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We have a ton of new developments to get to this morning including new reaction to Rudy Giulianis comments aimed at discrediting Stormy Daniels. Her lawyer Michael Avenatti was on the phone with Stephanie Ruhle less than an hour ago. This is an absolutely disgusting pig and should be fired immediately. The fact that he has doubled down on his comments today show how in touch out of touches with todays society, show what a pig he truly is, shows that he thinks hes above the law and above rebuke and it shows that he must believe that this president will support him and back him for these outrage...

Phillip baum in "the washington post" has a sarcastic checklist of what you need to do to get a pardon. are you a darling of conservative politics or a celebrity? the next best thing if you're not a celebrity do you know one, can you get on fox, any friends who know the president, are you in the sights of the special counsel? clearly this is not really what donald trump is looking at but it does speak to the pattern that we have seen in most of his pardons so far. >> that's right and, look, i don't think you can say enough how unusual what we're seeing is. the pardon decision is usually a very...

Servers. he said he was saying so jokingly. no modern president has ever gone this long without taking questions from reporters in such a setting after winning a white house. bringing in maggie haberman and phillip baum, political reporter for the "washington post." thank you both for being here. maggie, do you think it's possible that president-elect trump, president trump, will never do a press conference? newt gingrich has suggested that that's what he thinks should happen. >> i think any assumption that what we know of in the white house will continue is erroneous. certain traditions will ...

He is very good at controlling the information flow right now but it is disturbing in terms of access to a free press. >> because there are questions to ask. >> sure. >> phillip, one of the things i think that president-elect trump doesn't necessarily quite understand is that this whole conflict of interest thing, this actually, if he actually did the responsible thing that the "wall street journal" and others, conservative media and suggested he need to do, liquidate his assets, put it in a blind trust, it would help him with his presidency. i don't think he thinks that, though. >> pretty cle...