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Change next week, as he begins to go into a greater intelligence briefing. and i think the biggeruestion is, whats russias larger game plan here? >> republicans, i dont think, are going to tolerate criticism of the intelligence community. its just not going to be something that i think anyone else besides donald trump is going to be willing to indulge in. it is one place where mitch mcconnell and senator lindsey graham and john mccain and everyone has been on the same page, except for donald tru...

Netanyahu tweeted him back thanking him for that support also this morning on a conference call with sean spicer, incoming press secretary who said that the u.s. relationship with israel under trump in fact would be stronger. we have seen signs that trump wants to go in that direction. he has selected david friedman the new u.s. ambassador to israel, supporting israeli settlements, moving the embassy from tell leitel aviv to jerusa. also today house republican leaders announced when the new cong...

Addressed reporters today, he had his new national security adviser behind him. retired lieutenant general, michael flynn in florida, to discuss world events and staffing. the meeting was on the schedule before the terror attacks in germany and turkey. trump began with the presidents daily brief. his first of the week. trumps staff insists he is getting some kind of intelligence briefing every day. and will be on top of things from day one. >> hes very much up to speed in whats going on. and ful...

Saying if bill clinton and the foundation stop raising money for charities in africa and other places, people would suffer because of it. so a lot of similarities here between this. some other transition news today. we just got off the daily call with some transition officials and they said the president-elect has received an intelligence briefing for the second day in a row here at mar-a-lago. this is important because earlier this month donald trump of course said he doesnt need to receive tha...

Retired lieutenant general michael flynn in florida, to discuss world events and staffing. the meeting was on the schedule before the terror attacks in germany and turkey. trump began the day with an official presidents daily brief, his first of the week. trumps staff insists he is getting some type of intelligence briefing every day, and will be on top of things from day one. >> hes very much up to speed in whats going on and fully ready to be sworn in. >> reporter: officials tell cnn trump is ...

Besides the fact it happened? >> reporter: we do not know the classified details of the intelligence briefing, but the fact it did happen is news. donald trump said he is not going to follow the lead of other president-elects, other presidents, and receive this presidential daily brief. the pdb, every day as its called. he says his advisors will. this is is a different day. we are two days after that rampage on the christmas market in berlin and donald trump was facing questions earlier if hed r...

Only brought up the subject after hillary clinton lost. actually the white house said in october that russia was behind the hacks. critics say that its disturbing because its unclear if president-elect trump is getting intelligence briefings on a consistent basis. so lets talk about that and more. with me now national political reporter for realclear politics rebecca berg and washington bureau chief for the "l.a. times" david louder. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> rebecca we do underst...

Interfered in the election to help mr. trump win. and some presidential electors say they want an intelligence briefing before they do their constitutional duties. joining us here in washington is the president-elects white house chief of staff reince priebus. reince, welcome back to "fox sunday news." >> thanks for having me this morning. >> president-elect trump told me last weekend that the cia conclusion that russia interfered with the election to help him was ridiculous and it could have be...

Result of the november election if the argument being made is that hes unfit? hes unqualified? his demeanor? people have been making these arguments throughout the entire campaign and many people voted for him because of that. they wanted an its so crazy it just might work. >> theres the russian hacking that we know that theres a consensus as rick was saying from the intelligence community that we should be concerned about the democracy, right? our democracy actually under attack and theres the ...

Thats even talking about it in these terms. >> you know, its pretty remarkable. to the point that you just made, the electors, ten of them asked for an intelligence briefing before they vote tomorrow but they are not going to get it which is kind of shocking given what you just said. does it surprise you more, you talked to some republicans, which surprises you more, the fact that you do have so many americans who grew up like i grew up, you know rk, doing the desk drill and. why the of the sovi...