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Rubio saying its something. can we please move on? thats a key point. from the republican perspective on capitol hill and to some degree democrats as well, at least in talking to them, there were two audiences they were most concerned about. you mentioned the nato allies. the other was the intelligence community. and that was dan coats and concern that people would step down, that people that both parties trust and have confidence in would be so discombobulated that they would feel they had to l...

I thought senator jack reed had this one right. we have to respond to this in a forceful way. clearly what the russians are doing is trying to freeze the frame. youre talking about freezing the communications. they want to freeze the frame until they get a much more compatible administration coming in. lets hope the trump administration recognizes that ploy for what it is. and will be willing to step up to the plate and take measures against a pretty obvious intrusion into the system. >> there i...

Just first, how is the trump team responding? i know the president-elect has sent out a few tweets really downplaying this. >> the trump team clearly feels that the reaction to this phone call between the president-elect and the president from taiwan has been blown a bit out of proportion. the president-elect himself trying to tamp down some of the speculation as to how this call went down. he said that the president of taiwan called him. the purpose of the call was to congratulate each other. t...

>> are you saying no waivers? >> yeah nsome cases. in central bank, you can really bring pain to the government of iran without necessarily hurting the people. i dont believe that the administration has been strong enough on sanctions. and more importantly, they drag their feet on sanctions. it was only because of an enormous bipartisan support in congress that we have the sanctions we have today. they are a little late. thats what i am concerned about. it is four years. they have gotten this mu...

>> greta: you say no waivers? >> well, yeah. the great thing about central bank sanctions is that you can bring pain to the government of iran without hurting the people of iran. and i dont believe that the administration has been strong enough on sanctions, and they drag their feet on sanks. it was only because of an enormous bipartisan support for sanctions in ck that we have a sanctions -- in congress that we have the sanctions we have today. they are eighths -- they are late. think about wha...