really think theres an equal shot that its a kid in his basement in philadelphia or someone acting on behalf of the kremlin? >> i think one of the hackers whether it was hillary was done from some kid in macedonia. we dont know. >> we do know what our intelligence officials say. they said back in october that russia did hack into affect the u.s. election. whats new is saying that there was an sbenintent, some off...

Whether -- no matter who is demanding them. the truth is, we know now that russia did interfere in american elections. i believe the cia, certainly not donald trump who has spoken many times with no evidence to back up what he is saying. but we need to find out if this had an affect on the elections. that we do not know. we do not know if what the russians did affected the outcome of the election. i think its premature to call for new elections without knowing exactly what the effect of the russ...

Zero. show me what facts have actually shown that anything undermind that election. donald trump won with 306 electoral votes, 2,300 counties, 362 million americans voted for him, what proof do you have or anyone have that any of this affect the the election. >> im an american trying to discern all im reporting on and reading. >> michael, you are asking me, show me what -- give me one fact that an outcome was changed. >> ask debbie -- i cant say that it impacted the ultimate outcome, that it too...

Pryor and judge sykes, are both on appeals courts. judge pryor in alabama. judge sykes in wisconsin, and donald trump during the campaign singled out both of them. you know, its interesting you talked about what a big decision this is. think of how different this is than these cabinet picks were saturdaying to see, wolf. those are for four years, possibly eight at the most. these are individuals who will be on the supreme court now for life. so they would have an affect on all of our lives long ...