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Walk us through how the intelligence products are consumed by a president. because were talking about donald trumps views on the intel community in the context of something that clearly gets under his skin. his team clearly feels that john mccains hearing tomorrow is an effort to delegitimize by raising questions about russian influence in our election, his victory. he doesnt seem to see both things as possible. something, dan is going to join us later, i think i just blew a surprise, the talk a...

Apparently never fill the supreme court vacancy. i think thats something the american people simply will not tolerate, and well be looking forward to receiving a supreme court nomination and moving forward on it. >> i didnt know you were watching, sir. but welcome, senator mcconnell. please come be a guest on this show. i think we would have a lot to talk about. and honestly, when people are pulling the levers of government come talk to us, they frequently say stuff that really matters and makes...

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 --...

Politics of the democrats and republicans in the last election -- people are not going to remember that, likely, in a month or two. but six months down the road when you need your intelligence community and you cant use it. >> on that very point. president obama did an interview today with our affiliate in chicago. he was asked about this issue of president-elect trump not leaving the intel community. here is what he said. >> do you have full faith in the conclusions of the intelligence briefing...

Intel community in the context of something that clearly gets under his skin. his team clearly feels that john mccains hearing tomorrow is an effort to delegitimize by raising questions about russian influence in our election, his victory. he doesnt seem to see both things as possible. something, dan is going to join us later, i think i just blew a surprise, the talk about how intel is consumed by a president. >> well, first most presidents in recent years have started their day with an intellig...

But welcome, senator mcconnell. please come be a guest on this show. i think we would have a lot to talk about. and honestly, when people are pulling the levers of government come talk to us, they frequently say stuff that really matters and makes news. last night we got the news from senator schumer, about the supreme court, whether they would hold open a seat. today we got the republican response to that. but that was the first bit of news from that interview. another bit of it was about this....

But welcome, senator mcconnell. please come be a guest on this show. i think we would have a lot to talk about. and honestly, when people are pulling the levers of government come talk to us, they frequently say stuff that really matters and makes news. last night we got the news from senator schumer, about the supreme court, whether they would hold open a seat. today we got the republican response to that. but that was the first bit of news from that interview. another bit of it was about this....

Information went to the russians and i believe it probably did because theres a preponderance of the evidence not only from the private companies that did the investigations that thats where the russians got their hand on the data, but that doesnt mean theyre the ones that shared it with wikileaks, there are other parties that could have got the data themselves and possible the russians moved it through other parties. so theres a number of different scenarios possible while also holding that the...

The official weve spoken with, jim, say there is this growing sense of dismay in the wake of these tweets from donald trump. yesterday and today as one official told me you never want to strart off on the wrong foot with the new boss and this growing divide come as this friday for the first time donald trump will come face to face with the leaders of the intelligence agencies hes been challenging for months. tonight president-elect trump escalating his ongoing battle with the u.s. intelligence c...

Covering capitol hill. why did house republicans scrap a plan to undermine the ethics watchdog that oversees them? the reversal. what we were talking about 24 hours. good morning, welcome to "early start." im christine romans. >> nice to see you. im john berman. its wednesday, january 4th. its nearly 5:00 a.m. in the east. a new so-called controversy this morning over so-called hacking. or you could just call it hacking, with president-elect trump not russian hacking, not yet at least. remarks t...