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Madison is upset with some of the selections that trump is making for various undersecretaries and other civilian officials at the pentagon. the drama continues. >> its a two-way street. the other question is how does the intelligence community react if trump continues in this vein? ? do they try to seek -- do we get more resignations? what do they try to do? >> the inauguration of the president, two weeks from today. well see if we get feedback from the intelligence briefing, classified briefin...

>> just moments ago this is the vice president-plekt mike pence arriving at trump tower for an important intelligence briefing. >> will donald trump accept those and intensify sanctions or try to pull them back? fascinating question. more on that briefing as we get it. it begins in just a few minutes. now back to other news here in washington. theres a lesson every president learns and learns pretty quickly. some campaign promises are difficult sometimes even impossible to keep. including this o...

Into a united states entity, were going to focus on those hackers. >> so thats standard operating procedure. >> yes. nine out of ten times the fbi doesnt actually have to look at the server. this is normal. so its really deflection and spin. >> why do you think theyre still spinning before this intelligence briefing? why not just stop, listen, and then talk? >> i have a lot of -- a lot of people in the intelligence community who come to me every day. and, you know, former u.s. ambassador to russ...

>> my hope is that when the president-elect receives his own briefings and is able to examine the intelligence as his team is put together and they see how professional and effective these agencies are, that some of those current tensions will be reduced. >> you seem quite skeptical thats going to happen. you have to resist this sometimes. it is great theater, and it is a telling -- as we go through the transition. as i was talking about the other day, and i was talking about this with both the ...

Busy news day on a friday afternoon where we are also obviously have a lot of developments involving the president-elect. he had a briefing this afternoon. an intelligence briefing which we believe has just recently wrapped up. and that was, of course, about the hacking situation, and that was -- that was the news of the day until this unfortunate news broke out. >> and that briefing would have happened just 30 minutes before the shooting began. >> thats right. >> let me go to crest ten welker, ...

Their professionals going forward to protect the country. >> thanks so much, jeremy bash, and all of this was topic one when i sat down with john kerry today, just a little while ago to talk about this intelligence briefing, russia, and the impact of course of what donald trump has been saying about it. secretary, thank you very much for joining me today. >> pleasure, thank you. >> as you prepare to leave office at the end of the term, russia, and the role of russias cyber hacking in the u.s., r...

Want to have if youre going to make a major decision on the conclusion that right now with the dni is often what we call group think. this is bipartisan. you talk to the committee members in the house and senate, youll find they have problems with the dni and would like to see reformed. >> it doesnt sound in terms of the russian hacking as though those agencies are disagreeing. let me read what mr. trump has tweeted in connection with this. he said first, the intelligence briefing, he put in quo...

An effort to undermine the legitimacy of his presidency. and when you look at it in total, he lost the popular vote. there are questions about fbi director james comeys influence on the election as well as questions about the russian hacking. and taken together, that does leave a so you are taste in donald trumps mouth. he wants to come into the white house feeling like he is a legitimate president, feeling like people are not questioning his victory, and right now he feels like questions about ...

Intelligence james clapper, tweeting the, quote, intelligence briefing on so-called, quote, russian hacking was delayed until friday. perhaps more time needed to build a case. very strange. u.s. officials dispute trumps claim there was any delay. the president-elect continuing his tweet storm. julian assange said, "a 14-year-old could have hacked podesta. why was dnc so careless? also said russians did not give him the info." strr different from trumps 2010 stance on wikileaks after the group pu...

Outside trump tower tonight. >> the head of the intelligence agency does not blindly trust are on their way here to trump tower for a briefing on friday. the top five are going to bring the evidence they have the make some so sure it was russia and not somebody else meddling with the u.s. electoral process. at some of the names on the guet list are james klapper, cia director and fbi director james comey. for making official update on the clinton email case just days before the clinton emails --...