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These types of remarks from president obama, and you heard phil mudd said earlier, it reminds me of that schoolyard taunt, sticks and stones may break my bones but word also never hurt me. that is particularly true when it comes to dealing with the russians. you can name them, you can shame them, but it doesnt stick. because at the end of the day president putin has an 80% approval rating. and people here, while theyre telling the official party line this is outrageous, how can anyone insinuate ...

>> why are you shaking your head? >> we cant do that. you cant go against the russians with the same thing they did with us. for two reasons. first of all, if you fight with pigs, youre going to get dirty. the way youll get dirty with this in the second instance, if you start to try to attack them privately or in public with revelations about corruption, you want to tell me what putin says with 80% support rate? look, this is the americans trying to oppose us. i think he turns it to his advantag...

China sea? >> absolutely. i do not believe thats a military act. i believe thats a message the president-elect that says when you speak, be careful, there are implicati implications. >> what about you, ron brownstein? >> look, one thing we learned about donald trump from the beginning is he is a disrupter, political disrupter. for many of his voters, that was a very attractive quality especially applied to a domestic political system they felt has been failing to meet their needs. its a little l...

Section. [ inaudible ]. >> they are and they are not. theres no answer to that question. its so random. were finding victims very random. >> go ahead. speak up a little bit louder [ inaudible ]. >> chief, how fast did you get to the scene? >> please introduce your self. >> im deputy chief white. i believe everyone heard the question, how fast did the oakland fire department get to the incident. we arrived within three minutes, sir. >> evan. go ahead, evan. [ inaudible question ] nauk. >> at this...

Section. they and theyre not. theres no answer to that question. its so random. were finding victim where is we least expect it. >> speak up a little louder. >> chief. >> good afternoon. im deputy chief darren white. i believe everyone heard the question. it was how fast did the oakland fire department get to the incident? we arrived within three minute, sir. >> evan, go ahead. [ inaudible question ] at this time all that i know is

Whatever, but you dont. and i was actually a little bit surprised. >> evan, this is a complicated issue here, but one of the legal bottom lines is there are very few laws and rules in place that would force donald trump to do anything to disassociate himself from the businesses, but its more of the expectations that thats what the president does. if he were to try to govern the way he could describe, could he get away with that? >> the question is, a lot of his voters supported donald trump, wan...

President-elect trump want bannon in the white house? joel? >> well, lets put it this way, you have the new black panther party praise iing barack obama. you have barack obama sitting in jeremiah wrights church for 20 years, he disassociated himself with -- >> none of those people were advisers to the president. >> youre not applying the same standard to both people. barack obama was the president and came from this environment. steve bannon does not come from this environment. ana navarro and m...

Back with me kurt, evan and joel. kurt, i want to ask you about this, this is kellyanne conway. >> i worked very closely with steve bannon, people should look at the full resume. he has a harvard business degree. hes a naval officer. and he was a goldman sachs managing partner. im personally offended you think i would manage a campaign where that would be one of the philosophies. it has not. >> i heard several trump surrogates on the air today almost in the exact order she said it. do you think ...

Party praising barack obama. you have barack obama sitting in jeremiah wrights church for 20 years, he disassociated himself from jeremiah -- >> none of those people were advisers to the president. >> youre not applying the same standard to both people. barack obama was the president and came from this environment. steve bannon does not come from this environment. ana navarro and macmullan have lied openly about steve bannon. they have both said he was an anti-semite. evan is on your show tonigh...

One poll has pat toomey ahead. if you look at indiana, you see his chances dip. so its been a very bizarre thing where it almost seems like voters are voting for candidates instead of for parties. isnt that a wonderful thing? or maybe not. >> i think it goes both ways. i think parties are a pretty usful proxy. evan is a revolving dur senator and worked in d.c. and hes getting hammered for that. in nevada, thats a race that, again, where when you look -- >> im todd here an msnbc world headquarter...