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>> there is an armada of retreads from the old republican party, both the congressional wing of the party and the romney/mccain/bush burnouts who are trying to board this ship. these are people who did nothing whatsoever to elect donald trump. and theyre people who dont share donald trumps values. trump must resist this armada. >> joining us now, mara theresa kumar, and david corn. maria theresa, so swroe -- we have a proposed labor secretary who is in fave of having immigrant labor come in. >> ...

Nice to see you. >> sure, thanks for having me. >> let me ask you about this "washington post" report tonight. we had earlier, obviously, seen this public declaration from the department of homeland security and the office of the director of national intelligence saying russia had meddled in the election, but they didnt say they were trying to elect donald trump. i think a lot of us were sort of making that leap. now weve got the cia in secret saying, yeah, thats what they were trying to do. the...

The stage in grand rapids, michigan. hes expected to be there tonight with mitt romneys niece. sources tell cnn she is trumps choice to lead the republican national committee. and once trump makes that choice, given that hes the president elect, shes basically got the job. and also trump has selected ten millionaires and billionaires as part of his administration so far. among them. puzder one of the controversial ones. >> donald trump ice pick for labor savings account. ceo of hardees and carls...

Election, but they didnt say they were trying to elect donald trump. i think a lot of us were sort of making that leap. now weve got the cia in secret saying, yeah, thats what they were trying to do. they wanted trump to be president. what do you make of this? >> well, two things i think are especially new for me. and i want to remind you, rachel, weve been talking about this for months. i wrote a piece about this in "the washington post" which we talked about in august, but we didnt have the ex...

Cia determine that russia was interfering in the election, they determined that russia was interfering in the election specifically to try to hand the presidency to donald trump. thats why they were interfering. it was to make trump president. "the washington post" also reporting some disturbing details tonight about members of congress being given that assessment by the intelligence community and by u.s. officials ahead of the election and them not wanting anything said about it, as we all went...

Civil rights organization. and we, like the president-elect, are charged with the responsibility of serving all of the american people and weve done so for the last 107 years. >> when they reached out -- cornell, sorry for interrupting, but when they reached out to you, what did they say or suggest? can you share with us the conversation? >> we just heard from the transition office. they just reached out in terms of getting contact information and that kind of thing. so it wasnt necessarily a me...

Of them trying to get over for secretary of state. but look, donald trump has taken aza ra said a very different tone on this. continuing to downplay and dismiss the idea that there was russian intervention in the election. and i think it is going to be very striking to see how he reacts as this -- if the obama administration in fact goes public and impose to move sanctions. also rob portman has introduced legislation on russian disinformation in europe. so you do have a divergence here that is ...

Hes not going to change. this is the president elect. and this is the coming president of the united states. >> kayleigh, is that how you see what donald trump is say squlg and not at all and it is interesting how you can have totally different perspective. i saw someone who talked about the inner cities and said how important it is that we lift up the community thats been ignored for far too long. hes reaching across the aisle. hes done so repeatedly. hes taken calls from president obama. they ...

Start delivering for the national interests. it is time to deliver for you the american people just like iowa delivered for me. boy, did you deliver. boy, did you deliver. you know just to go into this -- >> were going to continue to monitor this speech see if there is anything new hes talking about. hes starting to echo the same things in a lot of these stops on his "thank you tour." this is his third tonight here in des moines, iowa. we are back with the panel monitoring this. as i say well br...

Position as the president elect. when a company fires people and brings job to another off shore country and then wants to bring those jobs back in and sell them in america, that is not right and president elect -- >> so you have a lot in common on that front. but trump, you know, it wasnt just chuck jones that he went against, leo. he went against unions more broadly. read the second tweet he sent about an hour later. if united steel workers 1999 was any good they would have kept those jobs in ...