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unfairly. what is wrong with having an overzealous watch dog committee? and isn t getting rid of this office the kind of swampy stuff that republicans across america elected donald trump to get rid of? they re bringing anonymous charges and trying them in a public arena. a person targeted by that has to defend themselves after they ve been attacked publicly when they don t have a right to face their accuser. that s a right that goes right back to jesus himself standing before the high priest. i m going to read it off the screen here, with all that congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the independent ethics watchdog as unfair as it is? so the president-elect appears to be making the argument that you guys have a lot of other things on their plate. why make this the first move in secret the way it went down last night? i would have been happy to bring that to the floor and let democrats vote on that independently. i think you would have s ....
intelligence and heads of the cia, fbi and national security agency will brief the president-elect on alleged russian meddling in the presidential election, certainly he has called repeatedly challenged. he said, well, maybe it s not the case, maybe even sided with julian assange tweeting even last night questioning the validity of the information he s about to receive. well, we have it all covered for you from every angle. kristen welker, what do we expect will go down here? reporter: the backdrop to this briefing is very tense, that s for sure. you have the president-elect just last night again questioning the intelligence community. he was infuriated after details leaked out about the report and actually what s in the report and intelligence officials telling us that some of the details in the report include intercepts which prove that top russian officials were celebrating president-elect trump s win. we were also learning they ve identified some of the go-betweens who deliv ....
plus literally dialing up the rhetoric. president trump and president putin set to talk as counterpart tomorrow. but who s calling who? keir simmons in new york, kristen welker at the white house. big meeting today, big phone call tomorrow but it s the meeting that s not happening that s grabbing all the headlines, right? that s right. that meeting that was supposed to happen with the president of mexico which was cancelled yesterday after president trump insisted that mexico was going to pay for the wall, the president of mexico said not going to pay for the wall. that is something we have heard him say over and over again. then we learned he cancelled the meeting. president trump tried to cast it as a mutual decision. bottom line, this is a rift in a relation with one of the united states closest allies, its third largest trading partner. what happens next? the administration floating the idea of a possible 20% tax on imports from mexico and, hallie, for a very busy day. ....
the end seven years ago we were left with something that is unsustainable, we were left with something hurting americans back home, that s hurting health care coverage and it s a binary choice, a choice of continuing down a path of affordable care act that s not working or repealing it and repairing it and moving forward in the process. i ran on that in 2009 that i was going to repeal and replace obamacare i m going to vote yes so we can repeal an start the process of of repeal and replacing obamacare. do you have a sense of other februaries of the freedom caucus if they are moving forward? i don t. the wednesday group, the friday group, i got a lot of friends on both sides of the aisle, what i m hearing is everybody has their opinion. the real problem is there are two choices either move forward and repeal this bill that everybody wants us to repeal back home and what we all ran on or you re going to allow it just to continue. because you heard the president and i ve got ....
team up doesn t ensure they ll be successful. for most customers amazon is the primary stop. the way amazon has really changed the retail landscape. that will be one of those big business stories of our generation. it s changed buyer behavior. you check amazon to vouch for the price. early start continues with the latest from the phoenix rally. i hit him with neo nazi. i hit them with everything. i got the white supremacist and the neo nazi, we have kkk, i got them all. president trump ticking off all the groups he has condemned or says he has condemned. president trump goes off prompter and defends his charlottesville response but apparently forgets or at least downplayed what angered critics in the first place. good morning, welcome to early start. i m christine romans. t. 1:00 a.m. in phoenix and for those who think it s the liberal media criticizing the president s speech, the standard saying quote, the president was whining about unfair treatment in washington ....