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No signs of going wobbly and while he doesnt always keep calm, he does carry on. so an evaluation of how things are going so far, michael goodwin joins us now. >> thank you. martha: hes put himself out there in the way that people in the past have not necessarily. we are watching the whole transition process. has he sort of asked for the scrutiny before he takes office? >> this is part of the course with donald trump. the trump tower auditions, really, its like a casting call. people go in and o...

Remember for trump hooking into the camera and saying, russia, if youre listening, please hack and get e the missing 30,000 e-mails from hillary clinton. be interesting that thats what happened at that press conference. but there are a lot of calls for more press concernses, more -- press conferences, more transparency and reporters to ask questions about the business ties. they are trying to figure out, according to tour to sources -- according to our sources, how its all going to break down an...

In the meantime, a ceasefire was meant to help bring injured civilians to safety, and that fell apart yesterday. a united nations official says that the continued raids are likely a war crime. >> really i dont know what to say. i hope -- really i hope you can do something for people, for my daughter, for the other children. martha: too late for most of these people and too late for a lot, but there are growing questions over whether the obama administrations failure to act in syria led to the ge...

Yahoo! either. remember, verizon did an agreement to buy yahoo!s digital operations for $4.8 billion earlier this year, and experts say at the very least verizon has got to be rethinking the price theyre willing to pay for this. in a statement verizon said partly, or quote: we will evaluate the situation as yahoo! continues its investigation. we will review the impact of this new development before reaching any final conclusions. and experts tell us, martha, that this is really just the tip of t...

Raised a certain amount of money based on their savings, and that savings was depleted badly because of fed policy. >> right. bill: now, its only a quarter point. does it matter? >> it does matter because the ball starts to move north. its not going to make a significant change in their lives overnight, but perhaps some of these cost of living adjustments will come along with it. certainly, theyve gotten the short end of the stick, retirees and people who saved their money have been decimated by...

Military. martha: great point. thank you for getting that in. see you next time. bill: 20 minutes now before the hour. some hollywood celebrities calling on electors to cast their votes for someone other than donald trump. did you hear this? >> republican members of the electoral college, this message is for you. as you know, our founding fathers built the electoral college to safeguard the american people from the dangers of a demagogue. bill: so what do you think about that, america? sour grap...

Going to annihilate aleppo similar to what i did in chechnya in 2000. block by block, building by building, i am going to bomb it and target civilians and destroy it. that is what he and assads air force has been doing. targeting civilians to the extent that theyre doing it is a war crime. assad has been committing war crimes for a long time. they followed this, martha, on ground with iranian quds force be, hezbollah and also regime forces to systematically go into the buildings and kill whateve...

Bill: we have new developments on egypt air flight 804 crashed in the mediterranean back in may. 66 people onboard were killed. egypts civil aviation ministry now says traces of explosives have now been found on some of victims bodies. its now launching a criminal investigation. you might remember that plane left paris, france, intended for cairo, egypt. no claim of responsibility. ♪ ♪ martha: the democrats have been giving a laundry list of reasons for their loss in last months election. pa...

Hillary lost? republicans reveal theyve been getting their most recent updates through the news, and theyre trying to confirm with the cia what is true and what is not, but they cant get anybody from the cia to come and tell them whats up behind closed doors. so republican congressman devin nuñes says this, quote: the legislative branch is constitutionally vested with oversight responsibility of executive branch agencies which are obligated to comply with our requests. the committee is vigorous...

Before 18 months before collision? >> right. bill: would we be able to see an asteroid a year and a half in advance and react? >> i can tell you that almost next hundred years no major asteroid is headed our way, very high likelihood. comets, i cant tell you that. they come out of the dark. this is why you want to be able to see the small stuff. you want to see the distance stuff. you want eyes and ears and the cost of one f-35 jet plane, one of them would pay for that wheel observation program ...