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President obama slaps new measures against russia. today kicking out 35 russian operatives with diplomatic status giving them 72 hours to get out of the country. and also shutting down two russian intelligence facilities in maryland and new york. and imposing new sanctions on russians believed to be behind the attacks. president obama said in his statement that the hacking is this, could only have been directed by the highest levels of the russian government. and just moments ago president elect...

20th. spicer said in an interview hes excited that his boss is going to keep tweeting because nothing has ever been done like this before and the amount of people he can reach like that is massive. >> combined with facebook and instagram its well over 40 million. i think that allows him to add an element of a conversation thats never occurred. >> reporter: there have been questions about whether or not the president elect was going to keep using his twitter handle. those questions have been answ...

Of what steps he would like the u.s. to take or on what prompted him to speak out on the issue but the time something notable. it comies one day after nationa security and a few hours after vladimir putin hit the arsenal as well. the president elect is not waiting until he takes office to get involved in u.s. policy. yesterday planned u.s. security council vote which would have controversial building in west bank and jerusalem. he released a statement urging the u.s. to veto that resolution. egy...

He voted monday night on that proposal. he would not say. the reason why he is able to not say is that was a private vote. the question moving forward to a public vote today, how would members vote that and they could endure backlash especially after the outcry that occurred when this issue became public. >> of course his seeming shame in wanting to tell you that says a lot about the perception of this in the public eye. thank you. jeff, the president is going there tomorrow trying to defend oba...

Wants families to be able to make the decision, to be able to afford to make the decision whether or not they want to stay home and take care of their kids. same goes for taking care of an aging relative. we have bullet points on child care. the president elect wants mother who dont get paid leave from employers to receive six weeks guaranteed ma ternty leave. those under a certain income ceiling could deduct expenses up to a certain amount, this includes stay at home parents and for low-income ...

Nuclear forces and putin held end of the year conference. we have live fox team coverage from london bureau but we begin with peter ducey in west palm beach, florida. peter. peter: jon, president elect is playing golf with tiger woods, not far from mar-a-lago where he stays down here and woods "ed a game according to transition officials. hes obviously one of the most famous athletes in the world but mr. trump has a message for anybody trying to say that his upcoming inauguration is going lack s...

The way they tried to do it behind closed doors, this morning they said their hands were tied and were going to prove it in a full house this afternoon, but then donald trump tweeted an he criticized what the republican house members were doing, it prompted them to have second thoughts about going forward. im told in this afternoon meeting that house republicans had this emergency meeting to discuss what to do going forward. there was discussion that about donald trump tweeting and there was a d...

Because a few weeks ago donald trump told chris wallace he doesnt always think that he needs to get that briefing every day because he says the information in it gets repetitive, the president elect says he will get a briefing when he needs one at the advice of national security team that hes in touch with once or twice a case. that appears to be the case right now. jenna. jenna: peter, thank you. jon: new legal action in one of the mass murderers of the 20th century. california supreme court we...

Self-proclaimed reputation for authenticity. writing in a tweet after classified briefing, the president elect said there was absolutely no evidence that hacking affected the election results. mentioning russia the vice president president elect said the briefing was useful. >> it was a constructive and respectful dialogue and president elect made it very clear that we are going to take aggressive action in the early days of our new administration to combat cyber-attacks and protect the security...

Bill you just signed on to that would require the president of the united states to fully divest personal financial conflicts of interest. so youre asking donald trump to divest from his lifelong family business and trump organization? >> yes. the conflicts that his team has are going to haunt him. were really doing a big favor for him and for the administration because without that every time an issue comes up theres going to be a shadow hanging over it. he has a conflict going on on the financ...