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For the american people. >> we should say that devon nunez, as i said, basically says hell be investigating the leaks, jason chaffetz saying the situation has taken care of itself. the intel committee has looked at the hacking issue previously. one question i have for you. the representation of the white house at this point is the president did not direct general flynn to have the conversation with the ambassador. do you believe that? >> well, i dont know. but the point is you cant believe anyth...

Skepticism, essentially accepted the findings of this report. is he going too far of that charge of lying? >> i think he is. i think this would be unpopular but the media doesnt always lie. what sean spicer said that the media would include some and exclude others. >> youre saying theres bias, theres tilting, out of context but you dont think its intentionally lying? >> no. >> trump told "the new york times" that all amounts to a political witch hunt. what the press sees unusual skeptical what i...

Skepticism, essentially accepted the findings of this report. is he going too far of that charge of lying? >> i think he is. i think this would be unpopular but the media doesnt always lie. what sean spicer said that the media would include some and exclude others. >> youre saying theres bias, theres tilting, out of context but you dont think its intentionally lying? >> no. >> trump told "the new york times" that all amounts to a political witch hunt. what the press sees unusual skeptical what i...

Putin than fellow americans because those fellow americans are democrats. that cannot be. >> does that include the president-elect? >> well, what i will say is t t that -- and i said ourselves right after the election, we have to remind ourselves were on the same team. vut season not on our team. >> also this morning the trump transition team officially announcing the president-elects intention to nominate former united states senator dan coats to serve as the director of national intelligence. ...

>> the perception -- by voters. >> the right is fuming. trump is fueling it to create this perception. >> exactly. the perception is being made by trump. i dont hear people saying that, independent of what -- or despite what trump claims. i just dont hear that. i hear, yeah, donald trump won the election but the russians meddled in the election in a variety of ways. >> hmm? >> go ahead. >> no. i am not sure how this is playing out. >> the bigger problem for trump, i think, on this issue is not n...

Same way because hes meeting with intelligence agency leaders of some sort, he says this week to get more information about it. >> and its more than just the intelligence investigation and all the hacking issue, its also if hes going to have a policy closer to russia, it also means hes making a decision to pick russia over china. and chinas going to feel that. i mean, you know, when you play world chess, youre playing youre really playing the game of risk. >> yeah, reverberating all through the ...

Is there was an opportunity to get some pictures of the general scene of the new years eve party. over time, we have seen that the president-elect will take questions, especially in this sort of a setting where it seems informal. this is very different than a formal press conference which he has not done since the election. but from time to time he does respond to questions and there were some pertinent questions asked that do help us to understand a bit more of where he stands with respect to r...

The broader question is about this hacking issue. this whole move by the president is based on really a ridiculous report by this joint analysis report that just came out. very vague. >> its very vague and a lot of mistakes in it and for me it opens up a whole other can of worms and more likely that there were third parties involved in this, not the russian government. thats what the move is by washington using that report sending russian diplomats out of the country. >> people are saying show m...

>> sure, i think there are a lot of questions about what putins next moves are. certainly his position was taken as a slight to the obama administration kind of saying your tenure is over, were moving on to the next. remains to be seen, though, how trump handles that. they are starting kind of a reset in relations if you will, and, remember, past presidents have tried to do this with putin to little success. president george bush, of course, president obama talking about that and now infamous re...

Forward with these sanctions and really push this hacking issue. thats a large part of it. >> errol, im very interested, the transition said on the conference call this morning there will be more details, kind of a time and place and who will be briefing the president-elect, on this issue because it was basically a two-line statement. thats one of the lines. clearly this is an important thing in response to this. from what we see in the -- from the campaign to now, do you see a scenario where do...