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Huckabee sanders when she takes the podium at 1:00. president trump as he has done for weeks turning the attention back to democrats, turning to hillary clinton, he called her crooked "h." and trying to put distance between himself, his campaign and paul manafort. this happened prior to manafort joining the trump campaign. we have to point out, while the members of the trump team may want to distance themselves from manafort, he was an integral part of campaign 2016. that is just a fact. ken? >>...

Mitch mcconnell saying the sanctions are overdue but theyre appropriate. you have folks like arizona senator john mccain who called for hearings next week on the cyber attack issue so this is a point where trump seems to be at odds with members of his own party. fred? >> athena jones in honolulu, thank you so much. lets bring in our panel. cnn military analyst retired lieutenant general mark hertling. david cramer, former deputy assistant secretary of state for russia and senior director for h...

Republicans in congress, they have said that this is too little too late. in other words they arent saying this step by obama yesterday should not have been taken, they are arguing that it should have been taken much sooner and, in fact, much tougher so the risk, i think that president-elect trump faces when he assumes office is a growing divide between his views on russia and his interests in buddying up and becoming pals with putin and republicans in congress who do see russia and putin as a t...

With intelligence officials to get a briefing, potentially presented with the evidence that they have, that they have reached this conclusion with confident that russia is behind these hacks. fred? >> sunlen serfaty, thank you so much. lets dig deeper now. i have cnn political commentator david swertleg from the "washington post." david, you first, is this ax boxing in donald trump or is it more about president obama getting things done in his last few days in office? >> probably a little bit ...

Obamacare is it was done so swiftly and such a big change that -- and some of it did not turn out the way they expected it to, i think the american people, especially a people that voted for him, would be satisfied with that approach. part of their biggest problem with obamacare is just the swiftness in which it happened. >> and david, is it really an issue of just rebranding? >> to selenas point, i think politically selena is right. a go-slow approach would help president-elect trump. in terms ...

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Been doing for the last ten years in europe in places like estonia, ukraine, and poland. >> john, how do you see it? >> if i can add one thing to that. i agree with both the previous speakers but one thing also i think putin wants to do is by taking this soft line it can possibly exacerbate the differences in tensions between the president-elect and the cia and thats something he could eventually exploit to his benefit. and certainly i think from our standpoint a wall of mistrust between the pre...

Will see him within a week or so saying hes on board, theyre the greatest people in the world and he wants to move on from this. >> interesting. all right. also next week while senator joim mccain is pushing for hearings on this russia hacking, president obama will be going to capitol hill in perhaps a last-ditch effort to try to protect obamacare. donald trump promise head would repeal and replace obamacare right away but with all of this now taking center stage, david, do you see that that is ...

Do? >> well theres a couple of things the president can do. he one, can strengthen our ties with nato. he is exposed to expansion of nato that left ukraine, georgia, montenegro on hold. he could move forward with strengthening those ties. he could move to allow export of u.s. natural gas currently russia has a grip on europe where they are beholden to russia where they use it in the geopolitical leverage tool box. we can by entering into the opportunity to do that export and make a difference ec...

close quote. watch this. >> all options are on the table. there is no question but that russia needs to understand this is serious. we and the other friend and allies engaged in this are deadly serious about this. bill: you have the words, now possibly some action. gregg palkot is in london. what is the latest. >> reporter: i have been watching this all throughout the weekend. its being called the biggest confrontation of russia and the west since the fall of the soviet union. we are t...