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Russians who were named to our allegedly well-known cyberthieves, who have been accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets from the united states, from financial institutions, and from ecommerce companies. so this was sweeping and it was beyond the election. and also, i just want t point out that apparently, the was no involvement by the incoming trump administration in this. lisa monaco, the director of homeland security and counterterrorism here, made a point of saying...

Direct reports. shes not going to be involved in policy. shes not going to be in the meetings where decisions are made. she is going to do at the white house what she did for the campaign. shes going to be on tv. so she wanted to be inside the white house and trump put her in a position where shell be in the white house. shes not going to be part of the decision making process. shes going to keep doing what shes been doing in the campaign. very interesting about draining the swamp. theyre not dr...

Hell be representing the need for the government to defend our national security. if you just take away sanctions and the bad behavior continues, all youve done is re-enforce that bad behavior, okay? youve probably lessened of sanctions for any use going forward. these are things that were done very deliberately. if were going to remove them, that has to be done very deliberately. all administrations come in thinking theyll have a good relationship with russia. the last few administrations have ...

Addition to the fact and the horrible facts that you heard. the defense will be given an opportunity to present evidence to help to mitigate the horrific crime thats taken place. >> give us a sense of the decision making process when the federal prosecutors decided that they were going to go for the death penalties because his attorneys dylann roof offered one of the plea deals to spare him the death penalty. we are willing to do that in exchange for life in prison, during that deliberation proc...

Easily done, is it? >> reporter: no, not at all. donald trump has made clear he has no interest in completely divesting himself from the business, but even if he decided today to do that that process would take well over a year. we would be well into his administration. at this point his lawyers and lawyers for the trump organization are trying to figure out a way to create as little conflict of interest as possible. as you said, though, its impossible to eliminate at least the appearance of a c...

Go on with the business at hand and we should hold up the inaugural and all the things coming up in january. >> does it bother you that donald trump thinks hes, quote, too smart and smart enough not to need daily intelligence briefings. >> yeah. the bible says pride come before the fall. a whole team. what i would say is this. we have a country thats built on a whole host of institutions and traditions. as the president-elect steps into the role it is important he rely on many of the traditions ...

Rex tillerson as some sort of putin stooge when you have condy rice and james baker and possibly even bob gates saying we know this guy. we like this guy. we think hell be a very, very effective secretary of state. >> not only is it going to be hard for him to paint him as such, donald trump doesnt care. i had a conversation with a senior trump aide last night about the backlash and whether or not this is weighing on donald trump and affecting his decision making process. pretty much what i got ...

Were talking about the country of russia getting involved here and i guess the question is i think for the trump team at this point when are you going to trust what the intelligence agencies tell you? >> well thats whats incredibly disturbing, because our intelligence agencies, though they can be skewed sometimes and internal debates over interpreting the intelligence. this is a nonpartisan issue. this is dealing in factual information. it is about interpretation, but these are trusted agencies ...

Outset, the most loyal guy in the campaign.runner at the outset, the most loyal guy in the campaign. >> my favorite thing is when you ask me to give my opinion your opinions. i will say this, i just got off the phone with a source familiar with some of the process who says that the president-elect is diving really into this process and has been diving in, really getting in to settle of state. feels like it is so, so important which is why youre seeing the process be so deliberative. i will tell ...