President obamas executive actions on day onement Incoming White House press Secretary Sean Spicer will join us in just a few moments. Were just 18 days from the inauguration. Lets bring coverage with sun lynn serfaty. The president elect is back in new york after spending two weeks in florida. He heads into his broefing skeptical of the conclusions that russian was behind the hacks. Insisting he knows some secret information about this that people dont. Donald trump back in new york city gearing up for a busy week ahead. The president elect meeting with intelligence officials for a briefing about russian hacking just days after expressing doubt about the Intelligence Communitys conclusions about the kremlins interference in the u. S. Election. I just want them to be sure because its a very serious charge. If you look at the weapons of mass destruction. That was a disaster and they were wrong. Trump referencing intelligence failures, claiming to have inside information about the hacking that he says he will reveal this week. I also know things that other people dont know. So they cannot be sure of this situation. Trumps defiance pitting him against the Obama Administration and many of his fellow republicans. When you attack a country, its an act of war. If hes going to have any credibility as president , he needs to stop talking this way, stop ten grating the Intelligence Community. While speaking to reporters outside his new Years Eve Party at para lago, trump offered this advice. If you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier, the oldfashioned way. I tell you what, no computer is safe. Also on the president elects todo list, filling several open cabinet spots, including the secretaries of Veterans Affairs and agriculture and giving a deposition related to his legal battle with chef jose abrase. Trump is suing him after he pulled the plug on a restaurant at trumps new hotel in washington after the president elect repeatedly insulted merks cans during the campaign. As the president elect works to fill out his cabinet, democrats on capitol hill are threatening to drag out votes on trumps nominees claiming theyve been slow on providing information. Already three liberal groups are calling for a delay in senator Jeff Sessions confirmation hearing. The hearing was supposed to start next week. Sunlen, thanks so much. The white house announced president obama will deliver his farewell address in chicago next tuesday. This comes when the president is set to meet with democrats on capitol hill this wednesday to discuss efforts to save obamacare. Joe johns at the white house with more. Good morning, joe. Good morning. The Farewell Speech scheduled for january 10th, a Farewell Speech scheduled to be given in chicago, illinois, where president obama got his start in politics. The president issuing a statement saying his farewell address follows a tradition started by George Washington in 1796. Now, this is an opportunity for the outgoing president to thank his supporters for the journey of the last eight years. Also to talk about the accomplishments over that period including the Affordable Care act, clean energy and many other things. The president also trying to extend his legacy now, as you said, meeting with Congressional Democrats on wednesday to talk about preserving the Affordable Care act, even though Congressional Republicans and the incoming president have said they want to repeal it. The importance of this for president obama and the democrats very much underscored by the fact that the incoming press secretary has said that President Trump, when he becomes president , will very much try to do what he said hes going to do, and that will be to sign executive orders getting rid of a number of the regulations that president obama put into place. Back to you. Okay, joe. Lets get more information on this right now. We bring in sean spicer, the Incoming White House press secretary and Communications Director for president elect trump. Happy new year, sean. Happy new year, alisyn. Beyond obama care on day one, what specific regulation will he do away with . Thats to be announced. Every leas. Some withdrawing from tpp, instituting a lobbying ban saying if you want to serve in a trump administration, you need to serve this government, not yourself. Its going to have a fiveyear ban going forward. It also has a lifetime ban of people who want to serve in this administration and potentially lobby for a foreign government. There will be a lifetime ban on that. There will be a slew of other things that come forward. Part of this is well have a rollout when we talk about the agenda and how each of those regulation, both ones well repeal and put in place, help grow jobs and economic growth. Okay. Sean, lets talk about the alleged russian hacking of the dnc. Mr. Trump says he knows things that other people dont. What will he be revealing to the American Public . The president elect is privy to a lot of classified information, intelligence reports. He gets briefed by his National Security team on a daily basis. As president elect, he is privy to information that most people arent and hes able to understand what the intelligence is and draw conclusions from that. One thing thats missing from this discussion, is that this report is not final. The current president of the United States hasnt seen a phenyl report. The Intelligence Community is talking about wrapping it up later this week. For anyone to talk about whats in the report, its not final yet. The idea that were jumping to conclusions before we have a final report is frankly irresponsible. I said alleged hacking. I want to get back to my question. Is mr. Trump who said hes going to reveal something. He says he knows things. We accept obviously that he knows things we dont know. He is getting intel briefing. Is he going to reveal something from an intel briefing . Hes going to talk about his conclusions and where he thinks things stand. He can share with people his conclusions of the report and his understanding of the situation and make sure people understand that theres a lot of questions out there, alisyn. Look what happened april 2015, the chinese stole million of records on u. S. Current and former employees. Nothing happened with the white house, not a single statement. Now you have an instant where there was a political activity going on, and the question is, is the response of this administration, the sanctions they put on, proportional with the activities that have happened, and number two, is it a political response to russia or is it a diplomatic response . We havent seen these kind of sanctions in peacetime in our history. Sean, just to correct you, you say not a single statement was ever issued or made after the chinese hacking. I have the statement right here in my hands. This is from september 2015, president obama said, quote, we are preparing a number of measures that will indicate to the chinese that this is not just a matter of us being mildly upset, but something we will put significant strains on the bilateral relationships if not resolved. He went on the say were prepared to take counter veiling actions. There were statements. He did answer that. The activity occurred in april 2015. Six months later he made comments about it. Thats different than the activity theyre going through right now. Let me give you another piece of information. The president of the United States says in september, he, quote, told Vladimir Putin to, quote, knock it off. If he knew then there was activity going on, why didnt they act . Was it because of a political reason, that they thought Hillary Clinton was going the win and they thought why address this now. Its only until donald trump won that they seemed to want to react to russia. Sean, im more zbinterested what mr. Trump is going to do. Were not electing president obama again. You are representing mr. Trump. I am. If the conclusion is that, in fact, russia Vladimir Putin were behind the dnc hacks and tried to meddle in the election, what will mr. Trump do . He will meet with his team, take recommendations and make a conclusion based on that as to what a proportion response should and would be. What does that look like . How can you ask me what it looks like if we dont have a final report. Because you must be planning for that possibility. The idea that you should be talking a about the the conclusions or actions youre going to take on a conclusion that youre not final yet is unbelievably irresponsible. Wait a minus, sean. The report is not final. Hes not been briefed by the heads of the Intelligence Community. He has not been briefed about the heads of the Intelligence Community about whether or not they believe russia is behind the hacking . No. Theyre coming in later this week to do that. Neither has the president of the United States, frankly, because the report isnt final. The idea youre asking anybody what their reaction should be to a nonfinal report is unbelievable. Hold on, sean. No, no. Not hold on. The idea were asking people and making assumption on a report thats not final is unbelievable. So, in other words, Lindsey Graham and senator john mccain are also unbelievable and irresponsible . Theyre not the ones instituting the sanctions. Its the president of the United States. Theyre planning hearings about it. Theyve been briefed. Listen to what you just said. Theyre planning hearings. They are trying to get it right, listen to whats going on, get the intelligence and then come to a conclusion. Wait a minute. Sean thats the right way to go. They have stated they believe russia is behind this, thats why theyre holding the hearings. Understood. They believe something. Then theyre having a hearing to get more information and coming to a conclusion. Thats what we believe should happen. Understand all the information, get all of it, get briefed, make sure the report is final, get the Intelligence Community to brief usnd then come to a conclusion. You guys arent even having conversations about the possibility i know its frustrating for you that were doing it in a logical way. No, were going to get all the information, get briefed properly and make a decision. Were not going to put the cart before the horse. Then mr. Trump is going to speak with his team and decide something. Yes. Sean, i know that you want to talk this morning not about any of this, but you want to talk about the cabinet picks, so lets do this. There are still well put up who mr. Trump has chosen already. Ill tell you what posts have to be filled, secretary of Veterans Affairs, council of economic advisers, trade representative, secretary of agriculture. And director of National Intelligence. So. Since i know your team likes the big reveal we might be getting this week. Can you give us a reveal of who might be chosen next . Absolutely not, but i appreciate the effort. I think until mr. Trump makes the decision, there is no decision. Hes continuing to meet with folks this week. He met with a lot over this week, made a series of phone calls and inperson meetings to finalize those picks. Thats why hes taking his time. What i think is unfortunate, you saw last night a report from senator schumer about how theyre planning to oppose all these individuals. Just as a reminder for folks because i think a lot of folks probably feels like this is how it works. In 2008 when president obama came in, the Republicancontrolled Senate confirmed seven of his nominees before they took off and five the following week. So 13 members of president obamas team were in place within five days of him taking office, seven before he got sworn in. Thats the kind of way it should be looked at. Its sad senator schumer has chosen to politicize everything. Each of these individuals is an unbelievable agent of success and change to help this country move forward. The idea the democrats choice is to figure out from day one how to oppose all these individuals is frankly said. So the republicans didnt slow roll or dig in on anything, right, that president obama wanted . They wanted to avoid gridlock. Theres no question we have a philosophical and political difference of where this country should go. But we showed stlu our actions in 2008, if they nominate call feed people, they should be nominated. We confirmed 13 people of his cabinet within five days, seven before he took office. I dont know how you can prove that more than those kind of actions. What Chuck Schumer has said hat the democrats have said, if theyre not comfortable they put out a list. Why should they go along with it. Theyll do whatever they can. No, no. They put a list of ten people out saying were going to oppose these ten people, not on the basis of their qualification to hold office, not on their qualification to enact change or that they were the best person but because they thought they could score political points. And the republicans, again, before president obama ever got into office, you know famously said were going to oppose everies possible thing that we can. Isnt this sort of how the game is played in washington sadly . Again, just to correct the record. Mitch mcconnell, a year after president obama was in in a political setting, our goal is to make him a oneterm president. What republican doesnt want to make sure that we have oneterm people of the opposition party. Thats our job, to make sure we elect more republicans. That comment was said a year after he got in office. The idea that theyre now trying to obstruct this cabinet prior to him even taking office is quite contrary to anything thats even come close to that. I think your timeline might be wrong. I will check that, sean. I think it was right when president obama was elected. Either way, there will be more days for you and i to debate all this. Sean, thank you for joining us. Happy new year. Happy new year one and all. A lot to discuss. Sean spicer making claims about Vladimir Putin and russia, making claims about the nomination and confirmation process, about the executive actions President Trump will take on day one. Well talk more. Why pause a spontaneous moment . Cialis for daily use treats ed and the urinary symptoms of bph. 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He talked about the executive actions that President Trump will take the minute he gets in. Among them, executive actions perhaps on tpp and trade. You would support any action he takes to put that to bed forever . I think as it relates to trade we need to evaluate the policy put in place make sure sure for folks where jobs have been lost ka get those jobs back. He talked about a lobbying ban. What weve seen is conflict of interest emerge as relates to the trump foundation, charitable endeavors of his children as well as the continued entanglement of his business. Hes going to talk the talk. The big question is whether hell walk the walk. No question he promised to give a conference on december 15th talking about separating his business. He didnt do that. What efs getting at, there are areas, as a democratic member of congress, where you could see yourself agreeing with a President Trump. There should be areas if he plans on following up on some of his promises as it relates to doing things in the best interest of the middle class, those left behind for decades. Weve seen wage stagnation back to the early 1970s. What weve seen from president elect trump is his cabinet picks are inconsistent with his rhetoric on the campaign trail. His proposed labor secretary, for instance, opposes a minimum wage increase and over time pay. Proposed health and Human Services secretary wants to end medica medicare. Donald trump never supported a federal increase in the minimum wage. Hes always opposed obamacare and said he wanted to repeal or replace it. In that sense it is consistent. Since you brought up obamacare, lets talk about that. You are a democratic member of congress. Theres going to be action very, very soon on trying to repeal and replace obamacare. Repeal and replace has been a slogan peddled to the American People pour the last six years. The reality is, now that republicans have an opportunity to govern, the stakes are incredibly high. Lets think about what the Affordable Care act has been able to do, more than 20 million previously uninsured americans now have coverage as a res