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Russia was trying to interfere in the u.s. election. they wanted a bipartisan show of resistance to that. they wanted a bipartisan response to that. republicans including specifically senate republican leader mitch mcconnell responded by saying no, that they didnt want to say anything before the election. thats particularly troubling given that his wife went on to get a cabinet position in the new trump administration, get offered a cabinet position in the new trump administration once trump was...

Specifically senate republican leader mitch mcconnell responded by saying no, that they didnt want to say anything before the election. thats particularly troubling given that his wife went on to get a cabinet position in the new trump administration, get offered a cabinet position in the new trump administration once trump was elected. but as we are all absorbing that news tonight, we now have a response from the trump transition and its a doozy. ready? transition statement on claims of foreign...

Fair question. because if you didnt buy all of those things, youve got a pretty good explanation. it doesnt change the facts. >> i would just say, i didnt. >> exactly. >> youre assuming too much, phil. >> exactly. but if you did, now when i say, why did you do it? youve got to process that mentally. youre saying to yourself do i tell them or do i not tell them? and also it reinforces the concept that the transition statement created, which is megyn this effort didnt succeed. >> youre not getting...

Methodology that you need to use to get the truth is quite a bit counterintuitive. for example, when we want to get the truth from someone typically what people do is they start asking a bunch of questions. which tends to put the person on the defensive. and their defenses go up and it becomes a conflict, or adversarial. what we really need to be doing is rather than letting them lie every time they open their mouth we should be talking for them. >> that kauks them down? >> what were going to do...

Them. >> that kauks them down? >> what were going to do, the step number one is were going to make what we call a transition statement. meaning im going to stop them from talking. and im going to say something to them that really is indicating to them that whatever theyve done to try to hide the information that im interested in isnt working. so for example i might say, megyn, listen, ive got to tell you, ive got some problems with what you were saying about our credit card statement. >> and wha...

Presumptive question, like tell us what you did with it. what did you really do with the credit card? >> exactly. so often what people do after they go through this monologue, is theyll say now megyn, did you really buy all of those things that are on the credit card statement? >> yes, i did. >> versus what we should be saying is megyn let me ask you, why did you buy all of those things? >> youre presuming that i did it. >> exactly. >> that works? >> it works very well. and whats really interest...

Fair question. because if you didnt buy all of those things, youve got a pretty good explanation. it doesnt change the facts. >> i would just say, i didnt. >> exactly. >> youre assuming too much, phil. >> exactly. but if you did, now when i say, why did you do it? youve got to process that mentally. youre saying to yourself do i tell them or do i not tell them? and also it reinforces the concept that the transition statement created, which is megyn this effort didnt succeed. >> youre not getting...

Is he going to be trouble for the trump administration? >> honestly, i think people will be surprised on this and president trump will follow through as same pattern. we have a relatively long transition period between the election and the inauguration. chris: are you concerned by some of the statements? >> i think we are going to get some things done during the transition statement and i think in -- in this kind of context having the two leaders get together may produce surprising results. chri...

Saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. remember, in the run-up to the iraq war, everything that happened there. of course, the weapons of mass destruction were not even found. its not just the transition statement it is the president-elect himself pushing back on this. listen to what he told fox news over the weekend. >> i think its ridiculous. i think its just another excuse. i dont believe it. they have no idea if its russia or china or somebody. it could be somebody sitting in a bed ...

Communications office but not just another announcement of a new addition to the trump administration. it said this. transition statement on claims of foreign interference on u.s. elections, these are the same people that said saddam hussein had weapon of mass destruction. the election ended a long time in one of the biggest electoral college victories in history and now time to move on. and make america great again. in response to published accounts that the cia concluded that russia did indeed...