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>> let me just say because donald trump is probably watching right now. let me just say with all due respect, mr. trump, you are president-elect of the united states. you are looking and acting as if you are mean and petty, thin skinned and vindictive. stop this. this is not a fireside chat. this is not what fdr did. this is actually penalizing people who are speaking their minds. >> he was talking about -- that was the union leader and the steel workers about carrier. but i dont know if thats e...

Endorsed him or david duke or any white supremacists were advocating on his behalf, he never said i disassociate myself from those people. hardly disconnect to say that by when he has people who are supporting him actively campaigning for him, if he doesnt disavow them -- >> he has repeatedly -- >> final word here to brian. let me give the final word to brian. >> i was going to say about this issue of twitter, for a man whos so well known for tweeting, has a great grasp of the medium, hasnt both...

Winter storm in hawaii. lets bring you there. take a look at the video. this is an observatory on top of one of the volcanos. it might be grainy on the tv screen but that is snow, folks. thats the telescope in the background by the way. did you know they actually ski and snowboard in hawaii? >> i did not know that. >> they call it -- you think palm trees and you think sipping coconut drinks on the beach. they actually serve pineapple powder is what they call it. its a pretty cool sight. we want ...

>> constructive disagreement versus destructive disagreement. im saying, why cant we get along. you can have disagreements but they should be more constructive. if youre all for markets and im all for government, we can disagree. if we talk about it constructively, we might come up with a public/private partnership thats better than my idea or your idea. were not even trying to find common ground anymore. >> it doesnt seem like, you know, theres this debate going on among democrats, is it resist...

Be forced to ensure people. alice, how does all of that fit into this congressmans plan when he really -- i mean, i listened to a speech he gave on the floor of the house in 2009 shortly after obamacare was passed and he does not like obamacare, anything about it at all. >> well, clearly, i think this is part of donald trumps art of the deal making, and what hes doing, hes showing, look, ive got someone who has been so far on the other side of obamacare that its going to be in charge of revampin...

Unbelievably powerful medium. he has 16 million twitter followers. he things this is a way going up over the top of the media, directly to the american people. most americans dont like the flag burning, carol. granted, it is a first amendment right. but years ago, calling "fire" in a movie theater was a first amendment right and that got reversed. >> mr. trump is serious about stripping american citizens of their citizenship if they burn a flag? >> i think hes upset about it and i think hes expr...

All the people from the big banks and from wall street, that this could be an upsetting thing. and this is certainly going to be upsetting to the left, which, you know, probably wasnt going to be happy with any picks that donald trump would have for these jobs, but certainly, you know, there was all this talk on the democratic side, about could somebody who had worked at goldman sachs 15 years ago get a top job at treasury? somebody like mnuchin is somebody who would get reluctance from dems. >>...

The american flag. if they do, they should perhaps lose their citizenship or a year in jail. what do you make of that. flag burning, can it be made illegal? >> you have someone the incoming head of the federal government speaking about two consequences here that we know are unconstitutional. the supreme court has long said that flag burning in most cases is a protected right. justice scalia a part of that decision, whether you like it or not, this is speech. we basically have a right to speech a...

Proposed legislation and one of the things in that trump tweet that jumped the out at people, the revoking citizenship. the debates we had over flag burning have never gone that far. >> im not sure if he understands how wide ranging his thinks his powers go. this is a democracy and not a monarchy. that could change this january. the loss of citizenship, once you start with this, this is give a mouse a cookie. once you start down this road, what happens when the next athlete deals during the nati...

Fill up their coffers by asking for impossible recounts is now being joined by the badly defeated and demoralized dems. well this morning the chief counsel for the clinton campaign mark elias also is responding on the favorite medium here of twitter. he says this, were getting attacked for participating in a recount that we didnt ask for by the man who won the election but this there was massive fraud here. so what is going to happen in wisconsin later this week after the election board meets th...