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the us director of national intelligence has rejected suggestions made by donald trump that official agencies may have leaked unconfirmed claims that russia had compromising material on him. in a statement, james clapper said he had called the president elect to say the leak had not come from the intelligence services. this morning, that was flatly denied by the president elect himself. the kremlin said they hoped that donald trump and mr putin would give along and there would be more mutual respect between the two countries. christian fraser reports. eight days from now, donald trump goes into battle as the next commander in chief. never before has an incoming president been warring on so many an incoming president been warring on so many fronts. not you, not you. your organisation is terrible. your organisation is terrible. let s go. go ahead. quiet. quiet. he is in conflict with the press, the ethics committee, pharmaceutical and defence industries, some of his own s ....
these are potential criminal felonies. that is why the mueller investigation needs to proceed. there is always a striking thing that happened on the house side in these investigations in these matters, which is they never got their hands on the phone records. never subpoenaed the phone records placed to an unknown meeting. is that something you would like to see as a member of congress. i am a former prosecutor and if there was an allegation and i did not subpoena those records, i would have been fired. it was clear that they were not interested in trying to find evidence of collusion. trying to do a whitewash of what happened. and i think history will not judge them kindly. reporting yesterday about senator claire mc mccaskill. we are told it lasted 30 minutes. so very concerned about what is going to happen. you started off this interview by nodding to possible crimes committed if it is in fact true, the president knew about the meeting. and there are people on t ....
ukraine intractable, syria, extend the new star treaty for five years that s going to expire in 2021 as a result of these two presidents coming together? yeah. can they agree for no nuclear proliferation and put pressure on north korea and also put pressure on iran? is that possible? i think so. paul: okay. let s talk about the domestic politics here because you know to have an effective foreign policy, you need domestic support. and the way the president handled that press conference has really hurt him in terms of his ability, i think, to maneuver inside congress and have the support he needs. why did he get such at odds with the intelligence community judgment about 2016, when he really didn t need to? yeah, i mean, listen, monday was a disaster. i think it was a low point of his presidency, to be sure. i don t get it to be frank, paul. i mean, i know that they put a president? you know, there s a lot of misunderstanding about this. in talking to the people around the p ....
Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. things that are not truthful for donald trump. we don t have a lot of on the record lies or falsehoods if you want to use that word, from michael cohen. the only one that i can think of is that he told chris cuomo that he wasn t recording him when he actually was. so in the credibility fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand? well, in the credibility fight you have to ask a few questions. one is who has the greater motive to lie here? one of the things we ve learned, say, from robert mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. so if michael cohen is not telling the truth here because he is looking for a deal from robert mueller and he peddles an untrue story, he s going to get himself into a heap of trouble. on the other hand, president trump has some motive here to lie because ....
Chris Hayes discusses the day s top news. there is always a striking thing that happened on the house side in these investigations in these matters, which is they never got their hands on the phone records. never subpoenaed the phone records placed to an unknown meeting. is that something you would like to see as a member of congress. i am a former prosecutor and if there was an allegation and i did not subpoena those records, i would have been fired. it was clear that they were not interested in trying to find evidence of collusion. trying to do a whitewash of what happened. and i think history will not judge them kindly. reporting yesterday about senator claire mc mccaskill. how democrats last week put up a bill to provide election, security funding. the republicans rejected that. and it is clear that the house republicans have completely gone derelict in their attitude to protect america. and hopefully voters will change. top officials on election security. we a ....