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Had a good relationship with putin when i represented the interests of my shareholders. but now when i represent the interest of americans that relationship has to change. but he has to be convincing. >> jirt graham and senator mccain are looking for some ground to fight on when it comes to russia. its important to note are going the week after christmas the two of them are going on what i call a screw you vladimir tour. not officially called that. but seriously, they are going to the baltic sta...

Baltic countries and syria and ukraine and meddling in the election, he doesnt seem to be motivated to confront vladimir putin. >> thats true. thats hard to deny his basic response to the story that has now been circulating for some time has been defensive, talked about his election and primarily talked about the legitimacy of the outcome rather than really offering some kind of argument and policy about how he will deal with this. we havent heard that outrage many americans in both parties want...

Has invaded ukraine. destabilizing, trying destabilize baltic countries and the list goes on and on. >> no friend of vladimir putin in john mccain. hawks like senator john mccain. lindsey graham say they have a confirmation test for mr. tillerson. >> i want to hear from him if he believes the russians tried interfere in our election. if somebody wants to be secretary of state, and they hear the briefings that ive heard and they dont believe the russians were involved in our election, interfering...

Republican senator john mccain outline his concerns about tillerson. listen to this. >> anybody who is a friend of vladimir putin must disregard the fact that vladimir putin is a murderer, a thug, and kgb agent, whose airlines, as we speak, have been targeting, with precision weapons, hospitals in aleppo, who have committed atrocities throughout the region, and has destabilized ukraine. has invaded ukraine, destabilizing, trying to destabilize baltic countries. the list goes on and on. >> tiller...

Ryan both announced support for the probe yesterday. just hours after the president-elect once again refuted the cias conclusion that moscow mounted a covert intelligence operation to help him defeat hillary clinton. speaker ryan released a statement that read in part, any foreign intervention in our elections is entirely unacceptable and any intervention by russia is especially problematic because under president putin, russia has been an aggressive that constantly undermines american interests...

Senate are reluctant to either review russian tactics or ignore them. >> the russians are not our friends. invaded crimea, and senator mccain and i and some of our democratic friends met with the delegation from the baltic countries just this past week to say that they are nervous about the russians, to put it mildly, and the senate intelligence committee is more than capable of conducting a complete review of this matter. senator schumer will soon join us on the committee and he can review this...

Read that statement is i think that pretty thoroughly covers what im prepared to say about that issue. >> you talked about an investigation, you support a bipartisan investigation, do you want to do -- [inaudible] >> we have -- we are going to follow the regular order. its an important subject and we intend to review it on a bipartisan basis. >> in your statement and obama administration -- [inaudible] >> does it like wise concern you the signals from the new administration of a different attitu...

Vladimir putin must disregard the fact that vladimir putin is a murderer, a thug, a kgb agent whose airplanes as we speak have been targeting with precision hospitals in aleppo who have committed atrocities throughout the region and has destabilized ukraine, invaded ukraine, trying to destabilize baltic countries, and the list goes on and on. this guy is a thug and a murderer and i dont see how anybody could be a friend of this old time kgb agent. >> let me turn to china if i could, senator. cnn...

Lets begin with the showdown in washington where president-elect trump is not only at odds with congress, including members of his own party, but also the cia. what is this about? this is all involving russia interfering with the 2016 presidential election. the cia says that russia did it with the intent for trump to win. now, let me show you these four senators, two dechlt ms, two republicans, making a bipartisan call for an investigation. the second one announced in less than a week. earlier t...

Than a week. house speaker paul ryan also just released this statement saying, in part, quote, any intervention by russia is especially problematic because under president putin, russia has been an aggressor that consistently undermines american interests. earlier senate majority leader mitch mcconnell expressed his confidence in the work of the cia while strongly condemning russia. >> belief that somehow republicans in the senate are reluctant to either review russian tactics or ignore them. th...