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Lose and forces in blue states that wanted her to lose. it was the combination of all those forces is why she lost. what john podesta didnt do. he cant do. is provide evidence to back up his speculation that there was some plot afoot in the f.b.i. and for democrats broadly, nationally. this kind of whining doesnt do them any good at this point. it is backward looking at a time when their party would like to be forward-looking. >> bill: i remember john podesta wrote this back in december on scree...

Whatever paul ryan and mitch mcconnell and the smartest men and women in the room come up with, if they put it out this and the town hall meetings explode, donald trump is going to see that. >> why are they doing this first? because they can? >> it doesnt get any easier. >> its going to be disastrous, though. trump is setting them up perfectly. >> they have been telling their people forever, elect us in 10, well get rid of obama care, elect us in 14 well get rid of obama care. the problem is, wh...

And a foreign enemy, essentially, who was found by our own united intelligence community, to have intentionally and successfully, put their thumb on the scale and helped elect donald trump as president of the united states. >> so, constant contact is what were reporting. youre using the word "collusion" and youre also saying evidence of donald trump himself. do you have any evidence of actual collusion as opposed to just contact? do you have any evidence that donald trump himself was having cont...

In there. the problem is, even if you put someone who knew the intelligence world better in there, donald trump spent lots of the campaign, the transition and being in the white house running down our intelligence agency. they are doing a bad job. they are not organized well. so, its always going to be that type of relationship. look, at the end of the day, yes, investigating the leaks and how the intelligence community works is a worthy endeavor. but, its not the most important thing here. the ...

Relationship with russia. today white house spokesman sean spicer answered questions about some of what the president new and when he knew it, but only some. do you have new information about when vice president pence found out about this flynn conversation? what have you heard? >> reporter: thats right, were learning it was not through the white house that mike pence found out there were inconsistencies between what flynn said on the calls with the russian ambassador and what he had told the vi...

Flynns call to the russian ambassador happened on the same day president obama announced new sanctions against russia for their cyberattacks attempting to influence the u.s. election. weeks later vice president elect pence went on national tv defending flynn and denying that he discussed sanctions with a russian ambassador. >> the conversations that took place at that time were not in anyway related to u.s. sanctions against russia. >> the vice president only finding out that flynn mislead him l...

Administration has little with nothing to do with the economy. the control of the narrative is being lost by the white house. >> bill: despite the president did good things with business leaders. >> but you know you have to keep the focus on those business leaders and not on tweets about meryl streep or unnecessary conflicts. >> bill: you started to say the leaks are disturbing. you cant have americans spying on other americans and expect that information to go public, right? >> no. and i think ...

Inauguration and let them know that the way pence, the vice president elect and other administration officials in the incoming administration mischaracterized based on a conversation they had with flynn, his conversation with the russian ambassador. and so comey, the fbi director, initially, on the 19th of january opposed going to the trump white house to let them know this information. after, you know, trump comes to office, sally yates, whos then acting attorney general makes the case again an...

Intentional he may have just forgotten, but at some point -- >> the conversation -- >> thats the point, jim, at some point that trust erode today a point where the president did not feel comfortable with him serving in that position and asked for his resignation. >> last night general flynns resignation letter he said he inadvertently briefed others. considering his role in advising the president on national security matters is the white house concerned that he briefed the vice president elect o...

Administration about his communications with the russian ambassador to the united states and was potentially vulnerable to blackmail by the russians. thats our breaking news here on cnn. i want to get right to all of our correspondents here, our team here at cnn working on this story, michelle kosinski, mark preston, and major general spider marks, jim acosta will join us in moments as well. jim, do i have you? >> im here. >> jim, let me get to you first. you read this letter on air when this ne...