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Satisfied with what they see. >> reporter: but his backers will not be happy if the president and his team get distract and go off on tangents like they did on saturday, fighting with the media and d discussing inauguration crowd size. wool snf. >> today, sean spicer did address the day one promises not being kept, flight. >> reporter: he did. spicer said they want to address the promises as quickly as they can, but they dont want it to come out like a fire hose. he said, if the president actual...

Adjust, congress, government going to have ato adjust, to del with donald trump who tweets foreign policy, tweets attacks. has the bar changed? >> no, everybody has to adjust. everybody has to change because were dealing -- whether you like it or not, were dealing with somebody who will conduct the business of the presidency very differently than anybody before. there is no template for it. ether you think its right or wrong, whether you think its confusing as heck hes doing, it hes going to be ...

Nose. so the question then becomes was it appropriate for mr. flynn to have this conversation with the ambassador from russia to the u.s. after the sanctions were out there in the ether? youll get different views on that, right? a lot of transition teams, what they do, this period of time, they are setting up meetings, theyre setting up phone calls. this is pretty standard, and when you have any sort of phone call thats going to be set up, you usually do quite a bit of advanced work. you have ca...

> im going to start with this and ill be clear. it was a team effort, myself, evan perez, jake tapper, carl bernstein and a larger team behind that. today we had the president-elect of the united states accuse cnn and my colleague there jim acosta as our representative in that press conference, accuse our organization of fake news, terrible he repeated multiple times. when in fact a short time later the director of national intelligence speaks with the president-elect and relations a statement t...

Withed, carl, jake, and myself spoke to more than a dozen high ranking u.s. officials with knowledge of these briefings, not named because of the classified nature of the information but not coming from the ether but senior and knowledgeable sources. >> lets say they didnt discuss it, benefit of the doubt, shouldnt you read the entire report? >> for sure, thats what briefing is about. president gets daily briefing every day on threats to the country. gets a document or president obama got on ipa...

More than a dozen high-ranking officials with direct knowledge of these briefings. they were not named because of the classified nature of the intelligence they were talking about. but this is not coming from the ether. >> lets say they didnt discuss it, benefit of the doubt. shouldnt you read the entire report? >> well, for sure. thats what a briefing is about. you know, when the president gets his daily briefing every day on threats to the country, he gets a document, president obama, in fact,...

Applaud, and is it because it could help from the perspective of trump his legitimacy and, you know, questions that he thinks people are putting out into the ether about his winning the white house? unclear. using this man as the kind of beacon of credibility -- >> he doesnt have any credibility. >> you are talking about julian assange? >> he doesnt have credibility. thats -- look, this is also where you are going to have a fight with congress. you have republicans and you have democrats who wan...

>> he was violent? >> oh, yeah. mom would have maybe a black eye, bloody nose, bloody lip. >> he told us his mother wasnt the only target of his fathers violence. he was, too. but it wasnt his idea to kill him. >> i was doing some algebra homework, sitting in my room. my sister walked in, made a comment about dad was really screwing her life up, and we had to do something and all this. and i didnt really think she was serious or anything like this, you know. >> his sister, who was nine years old...

There, and i was supposed to shine a flashlight once if he was still awake, twice or more if he was asleep. >> at every turn there was some bizarre little twist. >> so about 9:30, quarter to 10:00 i fall asleep. so theres no signal at 11:00. theres no signal at midnight. i remember my sister thinking, this idiot is probably in there sleeping. i woke up, it was like 10 minutes to 1:00, and i was like, wow, you know, i guess im supposed to signal. i mean, all the lights were out, everybody was asl...

Of who is elected the president of softbank said trump would "do a lot of deregulation." yesterday trump claimed brand new credit for something he already claimed credit for, a deal for which he may or may not deserve partial credit. if that makes sense. joining me now, bob garfield, co-host of wmic on the media, his latest comments are online. bob, part of what happened was a familiar pattern, the president-elect claims a thing. generally when someone in that position says something that utte...