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Trumps rhetoric with the dismissal criticizing yates for betrayal. sabrina, is this crossing the line into intimidation as trumps opponents are saying or is this somehow the responsibility of his administration to unite to get behind his policies? >> well, democrats were the most vocal with respect to not just the dismissal of sally yates, but also the manner in which it was done. the statement that was put out by donald trump late last night. republicans are not really picking a fight with him ...

And there was -- >> i understand. we all know this is something that matters to the president, this particular issue of crowd size, okay, whatever you may think about it, it matters to him. i fess the question is was the senator trying to dig at the president with this setup instead of focussing in on the reali real issue? was it a bit of a grandstand? >> yes and no. i asked rex tillerson if he agreed with the president that it would be okay if we had a nuclear arms race with russia and he said ...

There are political advantages to for five years claiming that obama might have been born someplace in kenya, and there are political advantages now for him to say that there were three million to five million illegal immigrants. i mean, thats essentially what he is doing. focussing, again, on the bad ombres and those sorts of things. yeah, its a problem. he is thin-skinned and insecure, so he comes up with these conspiracy theories that i think he believes them in his mind because they paint a ...

Had a liver transplant when he was 20. >> reporter: through the affordable care act, which is not perfect, which is not perfect, weve been able to reach many more people. people like michelle, a recovering drug addict whose narp is covered through obamacares medicaid expansion. >> theres no way id be able to afford insurance on my own if i paid for it out of pocket. the main thing im worried about focussing on is myself. and my sobriety. if you take away the insurance, its like pulling out the r...

Potential win or presidency. it just -- i dont get it. you know, barack obamas was an historical first in this country. also, we lived in an area that was very blue. he happens to be having his inaugural blue so folks couldnt come. maybe the people couldnt afford to fly out here. theres all sorts of ways that they could that are factually probably true. >> and theres a lot of other things they could be focussing on to make a case that his -- that the beginning of his presidency is successful. hi...

Tillerson and mike pompeo. live on capitol hill. what have you learned? >> its very likely that president trump by tend of the day today will see the third cabinet nominee confirmed here on the senate. theyll have six hours of debate and then will hold a vote and mike pompeo to be cia director and its expected that he will pass later tonight. the senate foreign relations committee is focussing on rex tillerson. the controversial nominee for secretary of state. still tbd undied ecided at this poi...

Politics, jennifer jacobs. david gregory, i want to start with you if this weekends press conference at the white house, what are we to imagine for the next four years about the relationship between the press core and the white house? >> its going to be rocky because the press is going to be tough and the press is going to call out credibility problems. undermining his credibility as white house press secretary hes going to have a hard time because credibility counts. credibility counts for the ...

Party because the base still likes him and because, again, he is focussing on the media and democrats mostly. >> then the question is you heard mccain. the republicans like the national security team. they like -- theyre going to prove rex tillerson has some questions about him. general mattis, they like. the homeland security general kelly, they like. the guy they have doubts about is general flynn, who will be the national security advisor. general flynns son tweeted this. -- to reform intelli...

I kind of like that, but i think its going to ring hollow when he starts being president and, you know, hes got a commerce secretary, treasury, when are they going to do if hes going to tweet all these threats? you might as well get rid of the commerce department. >> lets talk about russia and the attention, unsubstantiated reporting in that document, weve not released it, buzzfeed has. he called it false, fake, garbage at one point today. what do you make of that whole story? do you agree its f...

On and democrats are really going to hone in on places where they do not agree with the president-elect. >> i think on some of these other, you know, nominees, its ant opportunity for democrats to knock them around, and this is the consequence of losing an election. you know, if you dont like pruitt for the e.p.a., sorry. you lost the election. donald trump was never running on great ambitions to battle climate change. he chose a cabinet nominee who reflects those priorities and certainly this i...