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Senator feinstein, senator klobuchar, after my 20 years i welcome senator feinstein. we grapple with some of the most pressing issues facing our country. we can be proud she is here and i applaud you for this. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator leahy. good morning. i welcome everyone to this very important hearing to consider the nomination of our colleague, senator sessions, to serve as the 84th attorney general of the united states. first, i want to set out a couple ground rules. i want to ha...

Klobuch klobuchar. so, after my at least 20 years, i welcome senator feinstein as we grapple with some of the most pressing issues facing our country. we americans can be proud that shes here, and i applaud you for it. >> thank you. thank you. >> thank you, senator leahy. good morning. i welcome everyone to this very important hearing to consider the nomination of our colleague, senator sessions, to serve as the 84th attorney general of the united states. first, i want to set out a couple ground...

What is your sense, susan, for what happens happened ? >> i know hes blaming julian for the consistent intelligence officials with russian hacking. this has an impact on public regard for u.s. intelligence. this has a corrosive effect on belief in that institution and heres the most remarkable thing about the interview. you asked a republican congressman if the republican congress would vote to override a veto of a republican president if he vetoed russian sanctions and he suggested they would. ...

More generous mood when it comes to russia. >> and matthew, back to the point that you made regarding the seriousness and this new world and this kind of scary new world in that we dont essentially have the ground rules now yet between countries. i think we could get really out of control with this, couldnt we, quickly? >> we absolutely could. by the way, i would point out its not only that from the kremlins perspective, you know, theyve only got to wait a couple of weeks and they get to deal wi...

Not necessarily approve the decisions theyre making. so we can make it a day when were talking about positive things and good things and expressing love to our family members. at the same time, were not approving the bad decisions that they have made. >> all right. maybe decisions that arent good or bad, theyre just different. listen, its an election year. people have made very different political decisions. how do people keep the peace? sometimes theyre staying with family members throughout th...

Im a democrat. were going to differ. so lets just say while were together during the holidays, were going to talk about things differently and talk about things that we have in common, not our differences. >> more ground rules. have the a good time and keep it like that. keep it simple. i do want to ask you because obviously it is the year end, so perhaps families are including new members this year. so what if you have someone that youre celebrating the holidays with who maybe they celebrate a ...

To find out what happened. is the end result going to be something thats believed by the president-elect and his team? peter? >> well currently in most recent polling both sides believe in the majority that the other side stole the election. so were at a real crossroads here, and what makes this different in many ways is the outcome, as elise talks about, with both sides, unfortunately engaging in this back-and-forth. trump won the election. we may disagree about the electoral college but that w...

What are the responsibilities of the owners of social media? and what are the ground rules? >> at some point theres freedom of speech, right? you cant dispute someones freedom to say whatever the heck they want to write. >> youre allowed to burn the flag for heavens sake. >> you can do that, but it doesnt give you a right to do it over someones private platform. >> understood. >> glenn, rick, daniela, this is a conversation that people are having. still aread right here, the fight for the future...

All of those are part of the ground rules. there should also be an exit strategy, answering your first question, what they should avoid, if the conversation gets too heated. there should be a designated person who says, lets change the subject, or find a personal space in the home where you could just take a few minutes break, a time-out, where people could collect themselves. and go back to the conversation with respect. it can happen. >> it can happen. >> absolutely. >> you also talked about l...

Washington. this was done in new york. it was off and on. there was a lot of confusion about ground rules and whether reince priebus jumped in and tried to claim that the "new york times" was trying to change the ground rules. they finally did meet. lets talk about what we learned from the meeting. your big take away from the reversals with the "new york times." >> i think kristen summarized it well a few minutes ago. he did appear to soften the line on a lot of key issues. notably the climate c...