your fold, to say that this was not a legitimate election. the russian hacking story is a real story. democrats acting as if, and by the way sending the message the vote totals were hacked you see in polling democrats believing is not helpful. fudging the language, calling it an election hack. it s not true. i don t think it helps you earn back any of those voters if you re acting like they re not real people who didn t have an impact. zeke, take a listen to president obama doing this exit interview with 60 minutes. he weighed in on his successor. look, he is an unconventional candidate. i don t think there is anybody who has run a campaign like his successfully in modern history, not that i can think of. and as a consequence, because he didn t have the supports of many of the establishment in his own party, because he ran sort of an improvizational campaign can you run an
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sanctions against the russians in retaliation for the hack that they understood. i find that suspicious but if it is as simple as what sean spicer is saying maybe there s nothing to it. the ap report suggested that according to intelligence officials, there s more than just that in terms of interactions between michael flynn and the russians. michael flynn strangely appeared at a dinner hosted by, they sat at the same table as vladimir putin. there s all kinds of connections carter paige, former senior foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign, paul manafort, former campaign manager, all kinds of links between trump and the russian government. i really do believe there s an active effort to get to the bottom of those connections, and the more we learn about it, the more concerning it is. brian fallon, thanks for being with us. thanks. the ultimate exit interview, lester holt joining me next to talk about his sit-down with president barack obama and rare access he got to the ou
that s a reason it s so expensive. i think kasie s estimates were optimistic. we re not looking at weeks or months, we re looking at years. and their ability to get a compromise on this, this is 20 million people who have health care. these are people who had conditions, some of the sickest people that were brought back into the system. this is complex. this is hard. this is going to be one of his toughest jobs to tackle. the extraordinary thing is one thing that donald trump is fantastic at is pr. and tight, clear communication which president obama did not do a good job at whether it s obama care or tpp. presentati presentation. he admitted it in his exit interview so to speak. i agree with you, stephanie. i think it s going to be imperative that president trump continue to communicate very closely with the american people. that s how you create the public pressure on members of the senate in particular in this case and membersst house to get together and pass replacement.
reasonable, i think there will be tremendous political pressure for democrats to come along because chuck schumer s whole message is republicans are instituting chaos across the country. i m not sure, jake, people who are about to lose their health insurance care much that chuck schumer says he s not going to be i mean, i think they they don t want people to trade it off. they want health care. they don t want the politics of it. that s exactly what i m saying. lawmakers are going to have tremendous political pressure to get something done. it s all about getting re-elected. this is not about some grand democratic party strategy. if you think you need for your own re-election to get to the negotiating table, you will do it. great conversation. thank you to both of you gentlemen. coming up next, exit interview, nbc s nightly news anchor lester holt joins me to talk about his exclusive interview with president obama