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Legislation in modern times you could imagine. anyone could see that the president is going to try to keep the affordable care act, obamacare, if you will, in place. so that cannot be a surprise. this time last year i was on my way out of office. and, you know, there are still things to be done. there is still work to be done and sometimes people get upset about that. but you took an oath. you serve until the last day and you do things that you think are right. and then when mr. trump has his op...

Communicating with the rest of the world. if you look at the realignment in the middle east, where syria is, there is a truce being negotiated with russia and turkey. and the united states isnt even involved. so i think it is more of a messaging, outsmarting over the course of the last couple of days. but, you know, it is impossible to defend the guy though. >> when it is so complex as you say, do you like that the president elect that is his only message that hes hearing. one that vladimir puti...

A-lister sifser stalone will be ringing in the new year with trump at mar-a-lago 2507b9. and one member of the mormon tabernacle choir said shes quitting the group altogether instead of performing. jean casarez is "outfront." >> reporter: marching bands around the country are going to donald trumps festivities. 8,000 participants. but tonight a new controversy surrounding those performers. jan chamberlain, a four year member of the tabernacle choir has written a lengthy public facebook posting t...

Perspective of foreign policy and security and not as a political play to help hillary clinton in the election. its fascinating to me that still, donald trump has not acknowledged the intel that really theres broad agreement here that russia was behind this. you have republicans and democrats in agreement on this, really everyone on capitol hill agrees that russia was behind this. the president elect has not gotten to the point where he can acknowledge russias role, much less do anything about i...

>> perhaps the president elect attempting to extend an olive branch to some of his detractors, it doesnt come easy for donald trump. so he tweeted this morning, a new year greeting and he specifically pointed out those who fought against him in this past year. lets read the tweet. happy new year to all. including those who have fought me and lost so badly. they just dont know what to do. and then he ended it with love. and an exclamation point. you talk about the big party they have planned at m...

A north carolina judge is temporarily blocking a republican backed law that limits the powers of the incoming democratic governor. the judge ruled that the free election warranted the block on the law that stripped the governor elect over control of election boards. cooper called it unconstitutional. the markets fell on the final day of trading in 2016. the dow drops 57. the s&p was down 10. nasdaq lost 49. despite the last few days, the markets had a big year. the dow rose more than 13%. s&p ...

>> so when we talk about what intel has known over the years and the months. the intel community we know i dd russia and theyre involvement in hacking on october 7th. for push back here, why didnt president obama at that point call for some sanctions? does that speak to the voice from the trump camp that he was set up, that these sanctions are putting him in a box? >> well, what president obama has explained is that he didnt want to tackle this during the election because he was afraid it would ...

>> tru . to trump saying it was going smoothly. now the president elect and his team characterizing the showdown with russia and the white house as politically motivated. >> even those sympathetic to obama on most issues are saying part of the reason he did this was to box in president elect trump. that would be very unfortunate if that were the motivating factor here, politics. >> trumps team continuing to dismiss the assessment on cyberattacks. >> weve been talking about this for a while. i th...

U.s. diplomats to a party at in kremlin. sunland, this tweet by the president elect already being picked up by the russians. >> it was only a matter of minute, kate really before the russian embassy and the u.s. retweeted that tweet of donald trump. of course that praise of vladimir putin where he said, "great move on delay by v. putin. i always knew he was very smart." it is notable that is the only thing donald trump had said today. and notable that he has yet nor anyone on his transition team...

And. >> all playing out on twitter, of course. "outfront" now former republican senator and presidential candidate rick santorum and former mayor michael nutter. it seems anyway the president took these steps to box in the president elect. some even think it goes a step further. >> i am completely convinced that barack obamas primary motivation is to try to delegitimize the election. >> senator, do you agree with him? >> i think that is certainly one of the motives that the president is using....