Hall. Im Chris Jansing in new york. The president elect plans to reveal things that other people dont know in the coming days, deepening the disconnect over russias role in the Election Hacking scandal. Search for the suspect, new Images Released of the suspect in the slaughter of 39 innocents at an iz tan bull nightclub. Isis claiming responsibility and the gunman is still on the loose. Live report ahead. And enter the new washington, 18 days to inauguration day, how will the new Congress Work with the new white house in the new year . The president and first family are about to arrive back to the white house after a twoweek vacation in hawaii and the. The has big plans for his final days in office. This morning the white house announced president obama will host his farewell address next week in chicago. Ron allen is outside the white house with more. Always good to see you. What do we know about the plan for this big public address . Reporter we know its in chicago next week at the Convention Center there, a huge celebration. The president says its an opportunity to thank everyone for the amazing journey, as he calls it, the last eight years that hes been in office. And certainly hell try to accentuate the passive. We suspect hell talk about the things that he feels he has accomplished, like reducing Unemployment Rate in half and bringing jobs along historic streak he says of job growth in this country, of the Affordable Care act and bringing health care to 20 Million People, of bringing hundreds of thousands of american troops home from the wars in iraq and afghanistan, although he did not end the war in iraq as he wanted to. Theres certainly a mixed record as well to look at what the obama years have been objectively. One big problem of course is that the republicans are firmly in control of congress now, both branches of congress and the white house soon and so many legislatures, state legislatures around the country, governorships have been lost during the eight years of the obama presidency, but chicago will be a chance to go home, a chance to be greeted by a huge crd, i would think, celebrating what the president has done here, and of course, during the final 18 days that he has the white house, the president as he has for the past couple of weeks before in hawaii on vacation trying to do things to seal his legacy down to essentially make things, put things in a place that donald trump will have difficulty reversing. We heard him issue those sanctions against russia. We heard the tough talk about israel and the settlements and we know Going Forward there are other issues on his agen ka like health care, gitmo, reforming the prison system and more commutations and pardons. This is not someone who is going to coast into the final days of his presidency and planning to go to capitol hill. Tell us re about that. Reporter this is all about obamacare and all on wednesday. Hell meet with house leaders to devise a strategy to try and continue the fight to protect as much of obamacare as possible and the central issue here is whats going to happen to the 20 Million People who now have coverage who didnt before ob a obamacare and also about various regulations that are obamacare like the ability of people to get health care who have preexisting conditions, like the provision that allows young people to stay on their adult policy, these aspects of obamacare central to what the Health Care Law is beyond coverage for 20 Million People. This is what president obama will fight for now and during the final days of his presidency and afterwards because it will take some time for republicans to repeal and replace this massive complicated Health Care Law. Ron allen at the white house for us, thank you so much, ron. President elect donald trump in 107 publicly skeptical theres proof russia tried to influence the president ial election. Meeting this week with Intelligence Leaders about hacking and russia. Mr. Trumps Incoming White House spokesman discussed his boss point of view this morning on oday. What were really trying to figure out is how certain are they of the intelligence, number one, and number two, how proportional is the response to what happened. What hes not going to do is politicize intelligence before he has a complete picture of whats happening. Kristen welker is live outside trump tower. I see the rain has started. So the president elect was pretty clear about his feelings on hacking and computers in general on new years eve and i want to play that for everyone. We have something really important, ride it out and have it delivered by courier the oldfashioned way because ill tell you what, no computer is safe. I dont care what they say. No computer is safe. So hes skeptical of hacking. He doesnt want to use computers. He doesnt even have a computer in his office in trump tower behind you. What does this mean for the briefing this week . Reporter its creating more tensions between the president elect and the Intelligence Community. Chris, he is again questioning their assessment that rusa is behind the hking that we saw during the u. S. Election of the dnc and other top democrats, and he also again pointed back to some of the intelligence failures over weapons of mass destruction in the wake of september 11th, nothing infuriates intelligence officials more than pointing back to that, because they say look, theyve made a number of improvements and changes since that lapsed. So its creating really an unprecedented situation where you have a president elect who is creating a real break with his Intelligence Community. Its also potentially setting up a big fight with congress, including members of his own party, who say they believe u. S. Intelligence and if mr. Trump moves to reverse some of the actions that president obama has taken hes slapped stiffer sanctions on russia, they will be prepared to impose stiffer sanctions, so creating up some real battle lines here, chris, as the president elect prepares to take office in 18 days from now. You have some of the most prominent members of the senate saying they want stiffer sanctions. On the other hand, you have donald trump saying and sean spicer, not so sure. I mean, im wondering how concerned the white house is that the sampgss they just imposed including those 35 russians who landed back on russian soil today might be rescinded. Reporter i think there is some concern, not only about that, chris, but about the president elect reversing a whole host of actions president obama has taken and currently seeing the current commander in chief trying to solidify that legacy in his regard. Hes called for stopping oil drilling in a number of different areas and hes called for moving a number of detainees from guantanamo, really trying to solidify that legacy when you have donald trump saying that on day one, hes going to try to reverse a lot of what president obama put in place, take a listen to what he told some of his partygoers at a party in maralago over the weekend. All i can tell you is were going to do a good job. Okay . Were going to do a good job. [ cheers and applause ] the taxes are going down. Regulations are coming off. Were going to get rid of obamacare, because [ cheers and applause ] reporter so you have him reiterating some of those key Campaign Promises to repeal obamacare and as ron was just discussing, president obama is going to be meeting with Congressional Democrats this week to strategize about ways to keep that in place, but theres no doubt, starting on day one, president elect trump is going to try to reverse what the president has put in place over the past eight years, chris. Kristen welker outside trump tower thank you. Tomorrow a new congress with republican majorities in the house and senate sworn in with russia presenting a big Foreign Policy for lawmakers. Jackie spear joins me now. Good morning. Good morning, chris. Let me ask you about all of this, what seems to be a disconnect, disconnect between the white house and donald trump, even a disconnect between donald trump and john mccain, Lindsey Graham, some prominent republicans. Do you think there is something donald trump knows that we dont that will suggest to us that maybe all of this concern about the russian hacking and deliberately trying to get involved in our election was overstated . I dont think theres any question that the hacking took place. Youve got 17 intelligence agencies making that statement. Unanimously now. If he knows something hes heard it directly from putin himself or one of his underlings, and that would suggest greater emphasis on the fact that they, the russians did interact with the electoral process in the United States. My big fear right now is that he doesnt appreciate that russia is a threat to this country, that it is not just this fuzzy, warm relationship between he and putin, that putin is a polar bear. He will eat him up, because hes a kgb operative. Hes been tutelaged in this issue of espionage his entire life. And he will use all the psychological warfare to try and address and create havoc in the United States. But do you think theres a chance that the president elect, given that every president who goes in, realizes the enormity of the job but also starts to get a lot more information than they ever had before . Do you think theres a chance hell change his tune and some senators who feel as Lindsey Graham and john mccain do could be influential in that regard . I certainly hope so. His job is not to be focused on himself, but on the 325 Million People in this country, and to keep us safe. I think his reluctance to agree to the hacking has more to do with his feeling that somehow it would reduce the success of his election, and i think hes got to get beyond that and realize that the russians have been hacking into the United States for over 20 years, and that we have got to redouble our efforts internally to make sure that we have the kind of Cyber Security thats in place so that we dont have our electric grid going down, we dont have our Financial Service industry brought to its knees. Its a very serious problem. What do you make of the fact that he says, well, i think that one of the answers here is just to use couriers, and not use email . He is no longer going to be in trump tower where he can hire a courier to run across town. This is a large country with diplomatic embassies all over the world. You cant courier information by doves to europe or asia. You know, i think you just gave people here in the studio a vision of Carrier Pigeons but well leave it at that. I want to ask but domestic policy. You heard that clip from donald trump and theres a lot of executive orders that he plans to rescind, obamacare is at the top of the republican list. Now the president s going to be coming to washington. Hes going to be talking to all of you, but given the numbers, given the reality of a republican president , a republican house, a republican strategy, what strategy could stop him to do what hes promised to do. I think the best thing we can do is educate the president through the public, how devastating the repeal of the Affordable Care act would be. Now you cant keep the great things you love about the Affordable Care act the ability to protect those with preexisting conditions and keep your kids on the policy until theyre 26. You cant do that without having an individual mandate. You have to have a large number pool of insureds to be able to provide those kinds of benefits so you cant cherrypick what you like and get rid of what you dont like under that kind of a setting. So i think hes going to have a couple of rude awakenings and i think the democrats are going to do our level best to make sure that the communities of interest, and there are millions, 20 Million People who have insurance today that didnt have insurance before at fordable care act. Congressman Jackie Speier thanks so much, always great to see you. Dylann roof is back in court for a second competency hearing. The judge wants to know if he mentally fit to represent himself at theenalty phase of his trial that starts tomorrow. In december it took a jury just two hours to find roof guilty of 33 counts including hate crimes in the killing of nine black worshippers at the historic emmanuel ame church in 2015. Coming up, show of force, Turkish Police launch a dragnet to launch a man they think was behind the dead lie light number attahing in istanbul. North koreas leader says hes ready to test a missile capable of hitting the west coast of the u. S. What we know coming up. This inbc. Oh, thats lovely. So graceful. The corkscrew spin, flawless. His signature move, the flying dutchman. Poetry in motion. And there it is, the baby bird. Breathtaking. A sumo wrestler figure skating . Surprising. Whats not surprising . How much money heather saved by switching to geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Its your tv, take it with you. 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Earlier today turkish authorities released new photos of the suspect and now isis is claiming responsibility for the attack that killed 39 people and left dozens of others injured. Among those hurt, american jake raak, a defense contractor from pennsylvania who was shot in the leg. Hes been released from a hospital in istanbul where he talked with nbcs richard engel. I was shot in thehip, the bullet was lodgein m knee. I was probably the luckiest person in the whole thing. I find myself very fortunate. I was with dying people, seven of us were shot. Nbcs Kelly Cobiella joins us from istanbul. Lets start with this intense manhunt thats under way and these reports that eight people have been detained, what can you tell us thats new . Reporter well, chris, just a little while ago the countrys deputy Prime Minister told repos,fter a weekly cabitefing that they actually have the fingerprints of the gunman and a very good description of him as well, and that they are working very hard to identify him and then of course track him down. They released pictures to turkish media, there are screen grabs from security video, a little bit grainy, theyre sort of difficult to make out any defining characteristics of this suspect, but this is the man they say opened fire on the nightclub an hour and 15 minutes after midnight new years eve. There was chaos. Witnesses described people running for the exits, people falling over each either, people on the ground being shot, once they had already fallen and were trying to hide. In that chaos the Prime Minister said the gunman managed to use that sort of as cover and to escape the nightclub but he left his gun behind, that may well be the source of these fingerprints. However, that hasnt been stated by any sort of official thats purely speculation. At this point, they do have those eight people in custody. Theyve been detained. They have not been formally arrested from what we understand, theyre being questioned in connection with this attack, but what is that connection, is there a connection, and is this the work of a wider sell as you mentioned, isis has claimed credit for this, but they havent really given any proof as to a link to this attacker, whether they actually directed this attack or whether he was simply inspired by the message from the terror group to attack western targets over the holiday period, chris, but the manhunt continues, an intense manhunt as you can imagine. Do they have a sense or did they say when they had this briefing do you think hes still in the country or could he have gotten away . Reporter chris, it was a very quick briefing with reporters. There were no details given on the arrests, on who the people they arrested were. No details whatsoever on the manhunt and whether he might still be in the istanbul area or if hes in the countryside or in another country.