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And far between, very sparse in terms of details, not exactly what were hearing from the house or the senate about repealing and replacing. what precisely is the timeframe for repealing and replacing? what precisely do you replace it with at this point? to that point, arent you kind of boxed in by obamacare as professor gruber would say? youve got 20 newly insured people. how do you get rid of that? >> first, first, i think we know the president-elects instincts, its for market-based reforms. th...

And far between, very sparse in terms of details, not exactly what were hearing from the house or the senate about repealing and replacing. what precisely is the timeframe for repealing and replacing? what precisely do you replace it with at this point? to that point, arent you kind of boxed in by obamacare as professor gruber would say? youve got 20 newly insured people. how do you get rid of that? >> first, first, i think we know the president-elects instincts, its for market-based reforms. th...

January 20th. he will be our president and take us down this road or other roads and making life, i think, very difficult for the obama administration and if youre overseas and if youre putin or netanyahu or anybody else, youre hearing two presidential voices and its not good for american credibility. >> jackie, how big do you think this idea plays in our political back and forth? do you think theres a chance it gets dismissed as style points. oh, hes not waiting until hes actually in. do you th...

>> do you think he is undermining the outgoing president here? >> i dont know. i cant say whether he is intentionally doing that. i dont know. as a veteran of many different transitions, republican and democratic, the incoming president, the president-elect does not assert himself as he did in the under water drone crisis. you have to let president obama and secretary kerry and carter handle the issues for the united states and it will be complicating if he continues to do this. >> ambassador co...

An ambassador can go in a building, like the one behind me here. a lot of embassies, a lot of upmarket hotels. and a man would be in the room with a position to shoot at him, raises security questions. if youre president putin, you want to get to the bottom of those. we know theyre going to work together on a joint investigation. but thats what they did they would do when they were carrying russian holiday makers a year or go. they will look at this through their own prism, as well. so many ques...

Were just feeding off of this. its almost about not watching the birdie, right? its when he brings al gore in to talk about the environment and appoints a rabidly anti-epa person in charge of the transition, all of these things are misdirects. so its crucial to just not pay attention at certain points. like, were all the saps that on any reality show, the person that breaks down and cries is the loser. so for liberals and progressives who are moaning and are upset and angry, thats a win in the r...

Prism. if it helps your guy, its no big deal. if it hurts your guy, its terrible. this was a hack on the american political system. i would hope there would be a point -- i think you saw it in the senate with the bipartisanship where everybody says this is beyond the pale. what david just described. this is weaponizing against us. it would be, i think, a wonderful thing in the next couple days in president-elect trump, which hell be by the end of the day, would say this is irrespective of its my...

The served there. ive seen the evidence. he seems to be trying to give the president-elect some grace saying election is over, transition period, hes sort of learning up. i dont mean that as a criticism. youre learning up the job. trying to give him a nudge and some grace. >> thats why you see the president he has toward intel community to put forward a public report that will be out before he leaves office which he can hand over to trump. whats interestsing the way trump is handling this is hes...

I want your take on this nbc news reports that russian hacking of foreign governments has been going on for years. government officials in finland, netherlands, germany and the ukraine are among the countries that have complained of russian hacking. tell me this, what is their end game in all of this? >> you know, i spent a lot of time with the russians it wasnt this sort of amorphous, maybe this guy is russian. it was a diplomat to the united nations. for the russian, the cold war has never end...

Its just that in russia, it can become deadly. here just financially crippling. >> and ill ask you on that same point. you did work as a double agent dealing with the russians directly. how similar -- you just heard tirrell say the difference is you could end up dead or in jail, assets essentially seized by the kremlin and given to a good friend of vladimir putin, as our rachel maddow reported. what in theory could donald trump do to hurt american companies, and what is the precedent you can sit...