Transcripts For CNNW CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin 201701

CNNW CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin January 2, 2017

Interference are now you had at of the country. Listen to that trump said at his new years celebration. Just want them to be sure. Because it is a pretty serious charge. Want them to be sure. If you look at the weapons of mass destruction that was a disaster and they were wrong. I want them to be sure. I think its unfair if they dont know. And i know a lot about hacking and hacking is a very hard thing to prove. So it could be somebody else. And i also know things that other people dont know. And so they cannot be sure of the situation. What do you know that other people dont know. You will find out on tuesday or wednesday. Let me turn to cnns Jessica Schneider outside trump tower. Any of trumps team giving more details on what the president elect might reveal . Reporter you know, as were seeing, the president elect himself being a bit cryptic, refusing to say exactly what insider intelligence information he actually has, but some of his team is speaking out. In fact, Incoming White House press Secretary Sean Spicer is tempering expectations just a little bit about what the president elect might actually make public. Take a listen. As president elect he is privy to information most people arent. And he is able to understand what the intelligence is in draw conclusions from that. One thing i think is mig missing from the discussion, this report everyone is talking about is not final. The current president of the made to hasnt seen final report. The Intelligence Community is talking about wrapping it up late they are week. For anybody to be talking about whats in the report, its a not final yesterday. I think the idea that we are jumping to conclusions before we have a time report is frankly irresponsible. Spicer also stressing that the president elect will not be revealing any classified information. Instead he will just be revealing some of his conclusions after he meets with intelligence officials, his take on what he has learned. Of course donald trump continues to be skeptical and cast doubt on u. S. Intelligence conclusions that russians were in fact responsible for this hacking during the election season. Lets pivot now to the cake antsies still left in trumps cabinet. What announcements are we awaiting in perhaps the coming days . Reporter still waiting to hear about two key ab net positions, secretaries of agriculture as well as Veterans Affairs. Infers a little bit of a withdrawal from the pool of names for the secretary of Veterans Affairs this weekend when the Cleveland Clinic ceo and president dr. Tobiy cosgrove withdrew his name amount of spokesman for the clinic says while the doctor was extremely interested in this position there are still you a few highprofile positions a the clinic that the doctor wants to see through. For agriculture secretary, one of the leading contenders is sonny purdue, the former georgia governor. A lot of positions still to be filled, including u. S. Trade representative as well as solicitor general. The name at the forefront is the husband of skelly ann conway, george conway. Jessica schneider reporting. Thank you so much. Much to discuss. With me david call onand juana summers. David, senators believe the russians are behind the hacking during the president ial election cycle. What information is donald trump getting that 99 out of 100 senators are not . Listen, donald trump is getting Intelligence Briefings. We know he doesnt take a dailey president ial brief right now, but he is getting Intelligence Briefings. I certainly hope that he and president obama have information that not everybody else has to help them develop policy. So im sure he does know things in detail that perhaps others dont. But you are right, your overall point is that he is he is on bit of an island. Which is why i think when he comes out in the next day or two if he does to reveal sort of his take on this, it sounds to me that he may not rule out that russia was involved. It sounds to me he is not convinced there is 100 certainty behind and it that is why he is sort of resistance to do the full embrace of what the intelligence communities that put for the. And he continues to say that the Intel Community dups always get it right. He uses the weapons of mass destruction and the iraq war as evidence of that. The Intelligence Briefings that trump has his ear to and the information that is influencing his viewpoint on this issue, what can trump perhaps reveal in do you think he is going to follow through on his promise . Do you think we will learn something new . Thats the question. This feels familiar to when president elect was campaigning. He would build something up as a big revelation and then it turns out its not as beg as he pumped it out. Of course its appropriate to be skeptical of findings such as this one such as weapons of mass detricks as the president elect alluded to in the comments you played. I think just what he will say and whether or not there is any meat on the bones still remains to be seen. You mentioned this idea of this island. Why . Why would you put himself out there against the current white house, the intel economy, even members of his own party, the republican leadership, what is that about . Donald trump has proven himself to be a man who blazes his own path and doesnt necessarily conform to sort of the teams that we are used to seeing here in Washington Square off against each other. I think what will be most revealing, if indeed donald trump has come out and speak about this at length, not just in a tweet, is Donald Trumps thinking about the state of u. S. Sln russian relations about vladimir putin. If we could hear the president elect delve into his thoughts on this, where he thinks the administration is going under a Trump Administration that could me to be quite reveal tory because we havent heard that at length yet. I want to play Something Else from the new Years Eve Party that we heard from him. This time about computers. Listen. Its very important. If you have something really important, quite it out and have it delivered by courier, the oldfashioned way. I tell you what, no computer is safe. I dont care what they say. No computer is safe. We are talking about using couriers. I mean he is talking about long ago methods, right, to deliver information. Its the age of technology but weve also learned that he doesnt like to use email, he doesnt surf the webb. He gets most of his dailey news reports from physical newspapers, magazines and so forth. Juana, do you think his lowtech ways would affect how things operate around the white house . I think it could. It mice influence what cyber crimes laws he might pass. When it comes to Internet Freedom and security, i think this is a different reflect were what weve seep from president obama and the obama white houses embrace of technology and their work in technology policy. Interesting to see what he will do on that front. David, that being said, can he avoid technology . We know how much he loves twitter. That wouldnt exist without embracing some technology. So he clearly understands its Mass Communication appeal, but i do think would have we got real insugt into Donald Trumps thinking about the technology age. As you called it, anna. In that he doesnt think it is necessarily all a good thing. And he certainly doesnt seem to think it is at all a fully secure thing if you dont want others to see what you are writing about or emailing about. I want to also talk about this cabinet and the fact that we only have a couple of major positions left to fill, veteran affairs, agriculture secretary. Still no latinos. Are you surprised, juana . Im not, frankly. I think that donald trump has obviously taken strides to reach out and hispanics and latinos but if you look at the people that have surrounded him throughout the course of his campaign, and now as weve moved into the transition period, those are largely white men. Ben carson, elaine chou exceptions. But from the universe that donald trump surrounds himself with thats not surprising revelation. Given what he said about latinos, too, a group he has targeted we also have not heard david of him meeting with any major leaders of hispanic organizations. Should people be reading into that . Or do you think its just a coincidence . I think he has done some outreach to some organizations since the election. But obviously that has not been something he has put front and center or really shining a spotlight on. Inc. I dont think its all that surprising just given i dont think its all that surprising given what his rhetoric was on issues near and dear in the latino community. We will still have more appointments to go and frankly i think it is far more important for us to assess his policy prescriptions Going Forward than it is sort of the cosmetics of appointments or meetings. Lets look at what hes proposing once he becomes president. All right. Before i let you go, we just got a tweet, again, from the president elect. This time about cnns new book, unprecedented. He actually plugged the book. He did seem to take issue with one thing. Heres what he writes. Cnn just released a book called unprecedented which explores the 2016 race and victory. Hope it does well but used worst cover photo of me. Your reaction, david . Im really thankful that he just informed all of his twitter followers about the book unprecedented. It is a fantastic book. If you look right there, you see the new cover art on that book. The book obviously was written throughout the election. I dont know that he is refer to that cover right there, i imagine that would meet with his approval. Whats wrong with the picture, juana . I think it is a great image. As david said i guess we got free publicity from the president elect. Thank you for joining me. Still ahead, not leaving quietly, president obama defending his legacy on twitter as he propose to deliver a final speech from his hometown, chicago. Can he protect his signature legislation, obama care, and with millions of americans currently signed up, do republicans have a plan to replace it. Also, chicago violence. The numbers are staggering. It is the worst violence this city has seen in two decades. What president elect trump just proposed. And was she sabotaged in front of millions of viewers . Well talk to someone who says everyone should just leave mariah carey alone. Back in a moment. Testinhuh . 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Right now a massive manhunt is underway to find the killer. Eight people have been detained facing questions about their possible role. Here in this video you can see people trying to take cover as the shooting started. One american is among them. He was wounded. He says he played dead to survive. I got shot in the leg, man. These crazy people came in shooting everything. How many i dont know, i saw one person. They are shooting. Im hiding. So cnns ian lee is live in istanbul now. Ian, what are police saying . Whats the latest in the search for the shooter . Reporter anna, right now as you said there is this nationwide manhunt over hundreds of officers were told are participating, looking for this man. Can be enemy number one at this hour. We also heard from the deputy Prime Minister saying that those eight people detained, they are being interrogated to try to find out if they have any link to this deadly attack. The police also saying they have a picture of him. They have his fingerprints. So they are going to use that information trying not only to find him but try to figure out if there was anyone helping him and ultimately figure out who was behind it. Now, we have isis claiming responsibility although we cannot independently verify it. They are saying they carried out this attack for two reasons. One, to attack a club that was celebrating a christian holiday, new years, although most of the People Killed and injured from muslims. And also because of turkeys role in neighboring syria. Tonight over 46 hours since this attack happened, this man is still very much on the run. Police looking for him. 39 People Killed. I know were learning more about these victims. Tell us. Reporter yeah. And weve been talking to some of the family members as well. And they are just in complete shock and loss about how this could happen. Something that you see time after time after attacks like this. A lot of them asking about security, why wasnt security stepped up. Even though the night of the attack there was a heavy security presence across istanbul. We encountered it numerous times. There was a Police Station nearby. There was a Security Guard out front. As we heard from that american this gunman was able to shoot his way inside, kill 39 people, injured dozens more. Well that american also was released today. This is what he had to say. I dont want to talk about what happened inside the club, but you know i want to say, you know, this is a very good country, and its so unfortunate that this is happening to you guys. And i really feel for everybody here. For me, i wake up in the united states, i eat breakfast. You guys wake up and have to think of this. Its so sad. And i really wish everybody here the best. Ive only met very good people. Reporter anna, the thing to stuck out to me the most was him saying that you have to wake up to this, this being something that turks have seen over and over again, attacks not only by isis but by kurdish militants, the pkk, something turksy struggling to try to stop. Ian lee, thanks for your reporting for bringing us up to speed on the man hundred and the situation in turkey. Lets talk more about the attack and turkeys larger role in the middle east with Lieutenant General mark hurtling, the former Army Commander general in europe. Thoips. Happy to be here. First question, as we heard ian lee mention, they are seeing this as a wakeup call. Why now . Whys that turkey become such a target for terrorists . We have been watching this. From my time in europe and in my time in narn iraq, turkey has been especially istanbul and areas around there has been jihadi central. You talk about a combination of geography, the several country kilometers of border between turkey and syria and iraq that has been a flowing point for all the terrorists going into those two countries for the last decade plus. You are talking about border security. It was not real good until within the last year. You are talking about a government that really blindly looked the other way at times when terrorists were transgressing the border. Now what you are seeing is a reaction to politics. Not only the politics of the region, where isis is being defeated in both iraq and syria, and they are not flowing as many jihadis into those countries, and they are somewhat staying in southern turkey. And at the same time you are seeing a greater amount of aggression by mr. Ergodan in terms of attempting to put down not only isis and counter what he used to do, asking for the dismissal of assad, but partnering with russia, and increasing his fight against the pkk. So all of those things have developed a cauldron which i think we are going to see not only over the last couple of months weve seen multiple attacks in turkey as a result of all of this, but i think unfortunately they are in for a very tough year. Now the deputy Prime Minister said just this morning he belief this is attack is maybe a result of the success of operations euphrates shield, more specifically turkeys military operation against isis and the pkk the two terrorist networks. This speaks to motive. Does this make sense to you . Or do you think its more than a retaliate toury effect . I think it is a combination of the success of euphrates shields because the turks prevented jihadis from transiting their bore doer over the last year. More of them are staying in turk ear and cant get to raqqah or mosul because those places are being bombed pretty extensively, so the jihadis are staying in southern turkey. I think a combination of that, and again the political aspect of mr. Ergodan and some of the thing he is doing with continued aggression against isis and the pkk they have now seen him and his government as a target. So thats why i think we are going to see more attacks in turkey. Turkey is in a tough position given their relationship to syria and their proximity to iraq. How might all this affect turkeys position or its role in the region . I mean, does it shake what little stable there might be left . Im not sure thats going to happen. I think the collusion between turkey and russian and iran is going to be somewhat problematic as we go into the peace taugs. You are also seeing turkey, which is a nato member, colluding with russia, which has been seen by many in nato as not being real helpful to some of the governments and policies within nato proper. You are seeing turkey somewhat as a wild card now dealing with russia in a peace process, countering assad and syria, somewhat going on it on its own launching forces across the border as they have done fighting against not only the terrorists that were fighting assad but also the kurdish Freedom Fighters and doing all of this while not coordinating much with the kpuns that they have often been considered allied with. All of nato and all of

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