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Guess i would say. what, if anything, could we make of the data points that we see here? >> look, that the american people see what is in front of them, which is a president that campaigned as a transition figure. campaigned as an antidote to trump and trumpism. and campaigned as somebody who would help to -- to fix washington. washington is far from fixed. but there have been some more bipartisan victories. theyre not huge. theyre not blockbuster, you know, society changing bills, but there are...

Lot of the house races we brought new candidates into the fold, a lot of younger people and a lot of veterans and what i picked up being out there is that people are ready for a change. you know, maybe in the house we were able to bring a lot of new people in the process. >> ready for a change. that leads me to another question, which is what now? you have control of congress and there will be a battle for leadership. you have said you will not vote for nancy pelosi. do you plan to stick by that...

The democratic party, these are people that dont like the republican party right now, the majority of them and want to vote, presumably, democratic. one caveat, as david pointed out, nancy pelosi numbers, very, very negative and shows that the republican have done a good job of making her the bad guy, the villain. it poses questions for the democratic party, assuming they do win back control of house of representatives. pelosi said she would serve as a transition figure but what exactly does tha...

Transition. what bloomberg news reports both before and after the election, erik prince met multiple times with trump staffers including michael flynn who would go on to be national security advisor to the new president before he was fired. he was reportedly tasked by the trump folks approaching people in the private sector about them possibly taking government jobs. he reportedly took multiple trips to the trump tower office and according to bloomberg news he used the back door to go in so he w...

You broke the story for "the new york times." have you learned more about this? this is a story on two fronts. its a story about possible russian connections. its also a story about the conflicts of interest -- the white house is saying, he was a key transition figure before -- but on the other hand, he is having meetings with russian banks as part of the kushner corporation and a russian bank with ties to the kremlin. >> thats under sanction. he meets with the russian ambassador. fine. he is wi...

Foreign relations, a the white house says? or was he doing his familys business? >> evan, thanks. a lot more to talk about. joining us is former white house communications director for president obama jen zaki. matt, you broke the story originally for the "new york times." a, have you learned more about this? this is a story on two fronts. its a story about possible russian connections. its also a story about the conflicts of interest -- the white house is saying, he was a key transition figure ...

Transition head governor chris christie from the transition team but also all these people who are fairly well respected in washington from -- who were affiliated with christie, kushner obviously hates christie because christie prosecuted his father back in 2005. none of this seems to me to have anything to do with how well donald trump can staff up an administration. is this good advice that he is listening to? >> well, i think there is kind of a knight of the long knives quality as this trump ...

Perspective to this. and that russian perspective is, and i was asking the foreign ministry spokesperson precisely about this issue just two days ago. they believe that the united states and the others in opposition to president bashar al assad are no longer saying simply assad must go, but now believe that he could be there as a sort of transition figure. so there is perhaps some wiggle room of understanding there. of course, how long is that transition, who replaces him, what is the process to...

Hand, making clear its on the right side of history. after that written statement last might, i think the pendulum has really swung in the other direction. the administration wants to align itself with the protesters. its totally frustrated with mubarak and also i should add suleiman, because the vice president came out and not only added to the uncertainty, a lot of officials looked at it as even digging in aligning himself with mubarak. this is somebody the administration seemed to have hoped ...

Is a nix fan. knicks fan. loves cheese burgers. probably spent more time in america than egypt. that may be one of the problems. jon: a lot of egyptians saying this guy is living in new york and in vienna. he doesnt live in egypt and know our problems. >> thats right. that may be one the things ultimately could cost him the presidency. right now what happened however because of his international status, because he is known as a man who favors the rule of law, because of his, sort of judicious ma...