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Pushed out the door at 12:01 tomorrow afternoon as they were told a couple of weeks ago, perry said today i hope not. fingers crossed, i dont want that to happen. he said it is in the president elects office now. it is noon tomorrow. those are a couple of key security posts for which the president elect is yet to appoint or nominate people and we dont know if come noon tomorrow anybody will be in those jobs at all. joining us is christopher lu. he served as the executive director of the obama-bi...

Those jobs at all. joining us is christopher lu. he served as the executive director of the obama-biden transition when the obama-biden team first arrived in washington. good to have you with us tonight. thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> i have been trying to understand what is normal in a transition period and whether some of the things we are hearing on the surface level are disturbing or worrying, especially in national security whether they are unusual. let me ask you g...

People, you wont be able to make those decisions. so look, transition period is extremely busy. hes putting together a cabinet. he does have a lot going on. and we frankly dont know exactly how much intelligence hes been receiving. so lets give him the benefit of the doubt and say other things have gone on. >> right. >> i do think im of two minds about his skepticism about the intelligence. i would say as a journalist and someone who, like a lot of us, were burned by the bush administration and ...

Really need to give donald trump an oral history of american foreign policy, how we got there. is it something that donald trump would likely, give him the benefit of the doubt here. would he be more interested in getting? is that the way to approach it since it is hard to come in the middle of the game? >> donald trump doesnt seem interested in detail of neg. we dont know thats the case. thats what we are hearing from a lot of sources. i would be careful about trying to guide the intelligence b...

>> i hope, my first few days of going through the trauma of the election, election where hillary clinton got 2 million more votes than he did. i understand the electoral system. a system where she lost four states by less than 100,000 votes combined. took me a while to accept that 24 hours after the election, but then i was concerned, is the world going to be destroyed? i mean, hes talked openly about getting rid of the iran nuclear agreement, getting rid of our nato allies or making them pay mo...

I mean, hes talked openly about getting rid of the iran nuclear agreement, getting rid of our nato allies or making them pay more. the same with japan, i understand hes meeting with soon. without any preparation whatsoever. so i spent a day or two worrying, is the world going to be blown up? hes in bed with the russians. russia just now have a deal, i learned today, with nicaragua, sent 50 tanks to nicaragua, next door to costa rica who doesnt even have an army. ive been concentrating, maybe not...

Countries acquiring nuclear weapons, joining hands with russia and syria. here to talk about it is fareed zakaria. it is interesting, as jim acosta was reporting on and the "new york times," as well, this idea that some are having a hard time figuring out who to talk to to get to donald trump. there was talk of a cell phone somebody had on the golf course. its an odd situation. >> its unconventional, like everything hes done. i dont think that one should make too much of the process issue. clear...

A clear transition structure in place. that will work itself out. i think what is more worrying to the people ive been talking to abroad, what would he stand for? you have this very odd situation where the president of the free world, has been electricity. the people who seem ecstatic are bashar al assad in syria who says, trump will be our ally. the hungarian president. the government in poland which has been trying on shut down or close media and the judiciary. they made a statement saying may...

The documents are heavily redacted and dont appear to shed new light on the case. lets turn to business headlines, where reports are surfacing russia is in the process of ridding its government offices of microsoft software. this comes as microsoft accuses russian hackers of exploiting a recently discovered windows security flaw. cnbcs jeff cutmore joins us from london. this is kind of a hard thing to do, to stop using microsoft software. its sort of the way everybody in the world does busines...

In a campaign conference call that quote, theres going to be noise and distractions over the course of the final days of this campaign, we knew that was going to happen. it always does. but you just have to be not distracted and fight through it. so lets talk about the significance of this message with president obamas former speech writer, david. welcome, david. >> thanks carol, great to be here. >> nice to have you here. is it possible for voters just like not pay attention to the noise? >> we...