[ laughing ] more than anyone. Shawn hannity is on vacation. Dont pay attention, shawn, i say that to all of the girls. Lucky us. Isis praising the shooter as one of its own. The terror group saying the istanbul attack was carried without a heroic soldier of the calif. Phate who attacked where christians were celebrating their pagan feast. They have detained 8 people but the gunman who escaped after the shooting not among them. Among the survivors, a delaware man is shot in the leg. Perhaps fortunate to be alive. Turkish authorities saying the cell phone he was carrying might have prevented a bullet from piercing a major artery. Benjamin joins us live from london with the lateest. Hi, sandra. Istanbul remains on highest alert as the desperate manhunt to capture the man who killed 39 on new years eve continues. His identity still unknown but Police Believe they may be slowly closing in. The funerals of some of the dead dpan taking place today as the identities of more victims released. Among the 39, 27 were foreign, including victims from israel, germany, russia, france, india, belgium. More details are emerging. The gunman who fired up to 180 bullets stopped to change his magazine five times. He then waited for 13 minutes inside the kichin where he changed boths before leaving in a taxi. Police are trying to maintain his identity but he might be part of the same cell that attacked the istanbul airport in june killing 41. Officials believe he may be from the Central Asian countries of uzebekistan or krygyzstan. Victims began talking about what happened inside the club that night including as you mentioned american businessman william rock. All i can say is, its massive tragedy. This is very unfortunate. I dont want to talk about what happened inside the club. But i want to say, this is a very good country and its so unfortunate that this is happening to you guys. I really feel for everybody here. President obama has also reached out to the turkish people offering his condolences. He says that the u. S. Stands ready to help do whatever it takes to bring this man to justice. Sandra . Benjamin, thank you. You want to open it up to the couch, horrific thing to witness. You know, its just a terrible tragedy, my heart goes out to all of the people involved with this one and all of the other terrorist attacks. What i will say is that weve got to put metal detectors in these areas. Unfortunately we have to fortify these areas with more security. Its something we dont want to do, places like turkey, the united states, we love our freedom. We dont want to block it up like. That but i think we have to go in that direction. Based on your knowledge of the president elects plan, heading into his first term, how do you think he is going to respond to attacks like this . Well, listen, i know mr. Trump very well, the president elect, i know hes super upset about this stuff. I think what people dont know that dont know him personally is how empathetic he is, feels for people. You can feel it in the campaign rallies. Events like, this i think he is going to give swift reaganlike justice in situations like this. I also think the department of homeland security, general kelley, in coordination with the white house, youre going to see what mr. Trump is calling the extreme vetting take place so that we can really more carefully screen people that are entering the country that may not have our interest at heart. Isis claiming responsibility for the attack. Kennedy, its been made very clear by many who have criticized president obamas terms in office that isis has grown under the current administration. Here we have to pit yet another attack. And theyve also grown under the urduwon administration in turkey. Turkey basically threw the door open for terrorists to move through that country and in to syria. Its no surprise to see the coordinated cells in a place like turkey, because they have got the proximity. They also have a lot of people concentrated there. Now that turkey is so closely aligned with russia, that you know, they bombed that convoy going in to alep owe and this is just rationalization for isis to seek revenge on turkey since theyre aligned with putin. You ask that anthony how donald trump might differ, president elect trump might differ, outside of tap something strong leaders to surround him like general mattis who fought on the front lines or general mike flynn along with general mcchris toll turned jasox into the terrorist hunting entity. Weve seen him not afraid to call it what it is, radical islamic extremists. Thats something we havent seen from president obama. Weve seen the downplaying of the threat, whether its saying that bathtubs are more dangerous than terrorists. Or saying, al qaeda is on the run when they werent, because the ben zaggie atact happened. Or calling isis. The j. V. Squad. He isnt the president yet, but were seeing the different hittoric. Leadership under president elect trump, President Trump will be much different with the fight against isis. Absolutely, i think donald trump isnt afraid to name the problem, say what the problem is, and i think that that wont just be for his administration but that will also be open things up to help people feel confident. San bernardino, they said they looked suspicious to me but i didnt want to seem like a racist. Even in orlando, people were trying so hard to blame it on anything. Radical is lambists, mass cue limpity. I think President Trump will be more comfortable talking that way and to see something Say Something is more possible when youre able to Say Something without being concerned you will be called is lambophobic. Flash point to u. S. And russia, 35 diplomats and their families expelled from the u. S. As punishment for moscows interference with the election. President elect trump is once again appearing to downplay the hacking. By saying he knows things about it that other people dont know. That hell reveal that information tomorrow or wednesday. Asked about mr. Trumps comments this morning incoming press Secretary Sean Spicer say being should not jump to conclusions before the final Intelligence Report comes out. Watch. The president elect is briefed by his security team, by the current security team, intelligence community. I think he does know things. Thats why hes the president elect, hes informed of things that americans that arent clear to get that information know. What hes trying to get at, theres a degree of certainty to which this happens. This report that everyone sees as taken as gospel truth isnt final, its not supposed to be finalized until later this week. There are questions why were taking the actions that were taking in the proportion we are without the report being finalized. What does the president elect know . Well, well let him tell what you he knows. But this is unexcusable stuff if theres a foreign entity or a hacker hacking into our systems, corporate or political or otherwise. The president elect and his Mu Administration will take a hard time against that. We dont want that to happen. As it relates to this specific issue, i think with president elect trump, when hes trying to say to people, he will have a very deliberate and thoughtful analysis of things before he overreacts. Some dont see that it way. He was providing information from the cia and f. B. I. , that said there was evidence and proof of this hacking. But yet still the president elect wanted to move youle ee hear later in the week that its very, very hard to prove specifically who did what. But that appears that hes questioning our intelligence. Not to get into the super details of this stuff, but, like, you could be in north korea and you could be hacking and sending out russian style fingerprints to make other people think its the russians hacking something. Now, some one will obviously react to what im saying. I dont have the date, a i dont have the information at my disposal. Heres what i do know, the president elect, his administration, the people that are descending upon washington january 20, are going to take a hard line on this. They do not want foreign entities hacking our institutions or our political if they are we should know how theyre doing it and beat it. We cant assume its one country or one government or one set of hackers from a certain country. We have vulnerabilities that have yet to be addressed. And president elect trump rudimentary way, said that no computer is safe. And in a sense hes absolutely right, certainly the computers at the federal government. There was a Washington Post headline that screamed that russians had infiltrated Vermont Utility grid. But they hacked inside, and that was actually false. That was not a true story. We have to be very careful with this alarmism. We have to be careful resetting the relationship with russia. Because every administration tries to do it. And fails. And saying that putin has been falsely demonized, i think is very, very naive and we have to be careful. It bother meese in general all sides of the aisle, know, how people are discussing this in such a political way. Particularly democrats seem to want russia to be involved, so they can make people more afraid of trump. People on the conserv side were the ones more concerned about russia and mocked for being concerned about russia. The switching around, so political and were talking about our safety. So many things, everything is one by a computer. If russia had hacked the rnc, would president obama have issued these sanctions . The entire situation were reversed, if Hillary Clinton had woun the electoral vote, would president obama have been pushing for these sanction. I dont think as much. And also to that point, thats part of the reason for a lot of people this feels political from the president and effort to box donald trump in, politically, and from a Foreign Policy standpoint as well with putin giving the timing of it, the fact he sat on it when it looked like Hillary Clinton was going to win or thats what everyone was saying. We do see so many threats, we get hacked all the time. Russia hacked into what was it, hacked into china also hacked into opm, 2. Million social 22 million Social Security numbers exposed. Russia has hacked our military operations as well. These are things that we know, that these threats are constant and happening all the time. What will the president elect he wont be boxed in. Im sorry. What will his relationship with Vladimir Putin . Its very early, they have had a couple of conversations, at least one conversation that im aware of. I think he thinks hes very smart, i think hes a capable leader inside of russia. And i think he wants to have a Good Relationship with him. If you talk to Henry Kissinger about it, theres enough common interests, we may bed a ver saris on certain things but enough common interests that we probably should start working closely together on the defeat of terrorism, on the rollingback of crimes against humanity if i think the russian people and American People have in common. Its early, sandra. The message from president elect trump is a very broad, disruptive entrepreneurial message, ill take a look at these things and analyze them the way a business person who analyze them. I will have geopolitical help and diplomats but at the end of the day ill make a lot of decisions based on my personal assessment of the situation. You have to admire him for that. He would say, if he was sitting on this couch, you know what, we have made a lot of blunders over the past 20 years. Lets try something a little bit different. And by the way, its not to say that if things are going in an adversarial way with any country, not the russians but any country, he will take a very strong proAmerican People stance in that situation. We know he will be revealing much more either tomorrow or wednesday as far as all of this is concerned. We will be watching it. 2017 will bring a new administration and new congress. Washington could still be set for more of the same partisan gridlock. Theres word that democrats plan to slow down confirmation for a bunch of president elect trumps cabinet picks. Why . And is this being irresponsible . Plus, less than three weeks to go until president Obama Leaves Office but hes hinting he may not go riding off into the sunset. Is that what americans want . 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Charles schumer telling the Washington Post, quote, president elect trump is attempting to fill his rigged cabinet with nominees that would break key Campaign Promises and have made billions off the stwris they would be tainged with regulating. If republicans think they can quickly jam through a slate of nominees without a fair hearing process theyre sorely mistaken. The post reporting that senator schumer targeting several nominees in particular, including secretary of state no know Rex Tillerson and jeff sessions. This could get exhausting and annoying very quickly, anthony. Its very important to vet the people who are coming in to these powerful roles. Theres no disputing that. But i think thats a lot belicocity. These people are going to be confirmed fairly quickly, theyre phenomenal americans. If you look at the c. V. S, i have had an opportunity on go through them as being on the executive committee, this is a World Class Group of people about to enter the american cabinet. So, my guess is there will be posturing, there will be some eggs and tomato throwing but everyone of those people up there, especially secretary of state designee Rex Tillerson will get approved. Itll make it more difficult but wont change the outcome. It takes 51 votes. It will tap. They just need to do the posturing for their base. I respect and understand that. I hope it doesnt become more than that. You still think theres denial, if you ask some one to a dance and they go with some one else, you can follow her and her date around all night making it complicated for them. Really creepy. At the end of the night shes going home with that guy. Where did you come up with that analogy . She lays in bed at night and thinks about these things. [ laughing ] personal life experience. Theyre both right. To anthonys point, i think this a lot of noise from the Democratic Party. There isnt much, they can try and slow down the process. Do we really want to wait until march to get a secretary of state . Considering how the world appears to be melting down absolutely not. Ultimately as anthony pointed out, ball games of the rule changes under harry reid three years ago, they need a simple majority as opposed to a full group. They will be able to move forward any of the cabinet choice thegs want. Unless the Democratic Party can get some republicans to play ball. Which potentially on Rex Tillerson might be the only area where they pick off mccain or graham or some one like that. I would not worry about it. Or senator rand paul. I wouldnt underestimate rexs connections on capitol hill. And hes likable and very, very thoughtful. That accent wins people. Hes charming, likable, and he knows the world. You know what, hes going to put americas interests first. And the democrats and republicans are going confirm him. I suspect hell get votes on the democratic side. A lot of people going to start naming their babies rex. Little tiny arms . There are Ten Senate Democrats running in states where donald trump won by double digits. You will have people that are potentially having tough elections in 2018, especially what trump is able to, do likability, what he is doing heading into 2018. States that might be willing to play ball because they recognize they have little political capital. 2018, 2020, 2024 when you have perhaps an Incoming Democratic administration. Payback can be very tough, i hear. There is a phrase that im not going to repeat. This is a Family Friendly show. The timing, though, to Chuck Schumer saying they want a minimum of two days of hearings per cabinet pick, no more than two choices to face hearings in the same week. Rewind to 2009, which Chuck Schumer went along with unanimously confirming seven of president obamas cabinet picks on Inauguration Day and five later. Thats the thing. If this is what theyre serving up, what they have to eat okay, enough with the analogies. [ laughing ] people are tired of it. Im hearing you. Well see. People, regardless fl party, who you voted for, its exhausting. Politics for the sake of politics no, longer of use to 95 of you, yeah. The democrats may be slowing things down, but the president elect is not. Mr. Trump plans to do away with many of president obamas executive actions on his first day in office. Which ones will he target . And how will this play with the American Public . Plus, president obama, is going to be out of the white house soon but hes hinting that he may break tradition and not fade into the background. Yay. Will his voice be heard without the bul