America try to further isolate the government of Vladimir Putin . The lines are open this morning. You can catch up with us on social media. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. Russia in the headlines of todays newspapers. Here is a frontpage of the Financial Times with their headlines. To the front page of the Washington Post. To the front page of usa today. Congressional leaders said monday that two committees will investigate cia allegations that russia deployed hackers to disrupt the american president ial election to help donald trump. Mitch mcconnell said the Senate Intelligence committee will conduct bipartisan reviews. Here is a bit from what Mitch Mcconnell had to say at a press conference yesterday. Any foreign breach of our Cyber Security measures is disturbing. I strongly condemn any such efforts. The director of the National Intelligence released a statement saying the russian government directed the recent compromise of emails from u. S. Persons and institutions, including from u. S. Political organizations. That is what the Intelligence Community believes and can be said and unclassified remarks without risking sources. Anything else is irresponsible, likely illegal and potential he for partisan political gain. The Obama Administration attempted to reset relations with russia and the setback while russia expanded its sphere of influence, intervened and crimea, syria and attempted to bully the baltic countries. It defies belief that somehow republicans in the senate are reluctant to either review russian tactics or ignore them. Let me say that i have the highest confidence in the Intelligence Community and the Central Intelligence agencys agencies. The most of highprofile targets of the Cyber Attacks before the election was Hillary Clintons chief political strategist, john podesta. He was quoted in an article day ofay saying, each that month, our campaign decried interference of russia. Donald trump with a few tweets yesterday in response to some of the news stories as allegations that have come out yesterday morning. Donald trump yesterday. We want to hear from our viewers the washington the washington journal. How do you think the Incoming Administration should approach russia . Will take you through a few more headlines and editorials and up beds that have been written about this subject, about the hacking, Rex Tillerson. We want to hear from new york. Good morning. Caller good morning to you. I dont want to talk about hacking now. Because russia russia is not a democracy. That is the dead wrong. Russia [indiscernible] sometimes breaks the law, takes somebodys land. We understand that but the ocean we have [indiscernible] we did not go to war with china. China is not a democracy. We shouldnt buy the idea that russia is not a democracy and is not going to be an ally. We have countries like saudi arabia, china, we are working with them. T caller look at the middle east. Are we really understand we should not go to war in iraq, believe it or not. In the middle east, in syria, we lost the war. How are we going to save the rest and aleppo . We have to talk to russia to save life. That is what matters for us now. Accusing russia, even saying that putin is a puppet, all of this nonsense is not going to help our country. The big problem is islamic to fight islamic radicalism without russia is not possible. Russia has experience. We know they are not a democracy. We are not fighting for democracy. Aen this country, this is democratic country and we know how we treat each other. Host frank, republican in west virginia. Good morning. Caller i believe trump has a lot of rebuilding to do. Barack obama has lowered our standards in the world to where we are a laughingstock. When we draw our land our redline, we need to stand by. On the way we can do that is from a position of strength. Barack obama has decimated the military. Back in the 1990s, bill clinton decimated human intelligence. All of that is going to have to be rebuilt. I think donald trump can do it. I think he recognizes it needs to be done. Host lets go to wilson, houston, texas. Caller good morning. I feel like what all the other past and present resident has should feel like trump keep it up, because we all know how russia is toward the country of america. Trump say he wants to be tough and strong. He should show us that is what he is going to do, because putin is going to wag him on like a dog and do whatever he wants. With him having all these other ones he is bring in with him that10, that is laying into russias hands. Host you are talking about his appointments . Isse that donald trump nominating and russia . Caller i believe donald is going to play right into putin hands. These are friends that could new way before donald trump. They are not going to just forget their friendship with putin. He bring in all these other people. No, he is going to disappoint all of his supporters. They are going to turn on him. Donald is not going to stay in there for fullterm. I already know that. That man is 70 years old. He is not going to give all of that up for our country. Texas. Ouston, the headline from the new york times. Tillerson has fought for years to strengthen connections through business negotiations worth billions of dollars with that in mind, we are asking , how should the Trump Administration approach russia . What do you think the relationship should be like . David, missouri. Good morning. Caller yeah, this is ridiculous. We have had the democrats, they and notg to ridicule cause trouble for our new president all they can, because they are upset they lost. All the dealings they have been doing with russia is ridiculous, man. People none of chumps have made none of trumps people have made deals to sell uranium like clinton did. All of that is ok. The hypocrisy of this people these people. Now that he is picking people who knows how to deal with russia and knows what to do, that is a horrible thing, but the left, they dont care. They are going to delegitimize us and our new president all they can, because all they care about is they got beat and they are grabbing at straws. Host you might be interested in reading the column in the washington times. He writes you want to read his column again in the lessons in times. Washington times. Mike is next from crofton, maryland. Mike, are you with us yet go stay by your phone. Lets go to connie in chicago. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. I have a short comment that i get so tired of hearing republicans and others calling. N to bash president obama if my memory serves me correct, he came in to office with some very bad negatives that george w. Bush had left this country. Also i understand that russia is one of our biggest adversaries. For a person of Donald Trumps ilk, someone who has no governing experience, he has chosen a man as secretary of state with no governing experience. With extremely very personal close ties to putin who is our adversary. That is troubling. Also, george w. Bush junior, he was the one that left this country as a laughingstock of the world. From what i also recall, he was i dont recall that happening to president obama. Host how do you think president obama did in dealing with russia . Caller i think obama, his diplomacy was very well placed. Measuredegy of using at most important times, they worked well. Host it worked specifically when it comes to russia . Putin, well, you know, it was very clear to me that putin did not like president obama. Think he did everything that he could, not to just give obama a hard time but to try and prove know whats i dont to say about that guy to prove that he was a better leader. That to me deserves debate. Lets go to annapolis, maryland. Caller good morning. My comment is, i would like to know if the other colors understand that i dont think putin is going to be around for a long time. If we can lay some Foundation Work for some Economic Partnership with the country, we should try and make that establishment. Host do you think Rex Tillerson is a part of doing that . Caller it goes to show that the strength of his character, resume is the right person for the right job at this point to make sure we can reach our handover and move forward with what i would consider the inevitable. Host union is in North Carolina in is an airliner. How should the Trump Administration approach russia . Caller i think trump is on the right track. If everyone remembers from the 2012 election, mitt romney said that russia was one of our biggest adversaries and president obama made fun of the fact. We need someone in their and there. Keep your friends close and enemies closer. I think the same thing with governor branstad stat of iowa. He knows the chinese. I think we need people in there who understands those countries. They will not give president elect trump. They are going to try and do everything they can because they are sore losers. Hillary clinton would not have done anything like this. I think mr. Trump is on the right track. I am proud that he is our upcoming president , because president obama is weak. He is a wimp. It is about time we had someone in there who knows what they are doing. Host a few comments from our twitter feed. You can follow along. Several folks that comment everyday on what is happening on this program. We appreciate that. Talking about the electors, the wall street journal and of story about the concerns about russia. Note that john podesta saying that her campaign supports the electors efforts to disclose more findings. That is from the wall street journal this morning. We want to hear your thoughts about how the incoming Trump Administration should approach russia and the governor the government of Vladimir Putin . Good morning, raymond. Caller good morning. Am a design engineer i had a contract going in seattle. Were 10 people all around the world, engineers. Exactly what was going on. We were talking. They all said, watch the russians. I did not know what they were talking about. [indiscernible] i read another contract in , and everything they , the russians will do a number on you. And they did. Host what is your advice to the Trump Administration . Caller watch them. They will screw you to death. They deal with sympathy and then they will turn on you. There. Ppened when i was i. Further i feel sorry for the russians and i said why dont you do this . People in the shop, i felt [indiscernible] he turned around and screwed me. [laughter] watch them. Very devious. Host liska to tom, idaho. Good morning lets go to tom, idaho. Good morning. Caller i hope the administration approaches russia with the America First attitude that he is that he said he would. He is very understanding of the fact that russia is out for russian interest. They are a competitor. They are not a friend. It doesnt mean we have to treat them differently than we do any other enemy that we have, like china or saudi arabia. All the stuff we are hearing from the media about trump and russia is just propaganda. Russia is being singled out by the globalist on the left who were really sure they were about the have about to have the global government. Pinthey are trying to Donald Trumps success on them instead of looking themselves in the mirror and realize they nominated a ridiculously bad candidate who ran a bad campaign. Out,mail scandal that came they were more concerned about the russians hacked us instead of dealing with what was said in the emails. The truth is just a smokescreen could mr. Trump, please visit America First. Host the headline on the front page of the austin post of the Washington Post. He is expected to be nominated today by donald trump for the secretary of state post yesterday, senator Chuck Schumer talked about whether Rex Tillerson was a good nominee for the position, the concerns that democrats have in congress and what the on the in what the nomination fight would look like. The bottom line is everyone of these nominees needs a thorough hearing. The one thing we will insist on as a democrat is in that it not be a quick five minute speech in one day. We are going to want thorough questions. All of these allegations and talks about his closeness with putin will come forward. I can say this as a future beority leader, this has to a thorough we are not going to stand for a quick, you just asked a question and he leaves. There will be some followups . Lots. Host we want to hear from you this morning on your thoughts on how a Trump Administration should approach russia. Scott in san diego. Caller good morning. On some level, i am a democrat, but on some level, i am an american. I almost feel sorry for donald trump. Not unlike a circus peanut. I take them about that seriously. He doesnt seem to have any grasp our knowledge regarding history. What he is not aware of his leading up to the downfall of the former soviet union, reagan and George H W Bush basically through their defense spending and military buildup, really spent the russians into the poor house to the point where they could not keep up, and then eventually fell. 25 years have passed. The former soviet union has a lot of business in the industry and international deals. It is not the same soviet union or russia that reagan and h w bush were dealing with. Unless trump wants to do some massive deficit spending to soviets, i dont soviets, i dow what he is going to do. Host you think outspending the soviets militarily can work in todays world . In todays economy that is so interconnected . Caller they are not the same country they were 25 years ago. Communism, their interactions economically with the rest of the free world. They dealt with china and cuba. Of the Global Situation today, economically, and in terms of business and industry and deals, it is a different world for them than it was 25 years ago. Host does that make the same approach used by reagan and george a w george h. W. Bush, can you recreate that . It would be harder for us to outspend them, because we are not the country a were back then. Country we were back then. He is going into it blind because he doesnt seem to have a grasp of history and things like that. Hopefully his advisers will. Then again, you dont know what this guy host . Guide. Host lets go to larry in indiana. Caller my comment is mr. Trump, you know, everybody wants to tear him down and not give him a chance. That he leadsy our country back to our god and about how we are going to be an influence in the world. I hope and pray that everybody will give them a chance. How he deals with these countries should be drawing us closer back to god. Thank you very much. P itsarry in indiana speaking of indiana, we are going to be focusing on the governor of indiana, mike pence, for half of our program today looking at his role in the Trump Administration and we will take your comments about the role you think you would want mike pence to play in the coming four years of the trumpet ministrations and also today, the 31st century centuryt the 21st cures act takes place at the white house. We will be showing that on cspan and cspan. Org. Today. Happening at 2 35 also later this afternoon at 6 00 p. M. , jeh johnson, the secretary of Homeland Security will be talking with Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius in an interview by the newspaper. We show that live at 6 00 p. M. On cspan. Back to your calls and about 50 more minutes asking you about how the Trump Administration should approach russia . Caller good morning. That i am what to say would not cyclical late just yet not sit the koolaid just yet about how he is going to handle russia. Putin is going to look out for russias interests first as trump says, make America Great again. Part he is not listing to. That is what scares me about this whole deal is that he is appointing people, and he has very little knowledge as far as the Intelligence Briefings because he skipped them. If you are going to make a decision on dealing with other countries, you want to have your security briefings and information. It doesnt have anything to do with things smart. I would not drink the koolaid just yet. I want to take the high road with this guy that he is making it really hard. That is my comment. Host got it. Thanks for the call its speaking of the information that we have. The only proof that anyone offers of russia manipulation is a statement by the cia. Usa today delves into this topic little more about what we know and what we dont know. Format inin the q a usa today notes the questions about the ultimate goal they go on to delve into those assessments. One of the questions they take on is on what points of the new russian assessment did the cia and other intelligence authorities differ, when it comes to the fbi . The fbi does not dispute the accurate, could be but the difference lies in the institutional standards that the agencies require in reaching such conclusions. If you want to go into more of those questions about what we do and dont know at this point of the intelligence that is behind a lot of the stories that we are seeing today, that is in usa today. Florida, democrat. Good morning. Caller i would like to say that most of people around here are trump drunk. We are on the verge of fighting iran and russia sells their weapons to iran. Their weaponsof from russia which are better weapons than we have. Anybody wants to holler about trump, trump, trump. What about when we get ready to g