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Briefings which hes getting several times a week, is he more deferentialal. hes not berating them in private. its just then in public, he dismisses them. its difficult for them to rec tie phi what is the true trump. the trouble is, its harder to rein in those public comments because it raises overall questions about the capability of the intelligence agencies and when you have a real threat, if its an imminent attack on the u.s., a terror attack, north korea, et cetera, you have the president el...

Is president elect trump over his twitter habit. diplomacy is not a childs game and even less a business dealing. the obsession with twitter diplomacy is undesirable. >> hes suggesting trump is not doing enough to reign in north korea. >> another dramatic day in court for dylan roof. telling a jury considering the death penalty that he is not mentally ill. proce prosecutors saying his jailhouse journey where he said i am not sorry. i have not shed a tear for the innocent people i killed. the jur...

Rallying his party to defend a centerpiece of his legacy. in meetings with house and senate republicans vice president elect mike pence making clear that repealing the law will be donald trumps top priority as president. >> the first order of business is to repeal and replace obamacare, and that was our message today and it will be our message on capitol hill. it needs to be done. >> reporter: in the senate, republicans voted to pave the way for repeal in a matter of weeks. but more questions th...

Spoken. they want to see us repeal and replace obamacare. and today, my message to members of congress is we are going to be in the promise keeping business. >> reporter: had the vice president elects rising influence has become clear throughout the transition from recommending cabinet members to filling key staff positions with his own confidantes. pence bed in congress for a dozen years. railing against the health care law the day it passed. >> some say were making history. i say were breaking...

Insurance. millions of people lose insurance. premiums go up and insurers start to leave the market. thats what is going to happen and health care is 1/6th of the economy. as soon as you inject the biggest sector of the american economy youre not only going to have effects on the health care system but youll start to effect the economy too. what were saying is dont make america sick again. if theres things about the affordable care act you dont like, whether youre a member of congress, a hospita...

Democrats galvanize against it. republicans probably do have the votes to do it but youll see democrats try to make it as painful as possible and what we saw with the effort by congressional republicans to try to tinker with the office of congressional ethics there was a backlash from voters. president elect trump did influence that with his tweet. >> there was a lot of voter intensity on this and youll see democrats try to do the same thing with that. its the republican playbook from 2010 in re...

Ill hark back to leon panetta. so i think this is a good pick. >> good, good, good. we kept hearing from the intel chiefs theres room for improvement with regard to cybersecurity. do you think theres a detriment to u.s. cybersecurity or the global perception for the top spy agency chiefs to publicly say that? >> no, look, the spy chiefs, spy agency serve the american people to be as candid and blunt without exposing methods, to demystify the whole spy lure. >> we know the president is getting br...

You have done a great service to the united states because you helped get donald trump elected. >> this is a man that always said we shadow our sourcing. we do all we can to not even know where they come from and now hes doing exactly that. he is right to hammer hannity for not asking him did russia have any involvement with how you got it? he never asked him that and he never said that russia had nothing to do with it. hes saying he didnt get the e-mails from russia. those are very different pr...

Between the president elect and other gop leader. house speaker paul ryan unleashing a wave of criticism against the wikileaks founder who published the hacks e-mails from hillary clintons campaign chairman john podesta. >> i think the guy is a sick cofant for russia. he leaks, steals data and compromises national security. >> reporter: as senator lindsey graham offers this advice to trump. >> not only should he ignore assange, he should condemn him for what hes done to our country. >> assange i...

America great again. it would make america sick again and lead to chaos instead of affordable care. >> they are pretty honest. they know its going to be long legislatively but on the messaging issue it appears the senate minority leaders message yesterday has caught the attention of the president elect. donald trump taking to twitter calling schumer a clown and criticizing democrats for not being willing to come to the table and trying to fix the affordable care act. >> just yesterday chuck schu...