player, last week, because i thought it could be perceived as a conflict of interest. do we know anything more about this huge deal that he says he turned down? in good donald trump style we do not. what we do know is that he is still taking callings about business deals, which seems odd in the middle of a transition. and it also is a distraction and a way to avoid answering the question about what he s going to do with his current conflicts let alone getting into new ones. so last night trump tweeted that his adult children eric and don jr. will make no new deals while he is president. what does that mean in terms of potential conflicts of interest, and is that possible, to operate without any new deals? that s an excellent question because this leaves trump in a position where he is going to have to explain what a deal is. what happens when his children have to renegotiate the terms of let s say a lease with a foreign
hillary clinton, or sow seeds of doubt about the american electoral system. all that remains a motive or a matter of debate. regardless of a motive the intelligence committee is now saying they re confident moscow did meddle in the u.s. elections. how do top security and intelligence analysts come to that conclusion? how do they conduct a cyber autopsy? before the election when russian hackers were first suspected of interfering with the u.s. elections, candidate donald trump was not convinced. i mean, it could be russia. also could be somebody sitting on their weigh that weighs 400 pounds, okay? now that the u.s. intelligence community says it s confident russian hackers are likely behind the cyber security breaches, with some debate within the community over whether the hackers were trying to help trump, the president-elect is weighing in again. quote, unless you catch hackers in the act, he tweeted monday, it s very hard to determine who is doing the hacking. well, one thing abo
communities, who have also had some shakiness relative to future sanctions on russia. look, this will be one of those things that comes up, and i think to prejudge before we have an opportunity to explore it is probably not appropriate. but we ll see. we ll see when he comes forth. i know he knows these issues are going to be front and center. my guess is he is spending time looking at those. you re planning to have the foreign relations committee conduct a review over these russian hacks. what do you think about president-elect donald trump s response to what the intelligence community has said, which is definitively they feel confident that russia was behind the hacks, although the question about what russia was trying to do remains a subject for debate within the intelligence community, some say they were trying to sway the election for donald trump. others say they were just trying to undermine confidence in the american electoral system. when president-elect trump comes
you re right. when his name was floated days ago as a potential choice for secretary of state russian officials then whether lavishing praise on rex tillerson. the head of the international affairs committee said it was a sensation that rex tillerson had been nominated for secretary of state and that it showed the seriousness of donald trump to do a deal with russia, perhaps. the kremlin has made remarks saying that rex tillerson is a respectable and professional a person, about as high praise that you get from the kremlin these days. the foreign minister. sergey lavrov who would be his counterpart here in russia. lavished praised on the oil man from texas saying him along with trump are pragmatic people and they are not opponents to the development of relations between the two countries. so a resounding thumbs up all around from russian officials when it comes to this nomination
servers. he said he was saying so jokingly. no modern president has ever gone this long without taking questions from reporters in such a setting after winning a white house. bringing in maggie haberman and phillip baum, political reporter for the washington post. thank you both for being here. maggie, do you think it s possible that president-elect trump, president trump, will never do a press conference? newt gingrich has suggested that that s what he thinks should happen. i think any assumption that what we know of in the white house will continue is erroneous. certain traditions will hold i suspect. there will be some form of a daily briefing. certain titles. communications director, press secretary. i think it s possible that you ll see the president, once he is president, just tweet out his thoughts or give one-off interviews and make his thoughts known that way. his press conferences used to be very contentious. he would shoot down questions or tell people to sit down when h