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Donald trumps Transition Team, James Woolsley says he believes the russians were behind this. Unclear to what extent the government was involved and whether or not others may have been involved as well. Listen to what he had to say. It looks from all the indications that we read about from nsa and cia and so forth, if the russians were there and perhaps principally there. It doesnt mean there isnt somebody else in there. Trump is an expert at weaving around and attracting attention. It is what h...

Weapons. He has a terse message for north korea. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im roimds romachristine romans. Im john berman. A new Congress Gavels in at noon set to effectively neuter the Ethics Office that oversees it. With control of congress and the white house and after president elect trump promised to drain the swamp, last night, behind closed doors, republicans voted to end the independence of the independent office of congressional ethics. They would bar the ethics off from rev...

Donald trumps transition team, james woolsley says he believes the russians were behind this. unclear to what extent the government was involved and whether or not others may have been involved as well. listen to what he had to say. >> it looks from all the indications that we read about from nsa and cia and so forth, if the russians were there and perhaps principally there. it doesnt mean there isnt somebody else in there. trump is an expert at weaving around and attracting attention. it is wha...

Russia is a lot better than the intel ligence they get from othr places like china or north korea. they believe the evidence they are getting leads them to say russia was involved. of course, you noted that president-elect is still casting doubts on all this. one member of the transition team, james woolsey is saying the russians were involved, but it is not clear what level or if they were the only withones. >> it looks like everything we read about from nsa and cia and so forth, as if the russ...

On a serious issue of national security? >> why not? he is not interfering with anything. >> reporter: james woolsey speaking to jim sciutto yesterday. the questions and denying any involvement. they continue to call the claims baseless. all of this playing out in russian media as well. especially sean spice erin afr r spicer interview. that is getting a lot of air play. >> thank you, fred. congress returns to work this morning. republicans take the reins in congress. on the top of the to-do l...

At the carry-on bags and the persons again going back to the christmas day bomber or the underwear bomber or the richard reid shoe bomber, it is what they got on, on the person, and there are procedures from preventing that from happen iin from the metallic eye tems such as guns and knives and nonmetallic like what happened on christmas day. every single bag goes flu the explosive system which automatically checks for any type of explosives. so there shouldnt -- >> well, i was speaking to james ...

The russians for their part, continuing their line saying there is absolutely no evidence linking them to all this calling the allegations absurd. john, all this playing very big, especially in russias state-owned media. >> interesting to hear james woolsley come out and saying the russians were involved. republicans on both sides of the aisle in congress. interesting to see. fred, thank you. members of president-elects transition team are meeting this week to work on executive actions and ord...