Donald trump responded to civil rights leader john lewis claims that he is not a legitimate president tweeting that lewis is quote, all talk, talk, talk, no action or results. Said trump, if he is such a great civil rights leader, then why did america just elect a giant racist . [ laughter ] after civil rights leader john lewis called donald trump an illegitimate president , incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus claimed that republicans never questioned the legitimacy of president obamas election. And then president obama sighed so hard his hair turned white. [ laughter ] donald trump tweeted about Martin Luther king jr. This morning, saying people should celebrate quote, all the many wonderful things that he stood for. He then quickly logged off before anyone asked him to name one. [ laughter ] he was a doctor. [ laughter ] so [ applause ] medicine. The jr. Implies he had a father. [ laughter ] donald trump met with steve harvey at trump tower on friday. 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[ laughter ] ladies and gentlemen, we have a great show for you tonight. [ cheers and applause ] he is cnns chief washington correspondent. A dear friend of our show, jake tapper is with us this evening. [ cheers and applause ] from the new film, the founder, a fantastic actor and very, very funny man, bj novak is joining us. And he is the guitar player from the punk ledgends the sex pistols, and his memoir, lonely boy is out now. Steve jones is here tonight as well. [ cheers and applause ] so we have a fantastic show. Before we get to that, president ial transitions are historically a time to unite the country and heal the wounds of the election, so naturally, donald trump has used the time to unleash a series of personal insults against a civil rights icon. For more on this, its time for a closer look. [ cheers and applause ] seth elections are stressful times. When theyre over, you want to relax, take some deep breaths, maybe listen to some smooth jazz to calm yourself down. Instead the trump transition has been like listening to a spooky version of pop goes the weasel that youd hear in a horror movie. Da da da da da dada dada da da da da da twitter democrats have obviously been extremely frustrated by allegations of russian interference in our election, and that frustration came to a head on friday when georgia congressman and icon of the civil rights movement, john lewis, said that he does not see donald trump as a quote, legitimate president. Now there were some democrats and republicans who disagreed in a respectful way. But as usual, trump took it to a whole new, super racist level. This is from donald trump. Congressman john lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart, not to mention crime infested, rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk, no action or results. Sad. Seth all talk, no action . John lewis was getting beaten by police for protesting for voting rights, while you were starting your first failed business. [ laughter ] and if youre wondering if its racist to assume lewis district is quote, crime infested and falling apart just because hes black, the answer is a hard yes. But of course, as usual, trump isnt even being consistent. About lewis district, which includes most of atlanta, back in 2006 when he wanted to build a high rise there, saying quote, its a great location and a great city. Ive loved atlanta for years. I guess im not surprised. Trump changes positions more often than a porn star with a bad back. [ laughter ] switch. [ applause ] no, switch, you go and then ill and then come around. Trump then issued a third tweet later that day, at which point it was up to Vice President elect mike pence to try and clean up his mess. The president elect actually, in a tweet late last night, invited congressman lewis to work with us, to bring more prosperity, better schools, more safety to our cities around the country. Seth so trump says go [ bleep ] yourself and pence says no, hes just inviting you to engage in some constructive selflove. [ laughter ] and is it me or was mike pence throwing a little shade at trump when he said trump wrote the tweet late last night. [ light laughter ] pence knows he cant take on trump head to head, but he is going to drop hints that he should maybe tweet in the daytime. But jut out of curiosity, what counts as late last night to mike pence . Oh, come on. [ laughter ] and i of course didnt see it, as it was well past the electronics curfew at the pence household. [ laughter ] in fact, i was likely fast asleep having my same recurring dream about a wellmowed lawn and a pair freshlyironed slacks. [ laughter ] maybe the most galling part of this whole argument is the sudden memory loss of republicans, who now have the temerity to argue that no one disputed president obamas legitimacy when he was elected. I cannot imagine the fallout, the backfire that you would have if a republican would have ever implied that about barack obama. You didnt have republicans questioning whether or not obama legitimately beat john mccain in 2008. Seth yeah, what kind of morally bankrupt person would ever have questioned the legitimacy of Barack Obamas presidency . Guessed already . [ laughter ] how fast can you guess . Was it right away . Like was it before i even asked . You guessed it right away, right . [ laughter ] so for those who remember, trumps tweets like this one an extremely credible source has called called my office and told me that Barack Obamas birth certificate is a fraud they might find it starnge, to hear him complaining about having his legitimacy questioned. But for Reince Priebus, they are very different things. Donald trumps made it clear that certainly over the last few years that president obama was born in hawaii, but the point is not until the end of the campaign. But hang on a second, george, were not questioning the legitimacy of the outcome of the election but it is a fact that donald trump was questioning whether president obama was eligible to serve as president under the constitution. And many people were george, but that issues been resolved for years now, and its been resolved for at least two years in Donald Trumps mind. Seth first of all, it wasnt two years, it was two months second, you dont get to brag about that. For two of the president s eight years in office, donald trump did not think he was from africa. Why cant you give him credit for that . [ laughter ] now regardless of how you feel about lewiss statement that he doesnt see trump as a legitimate president , there continue to be major questions both the alleged russian hacking and trumps response to it. Although for some gop member of congress, there are no questions at all, like texas congressman mike conaway. Who claimed democrats also benefitted from foreign interference because they used mexican entertainers to help get out to vote in nevada. Quote, harry reid and the democrats brought in mexican soap opera stars, singers and entertainers who had immense influence in those communities into las vegas. To entertain and get out the vote and so forth. Those are foreign actors, foreign people influencing the vote in nevada. You dont hear the democrats screaming and saying one word about that. As to whether he considers that on par with russian cyber intrusions that aimed to damage Hillary Clintons campaign, conaway said, sure it is. Its foreign influence. Dudeat [ light laughter ] thats apples and russian interference in our election. [ laughter ] theres only one word [ cheers and applause ] theres only one word to describe the idea that campaigning with mexican soap opera stars is the same as russian interference, and that word is loco. [ laughter ] beyond the investigation into russian hacking, there are also the unverified allegations of possible contact between the Trump Campaign and russian operatives. Unsubstantiated reports that, according to the guardian, the fbi at one point looked into. Now, you might be asking why were only hearing about this now, not during the mpaign. Well, its because of fbi director james comeys claim that he never comments on pending investigations. A claim that he repeated at a Senate Hearing last week. Has the fbi investigated these reported relationships, and if so, what are the agencys findings . Thank you, senator. I would never comment on investigations, whether we have one or not in an open forum like this. Did you answer the senator wydens question that there is an Investigation Underway as to connections between either of the political campaigns and the russians . I didnt say one way or the other. Especially in a public forum. We never confirm or deny a pending investigation. Im not saying the irony of your making that statement here, i cannot avoid. Seth yes, you see, its ironic, because comey repeatedly made public statements about the investigation into Hillary Clintons emails that hurt her during the campaign. Isnt that funny, hillary . Okay. [ laughter ] what all this makes clear is thats as trump prepares to become president on friday, were going to need strong congressional oversight. And that kind of oversight can be effective, as we saw last week, for example, when senator Elizabeth Warren aggressively qu housing secretary, ben carson, about trumps conflicts of interest and got him to offer this unintentionally revealing answer. My concern is whether or not among the billions of dollars that you will be responsible for handing out in grants and loans, can you just assure us that not one dollar will go to benefit either the president elect or his family . It will not be my intention to do anything to benefit any any american. [ laughter and applause ] seth it will not be my intention to do anything to benefit any american. [ light laughter ] i think thats the closest were going to get to a Mission Statement from the Trump Administration. [ laughter ] this has been a closer look. Well be right back, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] a just be calm side. You got a, i never thought id get married at 65 side. Hey im just looking side. 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[ cheers and applause ] thank you so much for being here, leah. Also we are so excited this week. Welcome back to the 8g band, marnie stern, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] marnie, who does not like when we talk about her is back and marnie left for the best possible reason, which is she has a baby boy. Wyatt stern johnson, lil shredder. [ applause ] born back in november. So congratulations to you, and thank you so much for coming back to us. Thank you, seth. Seth all right, moving on, our first guess tonight is cnns chief washington correspondent. He hosts the lead weekday afternoons on cnn as well as the Network Sunday show, state of the union. Please welcome back to the show, our friend jake tapper. [ cheers and applause ] seth how are you . Im good. Im good. The day off, and you were kind enough to come up here from d. C. To spend the day with us. Yeah, not much going on. Seth yeah, not much going on. [ light laughter ] slow news year. Take a day off. Not much to cover. Seth you had a big story. Cnn broke a big story last tuesday we did. Seth about how you basically reported that the trump that donald trump president elect trump had been presented with information that there was an alleged that russia allegedly had information yeah. Seth that they were going to use to blackmail him. Yeah, we, uh about nine, ten days ago, the intelligence chiefs met with president obama. The next day they met with president elect trump, and they provided the intelligence briefing on the russian hacking, and then they also provided this twopage synopsis of this other stuff that theyd been hearing from credible sources, but they didnt know if the information was real, and they wanted him to know about it, that it was out there, because they thought it potentially affected national security. So we had the story. I have to say, you got the first on the record comment other than Donald Trumps tweet, from kellyanne conway. You obviously had been watching cnn right before the show. Seth as i do. Youre the person who pumps me up. And [ light laughter ] and you explained it great. You had all the details perfectly right. I wish i could say the same about everyone else who followed us in our reporting. But you were exactly on target. Seth its obviously very fortuitous timing that it happened right before we came out and talked to her about it. The interesting thing that happened is right after cnn broke their story, buzzfeed approached the same story a different way. Whereas they actually published this 35 was it a 35 page . 35page memos, yeah. Seth memo, which was all these alleged things, and it was pretty salacious, some pretty obviously some details that comedy shows are really happy to read. [ light laughter ] but yet the next day was this news press conference, Donald TrumpsFirst Press Conference as president elect, and he sort of conflated what cnn did with what buzzfeed did, and he was very hard on jim acosta, this cnn reporter who was at that press i believe he said, you are fake news. Yeah. Seth this must be a crazy time. You used to have that job. You used to be a white house reporter. How what do you do you feel as though youre under attack being a member of the press right now . Well, ive been yelled at by president s and press secretaries before, but seth all nonpartisan. Everybody has been mad at you. [ light laughter ] everybodys been mad at me one way or another, sooner or later it happens. And then but ive never seen the effort to delegitimize an organization for a story that you dont like that has been proven. By the way every word of the story that we reported last tuesday has been proven correct. Its been corroborated in one way or another by the Vice President , by the director of national intelligence. Theres not one thing we got wrong. He was obviously trying to get us to stop focusing on the story and just to discredit all of us, and, you know, thats too bad. Its not a huge shock that he its one of the reasons that i wasnt happy about buzzfeed doing what it did in addition to the fact that i thought it was irresponsible to put these uncorroborated rumors out there. I mean, thats not reporting, thats just publishing. But that said, you know, that comes with the territory. Seth now it must be interesting because it seems to me watching cnn in the days after, cnn then asell as buzzfeed were part of the story. Yeah. Seth as somebody who does reports on the news, is it an uncomfortable time where you are also part of the news . Yeah, its not really what were supposed to do. Were not supposed to be part of the story. In fact, some of the lessons ive learned along the way in terms of be being a reporter, especially in terms of being an aggressive one, have been about learning how not to be part of the story. Like, if youre going to ask a follow up question, eight, nine, 24 times, then you do so in a way that is polite, so that you are not the story. The question and the refusal to answer is the story. Seth and you know i think is the press going to have to sort of like work as one unit to combat what seems to be the strategy that the Trump Administration is going to use with dealing with the press . Is it feasible to think of the press with all their disparate ideas and all the different ways they approach reporting on the news can actually work as one . Or is that sort of fanciful . Well its a little fanciful, because we compete against each other. But by the same t