Government and Foreign Governments. As you know, the state Department Also places a high priority on global womens empowerment, gender equity, combating violence against women. I was disturbed when there was a request from the Trump Transition Team to find out who the employees within the state been who havee worked on gender equity programs and while i know that has been walked back by that transition team, i think it sends a chilling message to people in the state department and the people concerned about efforts to empower women around the. Lobe can i ask whether you agree that we should continue that andiative to empower women what steps you would take to ensure that the state department continue to fund necessary programs to address global womens issues . This is an issue that has long been important to me personally as well. Ive seen firsthand the impact of empowering women, particularly empowering womens participation in Economic Activities in lesser developed part of the world.
Intelligence Community Delivered a report on publicly and privately to the president , the president elect last week, and also to the allegations that surfaced last night about the notion that russia might, according to a former British Intelligence official, have compromising information on the president elect. All of that of course is a cloud over the onset of his administration and has the potential, if this mushrooms into a major congressional investigation, to crowd out a lot of the political space for movement on republican priorities like tax cuts and repealing obamacare. Robert frank, youre also joining us outside of trump tower. This comes about a month after the original News Conference that donald trump was supposed to hold detailing how he would deal with his businesses once hes inaugurated about nine days away. What are you expecting on that front . Hows he going to avoid this conflict of interest question . Reporter yeah, the important Business News of the morning will be
Opener, your world in 90 seconds. If this report were true and there were some cooperation or collusion between this his campaign and the elections, that would be unprecedented in american history. President elect trump dismisses reports of potentially compromising information. Guess what has president happened . Nobody is sourced, all unnamed. Most importantly its as if the fbi is trying to confirm it. Nothing has been confirmed. It has been the honor of my life to serve you. President obama delivering a farewell address to the nation. Yes, we can. Yes, we did. God bless the United States of america. Western states reeling from extreme winter weather, a new storm soaked Northern California. Convicted Charleston Church shooter dylann roof has been sentenced to death. Roof acted as his own attorney and never offered apologies. Former new york senator alde mat toe kicked off a plane, accused of trying to start a rebellion against the crew. Stand up for whats right and walk out with me. D
Lot of snow. Several feet has fallen over the past few days. Lets take you live to the south bay where there are flood rescue operations underway. The street looks more like a river. Our janine de la vega is in hollister. We will bring here in in just a moment. Lets go straight to Steve Paulson with the forecast. Were getting good news in the north bay. Theyre not getting the rain. Good. The Russian River will decrease and the napa river. It should go down. Good. Still rain towards the Santa Cruz Mountains that doesnt need more. Parts of the peninsula and east bay. It looks like the rain will be more towards the south bay and apartment cruise mountains tonight and tomorrow. A couple breaks in there. We will need a break. A serious side of a blizzard. Most of truckee and tahoe have been without power for 12 hours. Five to 7 feet reported. The blizzard warning continues until noon. The pictures coming out, echo summit, i saw caltrans district 3 shot. The snow is about this high. Well, yo
Clapper and others available to them, but that it was never discussed in the briefing. The briefing was all there is no place at trump tower to contain top secret documents. No documents were turned over. And intelligence officials say, and i will quote, intel and Law Enforcement officials agree that none of the investigations have found any conclusive or direct link between donald trump and the russian government, period. Hallie jackson is at the News Conference. We get a review of this News Conference already in tweets from president elect trump. Reporter we did. A bit of what you could say was a defeat storm this morning with donald trump strongly denying this, calling it fake news. Even at one point questioning whether we were living in nazi germany. We expect him here in the robby trump tower any minute. Into 30 seconds being a go, staffers came out to put manila envelopes on the table next to where he will be speak. Remember, this is miss First Press Conference as president elect