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Specializing in national security law. two excellent experts here. ellen, let me start with the tillerson question. does that get wrapped up in the fight and are these fair questions to ask a potential nominee? >> i certainly think theyre fair questions and the degree to which this will figure into the fight is still yet to be done. right now, i think what many in congress and the public want to know is really to what degree russia did interfere in the election, what were their true motives, and...

Term of art. its an opportunity for agencies which may have differing theories of what happened here to submit their footnotes. and you add, the fbi doesnt back the consensus view, at least according to some of these reports. so where does that leave us now several days into this story with the leaks going back and forth? >> well, with i think the important thing is that on friday, before ellens great scoop, which was really important, president obama had come out and said, were going to have an...

Take this oath of office with the russian hackers, and theyre trying to just make that call out to the electors. i dont think its going to change the outcome, but i do think theyre trying to make this pitch and theyre basing it off the fact that lawmakers back in september -- they were criticizing the obama administration for not taking action on looking into the russian hacking. >> you had reince priebus, the white house chief of staff incoming, say this when asked about all of this back and fo...

What do your sources tell you goes beyond just the circumstantial evidence for the level of confidence that this was to elect trump? >> right, and were still trying to report this all out. there have been some reports that, for instance, the russians targeted and actually penetrated the systems of the republican national committee, but did not -- and stole data, but did not leak it. now, however, that is actually not a consensus view. there are others who dispute that. and so, that part is just ...

Assessment of the intelligence community that russias goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help trump get elected. thats the consensus view. okay. so that is the first part of this breaking news tonight from "the washington post." the cia has told u.s. officials and senators secretly that when russia hacked the e-mails of russias campaign chair and the dnc, when they fed that information to the u.s. public via wikileaks, it wasnt some chaos plan to make americans wonder about ...

The person who builds consensus, listens to people and brings a very busy president a consensus view or at least a compact view of different opinions. so i would expect that there will be a fair amount of conflict. rice was not able to play the traditional national security adviser role of getting people together, getting their opinions into consensus view because she had very big personalities. trump is building a cabinet with very big personalities with a lot of history behind them. so -- >> y...

Stars. mattis and kelly have four stars. it is not going to happen that they will all of a sudden submit to general flynn who should be the person who builds consensus, listens to people and brings a very busy president a consensus view or at least a compact view of different opinions. so i would expect that there will be a fair amount of conflict. rice was not able to play the traditional national security adviser role of getting people together, getting their opinions into consensus view becau...

Important that women get equal pay from the get-go and the men understand it today. >> lilly, i want to bring in our panel. amy id like to play for you something from actually im going to read to you i think, carly fiorina on the lilly ledbetter act says there are plenty of laws in place today, shes a quote to cnn "there are plenty of laws in place today that a woman can look to if shes truly discriminated against at work, where shes actually earning less for the same job as her male counterpart...

Congressman former vice presidential nominee chairman of the house ways and means committee, and catholic, boy, thats a whole menu there. >> long i guess so. >> paul ryan. congressman, mr. chairman, thank you so much for joining me. >> you bet ya. >> so the pope made his views clear on a number of issues today. theres something for everyone to like, everyone to not like. lets talk about immigration though because i know thats a thorny issue for your party. the pope said speaking of people who, q...

>> i dont think so. if the situation with iran continued, you would have had the risk of proliferation. every other country sees theres no potential and thats not sustainable. i think with a deal and the onerous conditions put in place against iran its a deterrent and diss asion. >> thinking of the gop side are people doing bidding for netanyahu that would like to see a war with iran? >> i dont think so. i think there are a lot of people in the gop side frankly, the democratic side who honestly ...