And obamacare, the Republican Party is increasingly divided over how fast to repeal it. Health care will be better and less expensive when obamacare is completely repealed. If theres nothing to replace it with. I think it would not be the right path for us to repeal obamacare without laying out a path forward. Joining me this morning for insight and analysis are david brooks, columnist for the New York Times. Andrea mitchell of nbc. Cnbcs Rick Santelli and former congresswoman donna edwards. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. If theres one thing donald trump as candidate and president elect has been consistent about is that russia in no way interfered with the u. S. President ial election from arguing in a debate that the hacking of the dnc could just as easily have come from someone who is 400 his bed to trashing the agencies to appearing to side with wikileaks founder assange. Now he has more to pushback against, on thursday the heads of the top intelligence agencies made their conclusions clear, russia interfered with the president ial election. On friday, those same intelligence agencies released a report that included this line, putin and the russian government appeared to help president elect trumps election chances when possible by discrediting secretary clinton and contrasting her unfavorably to him. It did not include the sources and methods of how the intel agencies came to these conclusions. That portion is classified but that was part of mr. Trumps briefing on friday. The president elect reacted by neither accepting nor rejecting the finding. There was absolutely no evidence that the hacking affected the Election ResultsVoting Machines want touched. The prede no one is suggesting that Voting Machines were impacted and the president elect still appears to be largely on his own, at least within his party, on this dispute. Reporter donald trump is calling the controversy over russian interference during the president ial election a political witch hunt, putting himself at odds with the Intelligence Community. I think there is a difference between skepticism and disparagement. Reporter hes at odds with members of his own party. Every american should be alarmed by russias attacks on our nation. Reporter and hes even at odds with the outgoing president. We have to remind ourselves were on the same team. Vladimir putin is not on our team. Reporter after an intelligence briefing on friday, trump dialed down his outrage in a longer statement saying, instead, he has tremendous respect for the Intelligence Community, but trump also con flighted russia, china and other that have waged Cyber Attacks on the United States. The Intelligence Committee released a report publicly concluding that russian president Vladimir Putin influenced a campaign aimed at the United States president ial election. Quote, russias goals were to undermine public faith in the u. S. Democratic process, and denigrate secretary clinton and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president elect trump. The intelligence agencies also concluded with high confidence that russias military intelligence arm passed on material it acquired from the dnc and democratic officials to wiki leaks and other sites. For trump promoting the wikileaks material came a campaign staple. Wikileaks just came out with a new one. Theyve got it all down, folks. Wikileaks. They were just announcing new wikileaks and there, but i didnt want to keep you waiting. I didnt want to keep you waiting. Let me run back under the plane and find out. A senior u. S. Intelligence official tells nbc news that u. S. Intercepts picked up senior russian officials celebrating trumps victory. The report did not address whether the Russian Campaign actually tipped the election to trump, but for a candidate defined by shifting policy stances, trump has been remarkably consistencent on his ambivalence about russia involvement. I dont think anyone knows russia. Theyre saying russia, russia, russia. It could be someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. They have no idea if its russia, china or somebody. It could be somebody sitting on a bed some place. Our country has no idea. Hed rather believe i doubt it. As mr. Trump was being briefed i sat down with two republican senators who have been critical of trump. John mccain and Lindsay Graham. I began by asking the both of them about mr. Trumps claim friday morning that what were seeing is nothing more than a political witch hunt. I believe our intelligence leaders, general clapper and admiral rogers who testified before the Arms Services committee are credible people and well respected. General clapper, i think, has 53 years of experience in the intelligence business and yes, intelligence authorities have made mistakes in the past that have been wrong in the past, but what theyre saying is there is a long history of russian attempts to affect the outcome of our election. You know, heres the deal for me. I think hes worried that inquiring into what russia did in the election is going to undermine his credibility and his legitimacy. Quite frankly, i havent heard any democrat at all of p trump won. Putin is not the reason that clinton lost and trump won. I dont think anybodys saying that, so mr. President elect, thats not what were trying to do. What were trying to do is find out what the russians did in our elections and make sure that other people including the russians wont do it next time. No doubt in my mind that russians interfered, that John Podestas emails were hacked by the russians and not some 13yearold kid or 400pound guy and that the dnc was compromised by the russians and it seems pretty clear that wikileaks got it from the russians. It didnt affect the outcome, but they tried to affect our elections. Hell be the defender of the free world. In a couple of weeks donald trump will be the defender of the free world, you should let everybody know in america, republicans and democrats that you should make russia pay a price and their motives were. Why do you think he continues to question intelligence on this . I think hes worried about it undermining you think its personal . Because he said its time to move on. Remember when he was asked about, maybe on new years eve, lets just get on with our lives. Heres my retort to that. Our lives are built around the idea that were free people, that we go to the ballot box and we have political contests outside of foreign interference. You cant go on with your life as a democracy when a foreign entity is trying to compromise the election process. So, mr. President elect, it is very important that you show leadership here. Let me say this. If after having been briefed by our intelligence leaders, donald trump is still unsure as to what the russians did that would be incredibly unnerving to me au all im asking him is to acknowledge that russia interfered and push back. It could be iran next time. It could be china. It was democrats today, and it could be republicans in the next election. I want to get the Washington Post has a part of this intelligence assessment is they intercepted some communications with russian officials that were essentially celebrating the trump victory. What does that tell you . I think you can only draw the conclusion if they were celebrating that they obviously wanted the outcome to be what it was, and then the question is is what did they do to try to achieve that outcome . And its pretty obvious that they were heavily engaged and we need to come to grips with it and get to the bottom of it and overall, come up with a strategy in this new form can basically dismantle harm our economy, harm our elections and harm our National Security. Where should this investigation go from here . You guys are focused on the larger issue of cybersecurity and frankly, protecting democracies around the world, but what about should there be an investigation about whether any of the campaigns had any interactions with moscow, with any i would like to see a select committee, apparently, that is not in agreement by our leadership. So we will move forward with the Arms Services committee and Foreign Relations and Intelligence Committee will, as well, but it is possible if enough information comes out that that decision could be reversed. I still think its the best way to attack the issue. Are there still active investigations going on to try to figure out if there was coordination between campaigns . You do . We should have come down to the bottom of russia 2016. Period. Period. Wherever it leads. Is there fbi, a joint task force and is it currently happening . We just dont know about it. I believe thats whats happening. You need to speak with them. Heres what we should do as a nation, we should all, republicans and democrats condemn russia. To my republican friends who are gleeful, youre making a big mistake. When russia put our troops at risk most democrats condemned that some celebrated. Most republicans are condemning what russia did and to those who are gleeful about it youre a hack. Youre not a republican and youre not a patriot. If this is not about us, then ill never know what will be about us because when onety compromised and heres what im going to do with senator mccain, we will introduce sanctions that are bipartisan that go beyond the sanctions today against russia that will hit them in the Financial Sector and the Energy Sector where theyre the weakest and were going to give President Trump an opportunity to make russia pay a price for interfering in our elections so it will deter others in the future. I hope you will take advantage of it. Let me play devils advocate. Senator mccain, hey, we spy on russia. Russia spies on us. Weve supported democracy movements in russia actively so. Isnt that a form of getting involved in their politics . How is this not the same thing . It isnt just elections that they are hacking into. It is across the board including military secrets that we have, including the ability to shut down satellites, plants. I mean, they can do grave danger to the United States of america. We never tried to do anything like that. You guys just returned from a trip to eastern europe, spending some time in the baltic countries. What would you say to donald trump . He seems to have an affinity for putin. He seems to want to have a reset with him. After your visit with eastern europe, do you think a reset with putin is something worth doing . I wish he could have gone with me to ukraine as we did to foriople, and met with brave ukrainians that are serving. They have slaughtered ukrainians and theyve sladismembered a country and theyve done so with all International Norms of behavior and theyre putting strains on the postworld war ii new world order, the likes of which weve never seen. Heres what weve t our voices will be lent to their cause in two ways. I want more sanctions to hit him harder to deter what he did in our election and what hes doing throughout the world, putin. Secondly, i want to help the baltic states, ukraine and georgia more. We want more trainers on the ground 365 days a year. A permanent, u. S. Military training presence in the baltics, ukraine and georgia. Would you be more comfortable today if Hillary Clinton were preparing . No. I dont think much about that because the result of the election, but i thought some of the things that were revealed in the wikileaks were very disturbing, as well, and the server and the statements about benghazi. So, no, im not sure it would be better. Any where are you in thi a good president. I like the fact that he wants to get a better deal with the iranians. I like the fact that he wants to cut taxes and secure our border. Theres a lot of things i agree with donald trump on. I want to help him where i can, and i feel an obligation to say no where i must. Right now the biggest problem i have with what i see coming out of the president elects team is russia. Im hoping that after he gets the briefing from the finest among us, that there is zero doubt the russians did this, nobody is saying that you didnt win the election, mr. Trump, president elect trump, thats not the issue. I hope you will embrace the intelligence. You will join with republicans and democrats to push back against russia to make sure it stops and doesnt happen again. If after the briefing he is still unsure, that will shake me to my core about his judgment. Im going to wrap up with a question that has nothing to do president obama will be give his farewell address. Most positive part of his legacy, most negative part of his legacy. Ill start with you, senator mccain. I would say the most positive part of his legacy is that the very fact that the first africanamerican of the president of the United States is a signal that in america anybody can rise to the highest level, and i think thats a very important landmark and is historic. I would argue that his worst is his handling of National Security particularly in the middle east. The red line over syrian use of chemical weapons, that when he went back on that it sent a message that reverberated throughout the world. For you . Positive and negative. He and the first lady have to be complimented for representing our nation well as a fir said, its historic, hes the first africanamerican president , but it just wasnt that. I think the family represented us in a fashion we can all be proud of as to policy. I think hes going to be remembered for taking america in a position of strength to a position of weakness that on his watch he was a very poor adversary for evil, and even worse defender of democracy. Thats rough. Its true and its sad. Its not what i want to say, but tell me how you can come to any other conclusion . All i can say is his Foreign Policy has been a miserable failure and hes been weak to his core when it comes to representing american values, and that is what i believe, and i hope donald trump will make it better. Weve had eight years of weak. I dont want four more years of it. I hope hell turn this around and when it comes to russia, hes on the wrong path. When we come back, Incoming White House counselor to president electmp conway responds. Republicans want to repeal and replace obamacare. Theyve got the repeal part down, but welcome to the world 2116, down, but you can fly across town in minutes or across the globe in under an hour. Whole communities are living on mars and solar satellites provide earth with unlimited clean power. In less than a century, boeing took the world from seaplanes to space planes, across the universe and beyond. 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In terms of russia, if the report says that they attempted, i read in the New York Times stories they appear to and attempted, they did not succeed in embarrassing this country in the world stage. They did not succeed in throwing the election to donald trump. Thats very clear in this report, and i dont want your viewers to be left with any other impression. Read the New York Times outtakes and read the Washington Post and read the report itself, there is no evidence that russia succeeded in any alleged attempt to disrupt our democracy or, in fact, to influence the Election Results. He want to pursue better relations with russia, even staring at this report that says russia was trying to disrupt our democracy. Do you believe he can do both . He has said yes. So he will punish russia on this . He does plan to punish russia on this . I didnt say that. I told you earlier and ill repeat it now. Hes not the president yet. All of you insist one president at a time, so, okay, one president at a time. When he becomes president and he meets with his Security Intelligence team, he as President Trump will make a decision on what to do. Okay, guys. I heard one piece of news there from kellyanne, andrea, i wonder if you heard the same thing. There seems to be a tacit acceptance of the Intelligence Community conclusions that russia attempted to disrupt, and so they have i feel as if the they have moved a little bit. Well, she has. Not the president elect in his tweets about this because he lumped russia, china, all of the other bad actors on Cyber Attacks which weve known about in the past. This was a report, an investigation into russia, and it was not an investigation into whether they and its not just cyber, its the propaganda war. Its fake news, its r. T. , the off