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The national intelligence came forward with a consensus view that russia favored trump they had meddled in the election, tried to undermine trump's opponent, that that view was absolutely wiped away and dissed by the incoming president and by his incoming national security adviser. >> we're keeping you all here. kristen, one more for you. how is the white house tonight responding either publicly or privately to the fact that russia has roared back into the headlines tonight in a pretty big way? >> no official response, nicole. you about i can tell you, look, these headlines continue to come ba...

It's meant to make it harder to rich and powerful people to bring libel suits against the pres. he can say that they're looking at this but they don't have to look much farther than the first amendment. >> you say libel laws should be restricted. why? >> he can appoint four or five justices to the supreme court that would have a different view than has been the consensus view since 1960. but look the press is irresponsible and there are too many loopholes in the libel laws and some of them need to be tightened up. for example you can say anything you want defamatory about anything in the world...

We have 50 state libel laws and they're all limited by the first amendment in a way that president trump doesn't like. it does make it harder for him to bring a libel suit. it's meant to make it harder for rich and powerful people bring libel suits against the press. he can say that they're looking at this but they don't have to look much farther than the first amendment. >> you say libel laws should be restricted. why? >> he can appoint four or five justices to the supreme court that would have a different view than has been the consensus view since 1960. he can do that. but, look, the press ...

Him after the election, over the weekend said to cbs russians hacking with the elections maybe it was china, for all we know 17 agencies have said it was russia, and then this invite. how is president trump getting points or saying he's moving to the middle and being surrounded by smart foreign policy experts when he's doing this? >>y. i think that the good things about the 100 days were some of the cabinet selections and also, i think the prudent and limited use of military strikes in syria in response to the chemical weapons attacks. i would give those good grades. other troubling spots they...

Accusations. >> there were numerous things and some things we know to be accurate like the fact that russia tried to effect the election in 2016, there was also an interesting report from reuters also featured on msnbc last night, about the basis for that consensus view of the intelligence community on the russia assessment, basically saying that putin ordered an internal think tank to develop a program to undermine confidence in the american election system to undercut trump's opposition, also to throw around this idea of fake news and to inject the concept of voter fraud. that is a russian p...