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Security advisers with head-strong presidents get in battles with their cabinet officers that the tendency to want to centralize when you have strong people at state and defense affects every administration. the meetings in the situation room with this team will be a shakedown cruise. its going to take a while before they learn the language and president says he doesnt want to be briefed by intelligence agencies. just wait until he has his first real crisis. the idea hell say i dont want my inte...

Influence what the electors will do, and we assume that they will vote for hillary clinton, but the question is whether there are 37 republican electors who think that either they are open questions or that donald trump based on everything that we know about him is really unfit to be president of the united states, and if they dox they le throw it to the house of representatives. >> there are certain supporters of yours say that the best route is to have the hillary clinton supporters to call on...

Those demanding. the bipartisans letter raises grave in moments well be joined by representatives of both campaigning. but we begin with trace gallagher reporting our from our west coast newsroom. >> hi, shon non. the ten members of the electoral college say its not their duty to rubber stamp the results but to instead investigate, discuss and dlib ra rate. they sent a letter to james clapper asking to be given an intel briefing before they cast their votes on december 19th, writing, quote, the ...

We have to keep diplomacy going. why? we have 100 businessmen in cairo trying to do business when this happened. you know will come in the area we lose our prestige there, the little weve got? chinese. then well all be ruined. >> kimberly: they dont fear or res special us. the administration of the united states has been weakened. we no longer have the strong hold we had under bush and cheney. thats a fact. not respected by the people. now obama can -- >> bob: listen -- [over talk ] >> greg: aga...

Americans watched yesterday, the director of national intelligence, dan coats, was candid with andrea mitchell. some officials close to the president concerned it could rub president trump the wrong day. what are you hearing? pull back the curtain. what are they saying in the west wing? >> reporter: president trump doesnt like to be criticized and certainly not publicly. alas, dan coats wont be at the white house for the intel briefing. he is sending his principal deputy to do the briefing with ...

There is absolute chaos in this white house. and of course, it starts at the top. when you have the president of the united states yesterday when hes supposed to be at an intel briefing, briefing in all caps, that knew fbi texts are bombshells and you have ron johnson who of course was famous recently because he started the harry potter secret society, fbi secret society conspiracy theory. which was a lie. and was proven to be a lie. and now donald trump after saying the new fbi texts are bo bom...

Joining us from washington, white house correspondent john bennett. thanks for joining me. want to start with mcmaster saying president trump was not briefed on source of intel on the alleged isis plot. is this normal for the president not to be briefed on source or does this speak to whats not shared with the president, whats being shared and not being shared with president trump now? >> i think you hit the nail on the head there. weve had questions back since the president was elected during t...

Seemingly out of nowhere the president late today returned to the subject of yesterdays combative press conference and the target of his ire. he tweeted the fake news media failing nbc news, abc, cbs, cnn, is not my enemy but the enemy of the american people. his initial tweet had the word sick in all caps at the end. tomorrow he holds a rally in melbourne, florida. more on that tonight and his search for a new national security adviser. we begin, though weather the surprise late-afternoon intel...

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