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the state department. putting iran on notice, is this trump s new red line? hi, erin. definitely being presented as a hard line on iran. maybe somewhat blurry one at this point. but the white house is saying that it is dedicated to holding iran accountable after this latest missile launch. and it is considering a whole range of options in a response and, yes, that does include a military one. a tough line on iran at the white house today. as to have day, we are officially putting iran on notice. reporter: national security adviser michael flynn offering a cryptic warning after iran tested another ballistic missile sunday. the obama administration failed to respond adequately to tehran s malign actions including weapons transfers, support for terrorism, and other violations of international norms. reporter: the new administration making its clear it believes the missile launch violated a u.n. resolution. flynn s comments today follow its missile program. but prior t ....
kellyanne conway had to say about it today. that cannot be verified. that s a classified briefing. we should all be increasingly confirmed that we have, quote, intelligence officials, divulging information unsourced, unnamed to the rest of us. just to smear the president-elect of the united states we now have intelligence officials divulging information they re sworn not to divulge. we should be very concerned about that. i don t even think this is fake news. i think it s just fake. i would take the news word right out of it. reporter: so what we re seeing from donald trump and his advisers is pushback against the intelligence community but taking issue with the underlying allegations that cnn has not cooperated and have not been reporting. and reince priebus, trump s chief of staff, said he asked donald trump directly about some of these underlying allegations. donald trump apparently told him they were complete garbage but in more colorful language. you can bet this will ....
hackers were targeting the dnc and other democratic operations. by the way, as candidate trump was publicly calling on the russians to publicly hack hillary clinton s e-mails. we don t know the contact or motive before the conversations, but the word they happened is a big real development. we should note the kremlin and donald trump this morning are calling it fake news. cnn s jim sciutto has been working sources all day, all night on this story. jim, bring us up to speed on where we are right now at 9:01 eastern time. i should knnote calling it fe news without the president or the white house responding to the substance of the reporting which we ve asked them to do. let s get to what the reporting is. one, two things caused alarm, raised red flags in u.s. law enforcement and intelligence. first, the volume and frequency of the communications between trump advisers and the russians. communications happen during campaigns, typically at a much lower level and much less frequent t ....
intelligence he suggestions. that s the big argument. this has been such a contentious issue we saw the whole drama play out with the house intelligence committee and their top republican leader devin nunes came, saw the material. out of the protocol of that committee and them adam schiff, came and looked at the same material. there s answers about this coming from the white house first from the deputy press secretary who says there was no attempt to keep adam schiff responsible. . not that i m aware of at all. i think the bigger point is there s something there. we d love to come see it which is exactly what we said. it turns out if there s something of substance for him to know about, we want him to see it. frarjly i think if there wasn t something of sub stns, he would have walked out that moment from the white house and come out and declared that this was a big waste of time and a big dog and pony show. he didn t do that. he doesn t do that. it s very telling in what he ....
after we finished the kitchen floor. [laughter] bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. bill: hi, i am bill o reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the brawl over sanctuary cities. that is the subject of this evening talking points memo. as you may know, the federal government is threatening cities that do not cooperate with homeland security with the loss of federal grant money. now, the city of seattle, suing the feds over that, the first of many lawsuits, i believe. the basic problem is that cities like chicago, seattle, new york, los angeles, san francisco, do not want to hold illegal aliens they ve arrested until i.c.e can pick them up. though cities want to release the aliens on bail or their own recognizance. talking points believe that is dangerous and irresponsible. if there is a federal detainer play to that constituency. and to the federal government, which now wants to enforce immigration law, because presi ....