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>> yes. look, this is a power struggle like weve seen seen before between the incoming president and the intelligence community and theres always an adjustment period when a new president comes in and theres three different relationship models one is when the president himself comes out or the national security establishment like george bush senior, he was going to shake the community, he didnt need any new briefings, he was an expert, the other is a senator comes in and has some experience and ...

Presidency. >> so david, honestly trump and schumer both new yorkers and known each other. some said they believed donald trump was a democrat. what do you think of the tone? epic battle for the next four years, opening gambit or throwing down the gauntlet or coming in every time theres new president? >> think were seeing chuck schumer assuming the mantle of the top democrat in government and giving voice to what it is to be the opposition party. wafg the party flag and setting boundaries for do...

We treated president obama. and we confirmed a number on inauguration day itself. we hope to be in a position to do that once again. and were also going to process the waiver for secretary of defense -- mattis. let me point out i notice my counterpart schumer announced their goal was to apparently never fill the supreme court vacancy, thats kind of an expansion of the biden rule. you recall the biden rule in 1992 was the senate would not confirm a supreme court nominee in the middle of a preside...

>> think were seeing chuck schumer assuming the mantle of being the top democrat in government. and now giving voice to what it is to be the opposition party. and so i think he was sort of waving the party flag and sort of setting the boundaries for donald trump that he could understand where schumer was coming from broadly. but as you noted, these two know each other over time. donald trump was a chuck schumer donor, and chuck schumer is going to seek ways where he can to make deals with donald...

Some pretty effective piling, clinically speaking, i dont mean that pejoratively, hes actually been quite effective in getting his point across. and the good thing about it that i like about twitter is that its completely transparent, it is instant, and you dont have a middleman to mince words and reframe or repackage, for better or worse. so i really dont know why, in this kind of grand introduction of what schumer is going to be like as a minority leader, he spends all his time chastising the ...

What trump is doing, i dont think what you saw there was some opening salvevo to a four-year epic battle. >> think about it when how long theyve known each other and how weird for chuck schumer to have donald trump once a donor as opposition and president of the united states. its a strange world and he probably knows a lot of secrets about donald trump. known each other foy long time. >> strange for schumer and trump and for trump and lot of republicans. i think the democrats and schumer will f...

Saying. of course, he wants trump to get off twitter because he wants the public to hear nothing but "the new york times" and trump is not going to let that happen. hes going to get the final word and straighten them out when they lie about it but schumer also told us, if we didnt get on board with obamacare, our party would be gone because it was going to be so great, wrong on that, we needed to get on board with cap and trade because the country was going to be behind it and that was not only ...

Lets talk about chuck schumer. chuck schumer is one of these guys that can do two things at once. get the boxing gloves on and pound you, and then he can walk outside afterwards and sit there and talk to you and figure out how to do a deal. yesterday, he got the boxing gloves on. >> setting a new tone. senate majority leader one day into the job chuck schumer looking to usher a new democratic. the transition was official yesterday during the swearing in of the new congress. speaking with politic...

President-elect trump has said that in the last few weeks. he has not been quite as adamant about a total repeal and not have some type of a replacement for those people, as you said earlier, peter, that need the coverage. >> so you were talking about donald trump. well tell you exactly what he said. he said republicans must be careful and that the democrats own the failed obamacare disaster, as he wrote it. he said with its poor coverage and massive premium increases, citing increases in arizon...

And see that as a negative dont understand that is what we have been missing in washington all of these years. people that couldnt sit down at the end of the day after a long, hard fight and come to a solution. >> democrats also need to understand if they really want to antagonize republicans, the best thing that they can do is paint schumer as having some kind of relationship with donald trump. that gets under republicans skin so badly the idea that schumer and trump are going to be working tog...