You are attacking our News Organization which can you give us a chance to ask a question . Mister president elect can you give us a can you give us a question . Im not going to give you can you state you are take news. Trish the reporter later appeared on cnn complaining he had never been treated this way. During that News Conference sean spicer said to me that if i were to continue to persist and ask a question i would be thrown out of the News Conference. I covered four president ial campaigns which i covered president obama at the white house, i never had a press secretary threatened to throw me out of a News Conference with that is the first. Trish joining me now republican strategist and Communications Director for democracy, with their thoughts on this. It was a little rude, wasnt it . Just a little rude. There is a certain decorum. I know as a journalist you present to the president elect or president ial News Conference you try not to interrupt so aggressively, try to move on at this point. A reporter and communications operative. I side with donald trump, the only people with worst trump derangement are cnn to a great extent. And trump wins every single day and twice on sunday. I know jim acosta very well. He should not have tried to shout down the president elect. Had the shoe been on the other foot and had this been obama or clinton, he would never have made the task to try to talk over the president elect and the dossier had never seen the light of day for both feed or been reported on by cnn. On mac you make some good points and i want to address all of these. Lets start with just the decorum. He makes a valid point, jim acosta might not have been as aggressive with obama or clinton, seem to lose all sense of decorum and attacked the president elect in that way. In part because the president lost decorum at the beginning of this press conference. He said the tone for this press conference when he went not just after the veracity of what cnn and both feed were reporting but after them as individuals and organizations. This isnt a locker room after a basketball game or something where you can go after whatever reporter you want to. The president elect should act like a president ial candidate who is going to be president in tween 9 days. That is not how a president acts, attacking a reporter personally, laughing at a senator of his own party. Police president ial press conference on mac setting a low bar and the reporter is justified in being extremely aggressive in a way you dont normally act towards a president elect or a president of the United States. Lets talk about Donald Trumps reasons for being so upset with cnn. Cnn went out and published a few pages of this dossier which was basically a whole bunch of gossip. Both feed punished it, cnn did not. Cnn reported on the existence of it. Trish you understand the distinction. We do verify everything we put on the air. As i said yesterday we can all have an opinion, we can debate, we can discuss, we can have an angle, but the essence of the information is true and we have verified it. This dossier was out there, Many Organizations saw that, nobody actually made it public until both feed had the audacity to do so which is a bad statement for journalism overall and cnn piled on by linking to that with a couple pages of that. You shouldnt even so much as say it. Several News Organizations had the dossier for several weeks. It is the worst kept secret in washington dc. Heres my problem with the edits reported, not that they might have published a snippet of it but what they did is they did it fast and loose with the rules of journalistic integrity by saying the Intel Community told trump about the dossier in their meeting which is not the central element of their meeting. It with a step aside, basically cnn wanted to make this another trump news eruption and donald trump had enough and here is the other thing. What the media doesnt understand the average person cannot follow these news interruptions with every detail because they dont have time. When they do this and play fast and loose with the is what happens is trump gets sympathy from his supporters and everyone else. Not everyone. The majority of people think he is a Vladimir Putin puppet. The majority of people trish one at a time. Since trump has got the nomination of the three networks, abc, nbc and cbs, 90 of the stories about trump have been negative. I dont know if Charles Manson got covered like that. Trish ford is making a fair point. They have been primarily negative, you know the media doesnt like him. You got to admit most of the media feels like you. Here is the thing. Donald trump rose to prominence politically by trafficking in the worst kind of provably untrue lies about president obama. What is good for the goose should be good for the gander. The reality of this memo is far more true than ever questions. Trish i will button this up by saying as a journalist you got to verify absolutely everything, got to be very cautious especially in the environment we are living in with socalled fake news. Donald trump is the king of fake news. Trish i will see you shortly. The ceo of at t trying to make nice with the president elect stopping by trump tower hoping to get approval for the at t merger with time warner, time warner being the Parent Company of cnn but donald trump is a fierce critic arguing it hurts American Consumers was given that cnn published this unverified salacious report to the president elect, what does that mean about what trump is thinking about empowering an already massive organization, making it that much bigger . Connell mcshane standing by at trump tower. Has cnn angered the president elect . Might be more reluctant to see the company grow through this murder at at t . That we dont know. The official line out of the trump transition team, the meeting tween executive to the president elect is not about creating jobs and the incoming press secretary told us the meetings mister trump has with ceos is the traffic but a merger of this caliber of acquisition, 85 million could fall within the category of creating jobs so it could be talked about easily, when you have it, that could have been the topic they talked about. Randall stephenson with the of other executives from at t didnt talk to reporters if he came out of the elevator behind me, some had a conversation with the press pool and members shouted questions and didnt answer any of them. They talk about the trump effect on cnn whether it is the tweet earlier today and jim acosta, the News Conference yesterday so the question comes up, some perspective, back to october, donald trump, the candidate said this. At t is buying time warner and cnn, a deal we will not approve in my administration because it is too much concentration of power in the hands of too you. The point, cnn is mentioned by name but so are legitimate antitrust concerns, nothing to do with cnn, too much concentration of power in the hands of too few. A lot of this will fall to the justice department, jeff sessions, the senator with his confirmation hearing going on yesterday talked about it saying, quote, he had no hesitation to entrust it, and fourth antitrust law, no hesitation to say certain mergers should not occur. That was yesterday on the topic. That is why Randall Stephenson is there. Joining us is research director, good to see you. This is an enormous, very powerful Media Organization and cnn which is fairly powerful will get bigger. What happens, what is the danger when any company get too big and specifically a Media Company . The danger is they crowd out competition. They begin to own the neighborhood. We cant find a way to get around them. Somebody like cnn and time warner is involved in entertainment, fox news, a lot of television programming, all kinds of ways they can get in and influence Public Opinion if it becomes a company that is very large. The bigger issue with time warner is the cable asset. The cable access, millions of people, there is an interest in making sure it is not too big to choke off other peoples competition. This monopoly over Public Opinion. There is concern among many viewers, the Mainstream Media is big enough as it is and Mainstream Media has a particular bias, sympathetic of president obama and Hillary Clinton. Cnn publishing, defending as well, fake news and it is fake because they were not able to verify it, no one is able to verify the stuff which to me is a journalist you dont put it out there because you are just trafficking isnt it a little dangerous to think they could be that big, that important and be trafficking in fake stuff . It is absolutely very disturbing, i listened to earlier conversations. Buzz feed published a 35 page document that cnn was referring to an onair in their breaking News Coverage earlier that day. They broke the dam on this story, not fit to publish hours earlier, trying to create a rationale to get it published. They didnt publish it themselves but they help to grease the skids for it to be published so if you feel that kind of have that kind of license to go after a president on the verge of inauguration, that is a company that doesnt fear much. Trish it is not journalism. That is the reality of all of this. The team looks at this merger, access to the internet, access to cable, and one Single Player controlling too much content and there is a danger in that. Do you think it will go through . I dont know but to add to the equation you have other dividers that might compete trying to traffic on time warners cable access, becomes something where they perhaps choke off competition using their cable pipes. Trish thank you so much. Donald trump blasting the Intelligence Community for leaking a salacious story about him to the media that we keep talking about. The uns by chief says it wasnt us. If it is not them, not our own Intel Community, who could this be and is this potentially payback for trumps criticism of our intelligence agencies . Do stunts like this put our National Security at risk . We are all about this . James will become a former head of the cia joins us next. I think it is a disgrace that information would be let out. It is all fake news. It is phony stuff. It didnt happen. I think it is pretty sad when Intelligence Reports get leaks out to the press. Pretty sad. First of all it is illegal lose these are classified and certified meetings and reports. Trish donald trump think it is a disgrace that intel was the to the press. He went on to say James Clapper called me yesterday to denounce the fictitious reports circulated, made up, phony facts, too bad, clapper denies it was leaked by the Intel Community so if our Intel Community to leak it who did . Is this potentially payback . The criticisms trump has thrown their way, the former head of the cia, ambassador james lee, good to have you here. Help me understand how this information makes its way to a reporters website . It may well not be the Intelligence Community but someone who obtained access to the policy positions or political positions and there has been a good deal of hostility toward donald trump by some folks in the government in those capacities, they were almost unanimously in support of Hillary Clinton and i think a lot of them were very surprised, like a lot of the rest of the population was. Hard to say. Trish this was actually us, somewhere in the Intel Community sound is breaking up. Trish hopefully you can hear me. They work to correct that, was it good about someone here in the us, sounds like what you were telling me and who knows. He had a lot of friends in the community. Did not have a lot of friends with the statement he made. Maybe. My experience when i was director, professional members of the community, they were very good americans, sometimes they would know people who would. I am more, frankly, concerned about the political thoughts around the Intelligence Community then i would be about professionals themselves. Trish this could have been unintentional but somebody who had bad intentions got a hold of this information via a friend or acquaintance. What does it say about us overall. It is one thing from russia to try to interfere, that is something we should be concerned about and it needs to be investigated. Another thing for our own Intel Community to be conspiring away against the president elect. I dont think they are conspiring against the president elect. It would be a very different thing but it is not the first place i would turn in trying to ascertain who leaked something. It would be people they know or someone they slipped up and said something to and took it much further and embellished it, or very senior political person near the Intelligence Community. Trish do you have any idea, there has been talk about who prepared this, and Intelligence Officer out of Great Britain may have prepared this document. How do these documents get prepared in the first place . Would that have been prepared for Us Intelligence or was it prepared potentially for Political Opposition Research . How did this come to be in the first place . I dont know. The us and britain Work Together on things all the time. I dont see this as something likely that a british Civil Servant or somebody part of an eye 6 now, someone who is retired and has grants on the inside, i dont know. It is possible. There are a number of possibilities between the Intelligence Community in both countries and people in the political realm. Frankly i am more suspicious of the political folks than the career. Trish i hear you. The political folks, Something Big at stake. Thank you so much. Good to have you here today. The office of the first lady, the office of the first family of the Trump Administration telling fox news that is the plan and it hints that ivana trump will taking a big role in her fathers administration, next. Here . Hey nicole, this is my new alert system for whenever anything happens in the market. Kids a natural. But thinkorswim already lets you create custom alerts for all the things that are important to you. Shhh. Alerts on anything at all . Not only that, you can act on that opportunity with just one tap right from the alert. Wow, i guess we dont need the kid anymore. Custom alerts on thinkorswim. Only at td ameritrade. Trish all right. With just over a week until the inauguration, theres a whole lot of uncertainty tonight about the incoming first lady, melania trump. Be Doug Mckelway joins me now, and, doug, just like her husband, mrs. Trump defying tradition, shes defying convention potentially, per your sources . Reporter well, we dont really know yet. Shes been pretty quiet, very quiet ever since that stumble on, you know, the stage at the Republican National convention where it was found that some of her speech had been plagiarized. But theres also a little bit of coordination here between melania and ivanka, who will play the most prominent role at the white house. In the Trump Administration, the office of the first lady is reportedly going to be changed to the office of the first family. It may signal the emergence of dual Administration Roles for the two most important women in trumps life, daughter ivanka and his wife, soon to be first lady melania. Shes a high fashion icon, shes a businesswoman, shes involved with philanthropic and charitable endeavors. Reporter the second first lady born outside the u. S. , the first born in a formerly communist country. Shes fluent in five languages, her native slovenian, serbian, german, french and english, the first to have been a supermodel and without a doubt to the first to pose nude. Her decision to stay in new york is based on her 10yearold son barron who will finish the school year there. A second factor may be her discomfort in the political sphere. That your word is your bond. Ended with findings of plagiarism. She largely retreated from campaign speaking after that but denied it was because of the speech. My priority is our son, and i want to be a mother first. Reporter maineen land yas partial withdrawal melanias partial withdrawal coincided with ivankas rise. Her intention is to help level the Playing Field for female entrepreneurs and job creators, whomever occupies the office of first family will find a powerful new bully pulpit. Because it is a podium with a very, very loud voice, and any first lady when they arrive, i dont think they have any idea about how loud that voice can be. Reporter melania promises not to shy away from it no matter how intense the incoming fire. You know, im very strong, im very confident, and i could handle everything. Reporter and both trump women have expressed a desire to protect the interests of children ivanka even telephoning members of congress to build support for taxfree childcar