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destruction. this is threatening a feud between the top agencies and the president-elect white house. we re getting phew reaction from moscow. we ll get to that in a moment. let s bring in eugene scott and tom lobianco. good morning. the strategy behind this statement. just three sentences. unsigned. what what is the the calculation here from the trump folks? it s a continuation of donald trump s message during the campaign that he believes he knows more than the intelligence community. that s a hard sell to make at this point, given that we know he only is getting about once a week president daily briefs gnat would give him more information about national security globally. that statement is inaccurate. these are not the same people that were heading the departments when the bush administration was in place. this is new information and new revelations about what is happening abroad. tom, i talk t about the possibility that this would cause a feud between the intellige ....
by the kremlin, an important point as well in the way donald trump painted his relationship with intelligence agencies in this country vis-a-vis how it could be taken overseas. right now is the start of the 1:00 p.m. hour here in the east. imagine the role of this man right now. this is a live picture in front of the senate foreign relations committee, and that is the ceo of exxonmobil, a multinational company so large, while it s said they can t change the weather, they can forecast it. they have their own weather bureau, a sprawling organization of 70,000 employees. rex tillerson is the nominee to be our next secretary of state, a job offer that came to him. it s been said in the public domain in part because of his relationship with russia, because of his relationship with vladimir putin. imagine all of this in light of the news conference we just witnessed, in light of what donald trump said and didn t say about russia and putin, in light of what donald trump said about u. ....
good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, breaking news, president donald trump signing an executive order launching an investigation into voter fraud as early as tomorrow. this is according to a senior administration official. it comes as trump is speaking out tonight, doubling down moments ago in an interview with abc news on his false claim of massi massive voter fraud. it s been called false. look at the pew reports. i called the author last night and he said there was no evidence then why did he write the report? he said no evidence of voter fraud. why did he write the report? he s groveling again. i talk about the reporters that grovel when they want to write something that you want to hear but not necessarily millions of people want to hear or have to hear. you ve launched an investigation. we will to find out. and i will say this, of those votes cast, none of them come to me. thun of them come to me. they would all be for the other the inve ....
aisle, are rightly concerned about how he may respond when tested by russia, iran, north korea, and other transnational threats such as cyber. considering some of these hotspots in the world in detail, i would like to start with iran, which remains a top concern for this committee. their behavior with respect to forces across the region has not improved and iran s unsafe actions have continued. i believe the joint plan of action is the most effective way to prevent iran from resuming their nuclear weapons program. general mattis, while you raise concerns about the jcpoa when it was being negotiated, you stated during a center for strategic and international studies forum in april 2016 that in your words, there is no going back absent a real violation. i agree with that assessment. i look forward to hearing your thoughts about how we can build upon the jcpoa to address other iranian threats including its malign influence in the region and ballistic missile programs. violent ext ....
e-mails. and then the letters comey sent to the hill, one saying we found more e-mails on anthony weiner s laptop that could be pertinent to our investigation, we need to look at those, and then his follow-up letter a few days before the election in which he said, we ve done that review and we haven t had anything. hillary clinton herself has said she thinks that first letter in late october changed the course of the election. so, the inspector general is going to look at that and a couple of ancillary things. there have been allegations that an fbi deputy director should have taken himself off part of this case because of some connections to the campaign or his wife s connections to the political to politics in virginia. some allegations that an assistant attorney general for legislative affairs passed information along to the clinton campaign, and other employees disclosed nonpublic information. the foeklecal point is the two actions by the fbi director, the letter to the hill ....