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Discussion of the logan act, and thats something that might come down the line in terms of a government official talking to another government doing business with another government, its a little murky during a transition period, but credibility inside this house as the national security advisor i think is the biggest question hanging over him tonight. >> a big question, thanks very much. certainly a lot to talk about. joining me tonight, chief political analyst gloria borger, kirsten powers, cn...

Travel ban effecting refugees and citizens in seven muslim majority countries. >> now on saturday president donald trump tacked the federal judge who temporarily put a halt to that ban one of several tweets said, the judge opens up our country to potential terrorists and others that do interests at heart. ave our best bad people are very happy. >> mr. trump says his order is to protect the u.s. from terrorism and as you heard there, bad people. its been found as we been saying here on the progra...

Heads of everybody, but more so the christians and i thought it was very, very unfair. so we are going to help them. >> and drawing again on your experience in the region, your reaction to that? >> reporter: well, he makes these sometimes but does he back them up with facts, with statistics? it appears that in fact, the number of christian refugees let into the united states is proportional to the population of christians in places like syria and iraq where the population, the christian populati...

Political analyst abby phillip, cnn political analyst alex burns, counterterrorism analyst and former cia official phillip mudd, and intelligence security analyst and former cia operative bob baer. abby, ill start with you, and the dust-up between congressman lewis, who were waiting to hear from right now, and the president-elect donald trump. the president-elect issued these tweets, hes very negative about the civil rights icon. one question that elijah cummings, congressman from maryland, pose...

Mentally stable. now, an arraignment is being held in about an hour where santiago is facing three counts of -- three federal charges, which all are eligible for the death penalty. and let me correct myself, that arraignment is being held at 11:00 today, carol. >> 11:00 eastern time, rachel, thanks so much. the case is raising questions over whether law enforcement ignored warning signs and whether further action could have prevented it. lets talk about that. matthew morris is a cnn law enforcem...

For these nomination committee hearings, confirmation hearings coming up. so the big thing to watch on capitol hill, if democrats are going to delay these confirmation hearings, carol and how long. >> all right, sunlen serfaty, live from washington, thank you. patrick healy is it a "new york times" editor, aaron lewis, and bob baer, now a cnn intelligence and security analyst, good morning to all of you. mr. trump is still unwilling to blame russia for the hacking, he says he knows things others...

Happens then? are these the kind of steps that a president trump could reverse? >> absolutely. this is a presidential action so president trump can undo all of this with the stroke of a pen. the president elect has already said he doesnt really believe that the russians were behind these hacks. but hell have to contend with a few hurdles, jim. you know before president obama leaves office were expecting to see a report in the coming weeks that will provide more detable about what the intelligenc...

Only driving a small car. didnt have that much momentum and nobody was killed but this is something u.s. officials are also going to have to be concerned about in the days and weeks ahead particularly over this holiday period on both sides of the atlantic with intelligence suggesting that isis and other terrorist groups really want to get an attack through in the holiday period when people are gathering outside in public because they realize that that can be particularly psychologically traumati...

Trying to orchestrate one of these color revolutions to overthrow his regime. thats possibly at the root of her concern, its been floated a lot before, and she believes this is why she was targeted in this way by the kremlin. >> matthew chance reporting from russia. thank you. my next guests have been in the virtual trenches of cyber espionage and warfare. bob bair, former fbi agent and now cnn intelligence security analyst. david kennedy, former nsa intelligence analyst and cyber security con...

Democratic party officials, that russian hackers also hacked gop house members, gop party organizations, gop thought leaders, but they didnt release that information or at least not most of it and because they did release on almost a daily basis information targeting the democratic party, but not information they gleaned targeting the republican party, thats adding to the intelligence communitys confidence that the intention was to help trump and weaken hillary clinton. >> all right. jim, i appr...