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Just one a week. and last week his team said he was up to three times a week. and jeff zeleny joins me now with the latest. so jeff it sounds like the trump camp is playing kind of coy here with the details. >> well john we simply do not know exactly how he is getting his information. they did say he is closely monitoring this as you say and hes in regular contact with his national security officials. but they would not answer if he received, something that only he can receive as a presidential ...

This with him. coming up, transition officials refuse to say whether president elect was briefed on events in europe today. will he be ready for a crisis on islam?

However you also need to have the right instincts and you also need to have the right foreign policy. and president obama had information. but he lacked the other ingredient. >> i understand what you are saying right there. i know you dont approve of the presidents foreign policy. i still dont understand the argument that less information -- >> im not make ak an argument -- >> kind of are. maria? >> i actually think that president elect has a opportunity here to convince the americans that he ac...

Isnt. >> he is getting his information from the national security adviser on a daily basis which includes information from the presidential daily briefing and multiple times a week he is receiving direct information on the daily briefing. the president elect will be prepared and is prepare pd. he has an excellent team around him. the presidency is about judgment and about who he puts around him to help advise him. he has an excellent set of people that will do that and he will be ready and he is...

Although i dont think hes briefing the president every day. but hes a filter between the people who are getting the information directly and the president elect. dont you want to on days of extreme importance like today remove that filter? >> i wouldnt prefer he remove the filter. but im not worried. hes getting it a couple, two, three times a week. hes surrounded himself. hes not president yet as weve noted. hes surrounding himself with people like general flynn. general mattis. and i also thin...

World. you know, he is going to get that call at 3:00 in the morning with a crisis and he will have to act. hes the president of the united states. trump now getting a sense of what it means to deal with the taliban. on a disturbing new video, an american woman and her canadian husband held hostage by the group since 2012 appear with their children, begging both trump and president obama to free them. some say as threats grow, the president elect needs to consider turning down his rhetoric becau...

Now since the throes of the campaign had a press conference where hes been forced to show that he understands whats going on and has thought through these issues. so i think that is going to be an important test at that point. >> he seems to think it is useful that president obama takes these briefings most days and violent elect takes these briefings most days. it would be nice to have an explanation as to why he specifically doesnt think he needs the briefings most days, as the person the amer...

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They werent sure. it is well before isis said anything. hes flying in the dark. does he make a good guess every now and then, sure. what is the story, ve even a bl man can pick out a squirrel -- he owes the people a better approach here. >> paris, i want to ask you this because i didnt want to get in the way of your conversation if something is different happening in the intelligence briefing than what the president elect has said, and you said there is, are you an authorized person to say that?...

It. >> first of all, these are very good people that are giving me the briefings. i say if something should change from this point, immediately call me. im available on one minutes notice. i dont have to be told -- im a smart person. i dont have to be told the same thing and the same words every single day for the next eight years. >> so, paris, im not picking on you, are we to believe the president himself or you because hes saying im not doing it every day because he doesnt feel the need to do...