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Today the lame duck governor booted out of office by the voters of his state, the republican pat mccrory began signing into law these bills that will sharply reduce the power of the new governor, the democrat roy cooper. he rammed through legislation would undermine the governors input into state election boards, increase republican control over who he picks for his own cabinet and bar him from making appointments to statewide positions, all powers his predecessor, the current republican, enjoye...

Skipping daily briefingses. the lack of outrage or alarmism from president obama may have disappointed some of his most fervent supporters. there was something singularly disconcerting watching the president tip toe around how this country will fare in his absence. our next guest has a dire vision for what we can expect next. i quote here, donald trump is going to get us killed. joining me now michael moore award winning film maker. >> im not smiling, am i? >> you wrote this piece during the ele...

Disappointed some of his most fervent supporters. there was something singularly disconcerting watching the president tip toe around how this country will fare in his absence. our next guest has a dire vision for what we can expect next. i quote here, donald trump is going to get us killed. joining me now michael moore award winning film maker. >> im not smiling, am i? >> you wrote this piece during the election that donald trump will win the election. a lot of people got mad at you. i hope this...

The republicans standing up and we really need to have this bipartisan commission. imagine the situation if it was reversed. fbi found out in september 2015 that the dnc was being hacked and they didnt go brief the dnc. can you imagine if that was a republican national committee that was hacked and the fbi didnt fill them in? they would be up in arms. we got to walk in each others shoes here. this is just an unacceptable assault. >> in terms of walking in each others shoes, i want to be specific...

We have an election coming up in 2017, and they know that many of them are going to be voted out of office. so now theyre trying to engage in a coup. if this was going on in any other country, america would be outraged. if this was going on in any other country, the president of the united states and others would even speak out. even candidates would speak out against it. because what you see going on here is just blatant unconstitutional meanness. its like apartheid government, its like fascism...

That we have learned lessons. >> president-elect, for his part, continues to dispute the intelligence communitys unanimous conclusion made in october that russia was behind the hacks seeming to imply in a tweet, the hacks performed a kind of public service. are we talking about the same cyber attack where it was revealed that the head of the dnc illegally gave hillary the questions from the debate? trump referring to the male that the team got a heads up about a question from donna brazile who w...

To kind of tamp down the rhetoric about this basically saying we hold our own destiny in our hands and if our political culture werent as bad as it is and if the media werent as bad as it is, we wouldnt be here. youre calling this the political equivalent of 9/11. who is right on this? >> well, certainly i feel like the president feels a responsibility to have a gracious transition of power. he feels thats his role at the moment. but our role is to recognize that our political system has been ha...

Why do you want to take them away from that. and weve had other senators say this is nonsense and in any other situation we would have a select committee. why is mitch mcconnell saying that? do you think thats good faith? >> i dont question his motives. i frankly think that the process of using people who are experienced -- and the intelligence committees have had a long history of being bipartisan. and they are almost of equal numbers even in the house where the republicans have a significant m...

Interfering 11 days before the election has proven himself really in history hell be one of the worst directors weve ever had, this is an outrageous performance by the fbi. >> what do you say to folks, sean spicer, kellyanne conway and others who say this is sour grapes, youre being a sore loser and attempting to undermine the legitimacy of the duly elected incoming president of the united states? >> i would say if youre patriotic american, you care when america is attacked. and attacking the va...

Who is right on this? >> well, certainly i feel like the president feels a responsibility to have a gracious transition of power. he feels thats his role at the moment. but our role is to recognize that our political system has been hacked by a hostile foreign power and that is a huge issue. it compromises the legitimacy of the presidency coming in. we have a president-elect who lost a citizens election. now we find out a lot of these very narrow votes in key states were influenced by a russian ...