incoming chief of staff reince priebus and two top intelligence experts, former cia director ambassador james woolsey and former acting cia director mike morell. new jersey senator cory booker will tell us how democrats plan to fight republican efforts. and we will have plenty of political analysis too. it is all ahead on face the nation . good morning and welcome to face the nation , i am john dickerson, we are here thon very chilly morning with senator majority leader mitch mcconnell who is making his first appearance on the sunday show since the election, welcome, mr. leader. good morning. dickerson: let s start with the russian efforts to medal in the u.s. efforts. yes. dickerson: you strongly condemned those efforts, why do you think donald trump hasn t? the way to look at his attitude towards the russians is look at the incoming national security leaders, general mattis, general kelly, congressman pompeo, senator coates, none of these are people who are in
incoming chief of staff reince priebus and two top intelligence experts, former cia director ambassador james woolsey and former acting cia director mike morell. new jersey senator cory booker will tell us how democrats plan to fight republican efforts. and we will have plenty of political analysis too. it is all ahead on face the nation . good morning and welcome to face the nation , i am john dickerson, we are here thon very chilly morning with senator majority leader mitch mcconnell who is making his first appearance on the sunday show since the election, welcome, mr. leader. good morning. dickerson: let s start with the russian efforts to medal in the u.s. efforts. yes. dickerson: you strongly condemned those efforts, why do you think donald trump hasn t? the way to look at his attitude towards the russians is look at the incoming national security leaders, general mattis, general kelly, congressman pompeo, senator coates, none of these are people who are in
colors. i think that the evolution of his views is really quite clear. i think he started out with one set of views and they have evolved as he has learned more. i think a lot of people were enlightened by the 25 page memo that the intelligence committee put out, and made it a lot clearer how involved the russians have been. i have been saying for some weeks that disinformation, otherwise known as lying is more or less a permanent fixture of the russian propaganda system, and that is something that they have now transitioned over into using it or adopting that technique with cyber, not just with publications and so forth as that s have for the last 50, 60, 70 years. dickerson: how should people understand the level of certainty here? i mean, with this report as they think about how to interpret this and donald trump has been skeptical, so how tight are the findings here? when you read the report, it seems thin in evidence. it is mostly the assessment. here is what we th
thank you for joining us. so much to discuss. i guess we will start with the intelligence agency. where are we right now. have you ever seen it in this much of a dirray? there were a lot of people in the government of the united states opposed to ronald reagan. particularly from those who did not like the policies that he was putting into place. when you see a leak like the ones you ve seen over the last couple of weeks you can have to wonder who is it that is going to benefit from this. they include the two page summary of what is a multipage assessment and a belief that somehow the russians have been able to compromise the president-elect. those kind of things in my experience are never to be included in intelligence briefing. if it s not by more than two people it s been a leak. in this particular case it floated all over the place. there are questions on whether or not president obama even have a chance to see it. it floated all around and yet intelligence agencies may
following the leak friday of tape on which trump spoke about women in a demeaning manner. last night mr. trump called the revelation simply locker room talk, he apologized, but the epic mud-slinging debate now has republicans worried about down-ballot wins. on wall street, call it the russian-driven rally as vladimir putin says to opec, it s time to turn down the spigot. dow up 102 points. we re getting you a live update on rescue efforts at this hour in the wake of deadly hurricane matthew. did mylan try to bury bad epipen news on friday, and charlie gasparino on twitter s slow motion sales crash. we re less than an hour to the closing bell. you re in the right place, let s start the countdown. liz: breaking news, the bulls are charging today, and we want you to specifically look at the nasdaq. just a few points away from another lifetime intraday high. we are up 4 points 44 points, and mylan is surging dramatically here. look at mylan, it is moving significantly h
the wall and you re a puppet of putin. that did it. trump got angry and the tone changed. and chris wallace asked will you accept the results of the debate. i ll keep you in suspense and hillary said she was appalled. trump called her a nasty woman and he s already losing badly among women voters. going into last night s debate. the poll showed a strong swing to the clinton camp even in arizona, idaho, georgia, alaska. and nationally 6 points. coming out of the debate, hillary did not land a knockout punch and trump did not mount a rousing comeback. 19 days until the election, varney & company is about to begin. we have no country if we have no border. i want to build a wall. we need the wall. we have some bad hombres here and we are going 0 get them out. i have been for border security for years. when it comes to the wall that donald talks about building, he went to mexico, he had a meeting with the mexican president, didn t even raise it he choked. she s been prov
out is suddenly getting very interesting, very tight. following on the candidates anywhere and everywhere. you can see how this is because their heads are bigger than the state they are in. governor pence in omaha coming back to new york city tonight. senator kaine in ohio. donald trump of multiple events in ohio later run. we are told back in new york city and hillary clinton holding a rally with first lady michelle obama. the first time they will be campaigning together. all of this has pulls across the country began to tighten. what do you have? the races to your point getting closer. getting donald trump to the 270 votes needed to be the next president remains difficult which we will show you in a moment. the better trendlines in four key states and the first two will show you are going blue states. florida is where we begin in for some ways in some ways the trump argument to win begins and ends in florida. the trendlines are good you re donald trump of it not been hill
80% of folks in puerto rico support the board can what s the problem of actually putting it to the people for a vote? the most recent poll i saw on the board suggests that perhaps it s 49-51, or 50/50 folks opposing. if that s the case in which the problem of actually putting it to the people on a vote? like congress did in 1951? that would render something illegitimate perhaps. as regards to your proportion of economic development, before we get to that conversation we need to make sure that energy costs go down in puerto rico. we need to make sure the board is credible. it s incredible the local government right now came up with a 9.1 billion budget, okay, in the face of this crisis. in other words, that are suspending payments on the debt that they our still spending like crazy. that s something that is unjustifiable. it really takes away credibility or whatever credibility was left from the puerto rican government. that s something that has to be dealt with in a meaningfu
it is not just my club, we stand for shared principles or not worth anything. charles: did ted cruz s speech backfire? the fallout from gop chair, heather higgins and obama campaign staffer steve shell, mixed reaction but we heard on the floor a lot of who are searching, people upset, trying to unify. we saw last night why he his having a tough time getting along with the senate but the base is rallying around donald trump. i spoke to a prominent evangelical leader who told me he was for trump, his wife is for donald trump, she loved the pens speech, we cannot have a third obama term. this evangelical bill is so good, go back and look at 2012. evangelicals date home and we had low turnout for mitt romney and those key swing states like ohio, mike pence has rallied the evangelical base, donald trump can win this. charles: the big controversy today is ted cruz, if it will have any damage to november. a lot of people say he damaged himself in the short term but any lingering e
make your life better, the clinton campaign focuses only on small and petty distractions. charles: well, apparently donald trump advisers are plotting a reboot for the next debate. a report out just today says that team trump is planning on scaling down campaign schedule so he can have more time to prepare and arm trump with fresh attack lines. i think we heard glimmers about clinton s financial dealings and possibly her husband s indiscretions, will the strategy work and donald trump win round two of the presidential debate game. joining me cathy taylor, robin buyero and heather higgins, heather, start with you, you were one of the few people that out of the gate said hillary won the debate, trump could have done better. are you happy with what you re hearing for the next one? the piece they read they think you re referring to, i read a couple. the gist was the same, she won the debate on points which is what you would expect for somebody who s been through 15 of these a