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Administration about his communications with the Russian Ambassador to the United States and was potentially vulnerable to blackmail by the russians. Thats our breaking news here on cnn. I want to get right to all of our correspondents here, our team here at cnn working on this story, michelle kosinski, mark preston, and Major General spider marks, jim acosta will join us in moments as well. Jim, do i have you . Im here. Jim, let me get to you first. You read this letter on air when this news wa...

They feel the need to share unsupported stories about him. The president elects dispute has driven a wedge between the u. S. Intelligence community and the Incoming Trump administration. And yet, as trump indicated in his defiant press conference yesterday, hes still to the ready to call a truce. Multiple times trump said intelligence officials were responsible for leaking information to the press and compared those leaks to nazi germany. They looked at that nonsense that was released by maybe t...

We begin with news on the battle to replace obamacare as we await the White House Daily briefing which is always a highlight. The president meeting today with community chairs to really support for Republican Health care bill. Welcome to the second hour of happening now, im jon scott. Melissa i melissa francis. The American Health care act has been approached by two committees, but the state remains unclear on the house and the senate. Vice president pence says that her by administration is open...

A couple of weeks. Oh, my gosh. Thats huge. Mika has the morning off. South of france and all of that. Mark halpern and John Heilemann here and msnbc contributor and columnist did you see that tweet last night . I loved that. What do you do new years eve . Not a whole lot. Just chitchatted. Also have contributing editor two Time Magazine msnbc political analyst and former aide to the george w. Bush white house and state department, elise jordan. Soon to be legendary. Photo shop . I do that mysel...

Wire taps on his phones in terror during the campaign and said the president had no regrets, leveling the allegation. What he did not do was offer evidence to back it up. The chairman who is investigating suggested people should not take the president ial tweets literally. That is where we begin with jim acosta. Its now a question that wont go away. Where is trumps proof that his predecessor, barack obama broke the law and tapped his phones. The white house still doesnt have an answer. Where is ...

People. They are. The enemy of the people because they have no sources, they just make them up, when there are none. And i love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. Who uses it more than i do . But the First Amendment gives all of us, d gives it me, to all americans the right to speak our minds freely. It gives you the right and me the right to criticize fake news and criticizing strongly. The fake news doesnt tell the truth. So just in finishing, i say it doesnt represen...

The white house . Were spending an awful lot of time knocking down lies in this environment we have to. And today on twitter fox news bill oreilly accused me of refusing to the susan rice story. He has a lot of followers and people are believing alternative facts now. That is 100 false. And if you were watching this show last night you know that is 100 false. And you saw i began by laying out the various ways the white house has attempted to stop us from the false wire tapping claims. The tweets...

We are spending an awful lot of time on this show lately knocking down lies and here is one more lie we had to knock down today. Today, bill oreilly accused me of refusing to address the rice story, normally i would not address it, that is 100 false, and if you watched this show last night you know that is 100 false. And you saw, i began by laying out the various ways the white house has attempted to distract us from President Trumps false wiretapping claims, the most recent being that the Natio...

The previous president , but if he is right, the federal judge would have approved the wiretaps, meaning that there was probable cause that someone in trump tower was engaging in criminal activity. Neither is a pretty picture for this white house. The only se their row that could vindicate trump would be a wide ranging conspiracy at the highest levels of the Obama White House involving federal Law Enforcement and potentially the courts. What hard evidence does the white house have of that . None...

To far exceed the United States ability to defend key Critical Infrastructure. Do you agree with that assessment . I do. I do. I think cyber has risen to the top, close to the top of one of the most serious challenges that we face. As i mentioned in my opening statement, we need to see this as a very significant challenge to our Public Safety as well as the public health. Two years in a row we have authorized the provision of defensive lethal weapons in the Defense Authorization bill to ukraine....