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Its not trumps fault. he blames plant owners and management. >> and overhauls. >> hes a man in the suit. >> but he has touched the working people. he stood up to the working people. >> reporter: did you vote for trump hoping he would save your job? >> thats not the only reason i voted for him. i did vote for trump. i like the way his views are on stuff. i like the way he dont try to be politically correct. >> reporter: you dont feel despite all of the talk about coal, bring the coals back, someh...

Shows a few days ago. and president trump has a long hist tear of tweets attacking former president obama used unnamed sources of his own. >> lets put that up while we talk about it. continue, eric. >> saying obamas birth certificate was fake. this birtherism falsehood. trump himself was using unnamed sources. we saw with the priebus episode exactly how these unnamed sources sort of come about. priebus didnt deny cnn reporting. of course, its sort of the play-by-play here. so, yeah, this is how ...

Accountable. even as we search for new common ground, which as you know president trump believes can be found. >> it doesnt necessarily correspond with what we have heard from donald trump, eric. so, how do you believe the world leaders who are listening to this may take in some of what hes saying when it comes to russia? >> right. the vice presidents job is to translate donald trump into republicanese. now, that seems to work. but how he can translate trump into international diplomacy is anoth...

A little bit. >> eric, now do you, the president in south carolina, north charleston at boeing was praised for his delivery. for being relaxed. staying on message there. do we have an idea of what were going to hear today? are we going to hear what tom just suggested quite possibly may be more tax on the media? >> yeah, absolutely. this is going to be sort of vintage trump. hes going to be talking about jobs, complaining about companies moving overseas. taking credit for some of the announcement...

Its a big question, what do they mean when theyre talking about easing relations with russia, what does that mean. thats why you saw the pushback from the german counselor. christi, remember, the u.n. ambassador nikki haley has been at odds with president trump in terms of language with russia. its not the first time weve seen this. >> tom lobianco and eric bradner, we appreciate it much. thank you, gentlemen. big troubles in the west coast. take a look at your screen. the deadly storms slammi...

Disappointed that all of the information about this is coming out in the media. so, they see this as kind of a way to get things back on track and control some of that information while getting to the bottom of whats going on. so, again, we dont have the explicit details of what came out of that briefing, but its clear, we do know from one attendee that it was about russia. theyre hitting in that direction. this is setting the parameters of that investigation. >> eric, tom, stay with us. weve go...

He wants nato members to pay more in. they think americas been paying too much over the years. and he wants more from the other member states. he took that and put it out there a good strong message. again, reassured baltic states that natures toe will support them as russia keeps on trying to go to the borders west ward. these are things that are sound policy and were delivered clearly. thats kind of what pence is there to do. >> eric, i want to read to you, he also said in response to what tom...

Russia because he spent so much of the campaign promising to normalize relations with russia. now president obama is issuing sanctions against russians. hes clearly escalating things in response to this russian cyber attack. now donald trump is in a position where he has to deal with the fact that russia did launch cyber attacks on americans at the same time as hes trying to stabilize the relationship with the kremlin. hes exchanging christmas cards with vladimir putin. hes tweeting how smart pu...

He talked about the transition, his doubts about hacking allegations and the old-fashioned way he prefers to send messages. >> very important, you know, if you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courrier the old-fashioned way because ill tell you what, no computer is safe. i dont care what they say, no computer is safe. >> joining us now live from washington, eric bradner and sarah westwood, white house correspondent for "the washington examiner." good morning...

Office yet. >> yeah. its very interesting. eric bradner, matt rivers, thanks to both of you. and lets talk about a story six months later now. the pulse nightclub. one community is honors lives lost there. this is cnn talks exclusively with police and first responders who remember that tragic night in orlando. were hear the harrowing stories, next. before i had the shooting, burning, pins-and-needles of diabetic nerve pain, these feet... ... kicked off a lot of high school games... ... built a...