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Lawmakers still raising concerns about the former exxon ceos ties to russia. lets bring in john bolton, senior fellow at the american institute. there will be a lot to tillerson should he be confirmed. he will face a lot of questions regarding russia, where we move forward in that relationship. there is talk from the white house about possibly rolling back sanctions. on capitol hill they arent only talking about blocking that but talking about adding new sanctions. here is a little bit of what s...

Democrats said but republicans stiffer sanctions when the president is talking about rolling back sanctions, so theres contradiction coming from within donald trumps on party. >> maybe youre right, maybe this is a marker for negotiations. we will see, thank you so much from moscow. president-elect trump promises health insurance for everybody and some republicans say theyre in the dark around have no idea what hes talking about. >> and adding thousands of jobs the u.s., great news, does trump de...

Premature of the intelligence community on it and it means that republicans and democrats on capitol hill will have something they can point to and say this is the high confidence of the cia and the high confidence of the fbi. and actively worked to meddle in american elections and thats going to make any kind of hearing for particularly rex tillerson, the people who will be charged with resetting trumps relations with russia, that will make it more difficult and more difficult for trump to try ...

Go forward. gregg: the politics are unusual. laura: usually politicians are hard on russia but this is a little different. what is your take on that? >> there are two sides to the party, more than two. part of the response, paul ryan, john mccain and others has been to agree this was necessary. action had to be taken. donald trump has been hesitant, i will hear the facts, he has not taken a strong stand on retaliation. a bit of a challenge going forward, the policy position he wants to take whet...

>> do we really want to help out a government that wants us dead? >> you spelled it out right there? for the iranians to complain about this is stallin trying to sue starbucks because the coffee is too hot. lets get the reperspective here. all kinds of terrorism throughout the middle east. the progressives have such great faith in the u.n. the iranians are constantly flouting the u.n. liberals dont seem to be upset about. this i just dont understand. >> bill, should we help them out the way weve...

Mean, they are going to take this up in congress. the president just this week issued a letter to potentially waivering democrats on this to say that theres nothing preventing us from gradually bringing back sanctions. i know weve talked a lot about sanctions on this show. youre kicking and screaming to these sanctions. now that theyre essentially -- theyve been telegraphed theyre gone. the europeans are not going to go back to the sanctions, right? >> no, of course not. this is a birthday gift ...

>> first of all there isnt a vote that congress is going to have on an up or down vote on a deal. they will have a role. congress will continue to have a role. when it comes to a point in the process where they would roll back sanctions. thats always been the case. the letter reiterated the role that they would have. >> what if a vote to eliminate or hes up sanctions against sanctions they reject what the secretary is maybe promising the iranians as part of a deal that the u.s. will loosen the s...

The eu has a strong policy of not recognizing moscows annexation of the crimea region, which it says still belongs to ukraine. the measures go into effect saturday. meantime, u.s. president barack obama signed a bill calling for stricter sanctions against russia, but says he has no intention of using them yet. he says the u.s. may even roll back sanctions, but only if russia takes what he called necessary steps. russian president vladimir putin meantime did his best to ease peoples fears over ...

In the right direction. there are accomplishments beginning to accumulate in the background. right now, hes in a real hole. >> elallmily, you get the final word. your turn. >> when only one out of three americans thinks youre doing a good job, thats a really deep hole. and i dont think iran is going to turn out to be an accomplishment when you have bipartisan disapproval of the iran deal and calling back sanctions. i think thas going to hurt him even worse. when youre losing on the domestic fron...

Existential. the iranians president, the form he president has talked about wiping israel off the face of the map. this is not theoretical for the israelis. it is very, very important. >> so it is understandable that netanyahu is very concerned. >> the president was asked about a deal yesterday by chuck todd. i wanted to play for you what he said about sanctions. this is really why everyone watching should care about this so much. heres president obama. >> if it turned out during course of the s...