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I mean, if they dont and if people who voted for hillary dont rise up and raise a ruckus over this, and if it turns out that there is something funny going on here, that the people within the fbi knew that comey was -- i mean, the fact that he would release that information but not the fact that there was this other information about the russian hacking and this other stuff, it really -- if you were an outside observer of this you would say he was playing one certain side in favor of them. and e...

>> look, its important that the next president, mr. trump, understand all that vladimir putin has done and continues to do to try to undermine americas influence and to try to undermine the unity that exists in europe, euro poll, free and at peace. it is a been clear to every observer, left, right, and center, that putin believes a united europe is a problem for him. so he has done everything he can to -- to splinter consensus in europe, to weaken the eu as well as nato. and i cant believe after...

>> during your visit to either moscow or st. petersburg, you engaged in conduct that you now regret and that a reasonable observer -- a reasonable observer say you are potentially vulnerable to blackmail by russia or its intelligence agency? >> let me tell you what i do. when i leave our country, im a very high profile person, wouldnt you say? i am extremely careful. im surrounded by bodyguards. im surrounded by people, and i always tell them anywhere, but i always tell them if im leaving this c...

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Believe that hillary would be tougher on putin then me? does anybody in this room really believe that? give me a break. okay. >> can you make it clear whether during your visit to either moscow or st. petersburg you engaged in conduct you now regret, and would a reasonable observer say that you are potentially vulnerable to blackmail by russia or by intelligence agencies? >> president-elect trump: let me just say what i do. when i leave our country im a very high profile person, would you say? i...

That russia is predictable, basically, and that russia doesnt think like we do. expand on that. >> in my experience of both dealing with russia and representatives of russian government and russian entities, and then as my -- the length of time ive spent in russia as an observer, my experience with the russians are that theyre very calculating, theyre very strategic in their thinking, and they develop a plan. [ audience interruption ] >> -- as expendable. in our home state of texas, people are r...

Putin. i hope i do. but theres a good chance i wont. and if i dont, do you honestly believe that hillary would be tougher on putin than me? does anyone in this room really believe that? give me a break. >> reporter: were unclear whether during the visits in moscow or st. petersburg you engaged in conduct you now regret and would a reasonable observer say you are potentially vulnerable to blackmail by russia or its intelligence agencies? >> when i leave our country, im a very high profile person,...

To change that type of oppressive leadership. it has to be, though, that we know what is coming after, or we have a high confidence that we can control what comes after, or influence it and it will be better than what we just took out. >> but which, in this case, which motives are you referring to that were commendable? >> i think the concerns were that saddam hossein represented a threat to the world and the united states directly. so, i understand that people had -- were looking at information...

Kushner is resigning from all other jobs. he is transferring some, but not all assets. one is the new york observer to a family trust. he will work in the white house for no pay. as for the nepotism issue, his lawyer who worked in the clinton administration, is seen as someone friendly to democrats. she says the president-elect or when he will be president, he has sweeping authority to pick advisors. the nepotism laws dont cover the white house. it covers agencies. trump has yet to explain how...

Intelligence community. he said it was a very good meeting, but he did then spend most of the weekend basically making the point that hey, democrats made themselves vulnerable to hacking. you also had this response from president obama. let me play that. >> our intelligence communities spend a lot of time and effort gathering a lot of strands and a lot of data. there are times where theyre very cautious and they say, we think this is what happened, but were not certain. >> saying high confidence...