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Tickets? >> would you sit down with congressman lewis? >> sure. we're off to a bad start. what he did is a bad thing. notice for me. it's a bad thing for the country. very divisive. >> we should point out it's only house democrats that will be boycotting the inauguration on friday, not the senate democrats. president obama reiterated today at his press conference that he will be in attendance. >> shepard: what did he say if anything about his feud with john brennan? >> looks like he's tried to put it to bed. he accepted john brennan's assertion that said he didn't leak word that the intelligen...

Over this idea that i would -- we would move things to another building. so we're going to keep everybody in this building but i'll pick who comes into this room. that is not something -tried toy and other colleagues backed this up and he was wrong and they were right. as our forefathers would say, donald trump is wrong on this issue. >> the press is a strong institution. the public is a strong institution. it has a desire to get information and to know what's going on. and so it will gravitate to those sources of information that are thauthoritative over time. on the whole, the electorate is ...

Early 1900s. it will do just fine even if it's kicked out of the white house or moved to another room. it's not less skeptical. it's not going to have fewer sources. it will get information that the public needs. i think what he was speaking to was the value of that institution as communicated by the president of the united states. don't push them out, welcome them in. would have an adversarial relationship with them, but they're part of the democratic process. that's the message i took it from. >> shepard: he spoke on the matter of equality, lgbt issues, the differences in thoughts of a young...

Stress, when we feel pressure when we're just fed information that encouraging some of our worst instincts, we tend to fall back into some of the old racial fears and racial divisions and racial stereotypes. it's very hard for us to break out of those and listen and think about people as people and imagine being in that person's shoes. and by the way, it's no longer a black and whitish you alone. you have spanish. you have asian folks. this is not -- you know, the same old battles. we got this stew that is bubbling up from people everywhere. we have to make sure that we in our own lives, our o...

To deal with. those were considerations that kind of went into the decision. but at root will remain -- this is a point of debate. you can watch it and almost sense that it's going to be something that we can anticipate seeing in the news for some time, of whether or not this was in fact a fair enough sentence for the damage that was done by the release of that information. >> shepard: it feels as if in the big picture this sort of measure, the news conference, is something of our past. this sort of thing we've just seen, the president-elect conducts himself in quite a different matter, instru...