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Going to have the prospect of a republican-led congress pushing for penalties for a crime in effect that the president doesn't accept. does he battle his own party on this? >> well i'm questioning whether they will push that first or whether they are going to go with his agenda, which is to do jobs and tax reform and things like that. i'm telling you what really is happening, jim is he is -- donald trump is going with his gut, as i've watched for a year and a half with him now. he doesn't always follow the evidence. if he had looked at the evidence and facts everybody presented to him he would...

And political analyst and strategist jonathan tesny. host of the working life pod cast and "new york times" editor patrick healey as well. congressm congressman, they will say it is a democratic narrative but the fact is it is not. it is a bipartisan on this issue. the house speaker who's republican as you know believes russia is behind the hacking in fact is calling for stiffer penalties as has mitch mcconnell. why is donald trump continuing to defy that consensus? >> well i think what donald trump is doing is he's very clear. he's saying i'm skeptical of the intelligence and i'm going the wa...

Patrick, monica and jonathan, pipe this here. but patrick you have been covering this closely. what do you make of this continued expression of doubt on this? >> this is all about legitimacy jim. donald trump is trying to protect an election result that a lot of democrats and a lot of others have sort of raised some doubts about in terms of the interference by russian intelligence agencies that may have tipped some of in in his favor, in the sense of creating so much focus around leaked e-mails, hacked e-mails, hacked documents. this is about for donald trump to give in on this and say that ru...

Whole lot of criticism, including the red line there. but this attack, the one in ankara, was the assassination of the russian ambassador to turkey. i don't think it had to do with the red line that obama, you know, the blurry red line, and also i don't think the attack on germany, necessarily -- and again, we don't know who carried this out -- it doesn't look like it had anything to do with that specifically. patrick healey, you know, it is striking, president-elect trump, and today he is the president-elect, today the tone of his statements differ. there's no campaign issue here, so there's ...

And for the massacre, he said, "they laughed at me when i said to bomb the isis controlled oil fields. now they're not laughing and doing what i said." after san bernardino, "i beat hillary in the new fox news poll head to head. she has no strength or stamna, both of which are needed to make america great again." and after brussels, "my heart and prayers go out to all of the victims of the terrible brussels tragedy. this madness must be stopped and i will stop it." here to explore that aspect of this latest apparent act of terror, trump supporter, jeffrey lord, maria cardona, patrick healey, a...