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It appears the two will have a good working relationship in this administration. and schumer has praised mr. trump for wanting to rebuild infrastructure and told abc news that mr. trumps tentative spending plan of $1 trillion on this over the next ten years sounds good to him. >> im asking congress to support the construction of new roads, bridges, airports, tunnels, and railways, all across this nation. and we will put our people back to work. [ cheers ] >> so any infrastructure plan would have...

Vision of american infrastructure first, critical of billions going overseas, money that could be used to rebuild our failing roads, bridges, airports and trains. this is an area where democrats and republicans seem to have a common goal. the devil is in the detail as to where the spending will come from and how to prioritize which projects would come first. new york city, much of the northeast as well, needs a lot of attention with bridges deteriorating, antiquated highway systems, aging airpor...

Jon: all right, we will see where this investigation goes with schumer and mccain both on board. its going to get interesting. i want to talk to you two about obamacare, the enrollment figures hitting a new record, the administration reports 6.4 million people signed up for subsidized private coverage through healthcare.gov as of wednesday despite criticism of rising premiums and insurers and president-elect trumps vow to repeal obamacare. is obamacare alive and well and is it here to stay? >> p...

The left. you havent begun to see how the far left, bernie sanders, elizabeth warrens are not like pelosi and schumer. they will have to make deals on their side. then donald trump will end run around them and say, we have a deal. he and schumer will probably cut a side schumer wants to make de. on that note, find out why one professor is warning parents against the elf on the shelf. >> is that greg?

Categorically disavowed the intelligence that points to russia. i think that reinforces why an outside commission is needed to look at this. >> are you buoyed by the fact that mr. mccain and mr. schumer, two men who can be polls apart politically, seem to agree on this one thing and this, of course, means it is destined for the new presidency to start out? >> their calls for investigation helps. leadership calls from the top, and so i believe mitch mcconnell and speaker ryan need to join this ef...

Put it that way. >> lets bring in senior political reporter manu raju for you. you have senator chuck schumer and john mccain calling on a congressional probe into russian hacking but specifically what are they asking for? >> yeah, thats right, brook. actually mccain and schumer had seemed content that the existing committees in congress could handle the investigation into the russian hacks but not anymore. now the two senators along with lindsey graham and jack reed say there should be a stand ...

Especially if they had an effect on other election. there is no doubt they were interfering and it was a cyber attack. the question now is how much and what damage and what should the united states of america do? so far, we have been totally paralyzed. this is serious business. if they are able to harm the electoral process then they destroyed democracy which is based on free and fair elections. >> senator mccain talking about russia and other countries. not china. i misspoke. congressional lead...

Creation of a committee to investigate russian interference into the election. in a letter to mitch mcconnell, john mccain, schumer and reed and graham wrote we believe it is just fwieed about the extraordinary scope and scale of the cyber problem. democrats and republicans must work together and across the jurisdictional lines of the congress to address this unique challenge, end quote. the fbi and the cia say the hacking was not just to determine the u.s. electoral process, but to help preside...

Paralyzed. this is serious business. if they are able to harm the electoral process, then they destroy destroyed democracy which is based on free and fair elections. >> so far, republican congressional leaders have rejected mccain and schumers idea of select committee. the russian hacks can be investigated through existing committees. in russia, president vladimir putins spokesperson denying that russia was behind any cyber attacks and arguing the u.s. should prove the claim or shut up. the sp...

They go with it. >> if it was any other president-elect i would say thats a perfectly unacceptable thing. >> anybody. >> i think its another example dealing with someone unlike anything weve ever seen before. >> a relationship here that people are not focused on. people talk about trump and paul ryan. trump and mcconnell is key to watch. trump is actually closer to chuck schumer, democratic minority leader than the republican majority leader of the senate. you can see jared kushner making overtu...