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Leland: president obama will give his farewell address this week from his hometown of chicago. according to the white house, hes expected to take an optimistic tone as he reflects on his eight years in office. he continued his exit tour today, though, on abcs this week where he addressed president-elect trumps affinity for twitter. >> ive said to him and i think others have said to him that the day that he is the president of the united states, there are world capitals and financial markets and ...

We know he does different things and we know he has a different affinity for the truth than many people, which is not much of one. you know, the reality here is the press has got to stop looking in the rear-view mirror and saying, oh, well, we treated him -- we dealt with him incorrectly because we dealt with him the way we deal with other candidates and look at him right now and say this is not a man who is like any other president-elect weve ever covered. hes not going to be like any president...

To shut down satellites, including the ability to shut down power plants. i mean, they can do grave danger to the united states of america. we never tried to do anything like that. >> you guys just returned from a trip to eastern europe, spending some time in the baltic countries. what would you say to donald trump? he seems to have an affinity for putin. he seems to want to have a reset with him. do you think a reset with putin is something thats worth doing. >> i wish he would have gone with m...

The president of the united states. but you dont seem to have very many people willing to ask some very basic questions on why donald trump has this great affinity for russia. when it comes to rex tillerson, do you expect democrats to be more skeptical than they have been about donald trumps own affinities? >> first off and foremost, donald trumps asseritations about the president of the united states being a kenyan muslim terrorist who secretly sneaked into the united states 50 years ago has no...

Was a kind of audacious assault on our sovereignty and our democracy. the its bewildering as to why mr. trump cant set aside his own -- his own concerns here and this is serious business. hes president of the united states. i think he has had some scores during this transition period in terms of dealing with corporations and some other issues. this is a big blemish and he needs to move out of this he needs to get out of this fight with the intel community and peculiar affinity for russia or i th...

Tracks as well. >> youre right. what is so odd about it, its starting to look like trump is so desperate to curry favor with president putin or be on same side as president putin that he is prepared to go as far as ignoring american intelligence officials reports and placing himself in the opponents camp. i mean, one of the things that is mystifying about donald trump is this affinity with vladimir putin. you can date that back decades to china and japan. back to the 1990s. the russia thing is f...

Electoral process, european leaders have been concerned about this for quite sometime. i would definitely tell you that this is exacerbated that concern with elections coming up as you noted. certainly they are are all on alert right now and more than perhaps before. this is something, unfortunately, our european colleagues are all too familiar with russias cyberintrusions and effort to affect the lexs the elections on the continent. >> do you think something donald trump would get from this app...

Russian television network. paul ryan calls him a sycophant for the russians, was a guest on sean hannity. everyone in that saying consider the source. that part is befuddling to people. why is donald trump so suspect of men and women who risk their lives every day, and if you look at the three men at that hearing, theyve served democrats and republicans going back years. why is he so suspect of people who work for this country, patriots, and has such an affinity for the russians? >> youre seein...

Matter whether you are republican or a democrat. there should be howls. and mark my word. if the roles were reversed, there would be howls from the republican side of the aisle. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you for that nonpartisan comment. >> again, a bit of humor at the hearing, if you get mccain and graham in a room. usually a little bit of humor. but, matt, to the point. claire mccaskill is a partisan democrat laying down a clear marker there and taking a clear shot at the president-ele...

Something which is, that some people will perform for people for whom they have a political affinity. if i were asked to perform at a clinton inauguration, i could very easily say yes, i respect the process, and i will do it, that is perfectly fine. or i could say, no, i think she is a crook. i think she was -- she would not be the right choice. therefore, i exercise my right to simply say no. >> bill: thats fine but you are not in fear of losing your job or a book contract or a speaking engagem...