buy it. i believe julian assange, intelligence, we don t really know. that s troubling because they know it was russia. it raises this question that i don t understand why you want to raise which is why would trump shelter russia? let me ask you a question. he s not sheltering russia. don t say that again. how is he not? what has the current president done vis-a-vis russia i don t understand how the answer to the question is to blame the current president. i m not blaming the current president. i m asking a question. we re all frothing about russia. do you think president obama s legacy vis-a-vis russia. let s say the legacy with obama and russia is the worst, it couldn t be worst. how is president-elect trump helping by ignoring russia s role. the russians didn t want him elected because he has said very
a solid end to the year. overall 2.2 million new jobs created. you can see november, that was revised, about 200,000 jobs created in november, 156 in december. this is what it looks like for the president s tenure. i went back over the numbers. you look at the first year of his presidency, 5 million jobs vanished. remember those terrible days? the next years were spent rebuilding. after that 5 million loss, there were more than 15 million jobs created. under this president, 11 million net new jobs created. let me show you the unemployment rate, at dramatic reversal. got above 10%. finally here at 4.7%. you might recall last month it was 4.6%. why would the unemployment rate rise? it rose because 184,000 people may have been more encouraged about the news they re hearing and are now looking for a job.
conversatio conversations. i don t know how she disputes that. the question is what difference does it make, if someone celebrated the victory of one candidate or the other? i want to get in the heat of the intelligence conversation to the heart of the matter. do we have solid information, whether it s a human source, intercepted communication or elsewhere, that indicates the president s office in russia was aware of, supported, condoned, backed this operation? all this other stuff is enough. i don t think it s particularly relevant. brian, do you think the public will ever know the hard core evidence that intelligence officials have about russia, or will we just have to every rely on what mr. trump allies to us? there s always questions when they want to put forth a claim because it compromises sources and methods. i doubt we ll ever have the entire brief on it. i think that over time we re going to learn more i think once the president-elect is
inaugurated. he had five more decisions as democrats should be scrutinized and they will. he had the courtesy of having them confirmed on day one. why? because we as a nation must function. president george w. bush came in through a supreme court decision. those kind of politics get played. hoe about scotus with scalia s seat? they won t have a vote. they went back and forth. mcconnell played some weird pant mime about it. now you re pontificating. kellyanne, if you don t like what i say, that s on you. if you ask me a question, i ll answer it. are we going to get the same courtesy that president obama and president george w. bush got? they will in fact give confirmation. we ll see.
congressional hearing yesterday, boris, that whole hearing was meant to send a message to donald trump to trust the intelligence community, something former cia director leon panetta reinforced on the today show this morning. let s listen. the president has to work with the intelligence community. the president has got to make tough decisions. he cannot make those tough decisions without the very best intelligence that can be provided to him. i m concerned that it really is damaging the credibility of our intelligence agencies and the morale. okay. so you just heard sean spicer, right? trump is still prepared to be skeptical, right? has trump put himself in this box that he can t get out of, that he s no longer able to say i trust whatever the intelligence agencies tell me? i think you re going to see next week with the confirmation hearings maybe where that i ear able to get a different group of his nominees basically to put