Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20161212:23:15:00
This kind of public disparagement of the assessments is unusual. you have to go back to richard nixon to find someone who loathed cia analysis this much. but there is one difference from that time. richard nixon did not even bother to take an intelligence briefing during the transition. he didn't bother to read the pdb at all during the transition. at least donald trump is doing that. there's the hope that some bridges can still be built here, but it's going to be a hard construction effort, that's for sure. >> david, i know you said earlier, you're an optimist. optimists don't usually look at...