Indianapolis Union President chuck jones vowing to cancel boeings order for a new air force one and taking aim at private citizens have drawn criticism while the polls show most americans think there trump tweets too much. Our question for truers today, should donald trump stop weeting . Call the numbers at the bottom 6 your screen. Treeth us. And just this morning as we said, the senate had a marathon session that just ended this morning and also was an Early Morning for the president elect who has taken to his twitter account already amid reports he will remain executive browser for the Apprentice Television show during his tenure as president. He tweeted reports by cnn, ill be working on the apprentice during my presidency even parttime are ridiculous and untrue. Fake news. The president elect tweeted just early this morning. Hes referring to reports as the New York Times reports today that starting next month mr. Trumps most visible business interest will be beamed directly into millions of americans living rooms. The Celebrity Apprentice is back and the president elect is coming with it. This week before inauguration day, mr. Trump will resume his role as an executive producer of the members reality show, an unlikely side project for commander in chief and one poised to bring him hundreds of thousands of dollars in income. The president elect responding to those reports with a couple of tweets this morning. He also tweeted a bit about former new york city mayor rue giuliani who pulled himself out of consideration for a cabinet post, among the tweets he said this morning, according to fox news, the former new york city mayor has removed his name from consideration for the post the Transition Team announced friday. Giuliani who currently is a vice chairman on the Transitional Team has been rumored to be in consideration for secretary of state, former mayor giuliani told fox news that that was the only position he was interested in and so he will go back to his current position at a law. Lets hear from linda. Inda calling in from mississippi on our democratic line. Do you think the president elect should stop tweeting . Katie he should and should be taking his security briefing. He is the president elect and he is strutting around like a dictator, like a showman. Something doing constructive, too a at 3 00 in the morning tweeting. And i think mike pence will be he real president. He has positioned himself to be the showman. Host are you opposed to any president elect using twitter at all or are you concerned about the kind of messages president elect trump has been tweeting . Caller the kind of messaging. Hes punching down. You cant speak anything against him. He has the bully pulpit and hes the president of all america, not just ones who elected him. He seems not to understand that. And seems not to care. Host well take a break from the twitter conversation to get more conversation information about the stopgap to avert a government shutdown. Joining us is alex bolten, a reporter from the hill who has been covering this. Good morning, alex. Alex good morning. Host your story for this morning about the aversion of the government shutdown, you wrote the Senate Passed legislation to fund the federal government until april 28 avoiding a shutdown by less than an hour. The measure passed 6336 after a group of disgruntled democrats backed away from their threats to block or delay the funding measure because of a dispute over Health Care Benefits for retired minors. Alex, tell us a little bit more about how this vote ultimately went down and what was the holdup . Alex well, it finally passed 6336, less than an hour before the midnight deadline when congress was facing a shutdown and for a while it looked like there might be a temporary shutdown because joe mention, the democrat from west virginia, up for reelection in 2016 in a state trump won with nearly 70 of the vote, he made a stand on this bill to fight for extending health had benefits for retired minors for a full year. This legislation would extend those expiring benefits for four months and thats the length of the c. R. , of the stopgap and goes until the end of april and expired miners Health Benefits would have been extended that long as well. No one thought it was such a big deal. Of course Mitch Mcconnell, hes from kentucky and thats bigtime coal country and all of a sudden mansion and some other democrats who faced reelection in 2018 in these pro trump states, the others being Sherrod Brown of ohio, bob casey of pennsylvania, claire mccass kell of missouri, they all rallied around mansion and said this bill is unacceptable and waged a vigorous lobbying campaign directed at their colleagues to get them to block this bill. But the problem is it the bill doesnt pass by midnight, there would have been a government shutdown, at least temporarily. In the t caused panic capital and in the end mansion could not convince his democratic allies to go with him and did not have the 41 votes to block it and force republicans to renegotiate it, so rather than raise procedural objections he could have done to delay this bill until possibly today or sunday, he relented and it made it through just in the nick of time, just by the skin of its teeth ahead of the deadline. Host tell us whats in this bill among other things, there is funding for the flint water crisis, correct . Alex yes, there is funding for the flint water crisis. Its 170 million for communities that need an overhaul of the infrastructure, Drinking Water became a National Scandal earlier this year when it was discovered that the water in flint was badly tainted by led. Water from the flint river had been pumped in the city and rroded the pipes and created a cropings and lead painting and led to a huge fight between the democrats and republicans over how much money to allocate and when to do it. Right before the end of the year it finally got done. Its 170 million, and not just variety of for a communities affected by brad Drinking Water. Host and the 21st century cures act that also went through is part of this, alex . Alex the funding for the bill is included in the legislation. Its 872 million and would boost medical research, drug approval and efforts to fight drug abuse and includes 20 million for the food and drug innovation account and would fund joe bidens cancer moon shot, the initiative hes haunchoed since the death of his son bo to eliminate cancer as we know it. This is to boost the effort to find a cure for cancer and why its called moon shot. The 21st century cures act was also on the hill and Elizabeth Warren of massachusetts felt it included give aways to pharmaceutical companies but had the strong support of biden and Many Democrats and it passed and the funding for it was included in this stopgap that passed last night. Host ok. Alex bolton, reporter for the hill. I hope youre able to get some rest since the senate just wrapped up in the past hour. Thanks for joining us. Alex thank you. Host back to the discussion of the president elect and his tweeting habits. According to a study by Morning Consult and politico, most americans think he spends too much time on the social media platforms and 56 of respondents polled last week said the republican president in waiting uses twitter, quote, too much, compared with 16 who says he uses it about the right amount and 5 who said he doesnt use it enough. Cheryl is calling in from wallederboro main from our republican line. What do you think, should the president elect stop tweeting . Caller no, not at all. I think he used social media absolutely brilliantly to connect with the American People and the reason that he won was because he was able to eak the death grip the trump media had on messages getting out and did it by going directly to the American People. If he continues to use social media and post videos and make announcements via his personal facebook post, all the more power to him. That absolutely is what is making the difference for him. Host do you think its helpful when the president elect, as opposed to announcing policies on twitter and things like that when he actually targets individuals and criticizes individuals caller it depends, when you look at social media and the way its woven into the fabric of our country, attacks are made and people are making statements and doing things via social media and almost like its replaced the verbal confrontations and things weve had from the past. I dont think he wants to make attacks on twither but defends himself on twitter and what i see all the time. There are a lot of people who cowardly or whatever way try to goat people via social media. Hes a master of social media and simply uses it correctly to make sure his message gets out there in a nondiluted way. Host ok. Lets look what the president elect said in a 60 minutes interview where he talk about a more restrained approach to twitter once in the oval office. Youre going to be tweeting and whatever youre upset about, just put out there when youre president . Mr. Trump its a modern form of communication between facebook and twitter and i guess instagram, i have 28 million people. So you are going to keep it up . Mr. Trump its a great form of communication. Do i say ill give it up entirely and throw it out . I take tremendous form im picking up i think i picked up yesterday 100,000 people. Im not saying i love it. But it does get the word out. When you give me a bad story or inaccurate story or when somebody other than you and cbs r network, of course would never do a thing like that, would they . I have a method of fighting back. Youll do that as president . Mr. Trump ill be very restrained if i do it at all. I find it tremendous. Its a modern form of communication. There should be nothing to be ashamed of, its where its at. I do believe is the fact that i have such power in terms of numbers with facebook, twitter, instagram, etc. , i think it helped me win all of these races where theyre spending much more money than i spent. I spent a lot of my money and i won. I think social media has more power than the money they spent and to a certain extent i proved it. Host joe is calling from the republican line from pennsylvania. What do you think, joe . Do you think the president elect should stop tweeting . Caller no, i dont. I agree with the last two callers. To the way its communication and broadband and all over the world. He has a way of communicating to the people indirectly. Theres no sensorship of any ind. When it comes to the point in time hes in the seat, and the job is to perform his duties as such, thats a tough call because hes going to have a of which f going on hes not used to and i believe hell blend right in, im sure of that. Host let me ask you this, do you believe once hes in the white house should other people perhaps vet the tweets before they go out . Just to make sure what a president says can affect the stock market and affect a relationship with adversaries, do you think there should be some monitoring of his tweets . Caller well, thats a fine line and where youre in a gray area. Going to be somehow or another, with him the presidency and other people right next to him anded legalities of such. Its a fine line. What he said a minute ago and you had him on 60 minutes i believe it was, said something at that point that he would limit it but to that extent its still a gray matter, and depends whats going on, the topics and to what extent. Im sure its not going to be full time or any amount of time he used on them in the ampaign. Im sure that its going to be the amount of such wont be near as much once hes in the presidency doing that job. Host in other headlines today, the Washington Post reports according to the c. I. A. , russia favored trump in the election in its secret assessment of hacking effort there. The c. I. A. Has concluded in a secret assessment russia intervened in the 2016 election to help donald trump win the presidency to undermine confidence in the u. S. Electoral system according to officials briefed on the matter. Intelligence agencies identified individuals with connections to the russian government who provided wikileaks thousands of hacked e males from the Democratic National committee including Hillary ClintonsCampaign Chairman according to u. S. Officials. Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the Intelligence Community as part of a wider russian operation to boost trump and urt clintons chances. A little more about the probe undergoing in the role of russia in the election, and nora thoma is calling in from glen burnie, maryland, on the independent line. Do you think donald trump should stop tweeting . Caller he can keep tweeting. It might backfire when Something Like 9 11 happens when we were all waiting for george w. s tweets and then he had to tweet something really angry to respond. He can keep tweeting. We as American People need an infrastructure change in how we receive media, besides you guys at cspan, i appreciate what you do, it seems everybody has a bias and narrative and incentive to do this and youre talking about the russian hacking and then switch topics to the Celebrity Apprentice. Its just kind of when were talking about a big news story like a conflict of interest, suddenly we talk about flag burning. I can do the same thing trump does, we could there could be Something Like russia has a billion dollar donation to trump towers and heres a tweet four hours later donald trump ants to lower the age of lethal injections for anybody thats homosexual and everybody starts freaking out about that. Its a magic act. We have to get smarter. Host let me ask you this, do you expect, once he said, once hes in the white house he will take a more restrained approach to the use of twitter or do you think hes going to continue as es doing now . Caller of course hes going to continue as hes doing now. She framed that question where the only popular thing he could say is what he said. You know, hes got to finish his sentence. Hes like the guy that says once there was a man from nantucket and he has to finish the sentence, doesnt matter what sentence it is. Host ok. Joe calling in from sarasota, florida, on our democratic line. Do you think the president elect should stop tweeting . Caller absolutely. I think his wife needs to hide his smart cell phone and needs to put some sleeping pills in his drink so donald trump can be sleeping at 3 00 a. M. Host what about his tweeting . What is it about his tweeting that bothers you, joe . Caller imagine him tweeting with the dictator of north korea. Just imagine. They will be fighting like kids. His is not a joke. I understand if hes a teenager but hes 70 years old. E needs to stop lying. This is not a joke and will be tweeting with other countries like north korea. Just imagine whats going to happen. You just mentioned earlier, he can get us into trouble with many things. Like you said, what you call it , you just said earlier, and i agree with you. Thank you, bye. Ost republicans call 202 7488001. Democrats caution 2027488000 and independents call 2027488002 as well as you yourself can tweet through c janwj. Let us know your thoughts. Dawn is calling from boise, idaho on our republican line. Good morning to you, don. Caller hello. I believe donald trump should stop tweeting. For a world leader to be calling Elizabeth Warren pocahontas at 3 00 in the morning is absolutely ridiculous. I believe he needs a new social dia platform and is anal thing comation an almagomation. Host ok. Sharon, do you believe the president elect should stop tweeting . Caller no, i think its fine. But he is our world leader think its fine for him to tweet. Host are you concerned about the fact when the president says something and when he speaks it can affect the stock market and it can affect it can have a wide ranging affect. You believe there should be monitoring of his tweets or a gateway of what he thinks and it immediately going out to the world . No, i dont. Is ink that everybody taking it too far. The people have spoken. We voted the man in and, you know, we trust that hes going for us. Ng a great job our world has went down and hes going to try to make America Great again. Im sick and tired of the vets g over our have not been taken care of and people are living on food stamps, our country is not the pick nd its time that we up and do what we need to do to take care of our children. Our kids these days are going to be taking over the world. And they have nothing these days to look forward to, no job, nothing. So were waiting and wanting make trump to be able to us great again where our kids can be taken care of. Thats what i worry about. Host the New York Times asks whether donald trump is a cyberbully in chief in a story about his tweets against the Carrier Union boss in indianapolis. It says 30 years as a union boss in indiana have given chuck jones a thick skin but threats to shoot him or burn his house down did not quite prepare him for becoming the target of a verbal takedown by the next president of the United States. In what one republican strategist described as cyberbullying, president elect donald jmple trump derided mr. Jones on twitter accusing him of doing, quote, a terrible job representing workers and blaming him for the decisions by companies that ship american jobs overseas. In a december 7 tweet, president elect trump said chuck jones who was president of united steelwork hers 1999 has done a terrible job representing workers, no wonder companies flee the country. Jamie is calling in from tampa, florida, on our democratic line. Jamie, you think the president elect should stop sending tweets like this . Caller hello. Thank you for taking my call. I certainly think he should stop sending tweets like that. I dont think the question is so much should the president elect stop tweeting as much as should he be more temp