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"you know, paul ryan wants to knock out social security, knock it down, way down, he wants to knock medicare way down, and frankly, two things, number one you are going to lose the election, if you're going to do that, i'm not going to cut it. and i'm not going to raise ages, and i'm not going to do all of the things they want to do. but they want to really cut it, and they want to cut it very substantially. the republicans. and i'm not going to do that." point being, this is not something he said in passing. i think it is likely he won the election because millions of working-class people and...

Escalation of tension and so on, where obviously, donald trump has gone further than that saying we could be friends and even question up until really the last 24 hours that russia did the hack, but that approach is not -- >> it's from the democratic party. it's not from the republican -- >> democrats and republicans. point being that there is a change in russia policy that is a position that many disagree with, including gop senators, that he seemed to be articulating there. >> then there's a question of these pending sanctions right now that republicans want and democrats want to place on ru...

My point being that i don't understand how the republicans couldn't find a way to maybe wait a little while and work with the democrats on something in common because there are quite a few democrats who privately agree with what they've done, even while they are publicly making a lot of hay out of it. >> on the senate side, the top democrat there, chuck schumer, talking about the president-elect's communication. >> these issues are too important for mere words. our challenge is to entrenched for mere tweeting. making america great again requires more than 140 characters per issue. with all due...

My point being that i don't understand how the republicans couldn't find a way to maybe wait a little while and work with the democrats on something in common because there are quite a few democrats who privately agree with what they've done, even while they are publicly making a lot of hay out of it. >> on the senate side, the top democrat there, chuck schumer, talking about the president-elect's communication. >> these issues are too important for mere words. our challenge is to entrenched for mere tweeting. making america great again requires more than 140 characters per issue. with all due...

So why bother participating in the process of democracy if he doesn't have to essentially? >> and we should note that in keeping away from press conferences has tactically paid its benefits down the stretch of the campaign. his handlers and staff recognized that he tended to do things in the press conferences like calling on the russians to hack his opponents' e-mails -- >> well, he was erratic in other ways as well. keep him away from twitter. i don't know that it made or broke the election. >> as a reporter, i have to say, it is nice to be able to ask questions and even if you don't get answ...