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Huckabee sanders when she takes the podium at 1:00. president trump as he has done for weeks turning the attention back to democrats, turning to hillary clinton, he called her crooked "h." and trying to put distance between himself, his campaign and paul manafort. this happened prior to manafort joining the trump campaign. we have to point out, while the members of the trump team may want to distance themselves from manafort, he was an integral part of campaign 2016. that is just a fact. ken? >> reporter: absolutely. and another fact, hallie, is that the indictment allegations the conspiracy h...

Mitch mcconnell saying the sanctions are overdue but they're appropriate. you have folks like arizona senator john mccain who called for hearings next week on the cyber attack issue so this is a point where trump seems to be at odds with members of his own party. fred? >> athena jones in honolulu, thank you so much. let's bring in our panel. cnn military analyst retired lieutenant general mark hertling. david cramer, former deputy assistant secretary of state for russia and senior director for human rights and democracy at the mccain institute. also joining me, john nixon, former cia senior ...

Republicans in congress, they have said that this is too little too late. in other words they aren't saying this step by obama yesterday should not have been taken, they are arguing that it should have been taken much sooner and, in fact, much tougher so the risk, i think that president-elect trump faces when he assumes office is a growing divide between his views on russia and his interests in buddying up and becoming pals with putin and republicans in congress who do see russia and putin as a thread, the hacking as a major attack on the united states and the need for a much tougher position ...

With intelligence officials to get a briefing, potentially presented with the evidence that they have, that they have reached this conclusion with confident that russia is behind these hacks. fred? >> sunlen serfaty, thank you so much. let's dig deeper now. i have cnn political commentator david swertleg from the "washington post." david, you first, is this ax boxing in donald trump or is it more about president obama getting things done in his last few days in office? >> probably a little bit of both but for the kellyanne conway spin of obama doing this to box in president-elect trump you h...

Obamacare is it was done so swiftly and such a big change that -- and some of it did not turn out the way they expected it to, i think the american people, especially a people that voted for him, would be satisfied with that approach. part of their biggest problem with obamacare is just the swiftness in which it happened. >> and david, is it really an issue of just rebranding? >> to selena's point, i think politically selena is right. a go-slow approach would help president-elect trump. in terms of the math and mechanics of how the component parts of the affordable care act work together i thi...