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Pew research but the author responded on twitter saying there's "zero evidence of fraud." today it was suggested there could be a conspiracy theorist in the oval office. additi additionally, one of the nation's oldest and most respected newspapers accused the president of lying. the new york city was the on major newspaper we could find calling the claim a lie on their front page this morning. and a second times piece appeared online this morning again calling this a lie. something to get used to. and the president today was not getting much air cover from fellow republicans including the spea...

Our goal is to leverage as much as possible. our goal is to leverage not just roads and bridges and pipelines and faa reauthorization and so many other things. infrastructure involves many different aspects that create jobs and want to be as expansive as we can with regard to infrastructure. >> do you -- >> i am a policy guy. >> yesterday the president told business leaders that he had send -- [inaudible]. it isn't very clear what would be the defining line there. they would face a 35% border tax he called it for importing goods into the united states. what is your feeling about that? >> there...

Secretary of defense himself has not actually had a position in the pentagon before as a bureaucrat. general mattis has been there, obviously, a long time, but not as a bureaucrat. the deputy secretary of defense's job is extremely important. he's the executive officer. he's the number two guy to whom everybody else reports. he's the nuts and bolts guy. he does all the administration and logistics. for all intents and purposes, he runs the bifs the pentagon on a day-to-day basis. the secretary of defense is the policy guy. he's the boss and everything -- he's responsible for everything that ha...

>> so, let's play on the american side first, jake. look, there's always tension between the intel guys and the policy guy. the guys over here are fact based, he's vision based. world as it is, world as we want it to be, inherently inducktive, inherchtly deductive. inherently pessimistic, inheritly optimistic. this happens all the time. you go through it in every transition. this particular president-elect exhibits these characteristics over here, this confidence in his own kind of visionary intuition, far more than any other previous president. so, i think we all knew in the intelligence comm...

Tactical intelligence coordinator. i think petraeus is signalling that he would be interested in serving. in what capacity, who can say? the whole process is fascinating, the way in which people are -- >> i know. >> it's like a stock market and reputation and potential job selection. reminds me of the days of lyndon johnson. you know, name up, name down. somebody promotes himself too much and they're out. >> speaking of which, rudy giuliani is the one somebody who may have promoted himself too much for secretary of state. the fallback seems to be some consideration for director of national int...